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Rear Dashcam 1.0.1 for Gen5W

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Rear dashcam 1.0.1 for Gen5W head units (Android 4.4), as a NEMESIS package: the recorder service and the Dashcam playback app in one install.

Changes in this version:

Rear Dashcam 1.0.1: fixes the head unit restarting when you reverse right after starting the car

  • Fixed: the head unit could restart if you shifted into reverse soon after it started up. While the head unit boots, a separate chip shows the backup camera on its own (the plain picture you get before Android is up). If the dashcam started recording before the car's camera app had shut that down, which happens about 10 seconds later or not at all for a while after unlocking the door, going into reverse made the car reset the head unit. The dashcam now shuts down the early camera itself, the same way the car's camera app does, before it starts recording.
  • The dashcam also checks the gear one last time right before it opens the camera, and won't open it in reverse.

Reverse in the first ~20 seconds after the screen comes on still shows the car's plain early picture, before the dashcam and the car's camera app have started. That's normal and the same as without the dashcam.

As always, reboot the head unit after installing or updating, so the camera picture stays hidden under Android Auto and CarPlay.

Install gen5-codec-patch (media.codecs 2.1+) first. It's required for on-device video playback. Needs NEMESIS 1.16 or newer. Only for the IONIQ 5 SE and SEL (no 360° view); the installer refuses other cars.

Install over ADB with nemesis install --update dashcam-1.0.1.zip, or by USB: extract dashcam-1.0.1-usb.zip onto the root of a FAT32/exFAT drive and plug it in. Reboot the head unit after installing or updating to activate the camera overlay fix. Recordings and the recording on/off setting carry over when you update. Check downloads against SHA256SUMS. DashcamPlayer.apk is the app on its own; the package already contains it.

If the reverse camera ever fails to come up, stop and report it, and uninstall the package until it's fixed. Details in the README.

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