Wyze Cam v3 and SD Card Larger than 32GB

The only problem I’ve found using larger than recommended cards in Wyze cams is that the larger the card, the longer it takes for the app to load your playback video… exponentially longer. That trade-off is worth it to me and my neighbors when it comes to retrieving footage for authorities. I find that 64GB is tolerable. 128GB is frustratingly slow but necessary for a few of my critical cams.

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More helpful info! Thanks. I am estimating that I need 7 days, more would be nice, to be convenient for when we can start traveling again. Rotating the SD card is not going to be a high priority on the night before a trip, for example, or asking a neighbor, “Hey, I have this cam, but it can only use a 32GB SD card . . .” and so on.

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I initially had problems getting my V3’s to recognize the 64GB cards, including the Samsung High Endurance. What did the trick for me was to use a free formatting program called GUIFormat to format the cards. After that, all three different types of cards I have worked.

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BTW, recording in SD mode instead of HD mode more than doubles the recording time. My sole purpose of continuous recording is for potential video transfer to authorities for identification and insurance purposes, so I prefer to record the most detail possible.

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Yep, I use the same on a Windows PC. :+1:

Hi @ajkenis and welcome to the community forum! :slightly_smiling_face:
Been using a SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-1 for over a month with no problems. The 64GB came factory format with FAT32, very much plug and play.

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Thanks again Seapup and raym64 and dr.know. I’m going to go with a 128GB Samsung Pro Endurance card. If I have any trouble, I’ll come back here to report.

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your local card nerd here…just wanted to say hi :slight_smile:

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@ajkenis I started a thread many moon ago and occasionally I’ll use this as reference for different cards and user experiences. if you happen to have any adverse effects with any cards throw your take on and experience in here. I am yet to see any high endurance cards error out the way regular cards do but with the changes in cams and abilities, you can never be totally certain.

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ty for the info on the cards

yours is the most informative on this topic i have seen

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FWIW, the new “high endurance” cards are not much more expensive (maybe 10% more) and are better choice for cameras that re-write a card often. They were designed primarily for the dash cam market.

I have a few “regular” SD cards that I managed to wear out in about a year. The “high endurance” cards have bigger memory cells and apparently they can take many more write cycles before they reach end of life.

And, fwiw, the day a card starts giving you the tiniest bit of grief, toss it. I have managed to reformat a few and get them to work again but that trick often only holds out for a few days.

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Very good point. However you may not need to toss it. If you have non-critical requirements, you may well be able to use a worn out camera card. Part of the issue with SD cards wearing out is that cameras require constant write operation. As they age, write speed goes down, so a card that won’t work for a video camera may work just fine for a long time in a still camera for example. However, as inexpensive as SD cards have become, it may not be worth the effort. Last year I paid about $30.50 for a SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I U3 A2 V30 128GB for my drone (which requires a much faster write speed than my Wyze cameras). 64GB class 10 cards are down to about $10 - $12 each.

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I’ve been very fortunate that all my SSD and uSD have failed in the read-only state.
The new SSD apps keep a better watch on drive health, easy to see any degradation.
When the write speed starts to tank, swap them out and keep it as a backup.

I just ordered 4 Extreme Duty Sandisk 32 gig (V30) cards from Amazon (2 day Prime delivery).

They are packaged in two packs and each two pack has a cheap card reader included. The two packs were 20.35 each .

Look for a program called GParted. It will format to anything you wish.

Since I’ve seen people linking this post as proof that the V3 is limited to 32Gb I thought I should add this updated info.

As of Dec. 6, 2021 firmware release 4.36.8.15 added support for exFAT microSD card formats. Meaning 32Gb is no longer a limitation.

The only limitation now is how much you want to spend. :slight_smile:

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256GB card chugging along…

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@Seapup, how do you set the SD card record quality mode? I am having trouble finding that setting for the SD card. Is that the same setting for the Livestream quality?

Yes. That’s it. :+1:

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Replying to my own post: I’ve been using this card with the Cam v3 for over a year, non-stop, without any problems whatsoever.

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