It's happening to people straight out of the box. The cable shouldn't have much wear at all. Loads of people have received replacement units which are having the same problem
Blowing on the camera can kick it off?! Have people who've replaced ribbon cables and fixed it, or flew it a few times and it worked. I can make 10 flights easy, then have it happen. I think mine usually happens after the 9 minute mark, where it has to start storing SD video into another file. I've gotten out of the habit of recording my download on my forgive
Device. Not a good thing. I've found it doesn't seem to affect the video feed, and can provide valuable information if the bird goes down. OR IF YOUR NEIGHBORS STEAL IT, AND CALL YOU A PERVERT! LOL:
The SD card never catches it. Recording to my device really saved me once. It started with me being an idiot. I had spun new or propellers on, but figured I'd tighten them in the morning. FORGOT. Self tightening from there actually worked pretty well, but I later learned that they were loose enough so that a resonant shaking vibration could break out, latter while idling in my living room. But at the time I was flying it, "engine seized", and all kinds of messages in red were flashing across my screen. My plan was not to come anywhere near the condos I live. I was flying it from my balcony over the beach, and was going to land 100yds away and go get it. All the error messages made me want to get it on the ground quick. I brought it close, LOS flying, but apparently paused outside a neighbors condo for 30 seconds or so, and I let it land in the grass. Where before I could get there, the neighbors, assuming a voyeur was spying on them, went down and stole it, with the video still running! The GPS told me where it ended up. They said it landed in their balcony, and were going to give it back only to the president of the condo board. Who was my next door neighbor, friend, of 16 years, would know I was innocent. BUT suppose I had just moved in? I could have gotten evicted. I was renting, my landlord was an incredible attractive young woman, we were close as family, and she's a lawyer. So I was in no peril BUT COULD HAVE BEEN. These people swore at me, lied, and slammed the door in my face. I was just going to wait until the morning, but I wanted to know what had gone wrong, and then I started getting mad. And then I realized I had recorded everything on my phone! They stole a running video recorder! LOL. I was nice enough to warn them I was going to call the cops. They wouldn't answer the door, and then went out to dinner. I was still mad when the Sheriff department deputy arrived. I explained the weird situation, and played him the video. It was near sunset, I had been down the beach, and the footage had a beautiful Ocean tone, with the condos starting to light up. And showed my landing, that I hadn't bdrm looking in their place, and then showed them taking it from the bushes. The P3P even managed to transmit to me from the elevator! A metal box.
The deputy got really torqued off, and when they wouldn't answer his calls from the restaurant "restricted" they knew, he got madder. The president, who we were talking to, said she'd just go get it when they got back, and tell them what happened. The deputy said, "Oh, no, both of them are going to the jail for grand theft!" They were well to do, pompous, from Texas, thought they had been peeped at, and throwing them in jail was more than I could do. So I said that, declined to press charges, and the deputy said he wanted to at least talk to them, "And it better go well." They finally answered from the restaurant, and got to "it landed on our balcony." Cops hate blatantly being lied to. "NO! YOU listen. You've just added lying to a police officer to your felony grand theft charges. Everything was caught on video which I've watched." After he hung up, the deputy said, "I don't think that would have gone well in person". LOL I'M GOING TO START RECORDING TO THE DEVICE AGAIN.