I’m pretty adept with gadgets, even those with badly translated instructions. In this case, the instructions are not particularly difficult to follow and there’s a good diagram showing where all the very tiny features are located However, minor problem: the pen doesn’t do what the instructions indicate. For example, it says to hold down the power button for 1-3 seconds and the yellow indicator light will come on – so far so good – then after initialization, the indicator light will turn blue THIS NEVER HAPPENS. No. Blue. Light. Ever. Apparently this is a key part to the whole deal as the blue light is when you are in – yep you got it “video record mode”. I tried continuing on skipping the blue light stage, following the rest of the instructions, considering perhaps that they had been written to apply to many models, and this model simply didn’t have that color change feature. I experimented, I do believe every conceivable permutation, checking periodically on my computer… AB-SO-LU-TE-LY NO-THING. And – Bonus, the yellow light won’t tun off now. Wa-hoo. A truly fine product. I am awfully stubborn though, and it’s difficult to believe that it simply doesn’t work at all, so I’m going to try to do a little more research on it. Anyone discovers any trick to this, please post it – would love to know!
Till then, I would only recommend this to those electronic-whiz-geniuses who are intent on figuring out how this works – and actually it should be sent to them for free by the case!
In short, I haven’t been able to get it to work and it won’t open when I plug it into a computer’s USB 2.0 slot. The instructions don’t mention anything to be done before use and the manual only tells you how to use it. Maybe I could edit this review at a later date after I perform more tests to try to get it to work but for now, I don’t feel too good about it and well, it’s basically just a really expensive pen.
The video camera (spy pen) did not work at all. Totally DOA. When connected to the wall charger the yellow charging light did not turn on. When the record button was pressed the blue light did not turn on, and the DVR did not record. Pressing the master reset had no effect. When plugged into a computer USB port no yellow charging light, and no access to the file system. Indeed, the computer was not aware that the pen had been plugged into the USB port. Given the price the effort to return was too much, so I just ate the loss.
I was so happy I finally found a pin cam for such a good price but when you find it too good to be true it is just that. In this case NO GOOD. I got 2 of them and not the first sign of a video and one wouldn’t even light up even after several hours charging.
Guess you get what you pay for and I ask for a refund and Amazon is kind enough to accept my disgust in the product and refund my money.
I want one that works and has instructions in true English
The first one I looked at had removable batteries and could have a back up set of batteries for when your on the road to replace and recharge them later.
This item did not work straight out of the box. Instruction manual was one of those Chinese translations with very bad English translation which made the instructions essentially useless. I returned it right away.
I’m pretty adept with gadgets, even those with badly translated instructions. In this case, the instructions are not particularly difficult to follow and there’s a good diagram showing where all the very tiny features are located However, minor problem: the pen doesn’t do what the instructions indicate. For example, it says to hold down the power button for 1-3 seconds and the yellow indicator light will come on – so far so good – then after initialization, the indicator light will turn blue THIS NEVER HAPPENS. No. Blue. Light. Ever. Apparently this is a key part to the whole deal as the blue light is when you are in – yep you got it “video record mode”. I tried continuing on skipping the blue light stage, following the rest of the instructions, considering perhaps that they had been written to apply to many models, and this model simply didn’t have that color change feature. I experimented, I do believe every conceivable permutation, checking periodically on my computer… AB-SO-LU-TE-LY NO-THING. And – Bonus, the yellow light won’t tun off now. Wa-hoo. A truly fine product. I am awfully stubborn though, and it’s difficult to believe that it simply doesn’t work at all, so I’m going to try to do a little more research on it. Anyone discovers any trick to this, please post it – would love to know!
Till then, I would only recommend this to those electronic-whiz-geniuses who are intent on figuring out how this works – and actually it should be sent to them for free by the case!
In short, I haven’t been able to get it to work and it won’t open when I plug it into a computer’s USB 2.0 slot. The instructions don’t mention anything to be done before use and the manual only tells you how to use it. Maybe I could edit this review at a later date after I perform more tests to try to get it to work but for now, I don’t feel too good about it and well, it’s basically just a really expensive pen.
The video camera (spy pen) did not work at all. Totally DOA. When connected to the wall charger the yellow charging light did not turn on. When the record button was pressed the blue light did not turn on, and the DVR did not record. Pressing the master reset had no effect. When plugged into a computer USB port no yellow charging light, and no access to the file system. Indeed, the computer was not aware that the pen had been plugged into the USB port. Given the price the effort to return was too much, so I just ate the loss.
I was so happy I finally found a pin cam for such a good price but when you find it too good to be true it is just that. In this case NO GOOD. I got 2 of them and not the first sign of a video and one wouldn’t even light up even after several hours charging.
Guess you get what you pay for and I ask for a refund and Amazon is kind enough to accept my disgust in the product and refund my money.
I want one that works and has instructions in true English
The first one I looked at had removable batteries and could have a back up set of batteries for when your on the road to replace and recharge them later.
This item did not work straight out of the box. Instruction manual was one of those Chinese translations with very bad English translation which made the instructions essentially useless. I returned it right away.