Anyone else seeing RTH malfunction after M3P RC FW update v1.02.0400?
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MavicMover
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You have to push and hold until that green goes all the way in a circle around where it says RTH or land.
Thanks for that - I'll try again shortly. I'm a DJI newbie but I'm sure RTH worked differently/quicker last week which is the only other time I've used it.
Could you please also tell me if it's normal to see no drone battery readout until 15 seconds after takeoff? Being cautious, I don't like to set off until I see it - but maybe it's a device to make me hover until my Home point is recorded…
Another oddity I've noticed is that switching from N to C mode doesn't work every time. Often I have to move the slider across 2 or 3 times before the change is acknowledged.
MavicMover
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If I remember correctly.. even if you have the controller set to C or S. it always launches in Normal mode. You have to set to C or S after you are in the air.
Thanks but I was using the wrong terminology. It's the estimated remaining flying time that is stuck at zero for the first 15 seconds. The round battery life icon is very hard for me to see - I think green on grey was a poor colour choice.
That's where I've been going wrong! Thank you - I don't remember reading this in the manual. I guess there's a good reason for it because the intuitive newbie thought would be that a hardware slider button would stay where you put it forever.
MavicMover
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Gotcha, I think it just needs a few seconds to calculate the time remaining. Mine do the same thing. If you touch on the battery power icon as I showed above, it will give you time remaining until RTH, time remaining until forced landing and time remaining until battery deleted. Maybe that will populate a little quicker then the on screen time? I have not tried it yet.
Just be sure that your Home Point is set prior to getting airborne. Do we sometime get antsy? Yep. Only bad things can happen if you don't follow this precaution.
If you launch before the drone records its home point, it's usually no big deal.
When the drone gets good GPS location data, it will record a homepoint where it is at the time and that will usually be close to where it was launched.
Of course that can be a problem if you launched close to a NFZ and flew into it before getting GPS.
The drone would autoland soon after getting location data which tells it that it's inside an NFZ.
That's tough if the drone happens to be over a river at the time.
