re: Do not even think of fricking with a SPYPOINT camera

I come from a completely impartial/non-biased 7+ year experience with SPYPOINT. I have no skin in the game with them.

My boss has a couple on his ranch 5 hours away, and since I'm decent on a computer the updates, maintenance and troubleshooting falls on me at the office.

To begin, frick SPYPOINT. They are garbage.

We put them out, they run a few months and then they quit. You have to go to the ranch (5 hours) to retrieve the cameras. We now take a laptop every time we go out there just in case we need to hot spot a cell phone and try to fix them. Cell service sucks, so that's another issue in itself. Format SD cards, update firmware, etc. and begin process again. They work another couple of months... Maybe. Repeat process of updating, etc.

They have a real knack of going out at the worst times. A day or two after you just left, right when the time of year is getting perfect, whatever.

It's a joke. They are all a horribly designed piece of shite.

P.S. frick them French bastards and their Indian customer service.

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My solution was to put extended antennas on most of them.

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Did this work? I've considered doing that w/ my Verizon network Spypoint. Verizon used to have the best signal of the cell phone carriers in SW AR where I hunt. Unfortunately, some time after buying my first Spypoint camera, Verizon now has a really weak, if any, at my hunting stand. AT&T previously had a really poor signal, but it's signal is now much better than Verizon.

Update: The other camera from my 2 pack is fricked. It worked a whole 6 months straight, a SPYPOINT record.
I will post pics leaked into battery compartment as usual.

One of my other ones , was actually stolen. What a dumb frick, it’s like stealing a YUGO. The dumb frick turned it on today and I have location and picture. I don’t know whether to turn him in or just let him suffer.

If I did it all over again, I'd get tactacams but we are overly invested in spypoints.

I had all your same problems but with Tactacam. Swapped to spypoint 2 years ago and im running the new FLEX cameras and they have been perfect!. great battery life, great cell signal pickup. and I even put solar panel on 2 of flex's and they have been in the woods over a year and never a hiccup. even got a squirrel pic this morning from one of em. The Link Micro were cheapos and was a good cheap camera that you expected to go down after some use. i mean they were 2 for $100 bucks so not much to expect

Welp. Scratch that. Just got my first set of night pics sent to me. All very dark as the sun set and got darker to all black once no light was available.

Guess I’ll be calling them back. Ficking SPYPOINT