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Appears fully charged but won't start drone motors.

offtheback

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Battery 1.5 years old.Has about 70 charge cycles.Well cared for.After charging the 4 LED's light up.Drone powers on but motors will not start.Message-only enough left for RTH,check battery connection,no charge readout on controller or tablet.Have cycled it down on Hantora+recharged but still no go.Any ideas or is it RIP?
 
The missing battery readout in the app strongly indicate that this have nothing to do with the battery's state of charge... instead it's due that the communication between the drone & battery is not working, the firmware will not allow flights if it can't communicate with the battery.

Inspect & clean the connectors on both the battery & drone side... if other batteries are working in the drone the culprit is most likely with that single battery & it's possibility to communicate.

If nothing obvious is damaged connector wise & a cleaning don't solve it... then you might be out of luck.
 
Also you may want to try the DJI charger on the problem battery. I’m not familiar with the Hantora charger, but I tend to work with just the DJI products.
Worth a shot!
 

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