Garmin Dash Cam Mini, Owner'S Manual

Viewing Videos and Photos on Your 

Smartphone

Before you can view videos and photos on your smartphone, 

you must pair your Garmin Dash Cam Mini device with the 

Garmin Drive app (

Pairing with Your Smartphone

, page 2

).

NOTE: 

The device stops recording and alerts are disabled while 

viewing videos or photos.

1

From the Garmin Drive app on your smartphone, select 

Review Footage

.

2

Select an option:
• To view a photo or video you saved, select a file from the 

Saved Footage

 category.

• To view recent video footage that has not been saved, 

select a video from the 

Temporary Footage

 category.

Trimming and Exporting a Video

You can trim the length of your video to remove unnecessary 

footage before exporting it.

1

From the Garmin Drive app, select 

Review Footage

.

2

Select a video.

3

Drag the handles on the video progress bar left or right to 

trim the video length.

4

Select 

Export

.

NOTE: 

You must keep the app in the foreground when 

exporting a video.
The app exports the trimmed video to your smartphone.

Deleting a Video or Photo Using Your Smartphone

1

When you are viewing the list of saved videos or photos on 

your smartphone, select 

Select

.

2

Select one or more files.

3

Select  .

Connecting the Camera to Your Computer

You can connect the camera to your computer to install software 

updates or transfer videos and photos to your computer. You 

should connect to your computer using the shorter 1.5 m (5 ft.) 

micro-USB data cable included with your device.

NOTE: 

The longer power cable included with your device is 

intended for power only, and it cannot be used to connect to 

your computer.

1

Plug the small end of the data cable into the micro-USB port 

on the camera.

2

Plug the larger end of the data cable into a USB port on your 

computer.
Depending on your computer operating system, the device 

appears as either a removable drive or a removable volume 

on your computer.

Videos and Photos on Your Computer

NOTE: 

Some media players might not support high-resolution 

playback.
Videos and photos are stored in the DCIM directory on the 

camera memory card. Videos are stored in MP4 file format, and 

photos are stored in JPG format. You can view and transfer 

photos and videos by connecting the memory card or the device 

to your computer (

Connecting the Camera to Your Computer

, 

page 3

).

The videos and photos are sorted into several folders.

NOTE: 

Unsaved videos are not available when the option to 

promptly delete unsaved video is enabled (

Camera Settings in 

the Garmin Drive App

, page 3

).

100EVENT

: Contains videos saved automatically when the 

device detects an incident.

101PHOTO

: Contains photos.

102SAVED

: Contains videos saved manually by the user.

103PARKM

: Contains videos saved while parked.

104UNSVD

: Contains unsaved video footage. The device 

overwrites the oldest unsaved video when the storage space 

for unsaved videos is full.

Multiple Camera Network

You can pair multiple dash cameras with the Garmin Drive app. 

This allows you to connect to dash cameras from multiple 

vehicles using the same phone. It also allows you to install 

multiple dash cameras in the same vehicle, such as front and 

rear cameras, and create composite picture-in-picture videos 

from the simultaneous recordings. If a GPS-connected camera 

is part of the network, you can add location information to saved 

videos for all cameras on the network.

Creating Picture-in-Picture Multi-Camera 

Videos

Before you can use this feature, you must pair at least two 

cameras with the Garmin Drive app and record footage using 

both cameras.
The Garmin Drive app allows you to create composite, picture-

in-picture videos from footage recorded at the same time on two 

cameras.

1

From the Garmin Drive app, select 

Review Footage

.

2

Select a multi-camera video.
Multi-camera videos are indicated by multiple camera icons 

 on the video thumbnail. The app automatically 

combines video recorded at the same time into one multi-

camera video icon.

3

Select   and   to choose the camera footage to use for the 

fullscreen portion of the video.

4

Drag the handles on the video progress bar to the left or right 

to trim the video length.

5

Select 

Continue

.

6

Select   and   to choose the camera footage to use for the 

picture-in-picture portion of the video.

7

Select the corner of the screen where you want the picture-

in-picture footage to appear, and select 

Export

.

NOTE: 

You must keep the app in the foreground when 

exporting a video.
The app exports the picture-in-picture video to your 

smartphone.

Settings

The settings for your Garmin Dash Cam Mini device are 

configured using the Garmin Drive app. Before you can 

configure settings, you must pair your device with the Garmin 

Drive app (

Pairing with Your Smartphone

, page 2

).

Camera Settings in the Garmin Drive App

From the Garmin Drive app, select  , and select the camera 

name.

Camera Setup

: Provides options to choose a camera name and 

displays a live video feed so you can adjust the position of 

the camera.

Quality

: Adjusts the video resolution.

Data Overlay

: Adjusts the type of data displayed on videos and 

pictures.

Unsaved Videos

: This feature is not available in all areas.

Multiple Camera Network

3