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      07-08-2020, 01:13 AM   #1
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
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Hi there. Mine has always worked as advertised. Long press, then a message comes up saying it’s recording. All I can suggest is doing the long press on the Vol button to reboot the system. See if that fixes it.
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
Have you made sure the manual mode is ticked in the options? It isn't on by default.

If you go into the apps - drive record there are a number of settings.
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Hi there. Mine has always worked as advertised. Long press, then a message comes up saying it's recording. All I can suggest is doing the long press on the Vol button to reboot the system. See if that fixes it.
Awesome, thanks that seemed to fix it. Cheers
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Must admit I wonder how good the automatic recording is. I guess we'll never know unless we are involved in an accident unfortunately!
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Awesome, thanks that seemed to fix it. Cheers
Great. Nothing like power off, power on.
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Must admit I wonder how good the automatic recording is. I guess we'll never know unless we are involved in an accident unfortunately!
I feel bad, but I’m waiting for someone to report back on this. I’m not sure I’ve even seen any info on the magnitude of the hit needed to trigger recording.
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Must admit I wonder how good the automatic recording is. I guess we'll never know unless we are involved in an accident unfortunately!
I feel bad, but I’m waiting for someone to report back on this. I’m not sure I’ve even seen any info on the magnitude of the hit needed to trigger recording.
Yeah I wonder what type of sensor is in place to detect a collision or how much impact is required?
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I'm curious what period people registered? I've just done 1 month as a trial. Have others gone for longer periods, lifetime etc?
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      07-08-2020, 06:46 AM   #10
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I'm curious what period people registered? I've just done 1 month as a trial. Have others gone for longer periods, lifetime etc?
I’ve gone all in. Part of the build.
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      07-08-2020, 07:59 AM   #11
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I’ve gone all in. Part of the build.
Me too but I ordered online after delivery
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Must admit I wonder how good the automatic recording is. I guess we'll never know unless we are involved in an accident unfortunately!
I feel bad, but I'm waiting for someone to report back on this. I'm not sure I've even seen any info on the magnitude of the hit needed to trigger recording.
Yeah I wonder what type of sensor is in place to detect a collision or how much impact is required?
I got rear-ended last year (when car was only 6 months old) at slow to moderate speed - i reckon impact speed <20km/hr - pretensioners/airbags weren't activated. But the car did sense a collision - fuel was shut off immediately, iDrive displayed a message to see if I wanted to call roadside assist. I didn't have the recorder at the time but I'm sure it would have been triggered in that event. However, I don't really want to find out for sure lol.
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I got rear-ended last year (when car was only 6 months old) at slow to moderate speed - i reckon impact speed <20km/hr - pretensioners/airbags weren't activated. But the car did sense a collision - fuel was shut off immediately, iDrive displayed a message to see if I wanted to call roadside assist. I didn't have the recorder at the time but I'm sure it would have been triggered in that event. However, I don't really want to find out for sure lol.
Ah yes I saw that picture, terrible, is your car all fixed now ?
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I got rear-ended last year (when car was only 6 months old) at slow to moderate speed - i reckon impact speed <20km/hr - pretensioners/airbags weren't activated. But the car did sense a collision - fuel was shut off immediately, iDrive displayed a message to see if I wanted to call roadside assist. I didn't have the recorder at the time but I'm sure it would have been triggered in that event. However, I don't really want to find out for sure lol.
Damn, that’s annoying. I once had a driver reverse into my 2 day old car. To say I wasn’t impressed is an understatement. So have you now purchased the Drive Recorder?
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I got rear-ended last year (when car was only 6 months old) at slow to moderate speed - i reckon impact speed <20km/hr - pretensioners/airbags weren't activated. But the car did sense a collision - fuel was shut off immediately, iDrive displayed a message to see if I wanted to call roadside assist. I didn't have the recorder at the time but I'm sure it would have been triggered in that event. However, I don't really want to find out for sure lol.
Damn, that’s annoying. I once had a driver reverse into my 2 day old car. To say I wasn’t impressed is an understatement. So have you now purchased the Drive Recorder?
Yes I've got the recorder now but thankfully haven't had to really "use" it yet. The car is also fixed - the body shop did a good job. They've even painted the lower bumper section into the same body colour (I really hated the mismatched grey lower section. )
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I got rear-ended last year (when car was only 6 months old) at slow to moderate speed - i reckon impact speed <20km/hr - pretensioners/airbags weren't activated. But the car did sense a collision - fuel was shut off immediately, iDrive displayed a message to see if I wanted to call roadside assist. I didn't have the recorder at the time but I'm sure it would have been triggered in that event. However, I don't really want to find out for sure lol.
Damn, that's annoying. I once had a driver reverse into my 2 day old car. To say I wasn't impressed is an understatement. So have you now purchased the Drive Recorder?
Yes I've got the recorder now but thankfully haven't had to really "use" it yet. The car is also fixed - the body shop did a good job. They've even painted the lower bumper section into the same body colour (I really hated the mismatched grey lower section. )
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I got rear-ended last year (when car was only 6 months old) at slow to moderate speed - i reckon impact speed <20km/hr - pretensioners/airbags weren't activated. But the car did sense a collision - fuel was shut off immediately, iDrive displayed a message to see if I wanted to call roadside assist. I didn't have the recorder at the time but I'm sure it would have been triggered in that event. However, I don't really want to find out for sure lol.
Damn, that's annoying. I once had a driver reverse into my 2 day old car. To say I wasn't impressed is an understatement. So have you now purchased the Drive Recorder?
Yes I've got the recorder now but thankfully haven't had to really "use" it yet. The car is also fixed - the body shop did a good job. They've even painted the lower bumper section into the same body colour (I really hated the mismatched grey lower section. )
Ah good stuff glad to hear

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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
I've set mine up with manual record option checked, and then out the drive recorder app widget on the display home screen bottom right.. So then if you need to do a manual record, you can just touch the screen. Much easier than the long press on the camera button, or using the I-Drive menu.
And in manual mode, I selected it to use front and rear cameras only for the recording. The image quality is much better for some reason. Auto mode continues to use 4 cameras, even though 2 are selected I. manual mode.
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
I've set mine up with manual record option checked, and then out the drive recorder app widget on the display home screen bottom right.. So then if you need to do a manual record, you can just touch the screen. Much easier than the long press on the camera button, or using the I-Drive menu.
And in manual mode, I selected it to use front and rear cameras only for the recording. The image quality is much better for some reason. Auto mode continues to use 4 cameras, even though 2 are selected I. manual mode.
Wow good idea! My only problem is I'm normally running Waze via Apple CarPlay on the main screen. Keeping my license in check is very difficult with the M340i
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
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Wondering of those who have optioned up the Drive Recorder, is the manual recording working for you? If I do a long press of the panorama button nothing happens. I've got the manual record option ticked and I can record via the menu but it takes too long to navigate the menus. Anyone else having this problem?
I've set mine up with manual record option checked, and then out the drive recorder app widget on the display home screen bottom right.. So then if you need to do a manual record, you can just touch the screen. Much easier than the long press on the camera button, or using the I-Drive menu.
And in manual mode, I selected it to use front and rear cameras only for the recording. The image quality is much better for some reason. Auto mode continues to use 4 cameras, even though 2 are selected I. manual mode.
Wow good idea! My only problem is I'm normally running Waze via Apple CarPlay on the main screen. Keeping my license in check is very difficult with the M340i
Yes, that's a problem, but what I did to workaround it was put the phone on the 2nd screen and left my Navigation, Media and Drive Recorder on the home screen. So I still see music album covers and tracks etc on the home screen.
I use Hey BMW for the phone so it doesn't need to be on the home screen...but that might not be to everyone's taste...
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