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    You can survive water damage...

    Just a little question for the record .. Given the fact there are some people now asking me how much I would sell my defective unit means somehow the fix should be either simple or .. Anyways, how much can I bargain for the gimbal ? This seem to be the main component people are asking for...
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    You can survive water damage...

    Yep obvioulsy, if there is some electronic "expert" in europe .. I'm willing to send him my unit .. Since it seems to be all okay except for the firmware / cannot take off issue .. The repair service are only proposing me buying a new unit .. 917.16€ .. ****
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    You can survive water damage...

    Well I do believe the mavic boards have basic hydrophobic coating, as it isn't really expensive .. beside the corrosion issue, it think some parts aren't shortage tolerant at all .. hard to explain but if an higher current of 12v burst through a zener or a TTL gate it basically blows them, if an...
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    You can survive water damage...

    I do agree, that's why I've dismanteled the drone next to its recovery ( spend 45 minutes in Annecy Lake at 3 meters depth with some mud ) then rinced the drone with 95% alcool and a teethbrush, then put it into the moisture absorber bag .. but somehow some electronics related to the firmware...
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    You can survive water damage...

    Hi there's no battery error this far Warmup sequence is regular, the motors spins a little I can't neither arm them manually, and neither the app displays "esc error" I think it's more likely the signal does'nt make its way in here .. At least the gimbal and connection survided the submarine trip
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    You can survive water damage...

    Well, got mine out of the bag .. connection works, gimbal works, video feed works .. But still displays "cannot take off", but doesn't show any ESC error DJI Assistant tells me to reboot the drone each time I try to calibrate it Where do I find any form or email in order to start a repair...
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    You can survive water damage...

    Hi, there finally did my own mavic submersion thanks to someone distracting me .. The drone spent around 45min in a lake at 3 meters depth until I've found him again .. I removed the battery asap, but it to dry in a bag with rice for 3 days .. then I've started to dissassemble it in order to...
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    Crashed Mavic Repairable or Not ?

    Well I keep on manually doing it, since you never know when to get the controls back .. since I never explored the interface for automated flight functions ..
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    Controller stuck on fc u-disk

    Hi I've did sent my mavic for repairs ( didn't put the controller within the package .. ) Got it back then the controller and mavic aren't binded, I've just set the binding procedure using C1 C2 record + take snapshot on beep then displayed "BINDING" then Controller is stuck displaying "FC...
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    Crashed Mavic Repairable or Not ?

    Hi, sorry to tell you we can't access at least one of your pics .. please consider trying snag.gy ?
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    Crashed Mavic Repairable or Not ?

    as badly as mine ?
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    Crashed Mavic Repairable or Not ?

    Hi there, Turns out I've finally managed to crash my beloved bird the Mavic Pro at its 72th flight .. As I just wanted to play with some of my home village landscape I really was attracted with .. Here's what my phone keeped of the crash, the backward cliff with some wind just stabbed me in...
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    Is their a faster decent available?

    Hi there I do have the same problem here did try to follow a paraglider and really soon I was way much too high .. :( I'm suscribing this topic as we might perhaps have fw updates on sink rate :)