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DJIs crappy business model for CrystalSky
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Cantrepeat
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Please explain further if you have a moment. I do not understand the “root” part and the screenshot you show is unfamiliar to me. However... being a frustrated CrystalSky user... I am very curious.
Cantrepeat
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Rooting is term that means to gain root access to your device(IE being admin on your home computer). Once you have root you can do anything to it you like. Install what ever apps you like. IE different versions of GO, or just about any app from the google play store you like.
The sky is the limit really.
The sky is the limit really.
Ok... so obviously my next question would be twofold... first... do you have a CrystalSky? If so... how does one go about gaining this access to the device?
Thank you for any help you can provide... assuming you have done this already on your device please post a picture of the app running on your CrystalSky with the Mavic 2 as an option.
Thank you for any help you can provide... assuming you have done this already on your device please post a picture of the app running on your CrystalSky with the Mavic 2 as an option.
Tuskegee Airman
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Google may charge a lower license fee or no fee at all for using Android. Apple almost certainly would charge through the nose to make a custom version of iOS for a single customer.
Kilrah
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Apple would not even accept to do it, period. Everything they develop that gives them an advantage they keep for themselves exclusively.
Tuskegee Airman
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The CrystalSky technically does work with the Mavic 2. If you select Mavic Pro from the interface the DJI 4 Go app will connect to the Mavic 2, however it won’t have all of the Mavic 2 specific features available.
Cantrepeat
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I don't have a Mavic 2.
Yes I have a CrystalSky. The pic I posted is a screen shot of my rooted CS.
Howto: Root a CS with a windows based PC.
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Ping^Spike
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Thank you for the link but I have a feeling this may be too complicated for me... but I would love to learn more... do you have any walk through videos for this process? I used to be better with PC computers... but that was 20 years ago! In this day and age I could get lost after two clicks of the mouse.
Once again thank you for putting this out there. DJI is clearly taking their sweet time but the rest of us want to enjoy what we just spent a small fortune on.
Once again thank you for putting this out there. DJI is clearly taking their sweet time but the rest of us want to enjoy what we just spent a small fortune on.
Cantrepeat
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Microsoft didn't throw anything together. They bought it. MS-DOS was purchased and then licensed to IBM. All windows versions through win95 were just graphical suites that sat on a DOS shell. NT wasn't used until NT 3.1.
Everything you need to know is in the document I linked to. Read it a few times and it should all be very clear what you need to do.
That document is what I gather across a few different platforms. I did not discover nor write the scripts used to root the CS. After rooting my CS and installing a custom GO4 app along with customizing it with other apps I figured there would be a lot of people that would want to take advantage of this as well. So, all I did was gather the information and write a bit clearer step by step howto for windows users. All the credit for this belongs the people linked to the resources of the doc.
It list the resources I used to get the information. List the programs with links needed to perform the rooting task. Gives a very basic idea of what a bash command line terminal is and what you need to look for while using it to root.
Hi everyone, if you're waiting for the official APK to support the Mavic 2, it won't be out in the US any time soon. However, I have managed to acquire the actual official APK of DJI Go 4 v4.3.0 designed for the CrystalSky and have made it available for everyone.
Tap this link with your CrystalSky to download the APK
It will install the latest DJI Go 4 onto the CrystalSky and FINALLY make it support the Mavic 2 on the CS.
Tap this link with your CrystalSky to download the APK
It will install the latest DJI Go 4 onto the CrystalSky and FINALLY make it support the Mavic 2 on the CS.
Cantrepeat
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BJR981S
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Not sure that I agree with you here. Linux is X86 / X64 Architecture. I don't believe that DJI use Intel or AMD Chips. While it may be a derivative of Linux which was an X64 derivative of multiple Unix platforms it would be something quite unique.
Windows predates Linux by many years. OSX is a derivative of the Unix not of Linux. But obviously they all share a common ancestry except for Winduz of Course.
All very interesting but meaningless with respect to CrystalSky.
CrystalSky provides a sun viewable display with lots of ports to do stuff. It does not use the Google Play infrastructure so is not compatible with the standard android version of DJI Go 4.
So DJI deliver to the general Android public first. Lots of them. Then to CrystalSky second. Not so many of them.
They are great devices, except for the Ultra-bright that has a tendency to self destruct the backlighting without warning.
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