I've had two problems with my Hero 2 recently, this weekend was one of those lightbulb moments - they're not seperate issues, they're related and i've just not realised it until now. Refering back to a previous post GoPro Protune firmware - buy a faster SD card! I'd been trying out the Protune feature and found that the footage was jumpy, I'd put it down to my SD card and the increased write demands of the firmware. Because of this, I ordered myself a Sandisk Extreme Pro card, with a 95mb/s write speed, this would easily cope any write demands. Yet my video was still stuttering. I've also recently been experiencing some freezing and lock ups when cycling through the camera recording modes, I'd logged this with GoPro and they're looking into the problem.
It was at that moment that the light switched on! of course they're not seperate issues, they've got to be related. After doing some googling and reading through some forum posts, it appears that it's an issue that's out there, but not affecting all camera's, even if using the same firmware version. (I got a ZeroAccess! virus from one forum for my troubles, I don't know what site it was as my PC had to be cleaned right back to (hopefully) get rid of it)
It looks like I might have to return my camera to GoPro, I followed the instructions they sent me and applied another firmware. I seemed to improve a little, but it's always difficult to tell when it's an intermittant fault. However the freezing still happened, thankfully the camera is in warranty, i've just got to find my reciept! Some sites mention that they've cleaned the freezing by rolling back to an older firmware, I've been reluctant to do this, as I'd really like to use the Protune feature.
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