New battery won't charge

bobstaff · May 31, 2020

I opened some new MP batteries and one won't take any kind of a charge at all. It was in storage for over a year.
I'm about ready to trash it but let's see if anyone has an answer.
There isn't even enough of a charge to power up the drone to try a software upgrade.
It has the dreaded 16 flashes of LED#1.

Dedal · May 31, 2020

Just a thought: Have you tried to charge it without the charging hub? Is it possible to charge one battery at the time?

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There’s been some video on YouTube and actually I’ve talk to dji about this. The batteries that comes in the fly more combo have to be fully charged individually at 100% charge before using them....DO NOT charge them with the battery charging hub because that may cause them to malfunction. There...

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I wander if it's the same with Mavic Pro...

bobstaff · May 31, 2020

Ya, I tried charging without the hub a couple times, for a couple hours at a time.
I just get a steady flashing LED 1 that never changes.

Dedal · May 31, 2020

bobstaff said:
Ya, I tried charging without the hub a couple times, for a couple hours at a time.
I just get a steady flashing LED 1 that never changes.

I see. I read about a guy having similar problem, he said that after 20 minutes it started charging. You had it on the charger for longer, so... I don't know.

bobstaff · May 31, 2020

A couple hours. But I am trying again.
It's giving me 16 quick flashes...then pause for about 5 seconds and another 16 flashes....and over and over again.
I'll leave plugged in for several hours again and see what happens.

tbjr50thomas · Jun 1, 2020

The battery is bad it happened to me with the Mavic Pro Alpine White when I got it. I replaced it

bobstaff · Jun 1, 2020

Yup....had it plugged in to the charger all night and now no lights at all. Totally dead.

15PSI · Jun 1, 2020

There are some relatively good RC (boat,car, plane etc) chargers available that sometimes (sometimes) can bring back bad batteries. I have used one of my more sophisticated chargers for my RC planes and cars for this issue. My success rate has been around 50% but if you have access to a smart balancing charger, you might want to give it a shot. I have brought back supposedly dead batteries from other devices. Just recently I revived a friends Canon camera battery that was ready for the trash can. I used a iCharger 106B Balancing charger. There are newer 'smart' chargers available, but they basically do the same thing.