I bought the GoPro Hero 4 Silver

I bought the GoPro Hero 4 Silver on November 30th, 2015 on Amazon and was thrilled when it showed up. The camera is great, picture great and features are awesome. All sorts of good stuff with one caveat: The dreaded helicopter sound when connected to the camera via wifi from your phone. All audio recorded sounded like I was in a helicopter or one was nearby. This is a well known and documented problem with this camera that has been going on for almost a year and GoPro is STILL selling faulty models. I happened to get one of these through Amazon. After lots of research and watching countless youtube videos I returned the camera and asked for Amazon to send a replacement. I got lucky (so far) and the replacement camera does not have the wifi audio interference.

Update: 2 weeks later and the camera is still running good with no wifi interference sound.

If you have the helicopter noise when using wifi Return the camera to Amazon ASAP!!! This is so unacceptable that GoPro knows about this but is still selling these broken cameras. They should be pulling them off the shelves and replacing them with the fix as there is one.
Other than the helicopter noise problem this is an amazing camera and I love it.


Love it so far. My only knock would be the battery life. I ran out of battery very fast on my first trip out fishing. My second trip, I used all 3 batteries in about 4 hours of fishing with only about 30 minutes of actual recording. The phone app is pretty great too.

Does everything I want and need as advertised. Doesn't replace a point and shoot camera for getting landscape shots, but excellent for action video, wide angle landscape shots, selfie shots, and time lapses. Gopro editing software leaves a bit to be desired but the camera is exactly what you expect.

I have had it for about 6 months and have taken it on my dirtbike helmet for some trails and fields, strapped it to the exoskeleton of a buddy's off road vehicle for some river trails and rock climbs, put it on the dash when we rented a car overseas and got some sweet time lapse video, and carried it on several hikes and a few other adventures. Wouldn't have been able to do most of these with any other camera.