After 6 months there is a new firmware "update". Will this solve all the issues so liberally demonstrated by the Unleashed 22?
Of course -- not at all.
I have, after the usual troubles of firmware update which includes reinstalling the app, killing the app, resetting the 22'M devices, connecting, reconnecting, unpairing, pairing, and whatever else the non-wizards of Scamography have implemented, found that nothing works. As before.
Since I have sunk hundreds of Euros into this product, I cling to the hope that a miracle will happen and that the crappy stuff peddled by Scamography will magically work like they should from the onset.
Tested with Z30, Z fc, and Zf. The symptoms vary though. A new bug is that the app itself ever so often hangs and locks up the phone, so has to be killed. Or enters a wild loop where it over and over again asks me to pair the same camera.. When I got tired of answering this question and tried to unpair the 22'M and reconnect, the app got hung hard. I had to reset the phone.
On the Z30, the 22'M gets the 'turqoise' LED lit and all seems well. However, no accessories were detected and after I tried to unpair and repair my GL-770M, again the app locked up.
The Zf flatly refused to have anything to do with the GL-770M although for once, the Unleashed app "found" the accessory and showed a green light. However, the GPS option went to red and would never give any information. Or I got the message (on camera) it had entered 'upload mode' and the Zf thereafter locked up. In sympathy, the Unleashed also locked up.
In addition to draining the camera batteries -- as the prominent "feature" of the Unleashed 22 befrore -- the app now also drains the phone battery going from 100% to 50% in 30 minutes.
As I have concluded before: the Unleashed 22 project is the prime example of a total failure and when the company continues to sell such junk, they are in fact scamming people. Stay away. Spread the word. Get your money back before the company goes bankrupt.. Oh wait -- the company never answers e-mails and support requests.
Unleashed '22 M doesn't work with Z fc
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Surely, I'm tempted to do exactly that. The pile of junk is amazing. 50% were defective at arrival - new units substitued by 'Scamography'.
However, as the new units are non-working even after the latest firmware update, I can only regret my own stupidity of having trusted this nefarious company and hoped someday my outlay of hundreds of Euros would result in something useful. A pipe dream, as it turns out.
Now I have 100% failure rate.
However, as the new units are non-working even after the latest firmware update, I can only regret my own stupidity of having trusted this nefarious company and hoped someday my outlay of hundreds of Euros would result in something useful. A pipe dream, as it turns out.
Now I have 100% failure rate.
Trust me, this company will cease to exist soon. It is just a matter of time.birnaofthenorth wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2025, 10:42 amSurely, I'm tempted to do exactly that. The pile of junk is amazing. 50% were defective at arrival - new units substitued by 'Scamography'.
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However, as the new units are non-working even after the latest firmware update, I can only regret my own stupidity of having trusted this nefarious company and hoped someday my outlay of hundreds of Euros would result in something useful. A pipe dream, as it turns out.
Now I have 100% failure rate.
Many polite and helpful forum users have offered their expertise for free on this forum. Professional users have also clearly indicated that something was wrong with the design. Many times even. Advice was ignored, trivialized, and forum users were even publicly burned while they only wanted to help this project stay on track. Now almost everyone is dropping out, because this project is doomed to fail because they did not listen properly to what is needed and where wishes lie that may not be possible at all. They have been too ambitious and wanted to include all brands in one go, that does not work. You first have to get the basis 100 percent right and then include brand by brand in your portfolio, so that you can see whether you can actually guarantee that brand to the end user in terms of functionality and guaranteed work. They did not do that. They do not listen to good advice.
The end is near for this company, I can tell you that. They should have listened to good advise. They thought they knew better, but they didn't!
PapaBear out