New firmware: V01.03.0600

[Robbyg]

What is the point in risking the possibility of damage or loss of your AirCraft by using something you know is not good? Why not use a good firmware/app combo and let others take chances with their investments? In the meantime, go enjoy your Mavic.

I also do not fully understand the thought process with upgrading to a less stable version. When I say stable I mean from A-Z. Even if you have none of the half dozen issues you still have to contend with a huge NFZ database as well as reduced range. Is Fixed Wing and a few other rarely used features worth it?

I guess when the goggles are out we will see if they work with older firmware and aps. They mighty no

 

[Wacker2611]

I've been on .600 for ages now and have not noticed any reduction in range at all.

 

[airview2]

yes, for me the same! there is no reduction in range at all with 600! i even get less strong interference warnings since 600, connection seems to be more stable.

quiet satisfied with 600 after my nfz issue dissapeared. who knows the bugs of 400? wjo knows, what dji changed and did not reported to us? it is old firmware, only a handfull uses this out there... so its normal, that there are less issues reported.

 

[Gary cato]

Ok i have two Mavics as i have mentioned before all i can say now is they both act in very different ways on different firmwares.

one i bought in Russia in January and one was bought in Thailand in February

Russian Mavic has had every upgrade and flown 120 miles so far and and 80 flights, 4 hours of that has been on 0600 and it has always on every upgrade flown fine. apart from a noticable range drop since 0400 which only happens in the UK. In Thailand i was getting 5 kilos with signal still sitting fine at 3 bars. i had every confidence in 0600 on this Mavic and i always just press ignore when it says update NFZ zones. I really do have no problems with it flying ANYWHERE.

Thai Mavic was on 0500 and i could not update it in Thailand as we had a full island power loss with no cell or wifi (happens a lot which is why i carry a lot of batteries over there).along with car chargers and the power bank adaptor.

Anyway i left my Russian Mavic over there (along with the sd card with all my footage arghhhhhhhhhhh now gotta get it posted back here). i brought the Thai one home and updated it here to 0600

it flies like a heap of crap, so i downgraded to 0400.

stabillity is not as precise i think as the Russian Mav on 0600 although today and yesterday were a little too high wind wise to really say for sure. what i can say is she flew far smoother than on 0600 when i was actually flying her and those NFZ warnings etc on controller are gone. (i never ever get them on my other Mavic even on 0600)

when i did the upgrade here to 0600 i noticed that the option to ignore updating the NFZ is not there anymore and the GEO button was missing. The NFZ on the RC was annoying beyond belief, again i don't get that on 0600 on the one now in Thailand.

i took Bunnys advice and deleted the app as even after downgrading to 0400 i had no GEO button and was concerned the NFZ **** would still be active.

after reinstalling the app i had the AC turned on in the garden and A yellow NFZ warning came up but the GEO button was back (thanks bunny) and was defaulted as on.

Switching it off sent away the warnings and also the high wind warnings i get in low winds are also gone, as today was very windy, enough that i let her hover at 5 metres and watched her struggle like mad to hold position in the gusts no flying day today as i hate fighting winds.

i am flying both on the latest go 4 App with no difficulties. IOS latest and IPHONE7 plus, i use the same phone and app for both AC.

Two Mavics two very different personal feelings on each one having tried every software on one RC and two on another.

One fly's fantastic on 0600, and one does not give me the same confidence, but on 0400 i have that confidence back in the second Mavic

i am sorry i cant explain the technicalities of the differences, i fly and try to feel how they fly but i cant put those feelings into words to explain why each gives me confidence on one firmware but not another. its like driving a car and you feeling what it does with each input of the wheel or stick and the vibrations that come back to you telling you what is going on.
you drive through feeling and the Mavic is like that for me i try to feel and not just see what is happening with every input on the sticks.

all i can conclude is you need to switch around right now and play with all the upgrades and downgrades and find the best one you can, while you can and then stay right with that unless there is 100 percent conclusive proof that DJI have got one right and that this NFZ rubbish is not going to shut us all done in the future.

They already give a warning if anyone actually read it that when u upgrade the NFZ you are allowing DJI to take control of where you fly.

i will be keeping both drones exactly as they are right now one on 0600 one on 0400.

After reinstalling the app i also did not get the fixed wing option back. As i don't have much time i have not had a chance to do anything except re set all my settings and calibrate the AC compass.

I may now also consider switching to a seperate phone dedicated to flying each drone as i have a spare brand new iphone 6s sitting in a box in Thailand with only DJI go 4 downloaded on it.

 

[WEOTN]

that has been on 0600 and it has always on every upgrade flown fine. apart from a noticeable range drop since 0400 which only happens in the UK.

I'm very curious why/how there's range drop only in UK. Are there radio frequency or RF power restrictions in UK that the firmware might change to accommodate, and thus lose range? Or could it just be that there's so much "noise" on 2.4GHz in UK that MP cannot filter the good signal from the noise?

This could be important in understanding how some see a range loss and others do not, as it is very much a global board.

Thanks!

 

[airview2]

Quiet interesting. Maybe, they have sold slightly different hardware versions of the Mavic?

I have the EU version with reduced range(CE). The last days, i was not so much on photography and filming but exploring the surroundings, called it explorer flights;-). I was able to go out about 2km in about 70m hight over mixed area (rural + suburbs wth wlan, cell towers) with still 3-4 bars hd/rc left. I think thats ok vor the EU version.

Btw., does anybody know if it is the software/location or the hardware, that limits the EU(CE) range (~4km) compared to FCC range (~7km)?

 

[tmoerel]

Well...here in Switzerland I have no range drop at all on .600

 

[tmoerel]

Quiet interesting. Maybe, they have sold slightly different hardware versions of the Mavic?

I have the EU version with reduced range(CE). The last days, i was not so much on photography and filming but exploring the surroundings, called it explorer flights;-). I was able to go out about 2km in about 70m hight over mixed area (rural + suburbs wth wlan, cell towers) with still 3-4 bars hd/rc left. I think thats ok vor the EU version.

Btw., does anybody know if it is the software/location or the hardware, that limits the EU(CE) range (~4km) compared to FCC range (~7km)?

Sorry but there is no EU(CE) version. They are all the same. The transmitter power is just limited when the GPS sees it is in Europe!

 

[airview2]

Sorry but there is no EU(CE) version. They are all the same. The transmitter power is just limited when the GPS sees it is in Europe!

Thanks! Bad news because i want 7km. Good news because i don't have to watch out buying a FCC version ;-)

 

[ryo]

Thanks! Bad news because i want 7km. Good news because i don't have to watch out buying a FCC version ;-)

Good news because even if there is the theoretical 4km range, in fact it does fly over that distance without any impediment.

 

[Vilco]

Good news because even if there is the theoretical 4km range, in fact it does fly over that distance without any impediment.

I've read a German pilot who flown his Mavic upto 6 km, here or on DJI's fora

 

[Insideout]

I can only assume DJI is working on the .0600 issues, and sincerely hope they fix it soon. I had it happen a second time yesterday where I was hovering, hit the record video button on front of RC and my gimbal dropped (horizon changed position by about 1/3 of the screen), recording did NOT start, and I was unable to move the gimbal with the front wheel. The first time it happened I thought it may have been due to high wind, but this second time confirms its the firmware as there was little to no wind, and it has not happened on any other fw version for me.

 

[Heavysledz]

I can only assume DJI is working on the .0600 issues, and sincerely hope they fix it soon. I had it happen a second time yesterday where I was hovering, hit the record video button on front of RC and my gimbal dropped (horizon changed position by about 1/3 of the screen), recording did NOT start, and I was unable to move the gimbal with the front wheel. The first time it happened I thought it may have been due to high wind, but this second time confirms its the firmware as there was little to no wind, and it has not happened on any other fw version for me.

have you tried refreshing the firmware? I have seen this fix weird bugs such as this in the past.....if not, I would suggest you give it a try. Not to discount your problem but if it was truly a firmware coding issue, everyone would be experiencing it. So it sounds like it is most likely related to a bad firmware load or possibly a hardware issue....

 

[ryo]

I've read a German pilot who flown his Mavic upto 6 km, here or on DJI's fora

Ho raggiunto 4,8km. Could fly more but was too worried.

 

[Peel]

I experienced the altitude drop under .0600 this past weekend while using a third party app. I was running a photogrammetry shoot using the Altizure app, and had set the flight to be at 50 m AGL. As you can see from the camera poses report generated by the site, the altitude was all over the place. Both the app and RC showed is holding steady at 50 m the whole time. I had to abort the run at one point when it became apparent that the Mavic was below the height of the building's cupola, and headed straight for it. From the report it shows a height variance of over 10 meters!

 

[Insideout]

have you tried refreshing the firmware? I have seen this fix weird bugs such as this in the past.....if not, I would suggest you give it a try. Not to discount your problem but if it was truly a firmware coding issue, everyone would be experiencing it. So it sounds like it is most likely related to a bad firmware load or possibly a hardware issue....

I upgraded to .0600 when it first came out and it happened on my second flight (first flight I had yaw drifting). I then downgraded to .0400 and the problems did not occur for a week. I re-upgraded to .0600 and the problem happened on the first flight out again.