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Dashcam icon missing

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7.2K views 19 replies 7 participants last post by  paulsinger  
#1 ·
My M3 has just been updated to v.2021.24.5 and now the dashcam icon has disappeared! The sentry icon is still there (either grey for off, or red for on) but there is no way to view dashcam footage as there is no icon to press to launch the viewer. And I'm assuming that the dashcam is not recording either when I drive.

I've tried rebooting the car (soft and hard reboot), several times, reformatting the USB drive several times, trying a different brand new USB drive, but no dice.

Has anyone else had the same problem?
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#2 ·
Yes, similar to your issue but I could see the greyed out dash cam icon but couldn’t get a red dot or to record anything even sentry. Ended up going into the service centre and having some modules reset to factory settings. Apparently it had lost some software 🤦‍♀️
 
#4 ·
Dunno then, I booked it in under ‘other’ not software. It had been looked at before and the red dot was on the dash cam icon, until I put it in drive. Never seen the red dot again until I picked it up from the service centre. Joys of Tesla ownership, 😭
 
#8 ·
It seems like this is their third attempt at this particular software update. I didn't "notice" any issues since updating to 24.5, but I'll have to check if my dashcam still exists. If you have a media usb plugged in the centre console it's recommended that you take it out, put your sentry drive in the glove box and let the car find it before plugging the media usb back in the centre console. Otherwise the car gets confused over which drive it's supposed to use (mine does anyway).

Fyi, my car skipped 24.3 and 24.4... and I haven't been in it since Thursday to notice anything untoward
 
#9 ·
Got 24.5, and the dashcam icon is there and working.

And I'm very pleased they finally introduced the feature where if you tap the percentage or miles remaining next to the battery it switches between the two with a single tap.

Haha, I've waited more than 2 years for this feature, it's worth the wait :D(y)