My week old GP3 remote has stopped charging. has this happened to anyone else? also when it was working the darn thing kept on losing connection. ended up spending more time fiddling with the thing in the water instead of catching waves.

I had a WiFi lockup on my App connection last week. It may be related to the Hero itself, not the remote.

I don't quite get 2x with the extended battery, maybe 1.8 times if I am lucky :)

@BBT - camera settings, please?

@trevmar

1080p30 Medium FOV Protune 5500K WB

Mounted to the rear bumper of my friend's car with the new suction cup and the skeleton back door. And yeah, YouTube really compressed the hell out of it. :(

@kaikerr Amusingly, they're still releasing updates for the GP1 and 2.

I've been lucky enough to only have issues when powering through an external battery. Camera doesn't like it when my battery's on before the camera's turned on for some reason. Good thing my batteries provide enough power for a full day's shoot.

Thanks @Rambo, i'm writting right now to ask it again (i did it 3 weeks ago and they told me that this is no possible because of commercial secrets or something like this). The only solution they gave me is sending the camera to Holland (from Spain) to repair it (how? can they solve this but not liberate a firmware update? so my camera will be the rat in the laboratory for testing?) within at least a month of not having a camera i just bought, and of course i have to pay the cost of the postal service... Once again... SHAME ON GOPRO!!!

Made with GoPro 3 Black Edition

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@superset Yes. Also for added dynamic range with the Protune.

I use 24p 2K7cineT for wide angle from the lens, and 1080T 24p for medium angle shots. These modes seem to give the best dynamic range. I suspect their scaling is more tightly related to the sensor resolution.

2.7K is awesome! You can already sharpen it well at native resolution, and then scaling it down to 1080p makes it even sharper. Same for noise, resizing will reduce its appearance a bit. It's the perfect setting for low light using Protune.

OK - quick test. Applied the update to the newer of my two cameras. From http://cbcdn2.gopro.com/uploads/firmware-bundles/firmware_bundle/1918813/update.zip

Will post more info as I figure it all out. Only tested Protune, that's all I use. Tested in my computer room - dimly lit. I test all my cameras here, to compare the relative results at low light levels. It closely simulates my hardest shoots. Haven't tested WiFi.

The 720p 60T narrow mode is not working right - bad white balance and terrible noise level. Uses same 35.2Mbps as the other protune modes. Very disappointing. But it does exist.

The new 1080p 24T narrow is working, and it does give better resolution of target objects than 1080p 24T Medium. But it inexplicably has more noise. Maybe an f-stop of extra noise. Admittedly the 1080p 24T medium and 2k7 24T Wide are the lowest noise modes of the camera, but it is not obvious to me why narrow should be more noise, unless the Ambarella chip (in the camera) is doing something smart when downsizing the sensor to medium. Which is what I suspect.

So why doesn't the 720p 24T Medium mode exist? And why is 60p much noisier than the faster shutter would warrant?

Anyway - the update does work, and the software version is now displayed on the front screen at power on.

No, the main site seems to have withdrawn the update at this point. That's why I only flashed one camera :)

I really like that it now keeps track of the video number - a blank card starts at GOPR0005.MP4 even though the previous 4 videos had been erased. That will make life easier...

@GMC yes, the 720p 120T narrow mode is selectable in camera. Didn't seem too soft, considering it was 720p.