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One of my favorite features on my S6 is the overhead view camera angle. I always had a tendency to not pull deep enough into a parking spot for fear of scraping up the front of the car on that little concrete blocker or the curb. Now I just punch the "P" button on my way into the spot and it gives me the perfect split screen: a bird's eye view to center the car left/right in the spot and also the front bumper camera (with beeps!) to get right up to the front edge of my parking spot.
Here's the issue- sometimes the overhead camera view doesn't appear. The icon of the car is there with all the little radar blips, but it's just sitting in a sea of black screen. The front bumper cam always works fine, it's the overhead view that is sometimes just intermittent. I can't figure out why. What's weird is that if I hit the "P" button to turn off the system, I get a brief flash of the overhead picture that should be there, right before the screen turns off.
Please add your year, model and feature package(s) for reference. I haven't seen that issue occur on mine. However, there is an option to choose Graphic or Camera (maybe not those words, but it's on the menu). You might toggle back and forth on that to see if that helps.
I don't have this problem. What does the function button under the overhead view do? This switches between the cameras and the sensor view. The brief flash sounds like what it does when you hit "P" in sensor view mode.
That is the display when in sensor mode, the gray areas that look like light beams coming from the bumpers are indicating what each of the sensors is seeing. Press the lower left "Camera" button to switch to the top-down camera mode.
That is the display when in sensor mode, the gray areas that look like light beams coming from the bumpers are indicating what each of the sensors is seeing. Press the lower left "Camera" button to switch to the top-down camera mode.
Right, but with Drivers Assistance that gives you 360 degree top view camera. So that black area should be showing the ground all around the car on the left.
Yes, but you have to press the "Camera" button to switch to that mode. The fact that the bottom left of the screen says Camera means you are not in Camera mode. The bottom left button toggles between camera and sensor modes.
01-12-2016, 05:46 AM
Overhead parking camera view
