I found out quickly that previewing through the app instead of the SD card will quickly run down the batteries. Also, in the settings it’s best to toggle to photo OR video, but not both.

The Bluetooth is how you live view the camera so it connects that way to the app

You can buy a "12V DC adapter cable" and plug to your house's main electricity power. If you power the camera this way, you don't need batteries.

No the Wi-Fi camera type of traip camera I just got this one is only like if I'm on WiFi and near the camera cam I look through the live feed

You can wait for a few days or even longer. The photos and videos are saved on the SD card. You can probably wait a week and check on it. You can bring a new SD card and batteries with you and change the SD card/batteries. Then leave the trail cam there. It depends on how much activity you have at your deer stand. There is a setting in the trail camera that will over write the SD card if your SD card gets full with photos and videos. There are pros and cons to this setting.

Yes you can do both via the app on your cellphone.

I have the same problem with my screen but I can change the settings remotely by wi-fi . I tried a factory reset but no improvement. Customer support couldn’t help either.

@@colinhunn2845 Be nice if we could get a replacement screen, it should have lasted more than 14 months or so. I have cheaper ones that cost half as much that were placed the same day as this one and they still work flawlessly. I too can sometime log on and change the settings remotely. Thanks for sharing your experience, I wonder if there are others with this same problem.

@@colinhunn2845 I contacted customer support and told them I would be giving a scathing review on KZfaq Amazon and Facebook for a camera that didn't outlive the first set of alkalines I put in it. They sent me a replacement camera pronto. Lets see how long it lasts. It did take lots of great images and was a promising camera until the white screen of death. I wonder how to just get a new screen to fix it but gave up. It seems I can still connect remotely after fiddiling with it for a while but.... that's not a solution to a fairly expensive camera. I will post if I have problems with the replacement they sent me, So for now I am a happier customer than I was.

Yes

Just got it and seems like 300 yards 200 yards

​@ericconnfer9081 no way in hell if say maybe 100feet just guessing..

thanks for letting me know not to buy this pos

Bluetooth is used on many models as merely an on/off switch for the trail cam's integrated wifi access point feature. This is because there is an extremely low power consuming bluetooth listening mode, where as wifi will drain the batteries down significantly. So you use the app to have your phone's bluetooth tell the camera to turn its wifi on, then connect to it as its own separate network which I have a hunch the app has to kind of help it connect. Then your phone will be connected directly to the trail cam and probably not like the fact that there's no internet access> I find it very frustrating that these things are not designed to allow you to connect it to your home wifi network router, as I would think it would make a lot more sense to be able to get the pictures out of it over the internet, which you could do if they had set it up to communicate with a wifi network instead of just being a network of its own with nothing on it.