Hello fellow swedish aviator! I managed to side load another modded app than the one you mentioned (unless it’s the same version).
Just finished testing it in the field. Like you said, I did not experience any night/day difference. I did actually screen record four test flights, but checking closer into the version of the mod I used and reading this forum, it seems like the mod version that I used might have been “stolen” from a user that published the mod for free. The mod version I used had a link to a webpage at startup, and as far as I understand, that webpage asks for money for this mod. Since the modded app might be “stolen” by a guy who asks for money for work made by someone else, I will not publish the screen recordings that I made. I don’t want to advertise that webpage to people that might wander into this thread in the future. If someone took their good time to mod this app, and publish it for free, I wouldn’t want to endorse people who just ripped it and makes profit from it.
I can however say that:
A: Trying the range of the
Mavic 2 while in a open and somewhat elevated location is just awe inspiring. I got 4km of range before losing connection. Without mod/hack. It did lag a little now and then, before breakup, but still, I’m impressed.
I’m certain that some users might require better range then that, but I am not one of those users. 4 km! Come on.. Who needs better range?
B: I noticed no difference while using the modded app, force FCC = ON or force FCC = OFF. Video broke up at around the same distance. Leading me to believe that either the initial choices in the modded app does no difference = FCC is always on, regardless the inputs. Or, the modded app does no difference at all.
However, I was located at a good takeoff point, and the flights were performed at 120m height, not flying over obviously 2.4gHz cluttered environments. Perhaps the difference (if any) will stand out when changing location/flight path.
Hence, further testing is required. Thinking of starting out in dense forest, and also flying over urban parts of a town, where 2.4gHz transmitters (aka home routers) should be in abundance.
I did try the
DJI Goggles with force FCC = off in a separate flight and reached about the same distance before video loss, but the image became choppy a lot sooner. So I didn’t try the
goggles with FCC = on for the last battery I had during the test. Instead I switched iDevice and ran a totally stock version of DJI Go 4, and the distance I got amounted to ~3800m before choppy video feed, 4095m to loss of video feed.
EG = the same distance as when running the modded app, Forced FCC mode or not.
C: I will test this mod while operating from a much less suitable place than when I got the reported results above. I will also be flying over a much more WiFi-cluttered area than Indid during this test. If the difference is not slamming, I will revert to the “normal” stock version of DJI Go4. Also, I will try to find the time to seek out the original author of the modded app that I used, and ask for his/her opinion regarding the findings of this test flight, and hopefully a copy of the original mod made by this person, so that I can post screen recordings, without endorsing any gold diggers.
