How Do You Reset The Camera Password On A Gopro Hero 3 Plus

UPDATE: Follow the link for instructions on resetting your GoPro HERO5 WiFi password.

I call back almost anyone who owns a GoPro has experienced the annoyance of forgetting your WiFi password to connect to the GoPro app.

The other day, ane of my colleagues had exactly that issue. For a company that specialises in GoPro's, this is non unusual every bit we have many cameras floating around and we are always playing with different settings.

Usually information technology's a quick reset and away yous go. But this fourth dimension, in that location was a lot of gnashing of teeth equally the update / reset process was not working smoothly. Beware the lock tab on a microSD to SD card adapter - see below!

Given the pain and suffering we thought we would share a quick way to update your GoPro Hero photographic camera WiFi password without going through the whole firmware update process.

GoPro HERO4 - Resetting WiFi Password

GoPro has made it much simpler with the HERO4 camera and actually congenital WiFi reset into the user interface on the photographic camera.

Press the style push button on the front of the camera until you reach and select "Prepare Up" (striking the Shutter push to select).
Press the manner button until "Reset Cam" is highlighted (near the bottom under the garbage tin icon).
Press the mode button to select "Reset Wi-Fi". Press the shutter push to confirm.
Press the mode push again to select "Reset". Press the shutter button to confirm.
The camera will restart.
Use the GoPro app to get through the pairing process and set your new details.

GoPro HERO3+ - A Shortcut to Reset WiFi Password

For the HERO3+ series (and earlier) y'all could go through the process on the GoPro website hither. If you need the latest firmware then great, become through the process and kill ii birds with one stone. Just chances are you have the latest every bit the HERO3+ serial has not had a firmware update since belatedly 2014 (at the fourth dimension of writing - July 2016) since they have the shiny Hero4 camera to focus on (and no doubtfulness a HERO5 at some signal).

The WiFi update download from the GoPro website is just ii pocket-sized files bundled in a null file, so here'due south a little shortcut.

The following instructions will reset your camera details as follows:

SSID:  "GoProHero3" password :"countersign"

Encounter instructions nether Pro Tip below if yous want to change these.

Download the WiFi update null file conveniently provided for yous to download here.
Turn camera off, accept out SD card and identify into your calculator.Note you must accept your SD card inserted into your computer - you cannot merely plug the GoPro into your figurer using a USB cable (GoPro'due south are MTP devices which don't allow writing to the SD carte du jour).
For HERO3+ copy the UPDATE folder inside the naught file to your SD carte root folder and then it looks the same equally the screenshot below. Note it must be in the UPDATE folder, otherwise it will not work.

folder update wifi password for hero3 HERO3+ - GoPro SD card contents

HERO3+ - UPDATE folder contents

For HERO3, simply identify the two files "settings.in" and "update.11.txt"in the root folder.

HERO3 root folder contents HERO3 root binder contents

Eject your SD card, put back into your camera and turn on (make sure the bombardment is non completely flat). The update will take a couple of seconds and yous are back in business!

Pro Tip: customize the GoPro camera name and password

On your SD bill of fare you lot should see ii files: "settings.in" and "update.11.txt"in the UPDATE folder (HERO3+) or root folder (Hero3). If not, looks like you take gone wrong somewhere and then cheque the steps in the department to a higher place.
Open up "settings.in" in a text editor. On Windows just correct click and select "Open with", then select Notepad or similar.

GoPro settings.in file using Notepad (Windows)

GoPro Hero iii settings.in file using Notepad (Windows)

Edit the ssid field from "GoProHero3" to whatever you desire your photographic camera to be called.
Edit the password field from "countersign" to a new password.
For example:

{"ssid":"MyGoProCamera","password":"newpassword"}

Striking salvage. Do non hitting enter or enter any other unnecessary characters other than your changes above.
Place SD card back into camera and the update will proceed with your new settings.

Beware the SD card adapter lock tab!

Just a reminder...if you lot are using a microSD to SD card adapter like this... unlocked MicroSD card adapter
MicroSD card adapter - beware the lock tab!

and so please make sure that the little 'lock' tab is in the unlocked position! You can see that the little grey tab within the reddish square needs to be in the 'up' position otherwise y'all will get a write fault when you try to copy the update files over.

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