VIOFO - A229 Pro Series
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Last updated: Aug 1, 2025 Scoring
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"VIOFO A229 Pro is the only dash cam that you can read plates easily on."
"If you can spend money get a Viofo and enjoy high quality videos ... So practically I have 8mp IMX678 sensor on front camera and 5mp IMX675 sensor on back camera which is all other brands put on front cameras (Rove, Xiaomi etc.) even it is Starvis 2 new sensor it ’s still a 5mp. So back camera performance on Viofo is similar to top brands new dashcams front camera ... Top of the line sensor with 8mp and Stravis IMX 678 sensor - image quality is perfect. ... because I want not just dash cam for the sake of having dash cam, but also best image quality therefore I spend more. ... For now I ’m happy with video quality"
"And honestly the best quality video compared to Thinkware/Blackvue by miles"
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"I have Viofo A229Pro for 2 years and a half. No issue so far."
"Make sure whatever dashcam you buy has a capacitor and NOT a battery. ... In the summer the interior of cars can get well above 120° and cook the battery. A capacitor will survive, no problem. The same for the winter, the batteries fail in the constant, deep cold, capacitors don't."
"Tbh your supercapacitor sealed the deal. ... You should advertise that more for this region as overheating is a huge problem here."
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"I just installed my A229 2-channel cameras yesterday, I highly recommend using the ASC connector that you can buy off of Hachi Electronics. Makes it so much easier to hardwire than messing around with the fusebox."
"Install very easy."
"It's the easiest install ever ... i just had to remove one panel to get to the connector, then tucked all the wires into the sides of trim pieces and the headliner."
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"Have it hardwired for parking mode, and it's given me no operational issues whatsoever."
"so you can capture the license plate numbers."
"While the camera was in parking mode, we were able to capture footage of one of my coworker's cars being stolen."
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"EVERYONE should have them. They can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of stress and keep you out of prison."
"VIOFO A229 Pro is the only dash cam that you can read plates easily on."
"Was in an accident a couple months ago and had the video footage on my phone before the cops even showed up. ... Saved my ass with the insurance. ... has Wifi to beam video to your phone via their app if you want."
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"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"I don't trust them anymore with their built in capacitors that died."
"currently has a bug where event video gets lost."
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"My VIOFO A229 camera constantly powers down & reboots when temps are above 70 & the sun is out. ... Camera is unreliable"
"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"The second time I witnessed a huge crash on the freeway that I very narrowly avoided. Pulled over so I could pull footage for the "victim". Red button was on showing it was recording, but no buttons were working at all when trying to pull up, recording light was clearly on. Had to unplug and turn it back on to find out it wasn't recording for the past 2 days.... ... Very unreliable."
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"High durability SD cards are fairly expensive, Viofo ’ own brand especially so. ... (And don’t even think of using a cheap one… it’ll fail on you faster than you can say knife.)"
"Viofo has ongoing SDcard corruption issues"
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"Draws too much current, so 3h of video recording is the average, without killing your battery."
"I’ve read a few posts about other Priuses’ 12V batteries dying due to battery drain from third-party electronics like dash cams, so I specifically asked the installer to set the voltage cutoff of the hardwire kit to the highest setting (I think it was 12.4V). ... I know that limits the parking mode, but I’d rather mitigate the risk of a dead battery."
"But, there is one thing that you should know about parking mode, which almost nobody is talking about. The cam may drain your battery. Whether the hardwire kit has discharge protection or not, there is always a chance. ... Also, even if the harwire kit is working properly and cutting off power if the battery is discharged to some level--it puts a strain on it. Which means it wears out quicker. ... Gotcha. Be careful with setting it so low, as it not only puts a strain on the battery going through so many cycles of charging/discharging every time, but discharging it to such a low state can lead to not being able to start the car on a colder/hotter day at 11.4V ... good to hear because I had some clients who reported batteries died on them over time after they tried using parking mode. Despite it had voltage protection"
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"It’s also a PITA for me to use WiFi because when I’m in the car my phone connects to CarPlay and CarPlay disables WiFi."
"Slow and the app _blows_."
"Also WiFi need to be manually enabled on the dashcam to access files on the phone"
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