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Many thanks in advance for help with this as I'm at my wits end.
Mavic Pro Plat
CS 5.5
All firmware up to date
1. Out of the box I could pre-load a Mapbox map in the region and exact area of my choice onto the cache in the CS. However, once on location, the map was blank in DJI Go, but I could see the flight path. This was not an issue because I realized that such a street type map would be of little use to me because I typically film motorbikes while on tour in the mountains of Vietnam or the Himalayas and Mapbox provides negligible data. If anything I need either a black and white terrain map (ideal) or perhaps satellite.
2. Speaking of satellites, I did manage at the time to download Google Earth onto the CS, thinking that it would be compatible with the CS and DJI GO, but that just reflected the fact that I had not checked this forum first to find out that the two would not be compatible.
3. Can't remember when, but after a while the flight path no longer appeared in the blank Mapbox when in DJI Go, but that was no real drama as the radar pointer, RTH or spotter would be used to return home.
4. I now have a gig with a film crew, so I need the Mapbox map of the area of the shoot back on the CS.
5. So I go back into the CS, tap the three lines, but am not even offered to 'choose the region' to download a new map from. Funnily enough my old map files were still available and could be viewed at home while not connected to the Mavic.
6. So I search and search but can't find anything, so I opt for a factory reset of the CS.
7. No drama with that, and a good way to get Google Earth off in the process, which I thought might have played a part with the earlier problems.
8. So now the CS is all clean with just DJI Go 4 and Litchi.
9. Back to the three lines to download a Mapbox map and see if the 'choose region' would be an option, and things initially looked good, as it instantly started to download something. So I left it alone. PS I can't remember if I reloaded Litchi before or after trying to do the Mapbox download.
10. I come back after 15 minutes or so and its still downloading. I go to the simple settings on the CS to check the download speed and note that its crawling along at a snails pace. Typically 120-300 B/s. This makes no sense as my computer, iPhone etc all use the same wifi and are happily downloading MB/s.
11. So I opt to be patient first, as those CS batteries last for hours, but after three days now I am only up to a total of 55MB loaded, so its getting ridiculous.
12. Weird thing is that something is happily uploading stuff from the CS as well, for a total of 5MB as opposed to the 55MB downloaded over the three day period.
So, those of you who are much smarter than me, what do you think?
1. Do another factory reset, but this time no reload of Litchi before attempting another Mapbox download?
2. Try and find a way to check out why the CS is downloading so slow (actually that's the essence of my query here), but I have no idea about such things like diagnostics etc for Android as I am an OS fanboy. But please note that when I downloaded the Amazon App in order to reload Litchi after the factory reset, the download was normal and fast.
3. Ask this forum if anyone knows how big the initial download for Mapbox is, because 55 MB of something has at least come down the pipes already, and who knows, I might be close to completion of at least that stage of the process, before actually making an attempt to download a specific cached map for the film crew shoot, which might or might not suffer the same download problems.
Again, many thanks in advance for any help, highly appreciated, and sorry for not posting anything before, like tips for flying through caves with no GPS, tips for manually filming moving motorcycles etc etc. I am not a social media kind of person, and this is actually the first time I've ever posted something online, on any platform. Kind of reflects how desperate I am!
Oh, I have not bothered to contact DJI for obvious reasons. You guys and this forum are infinity more helpful!
Cheers Digby
Mavic Pro Plat
CS 5.5
All firmware up to date
1. Out of the box I could pre-load a Mapbox map in the region and exact area of my choice onto the cache in the CS. However, once on location, the map was blank in DJI Go, but I could see the flight path. This was not an issue because I realized that such a street type map would be of little use to me because I typically film motorbikes while on tour in the mountains of Vietnam or the Himalayas and Mapbox provides negligible data. If anything I need either a black and white terrain map (ideal) or perhaps satellite.
2. Speaking of satellites, I did manage at the time to download Google Earth onto the CS, thinking that it would be compatible with the CS and DJI GO, but that just reflected the fact that I had not checked this forum first to find out that the two would not be compatible.
3. Can't remember when, but after a while the flight path no longer appeared in the blank Mapbox when in DJI Go, but that was no real drama as the radar pointer, RTH or spotter would be used to return home.
4. I now have a gig with a film crew, so I need the Mapbox map of the area of the shoot back on the CS.
5. So I go back into the CS, tap the three lines, but am not even offered to 'choose the region' to download a new map from. Funnily enough my old map files were still available and could be viewed at home while not connected to the Mavic.
6. So I search and search but can't find anything, so I opt for a factory reset of the CS.
7. No drama with that, and a good way to get Google Earth off in the process, which I thought might have played a part with the earlier problems.
8. So now the CS is all clean with just DJI Go 4 and Litchi.
9. Back to the three lines to download a Mapbox map and see if the 'choose region' would be an option, and things initially looked good, as it instantly started to download something. So I left it alone. PS I can't remember if I reloaded Litchi before or after trying to do the Mapbox download.
10. I come back after 15 minutes or so and its still downloading. I go to the simple settings on the CS to check the download speed and note that its crawling along at a snails pace. Typically 120-300 B/s. This makes no sense as my computer, iPhone etc all use the same wifi and are happily downloading MB/s.
11. So I opt to be patient first, as those CS batteries last for hours, but after three days now I am only up to a total of 55MB loaded, so its getting ridiculous.
12. Weird thing is that something is happily uploading stuff from the CS as well, for a total of 5MB as opposed to the 55MB downloaded over the three day period.
So, those of you who are much smarter than me, what do you think?
1. Do another factory reset, but this time no reload of Litchi before attempting another Mapbox download?
2. Try and find a way to check out why the CS is downloading so slow (actually that's the essence of my query here), but I have no idea about such things like diagnostics etc for Android as I am an OS fanboy. But please note that when I downloaded the Amazon App in order to reload Litchi after the factory reset, the download was normal and fast.
3. Ask this forum if anyone knows how big the initial download for Mapbox is, because 55 MB of something has at least come down the pipes already, and who knows, I might be close to completion of at least that stage of the process, before actually making an attempt to download a specific cached map for the film crew shoot, which might or might not suffer the same download problems.
Again, many thanks in advance for any help, highly appreciated, and sorry for not posting anything before, like tips for flying through caves with no GPS, tips for manually filming moving motorcycles etc etc. I am not a social media kind of person, and this is actually the first time I've ever posted something online, on any platform. Kind of reflects how desperate I am!
Oh, I have not bothered to contact DJI for obvious reasons. You guys and this forum are infinity more helpful!
Cheers Digby
