Vendor: GoPro
Models: HERO and HERO2 series
Status: Routinely repaired.
GoPro HERO is a "wearable camera" that can easily be mounted on helmets, vehicles and be operated while doing your favorite extreme sport.
GoPro HERO can record in fives modes: R1 (848x480), R2 (1280x720 at 30 frames per second), R3 (1280x720 at 60 fps), R4 (1280x960) and R5 (1920x1080).
It creates MPEG4 .mp4 files containing a H264 video track and audio encoded in AAC format.
Failure modes:
The causes of failure reported by GoPro HERO users with damaged files are:
- SoS error message on GoPro LCD
- Battery dead during recording
- Battery popped out due to intense vibrations during recording (Using adhesive tape can avoid battery from dislodging)
- Card ejected (due to impact) or manually removed during shoot
- Destruction of camera during recording (crash, collision, hard landing, blow, shock, dropped, fell, broken mount)
- Camera submerged causing water damage (camera partially or fully flooded, high pressure during underwater shoot)
- Accidentally deleted original files from card, or formatted card
- "The file is not a movie file" error message when opening the video on a computer
- Unit froze before or after finished recording
- Malfunction while transferring files from the SD card
- Camera turned off while recording
- Use of counterfeit SDHC card
- Bad connection between card and camera
- Extreme temperatures
Repairability:
The damaged files cannot be opened because recording did terminate abruptly: While the media (video and audio) is present and not corrupt, the index and header of the movie indicating what the data means, was not written. The file was not closed properly.
Repair consists in reindexing the movie.
Due to recording mechanism, last seconds of action may not have been recorded. If the final moment is what we want to recover, you should carefully check with Treasured or the repair tool whether last action was actually captured. In the future, plan carefully such shoots.
PRICING
Damaged files from GoPro HERO cameras are detected as Brands by Treasured, and as such have an affordable pricing.
See Pricing Chart.
