EASA confirms 3% tolerance on 250-gram weight limit in the regulations. You can bet this was understood and confirmed by DJI long before the Mini 5 Pro went into production.
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That is the current situation for the Go and Fly apps for Android, you sideload them after downloading them directly from a DJI site.
The issue being discussed is that Google will require sideloaded apps to be signed by a registered developer...
It's highly unlikely that the firmware update caused the issue. Thousands of others have had no problem.
You said that the controller set a home point after the update. That would have required a good GPS position lock. Are you still having the...
Duh... problem solved. I was doing the motion in the horizontal plane. I finally found a YouTube video that showed the correct way to do it, which is in the vertical plane. The animation is not clear on this, and YouTube videos on this subject...