CaroO Driving Recorder

User Manual

V3.0.0 alpha

About CaroO Driving Recorder

CaroO Driving Recorder is an Android application recording all driving data including video, track, car

status, etc. Drive smart with CaroO Driving Recorder!

CaroO Driving Recorder is available in Google Play Store.

Go to Download Page!

Notice: Operating this app while your car is moving can cause accidents. So DO NOT

operate this app while your car is moving for your safety.

We have no liability for any damages and financial loss at all while using this app. If

you do not agree, please do not use and uninstall this app.

Check followings Before Using CaroO Pro.

○ Check the memory space available in your smartphone

CaroO Driving Recorder uses one of SD memory on your smartphone, either internal SD memory or

external SD card. If your phone does not have internal SD memory, you must install an external SD

card into the external SD slot of your phone before using this app.

CaroO Driving Recorder uses cyclic memory management and old files shall be overwritten

automatically with new recorded files when free memory space is not available.

But event data files shall not be overwritten automatically unless you enable auto-delete option of

event video data. It is recommended for you to delete old event files manually once in a while in

order to maintain sufficient memory space for CaroO Driving Recorder.

Notice: Users with Android 4.4 KitKat or higher devices

If you update your device to Android 4.4 or later and use an external SD for storage for CaroO,

please read the following guide carefully. If you use the internal memory as storage for CaroO, the

following guide is not relevant.

Because of a change in terms of security of Android 4.4 (KitKat), apps cannot access the root folder

of external SD. So CaroO cannot create, access, use “CaroO” folder on the root of your external SD

card. A new folder will be created on your external storage and CaroO can only use that folder on

Android 4.4 device. You need to delete or move the existing files manually.

○ Check the battery level of your smartphone

CaroO Driving Recorder uses camera, GPS, G-force sensors, memory, Bluetooth, etc. So battery of

your smartphone could be consumed out if battery level of your smartphone is not high enough.

We recommend for you to use a battery charger while you use this app.

○ Check the GPS of your smartphone

CaroO Driving Recorder uses GPS in order to record your track and the GPS of your smartphone

should be enabled in advance.

If GPS is not enabled, CaroO Driving Recorder will request you to turn on GPS of your smartphone

as soon as you start to use it.

When you update your device to Android 4.4 (KitKat), you need to turn on location as well as choose

location mode to either “High Accuracy” or “Device (GPS) only”.

○ Check the Bluetooth of your smartphone

CaroO Driving Recorder uses Bluetooth in order to connect with an OBD-II device. In order to start

CaroO Driving Recorder automatically in your car, you need to turn on Bluetooth before placing

your smartphone into smartphone holder.

Certified Devices (April, 2015)

CaroO Driving Recorder officially supports Android smartphones with Android 4.0 or higher, but

most of smartphones with Android 2.3 or higher can use CaroO Driving Recorder as well. But

some phones might not work well with CaroO Driving Recorder because this app uses lots of

hardware APIs and resources of your smartphone.

Notice: CaroO v3.0.0 does not support devices with Android 2.2 or lower. In order to use CaroO

on smartphones with Android 2.2 or lower, please use CaroO v2.2.2.

Before your purchase, please check the free version, CaroO Free Driving Recorder in advance.

Go to the download page of the free version

1. First thing to do for using CaroO

Intro

When you start CaroO Driving Recorder, you can see the following intro and check the version

of CaroO.

Guide for settings

When you start CaroO Driving Recorder, you can see several pop-up instructions for setting

CaroO. Please read the pop-up instructions carefully and choose proper settings for CaroO

Driving Recorder.

The first pop-up instruction is asking whether using car monitor function with an OBD dongle

or not. If you want to use “car monitor” function, press “Yes”. Otherwise, press “No”.

If you choose “Yes”, CaroO will lead you to “car monitor setting” menu and you can adjust

many options of “car monitor” function. For the details of each option of “car monitor”,

please refer section 2-2.

The next pop-up instruction is asking whether using video blackbox (car dashcam) function of

CaroO or not. If you want to use “video blackbox” function, press “Yes”. Otherwise, press

“No”.

If you choose “Yes”, CaroO will lead you to “video blackbox setting” menu and you can adjust

many options of “video blackbox” function. For the details of each option of “video

blackbox”, please refer section 2-1.

GPS usage

CaroO Driving Recorder needs to use GPS of your smartphone. If GPS is not enabled in

advance, you can see a pop-up to request you to turn-on GPS. Depending on the Android

version of your device, different pop-up windows will be shown as follows:

(Prior to Android 4.4 KitKat) (Android 4.4 KitKat)

On Android 4.4 devices, you cannot turn on or off GPS directly. In order to turn on GPS,

you need to turn on “location” first and then choose a location mode to either “high

accuracy” or “Device (GPS) only”. If you chose “battery save” mode for “location

mode”, GPS is not enabled and CaroO will be terminated immediately.

If you don’t want to see this pop-up, please turn-on GPS before starting CaroO Driving

Recorder.

Notice: CaroO Driving Recorder DOES NOT use any information in other purpose but

use in a purpose for saving and displaying your location information within this app.

Home Menu Page

Button

Indicators

Setting

Log

On the Home Menu Page of CaroO Driving Recorder, you can see four buttons and three

indicators.

Start Button

If you press the “Start” button at the center, CaroO Driving Recorder starts its operation

depending on your settings.

Video Button

You can check video files saved on your memory by pressing this button. By selecting a file on

the list, you can play, share, archive or delete the selected file.

Trip Button

You can check trip summary saved on your memory by pressing this button. By selecting a trip

summary on the list, you can check all the details of the selected trip.

Settings Button

You can configure and change the settings of CaroO Driving Recorder. You can disable video &

track recording, or disable vehicle monitoring functions. You can also change other options in

Settings according to your preference.

Log Button (New)

You can send log files when you experience any problems for using CaroO. By using the log

files, the reasons of your problems can be easily figured out.

GPS Status Indicator

This indicator represents the status of GPS on your phone. It shall be always on while you use

CaroO Driving Recorder.

Bluetooth Status Indicator

This indicator represents the status of Bluetooth on your phone. CaroO Driving Recorder shall

turn on Bluetooth automatically if you enable car-diagnosis function in Settings. If you don’t

have an OBD-II device and not to use Car-diagnosis function, this indicator shall be off.

OBD-II Connection Indicator

This indicator represents the status of a connection between your phone and an external OBD-

II device. If CaroO Driving Recorder detects an OBD-II device you registered, then this

indicator shall be on. If you don’t have an OBD-II device and not to use Car-diagnosis function,

this indicator shall be always off.

2. Configure CaroO Driving Recorder

The Settings of CaroO Driving Recorder consists of video blackbox settings, launch/termination

settings, car-monitor settings, general settings and application information.

2-1. Video Blackbox Settings

Pop-up for checking color mapping (Only for Android 4.1 or higher)

The continuous recording mode provided for devices with Android 4.1 sometimes causes

problems in colors of recorded video depending on the devices. So it is highly recommended

to check the color of recorded video by recording files first and checking color while playing

the recorded video. For this purpose, this new pop-up is shown for devices with Android 4.1 or

higher, and it is completely disappeared by checking the “Do not show again” checkbox.

Notice: This pop-up window will not be shown on devices with Android 4.0 or lower.

Video Blackbox On/Off

You can turn on or turn off video blackbox operation using this checkbox.

Video Recording Type Setting (Only for Android 4.1 or higher)

CaroO Driving Recorder uses a low-level recording engine (Continuous Recording Mode) on

Jelly Bean devices which records video continuously and splits video data into files. In this

case, there are no unrecorded gaps between two consecutively recorded files. By using this

engine, CaroO Driving Recorder provides as reliable results as hardware video blackbox.

For devices which do not support the “Continuous Recording Mode”, we also support a

conventional recording mode using internal video file recorder on Android devices (File

Recording Mode). In this case, seconds of unrecorded video gaps always appear while

creating a new video file. This is a limitation of the internal video file recorder on Android

devices.

The default value is “Continuous Recording Mode” but if CaroO Driving Recorder does not

work properly on your Jelly Bean device, please try the “File Recording Mode”. We will keep

trying to support more devices to use the “Continuous Recording Mode”.

Color Mapping On/Off (Only for Android 4.1 or higher)

Depending on the manufacturer or devices, the recorded video might have a problem of color

mismatch, and the recorded video will not look natural. In order to solve this problem, we

add this color mapping option.

If the color of the recorded video on your device does not look natural, please turn-on this

option and then you will get the natural colored video.

The default value is off.

Video Resolution Setting

CaroO Driving Recorder supports 640x480, 720x480, 1280x720, and 1920x1080 size of video

depending on device capability. In File Recording Mode, the first three resolutions will be

supported on most smartphones, but the full HD (1920x1080) resolution will only be supported

on smartphones with HD display (1280x720 or higher).

In Continuous Recording Mode, part of the first three resolutions will be supported depending

on device capability.

or

Referring the device capability information, we do not recommend some resolutions even

though they might not cause any problems in actual operation.

The default value is 640x480 or 720x480 (depending on device capability Info.).

Video Quality Setting

CaroO Driving Recorder supports three levels of video recording quality. If you have enough

free space on your storage device, you can enjoy nice quality of recorded video by setting the

video quality by “Superfine” quality.

The default value is “Normal” quality.

Normal Video Length Setting

Now you can choose the length of normal video files among 1, 3, and 5 minutes (In HD

recording) or 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes (in SD recording, New), and the recorded video

will be separated according to this time setting.

The default value is “3 Minutes”.

Event Video Length Setting (New)

Now you can choose the length of event (emergency) video files among 20, 40, and 60

seconds.

The default value is “20 seconds”.

Reverse Landscape Mode On/Off Setting

If you need to place your smartphone in Reverse Landscape Mode because of car holder

position, car charger connection, etc., this setting is useful to see the display with 180 degree

rotation.

Notice: The recorded video files will be played well when using the internal video player of

CaroO Driving Recorder, but they may be vertically reverse when using some PC players. This

vertical reverse issue will be avoided by using QuickTime player or YouTube.

Auto-start Recording On/Off

If you want CaroO Driving Recorder to start video recording as soon as you press the start

button at Home Screen, you just need to turn on this option. Then whenever you press the

start button, video recording will be started automatically

If you do not turn on this option, a manual record button will be provided at the center of the

preview screen. Without pressing this manual record button, video recording will not be

started.

(Auto-Start Recording Off: Manual Start) (Auto-Start Recording On: Auto-Start)

Audio Recording On/Off Setting

You can turn on or turn off audio recording using this checkbox. Please be careful not to share

the recorded video when you enable audio-recording for protecting your privacy.

The default setting is audio-recording off.

Delete Event Video Files Automatically On/Off Setting

The normal video files will always be deleted automatically when storage space becomes

almost full. But the event video files will not be deleted automatically without enable this

option.

The last 24 hours of event video files will not be deleted even after enabling this option for

secure latest event video files.

The default value is “off”.

Location to Save Files Setting

CaroO Driving Recorder uses internal SD memory or and external SD card for saving recorded

files.

You can select either internal SD card or external SD card, and you can find “Caroo” folder in

the root folder of the selected location.

But if you use a smartphone with Android 4.4 and choose external SD as well, CaroO cannot

create or use “CaroO” folder anymore due to Android system restriction. In this case, you can

see the following pop-up which shows the path of a folder provided by Android system.

If you upgrade your phone OS up to Android 4.4, please copy all files in “CaroO” folder and

delete it by yourself.

If your phone does not have internal SD card or external SD card, you cannot change the saved

file location. And if your phone has neither internal SD nor external SD, CaroO Driving

Recorder operation will be automatically terminated. So before using CaroO Driving Recorder,

you MUST check whether internal or external memory is available on your phone.

Max Space Setting

CaroO Driving Recorder uses all of the free space in your SD card to save recorded files.

Sometimes it may cause problems while you use other smartphone applications. So you can

set the maximum amount of memory space which CaroO Driving Recorder can use on your SD

card.

By setting this max space, you can prevent CaroO Driving Recorder from using all of your

memory space. CaroO Driving Recorder will automatically start deleting the oldest files and

creating a new file when it gets to the max limit.

The default value is “Full” space.

Event Detection Sensitivity Setting

CaroO Driving Recorder uses smartphones internal G-force sensor to detect collision event.

The lower this sensitivity setting is, the less frequently collision event will be detected. You

can set one of 5 levels of event detection sensitivity or disable event detection.

Emergency Report On/Off Setting

When the “Emergency” situation occurs, you can give a call, send an SMS or share event video

files via YouTube automatically by using this emergency report setting.

If you enable this option, you can preset phone number of the person who will receive a

phone call or an SMS, or YouTube account for uploading video.

When you send an SMS, you can also edit the messages in advance and the default message is

“Emergency happens to me.”

Notice: If you do not set the phone number in advance, you will not be able to give a call or

send a message even though you enabled this option.

If you want to use video sharing via YouTube account, you need to enter the YouTube account

and privacy setting for uploaded video in advance.

The last step is setting “Emergency Default Action” for making a phone call, sending an SMS

message or uploading video to YouTube automatically.

The default value is “Cancel” which do not give any action automatically.

Notice: If you choose YouTube upload, this action may consume the mobile data budget a lot.

Please check your data plan and choose this option carefully.

2-2. Car Monitor Settings

Car-Monitor On/Off

You can turn on or turn off OBD-II connection and car monitoring as well as car diagnosis. If

you don’t install a Bluetooth OBD-II device (ELM327 compatible) into your car, then turn off

this function.

OBD-II Device Setting

If your car has an OBD-II device which is already paired with your phone, you can select it for

monitoring your car data in Car Monitor function. If you do not pair your OBD-II device with

your smartphone in advance, then go to “Settings” app of your phone and fair your devices in

Bluetooth setting menu first.

This list of OBD devices firstly shows one class of devices which most OBD dongles are

included. If your device is not listed on, please press “View All” button and you will see all

Bluetooth devices which are paired with your phone.

Car Info. (Fuel Type & Engine Displacement) Setting

CaroO Driving Recorder provides a set of calculated statistics of your car. In order to get more

reliable statistics, you should set your car information properly before using CaroO. You can

set the Engine Displacement and Fuel Type of your car.

Notice: From CaroO v3.0.0, hybrid (Galsoline-battery) car is also supported. Please choose

Hybrid car when your car is a hybrid type car. (New)

Fuel Consumption Adjustment Option (New)

Even though CaroO successfully estimates the fuel consumption by using standard OBD data, it

cannot provide enough accuracy in some cars. If you feel the fuel consumption and the fuel

economy from CaroO are too much or too less, please use this option for adjusting fuel

consumption and fuel economy.

If fuel economy is too high, please adjust this ratio higher than 1.0. And if fuel economy is too

low, please adjust this ratio lower than 1.0.

Secure OBD Connection Option

If you have problems to connect a registered Bluetooth OBD dongle with your smartphone,

please check this option and retry.

2-3. Launch/Termination Settings

This menu supports options for automatic launch or termination of CaroO which was mixed up

in General Settings of the previous version.

Auto Launch (Driving Detection) On/Off

This option is provided for launching CaroO Driving Recorder automatically as soon as you

start driving.

Enabling this option allow CaroO to be launched and not start its operation automatically. If

you want to start the operation of video blackbox and car monitor, you need to enable “Auto

Start” option and “Auto Record Start” option too.

You can set four detection options separately, “Check the connection of car battery charger”

“Check vehicle speed with GPS”, “Check the connection of OBD device” and “Check car

ignition on”.

Notice: In order to reduce the possibility of false activation of CaroO Driving Recorder, we use

the G-sensor and proximity sensor on your device to check whether it is placed into your car

dock properly or not. If your smartphone is put into your car dock or car holder properly, then

checking the selected auto-start option will be started.

The OBD device check option is the fastest option and the car ignition check option is the

most reliable for auto-start. If you want to use these two options, you must turn on Bluetooth

manually in advance.

In order to reduce false start of CaroO, we also provide a pop-up window for 5 seconds on which you can

cancel auto start manually.

Auto Termination (Driving Detection) On/Off

This option is provided to stop recording and terminate CaroO Driving Recorder automatically

when you finish your drive.

You can set three detection options separately, “Check the disconnection of car battery

charger”, “Check OBD device disconnection” and “Check the car engine off”. Only if you use

Car-Monitoring function with an OBD dongle, you can use the 2nd and 3rd options.

Notice: When you use “Check OBD device disconnection” option, false detection might happen if

using multiple Bluetooth devices. Even though we make it not happen while you drive, please take

care of this unexpected termination.

In order to prevent unexpected termination, we also provide a pop-up window for 5 seconds

on which you can cancel auto stop.

Auto-start On/Off

If you want CaroO Driving Recorder to start its operation as soon as CaroO Driving recorder is

launched, you just need to turn on this option.

Then whenever you launch this app automatically or manually, video blackbox operation and

car monitoring operation will be started immediately depending on your setting.

In order to prevent unwanted start of its operation, CaroO shows a confirmation pop-up for

you to be able to cancel it.

Pop-up Setting during Start and Stop

By using this setting menu, the confirmation pop-up with waiting time shown at app

start/stop can be enabled or disabled. In order to hide those pop-up’s, please unselected the

options.

The default settings for both start pop-up and stop pop-up are ON.

2-4. General Settings

This General Settings consists of non-necessary option such as unit setting, quick launching

app selection, over-speed warning, floating launcher button, and using default language

(English) options.

Units Setting

The values of weight, temperature, fuel economy, distance/speed and volume, shown on

CaroO Driving Recorder can have their own units by this Unit Setting.

We provide five options for changing units of the following values. By pressing each value you will see a

pop-up for choosing a unit for each of them as follows.

Quick Launcher Settings

While you use CaroO Driving Recorder, you may want to use a music player, a navigation app,

etc. at the same time. Since CaroO Driving Recorder supports multitasking and background

operation. You can choose apps you want to use simultaneously with this option.

You can choose two apps in this version and the activation buttons of them will be placed at

the top of main page.

Power Saving Option (New)

If you feel battery consumption is too much, you need to lower down the video resolution and

quality in order to reduce the battery consumption by CaroO. Another way for saving power is

to enable power saving option. This option controls the brightness of your display in order to

reduce batter drain speed.

You can choose two power saving condition, always or as if battery level is lower than 30%.

The default setting is “Off”.

Overspeed Warning On/Off Setting

If you enable this setting, you can see over-speed warning on the main screen as well as

alarm sound (New) when you drive faster than a specified speed.

The default limit is 110 km/h but you can change the other speed limits as follows:

If you select “mile” for distance unit, different four values, 60, 65, 70, 75 mph will be

provided.

Floating Launcher Button On/Off Setting

With this option, you can see a floating launcher button on the display when CaroO is running

in background mode.

First time, you can only find a button with CaroO logo, but if you click it once, you can find an extended

buttons displaying speed, emergency button, trip summary, etc. as well as driving indicators for harsh

acceleration/brake, idling, over-speed, fuel cut, etc. (New)

If you want to move this launcher button on your screen, just press and drag it. The position

of the launcher button is limited to the left and right side of your screen. (New) The final

position will be saved as default position and this button will be placed at the same position

next time.

Use default language (English) Setting

With this option, you can view all menus in English. Depending on your locale, the translation

results are not complete and not good for use.

The default setting is “Off”.

2-4. Application Information

This part will show brief information of this app and provide a link of Facebook Page of CaroO

Driving Recorder.

If you have any requests or questions, please visit the Facebook page and leave a post to us.

Credits

This list shows the voluntary translators of CaroO messages.

3. Start Operation

Starting Video Blackbox & Car Monitor

When you press the “Start” button at the bottom-center of the Home Menu, the operation of

CaroO Driving Recorder will be started and the display page will be changed to the Main Page.

If you use both video blackbox and car monitor function, the preview screen will be displayed

for 10 seconds and the screen will be moved to the eco driving screen automatically.

(Automatic screen switching to eco driving screen)

But if you only use video blackbox without car monitor, the preview screen will be displayed

and you can only move to eco driving screen by pressing the screen switch button at the top-

center of screen.

When you use car monitor function only with no video blackbox, eco driving screen will be

displayed instead of video preview, and moreover, preview screen will also be disabled.

(Eco driving screen for car monitor with video blackbox disabled)

Video Blackbox Function

The “Preview” window shows the input of recorded video, and you can change focus mode

and brightness on this window.

This “Preview” window is displayed when you start video blackbox operation and will be hided

automatically in 10 seconds. If you want to see “Preview” more, you just need to press the

“Preview” button. And if you close the “Preview” window, you also need to press the “car

monitor” button, vice versa

If you disable video blackbox function in “Settings” or there is no available space for new

video file, then video recording operation will not be working at that time. In this case, you

can see disabled video preview button too.

Focus and Brightness Control

On the bottom of preview window, there are focus control button and a slide bar for

brightness control. Considering your environment of using CaroO, please change the focus

mode and brightness level on this “Preview” window.

Notice: Depending on devices, focus control and brightness control are not working properly.

And on some devices which do not support brightness control, the slide bar will not be shown

on “Preview” window.

Emergency video recording

CaroO Driving Recorder provides event video recording function as well as full-time normal

video recording. When an event is detected by using the G-sensor or user input from

Emergency button, a separate video file called “Emergency Video” is created and protected

by CaroO Driving Recorder. The emergency video file includes 20, 40 or 60 seconds of video

data according to your setting and for example, 40 seconds of video includes 20 seconds of

video before the event and 20 seconds of video after the event.

When an event happens, a pop-up for emergency report will be displayed while saving an

emergency video, and the selected option will be highlighted and activated automatically.

Even if you do not set an automatic report option, you can call or send a message by pressing

a button on this pop-up. Pressing a button will immediately start the selected emergency

report action.

After sending an emergency report, you will see a pop-up for showing the result of emergency

report shortly.

Notice: If you do not set the phone number for emergency call and message in advance, you

will not be able to give a call or send a message and will see the following error messages.

When you choose YouTube upload for emergency report, an event video file will be uploaded

to YouTube account you have registered. While uploading a video, a moving arrow will be

showed at the top status bar, and after completing video upload, a notification will be shown

on notification window too.

(A notification while uploading video)

(A notification after finishing upload)

Notice: The video upload might be affected by the mobile network status and it will consume

mobile data budget you have. Be careful not for overspending you mobile data considering

your data plan.

When you cancel emergency report, a short message will only be displayed on your screen. .

Car Monitor Function

The most car monitoring functions of this “Eco-driving screen” are working only if an OBD

dongle is registered and connected as well as car monitor is enabled. This screen has the

following display components.

At the top of this page, a button for displaying preview is placed and two indicators,

malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) and OBD connection lamp, are placed below.

Fuel Efficiency Panel

The fuel information panel in the middle includes average fuel efficiency, instant fuel

efficiency and fuel consumption of this trip.

Trip Info Panel

Below the fuel efficiency panel, trip information display are placed which shows trip distance

and time.

Vehicle Status Panel

On the left side of this page, vehicle status panel is provided which shows engine-related

information such as RPM, engine coolant temperature, battery level, fuel-cut, eco-driving

gauge, etc. This vehicle status panel is only working when no OBD device is available.

The two warning indicators, engine coolant temperature and battery level, give status

information with different colors depending on its value. And fuel-cut indicator turns on or off

whether fuel is cut off or not.

The eco lamp has four different colors, red, yellow, green, and grey depending on the eco-

driving status. Please try to keep this color as green for saving fuel and CO2.

Driving Status Panel

On the right side of this page, driving status panel is provided which shows speed-related

information such as speed, harsh acceleration/brake, idling, overspeed warning, etc.

The all warning indicators, harsh acceleration, harsh brake, idle, overspeed driving, are

turned on with red-color whenever their corresponding events happen. Please try to keep

these lamps turned off for eco-safe driving.

Detailed Information Pages

If you press the “Detail Info.” button at the bottom center of main screen, you will see the

following pages providing more detailed information.

The first page shows real-time driving status such as RPM, engine load, battery voltage,

coolant temperature, MIL & DTC code, etc.

The digital meters in the third row of this page including batter voltage, coolant temperature

and malfunction indicator will have different colors depending on their status. If any of these

three meters are red-colored, please investigate those parts carefully for avoiding unexpected

accident.

The second page shows trip and eco-driving status such as average fuel economy, fuel

consumption, harsh acceleration and braking, ratios of Eco-driving time, fuel cut time, idling

time and over-speed driving time compared with total driving time, etc.

You can move between pages by swiping the screen left or right. If you want to go back to the

main screen, press the “back” button.

Quick App Launcher

If you select one or two apps in “Settings” for quick launching, the corresponding buttons for

the selected apps will be placed at the top corners of the main page. If you press one of these

two buttons, the corresponding app will be launched immediately and then CaroO Driving

Recorder will be working in background mode of operation.

Notice: Apps for recording video, taking a picture, augmented reality using camera will not

be launched properly while video blackbox function is running in CaroO Driving Recorder. And

apps using Bluetooth OBD device will also be working properly at the same time while Car

Monitoring function of CaroO Driving Recorder is running. Please be careful for choosing apps

for quick launching.

Terminating Operation

When you want to finish operation of CaroO Driving Recorder and move to the Home Menu,

press the “Back” button of your phone. In order to avoid unexpected termination, a pop-up

window for confirming the termination will be displayed on the screen. If you press “OK” or

“Back” button again, the Home Menu page will be displayed on the screen as well as

termination of operation.

If you want to terminate operation and exit this app, just press the “Exit” button at the

bottom right of the main page. If you press this button, the following pop-up will be displayed

on the screen and after 5 seconds, CaroO Driving Recorder will be closed after termination of

operation.

4. Playing Recorded Video

If you want to play recorded video files, press “Video” button on Home Menu page.

Video Storage

If you press “Video” button, you will see the following list on your screen to show the video

files stored in “CaroO” folder or system path (Android 4.4)

There are three separate folders storing normal video files, emergency video files and

archived video files, and on the list you can find three taps correspond to the three separated

folders. On this list, we provide a thumb-nailed video, recording time, video resolution and

file size in order to help you to find a file you want to manage now.

The normal video files are stored into sub-folders separately according to the date of

recording. In contrast, the emergency video files and archived video files are stored in a

folder regardless of the recording date, respectively.

Even though the emergency video files and archived video files are not deleted by CaroO

Driving Recorder, the normal video files will be deleted automatically when available storage

is not enough in the order of recording date.

Managing Recorded Video

If you want to archive, share or delete files, select files on the list and press the action

buttons at the top-right of this list page. By using the “Select Option” button, you can select

or unselect all files on the current list.

If you select one or more files and press the archive button, the selected files will be copied

into the “Archive Folder” and these archived files will also be protected from automatic

deletion like emergency video files.

Share Del.

If you want to share a video file, select a file for sharing first and press the “Share” button.

Then, all available video sharing apps on your smartphone will be listed as follows.

By selecting your favorite app for sharing, the video file will be shared to the sharing folder

you select.

Notice: Depending on the video size, some video sharing apps will not be working properly.

Before using a sharing app, please check the largest size of video allowed by each sharing

app.

Deleting files or folders

If you want to delete files or folders, select files or folders on the list and press the “Delete”

button (shape of waste basket).

Even though the normal video files are deleted by the order of creation date when available

space is not enough, it is recommended to delete manually normal video files in order to

reduce the computation burden for deleting files while recording a video file.

Playing Recorded Video

If you press a list item corresponding the video file you want to play, playing video will be

started immediately.

The default screen includes main video display, address, driving status as well as speed and

date/time recorded. But if you press the “Mode Change” button, then you can also see the

following display working with Google Map.

Driving Status

Change Mode

5. View Trip Records

If you press the trip button, you may check the details of your trip records stored in the

memory.

Accumulate Statistics

Accumulated stats are calculated from trip data within a certain period of times you set. You

can start accumulation by pressing the “Reset” button and pressing the reset button will not

delete the actual trip data on your storage.

Some data such as fuel economy, fuel consumption, CO2 emissions etc., will not be provided if

you don’t use an OBD dongle and car monitor function.

When you press the reset button, you will see a confirmation pop up and press “OK” will

immediately reset and reset the accumulation logic.

By pressing the “Trip Record” button, you will see the list of trip data and view the details

and statistics of the selected trip or delete it. For easier selection of trip record, there are

start time of trip, trip distance, address of start point and end point on the list item.

Detailed trip information consists of trip summary, fuel economy and car-diagnostic

information is provided with much more simple interface.

If your car does not report any error code (DTC), the following results will be shown on

“DIAG” tab.

But if your car reports DTC codes, the detailed information of the reported DTC codes will be

shown as follows.

Some data including fuel economy and Diagnosis information will only be available if you

enable Car Monitoring function with an OBD device.

6. Sending Log Files (New)

If you press the log button, you send log file to us by email which includes CaroO version, your

phone model and OS version, your settings as well as internal operation logs.

When you press this log button you will see a pop-up for confirming your submission.

If any problems happen, please send log files with a short description about the problems.

This subscription of log files will be so helpful to figure out the exact reason of problems, and

we can easily help you to change settings or find a way to fix them.

7. Working with Android Wear (New)

From v3.0.0, CaroO officially supports Android wear watches for displaying information and

providing notifications.

Android wear based smart watches

There are three main components of CaroO wear, notifications, emergency button and CaroO

wear app. The emergency button generates the same emergency video files on your phone as

the emergency button of CaroO.

Notifications

CaroO provides notifications to Android wear from the start to the end of its operation.

As soon as you start operation of CaroO (not launch of CaroO), you can see a welcome

notification first and trip summary notification after termination of CaroO as well.

The trip summary includes trip distance, trip time, average fuel efficiency and fuel

consumption if available.

While you drive, emergency and event notification will be provided with two different view

types as follows:

Caroo Wear App

Instead of a notification, you can check the status of CaroO and trigger an emergency event

on your Android wear device by using CaroO wear app. You can launch this dedicated app

through Android wear app list or through notifications.

If you launch the CaroO wear app, you can see the following status panel on your wrist.

The lamps on this panel will be turn on or off or have different colors depending on driving

status.

The other three serious events will be notified by full screen warning, malfunction,

emergency event and overspeed driving.

Trip summary is also provided with two pages, trip and fuel, on CaroO wear app.

You can also activate CaroO on your phone from CaroO wear app if required.