Disabling C1 and C2 Buttons on the Mavic 1 Pro Controller

[Conservative Nihilist]

Hello fellow Brethren of the Drone. The C1 and C2 buttons on my Mavic 1 Pro controller show as NOT being assigned to any function in DJI Go4, so it came as a nasty surprise to find that one of the buttons causes the camera gimbal to snap down to -90 degrees, or snap up to +20 degrees, when my hand accidentally touched one of those two buttons that I have ZERO use for in any of my drone flying. The other button instantly shuts down any photography that was ongoing during a Litchi mapping mission, as I discovered when my hand accidentally touched that button.

While turning over the controller in bafflement to try and understand why the C1 button was assigned an operation that I NEVER use, my hand touched the OTHER button by mistake, and that stopped the 5-second interval photograph taking that the drone was carrying out during a mapping mission. Between one button causing the camera gimbal to flail up or down, and the other button monkeying with the picture taking, a 35-minute mapping mission was utterly ruined and will now have to be repeated.

To avoid such a debacle replaying the next time I run a mapping mission, I immediately opened DJI Go4 when the drone landed, but was then puzzled to discover that neither the C1 nor the C2 button had been assigned to ANYTHING, meaning I had NO obvious way to stop those buttons from interfering with my pre-programmed camera operations the instant I made the mistake of touching either button. Realizing that it would be well nigh impossible to avoid brushing either of those two buttons when holding the controller, I began to look at ways to prevent that irritating button assignment from randomly kicking in during future flights.

The two options I am considering to disable those two highly annoying buttons on the back of my Mavic 1 Pro controller are to either super-glue them so they will never work again, or to tape a small bottle cap over each button so that they won't hair-trigger every time I breathe during a mapping mission. My reason for writing to this forum about this exasperating factory defect of the Mavic 1 Pro controller, is to find out whether there is a means by which those two buttons can be neutralized with a setting selection in DJI Go4 so that they can never again ruin my mapping projects. If there is NO means to disable the C1 and C2 buttons, then I will revert to my super glue or taped-on bottle cap solution to make this problem go away.

Thanks in advance for any advice that can be offered. Exasperating does not begin to describe my mood over the ruinous effect those two completely unnecessary buttons have wrought on my mapping mission today.

 

[Conservative Nihilist]

I suppose if I can accept and work around the fact that Mavic 1 Pro and Mavic 2 Pro drones were designed with weak battery retention clips that will shed a battery mid-flight if it is not zip tied in place, then I can certainly live with that other factory defect that takes the form of two buttons that cannot be disabled and will utterly ruin a mapping flight if not covered up to prevent accidental sabotage of mapping missions.

 

[Conservative Nihilist]

For some reason, I find it irksome to be forced into dreaming up such an ugly work-around solution as this one, but, in the absence of any obvious means of disabling those pesky C1 and C2 buttons in DJI Go4 settings, and since I don't have the expertise to dismantle the controller and de-solder the buttons entirely, this is the hideous fix is what I will have to live with.

 

[slup]

If you want a more stylish solution (if leaving the C1/C2 as "Not defined" doesn't work)... you can for instance chose below "neutral" settings for the C1 & C2 button

 

[Kilrah]

The other button instantly shuts down any photography that was ongoing during a Litchi mapping mission

So your issue is probably that you don't have them disabled in litchi, so when you use that it uses its own settings regardless of what you set up in Go.

 

[Conservative Nihilist]

Thanks so much, Slup, for this far simpler solution than my DIY attempt in the above pictures. Despite those two bottle caps being in place, I still managed to press one of the buttons when a bottle cap flexed, which again sent the gimbal flailing in the middle of my repeating the mapping mission again.

I was at the point of pulling my hair out in clumps when I saw this message you kindly sent to end the madness here. I am very grateful for this pointer that will save me a lot of exasperation.

 

[Conservative Nihilist]

So your issue is probably that you don't have them disabled in litchi, so when you use that it uses its own settings regardless of what you set up in Go.

Ah, I never thought to look in the Litchi settings since I'd never had any use for those buttons in the past. I just went straight to DJO Go4 to try and kill those buttons, only to find out that they weren't assigned to anything in DJI Go4. Very grateful for this insight, Kilrah

 

[Conservative Nihilist]

Turns out I didn't look far enough down the menu listing in Litchi to locate the C1 and C2 button assignment menu item. I was so exasperated that my mapping mission had been ruined by the gimbal going haywire that I just scanned through the Litchi settings menu briefly, before trying DJI Go4's settings, where I found nothing helpful.

I now know that it is possible to completely disable those inconveniently positioned buttons in the Litchi menu, so now I'm going to power up all my drones one by one, and ensure I never have any disruptions from those buttons in the future.