Is it doing that in the camera or when your checking it? Because mine did you that when I was checking it

 

Just had that happen this weekend with a Dark Ops. Said I had 650+ pictures, changed the card, and then said card locked on the new card. I switched in a different one and the error message went away. Then I got back to the truck and plugged the card with 650+ pics into my laptop, the folder opened up showing 650+ files, but none of them opened and it said 0 bytes in the properties for each picture file... I went back out and brought the camera back to the truck and ran several test runs to ensure it was taking pics and that I could open the pictures, which it did. It's still in my truck as I want to test it out a few more times before I put it back in the field. Never had an issue with that camera last season when I bought it.

 

There's a lock on the sd card itself . Make sure it's in the unlocked position. It's a little tab on the left side of the card.

 

Yep. All of mine are unlocked.




When I switched it to lock and put it back in it said 'locked' again as expected. The problem is it says 'locked' whether or not the SD card is locked or not.



It's as soon as I put the SD card in. It says, 'SD card locked'.

 

There was some talk if you format the card in another device and put it in your specific game camera and not reformat it in that game camera it could cause some issues. Seems some devices have a different format and the one in a game camera might be proprietary to that brand and might cause this not saying that is your issue but some have been thinking they can use an SD Card in a regular Digital Camera and then just put it in a game camera and not reformat and gets no pictures or maybe pictures are not viewable? That is why some suggest always reformat the SD Card in that Specific game camera so it likes it when it puts the images on the SD Card. Have a 2014 Dark OPS but never had that yet, but I had to send it in for service, too many pictures with nothing in them but limbs moving in the wind at 30 plus feet. They replaced it... So it has only been out 3 weeks...... Plus I am disliking the night time 10 second video limit! Won't buy another till they bump up that time to at least 30 Seconds... Most other brands are 30 or more...

Good Luck...

LFM

 

Yeah, I always format a card when I put it in. It sets it for the camera and erases all old pics.



I've switched these cards between my HCO, Cabelas, and Browning cams and never had a problem before.



I didn't realize night video was only 10 seconds! I thought it was short, even though I had it set for 1 minute of video.




I think the brand new Brownings might have longer video. Not sure.

 

Mine did that also, I ended up formatting both cards for both cameras, I would often put my moultrie card in my wild game innovations cam and would get SD card locked. Maybe you are having the same issue?

 

So basically one cam screws up the card when it's formatted?




How did you resolve this problem?

 

I'm on my 3rd Strike Force cam from Trailcampro and the the first two kept giving me the same Trail Card Lock error. So far the last replacement is working fine.

I've had issues with all of the cards in all of my different cams with my MacBook and the Mac forum guys told me not to delete the photos on the SD card by my laptop which has a tendency to format them differently. Instead, I wait until I install the card again into the cam and go thru the delete/format process right there on the cam. This seems to work better and is also how I delete photos on my Canon point and shoot.

 

I have a problem with my browning cameras only taking random color pictures during the day majority are in black and white. Nevet had a card not work in one though

 

I have 4 Range Ops cams and 4 Strike Force cams, and they all do this. B&W pics at noon, very few color pics. I have had some sort of problem from not taking pics, to not turning on, to this issues with every Browning I'vebought. No more. Bushnells only for me.

 

I was very happy with Browning's customer service, I'd give them a ring. It may need a firmware upgrade or something pretty simple like that. Then again, they may send you a new one.

Do you turn the camera off before you pull the card?

 

I run about 20 brownings, turn the camera off and pop the card out, then put the new one in and turn it back on. If it says card lock, turn the camera off then pop the card and push it right back in. that works 90% of the time, the rest of the time it is either the SD failure (don't ever buy "cabelas SD" cards). The cabela's cards will separate and the locking key on the side will show unlocked, but the card it locked, when this happens you can't do anything about it.

Thanks,
Boswell

 

Just started having the same problem this last weekend. Just took the card out and put it back in and it was back to normal. Cameras have done pretty well otherwise.

 

Same thing happened with my strike force last week.

 

whenever i pull my cards and dump the pics to my backup harddrive, i go ahead and reformat them. helps get rid of any lingering data pieces that might cause issues in other stuff.

 

I've had one issue after another with my strike force from trailcampro. One wouldn't turn on. Now I have the 2015 model and I've had to use 3 different firmware updates from them because it takes blackout night pictures and it's been eating batteries much faster than it should be. My $30 moultrie trace are more dependable than the browning.

 

I had a Stealthcam that was a great cam. Took awesome pics. But it went through a set of lithiums in 1 week and regular batteries in 2-3 days. And it wasn't taking 100's of pics either. Weird. I returned it to Cabelas for a full refund. Too bad, other than the battery issues it was awesome.

 

Card empty or not reformat every time you place a card in camera. All cams are different but even on an empty card mine say to delete all to reformat so everyone that what I do

 

Problem is you can't reformat the card when it's 'locked'.

 

Place it on your computer and reformat it and tetry

 

I have a browning sd card that came with the camera and its junk dont use it. Even after formatting it on a computer it wouldnt work. Just buy a new one if its a browning sd card

 

email browning, they are quick to respond.

 

Try reformatting to MS-DOS (FAT32). That seemed to work.

 

Good thing you swung by. Poor guy's been waiting 7 years for pics.