Backup camera is sometimes too dark at night
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Backup camera is sometimes too dark at night
I just got a new 2024 xc60 and am trying to figure out some of its quirks. At night, when I put the car into reverse, sometimes the backup camera is fine. Sometimes it's completely dark.
I think I figured out that if I'm in the garage when the garage is well lit, the backup light doesn't turn on because the car thinks it's light out. But if I'm in a dark parking lot, the camera backup light works fine. Does anyone else have this issue? And does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I hate trying to backup blindly in the dark.
Thanks for any help.
I think I figured out that if I'm in the garage when the garage is well lit, the backup light doesn't turn on because the car thinks it's light out. But if I'm in a dark parking lot, the camera backup light works fine. Does anyone else have this issue? And does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I hate trying to backup blindly in the dark.
Thanks for any help.
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Same issue
I just got a new 2024 xc60 and am trying to figure out some of its quirks. At night, when I put the car into reverse, sometimes the backup camera is fine. Sometimes it's completely dark.
I think I figured out that if I'm in the garage when the garage is well lit, the backup light doesn't turn on because the car thinks it's light out. But if I'm in a dark parking lot, the camera backup light works fine. Does anyone else have this issue? And does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I hate trying to backup blindly in the dark.
Thanks for any help.
I think I figured out that if I'm in the garage when the garage is well lit, the backup light doesn't turn on because the car thinks it's light out. But if I'm in a dark parking lot, the camera backup light works fine. Does anyone else have this issue? And does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I hate trying to backup blindly in the dark.
Thanks for any help.
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Reboot
I don’t know whether it was a hard or soft reboot but I held the home button for a while until it said it was resetting. It works at night now
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Backup camera is sometimes too dark at night
If the problem is that the car sometimes thinks it's daylight then one remedy could be to set the ambient Light sensor to slow. This sensor also controls the AC so one thing to check might be to observe if the AC turns on/off repetedly at hot wether as the car enters in/out of shady street areas. Setting the sensor to slow will also then make the AC somewhat slower in turning on/off.
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Same issue...
Just got new XC60 Mild Hybrid, same issue - reversing camera is intermittently deciding if it wants me to see where I'm reversing or if it wants me to reverse using a dark to almost black screen at night. Day time camera visibility seems to be absolutely fine. It seems like a "smart" issue in that it is trying to use the surrounding light to decide if its night or day, light or dark... and currently it's making a complete mess of it. However, maybe per thread above it is simply a software problem we've all experienced at some stage before. Someone find the fix please otherwise I want my 2018 XC60 back! 😉
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If the problem is that the car sometimes thinks it's daylight then one remedy could be to set the ambient Light sensor to slow. This sensor also controls the AC so one thing to check might be to observe if the AC turns on/off repetedly at hot wether as the car enters in/out of shady street areas. Setting the sensor to slow will also then make the AC somewhat slower in turning on/off.
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More like some light sensor/SW issue
Same issue here with 2024 B5 Plus, during the night reverse camera works in default mode but goes to dark as soon as hit 360 view or other buttons to see different angles.
Other knit pick is, when entering in parking spot with closed surroundings (i.e. in between two cars), front camera comes automatically (which is good but not all the time, I believe previous sw had this enhancement based on closed proximity sensors) but as soon as you put in reverse backup camera comes with dark/no lights.
Other knit pick is, when entering in parking spot with closed surroundings (i.e. in between two cars), front camera comes automatically (which is good but not all the time, I believe previous sw had this enhancement based on closed proximity sensors) but as soon as you put in reverse backup camera comes with dark/no lights.
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My '24 Recharge's backup camera is unusably dark at night, also. Tried rebooting and saw no improvement. I did see that the December software update is supposed to address some issues with the "360 Park Assist Camera" but not the backup camera. Wonder if the update description text was just inaccurate? Hoping for an improvement to the backup camera night view, because my dealership seems to have no idea about the issue and I haven't heard of another fix. Anyone else have any luck?
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sft (12-04-2023)
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Where did you see that the OTA software patch was scheduled? I'm just wondering when we might see that, especially as it has worked. Per another thread on here, the UK dealerships seem to be unaware or using the old "Software Issue" in hope a patch is coming from the IT Gods at Volvo.