Mini 5 Pro is Broadcasting RID with ALL Batteries, Including the Mini 5 Pro Standard Battery

[GadgetGuy]

That was main reason I bought this was because I thought standard M5P battery would not need RID or reg! Don't need bad actors trying to beam it out of the sky by using drone tracker app because RID is on.

Same here! I'm as PO'd as you are! I not only thought it, but also completely relied upon the veracity of the DJI Mini 5 Pro online User Manual published on September 15, 2025 which explicitly stated,

"The aircraft using the Intelligent Flight Battery does not activate Remote ID system."

After I confronted DJI Support about this contradiction, the User Manual was conveniently and quietly updated this last Monday, October 13, 2025, to simply delete this statement, while still not explicitly stating "The aircraft activates RID no matter which battery is used," to prevent anyone else from still falsely assuming that using the standard battery would prevent RID broadcasting. They have now still deliberately left it ambiguous!

DJI's response, "We're sorry."

 

[AeroJ]

Don't need bad actors trying to beam it out of the sky by using drone tracker app because RID is on.

Yeah, that's not really how those work. Unless you would describe a small blue dot appearing on a tiny map as 'beaming it out of the sky'... nobody with one of those apps can do anything more than see where you and your UAV are at the time they activate it. They can't make it go anywhere or do anything.

 

[mavic3usa]

Yeah, that's not really how those work. Unless you would describe a small blue dot appearing on a tiny map as 'beaming it out of the sky'... nobody with one of those apps can do anything more than see where you and your UAV are at the time they activate it. They can't make it go anywhere or do anything.

Maybe you haven't see this video before and I'm not saying this is the way it is today, but tech is not going to be stalled forever and one day, it's going to be normal (and inexpensive) to easily track drones....for everyone including commercial entities. Our drones will never stop transmitting and one day (sooner than later), there will be plenty of interest in our drones but the tech (and the quantity of drones) has to come first.

Someone keeps asking if there are any incidents....and I keep asking are there explosions on Mars. Who knows? It's irrelevant until the tools are widely available and in use. The available apps don't work today but one day, they will. And it won't stop there at simple "detect and identify." When AI comes along, the sky is the limit.

There's a reason no one has detected RID over the skies of New Jersey. Right now it's a mostly failed technology.

So for now, this is about all we have and it's not much (not me, not my video):

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