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Forced Subscription/Can't Get To My Arlo Q

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ensanguined
Apprentice
Apprentice

Forced into 30 day saved video trial, it ended, now I can't get back to seeing my normal 7 days of recordings for my Arlo Q when logging in via a browser. How do I navigate past these disgustingly annoying prompts? I can't even upload images here...

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BrookeN
Arlo Moderator
Arlo Moderator

Can you try to log out of the account and log back in and see if you see the same behavior? 

shmihe
Aspirant
Aspirant

I had exactly the same issue, forced subscription trial, and as soon as it ended my Arlo Q didn't detect motion or record video. 

 

Somehow managed to get a phone call from support, for the app (not for the unsupported Arlo Q).

 

I had already tried everything, except for a factory reset. 

 

Of course support gave all the normal canned questions and responses. They told me to try everything that I already tried multiple times.

 

At the point of support having no other suggestions and about to give up, they said as a last measure - do a factory reset on the Arlo Q. 

 

I ended the phone conversation, and followed the procedure for a factory reset. In a few minutes they Arlo Q was back to working as it should. 

 

It's astounding that we have to go through this for something that we didn't sign up for.

 

And I've gone through similar situations that happened because of app updates, MULTIPLE times.

 

It is unbelievable that people who still have perfectly good and working hardware are often shrugged off because "end of life" product status. Are we expected to just toss out something we bought and paid for - that is still working fine? 

 

I give Arlo credit for such an awesome camera as the Arlo Q, but they are straight up dirt for trashing us with/through the app, and pretty much always blaming the hardware when a support issue arises. 

 

Do better Arlo!!!