New firmware: V01.03.0600

[NickB]

Mine was manufactured on Wednesday, March, 1st 2017


Tried re-calibrating the IMU twice last night and then again first thing this morning and no change.

100% flat surface?

I will get to try mine later on on new FW.

 

[Shanedel]

100% flat surface?

I will get to try mine later on on new FW.

Yes in my front garden at about 2m altitude for all tests. It would drop down to .5m (it landed once) this morning it went up to 3m. Its all over the place. In the middle of a .400 downgrade now to confirm whether this is a firmware issue or something I have done wrong.

 

[NickB]

I meant the IMU calibration.

Also check your RC monitoring.

 

[Owen Manderfield]

Updated from .400 to .600 using DJI Assistant (PC) with no problems.

When I hooked up the controller via DJI Go 4 (iOS) and it wanted to update both software and the drone. Just let it do it and again all updated without issue.

First test Flight noticed gimbals initialisation took longer but noticed to tilted horizon problems even when flying sideways quickly (which I was seeing before). Too early to say if my tilting horizon is fixed but early signs are good.

No wind so bird was rock steady in hover and flew just fine.

Tried both Orbit and Focus modes in Litchi and happy to report that these worked just fine, nothing unexpected and very smooth video. Great to have these modes back.

I did see a couple of gimbal "twitches" but the sun was low and these might have been just false obstacle avoidances calls - need to fly more to investigate.

Otherwise all was good - find my drone even showed the last landing location before the upgrade.

I hope to try Autopilot later as well.

 

[peros550]

Updated from .400 to .600 using DJI Assistant (PC) with no problems.

When I hooked up the controller via DJI Go 4 (iOS) and it wanted to update both software and the drone. Just let it do it and again all updated without issue.

First test Flight noticed gimbals initialisation took longer but noticed to tilted horizon problems even when flying sideways quickly (which I was seeing before). Too early to say if my tilting horizon is fixed but early signs are good.

No wind so bird was rock steady in hover and flew just fine.

Tried both Orbit and Focus modes in Litchi and happy to report that these worked just fine, nothing unexpected and very smooth video. Great to have these modes back.

I did see a couple of gimbal "twitches" but the sun was low and these might have been just false obstacle avoidances calls - need to fly more to investigate.

Otherwise all was good - find my drone even showed the last landing location before the upgrade.

I hope to try Autopilot later as well.

I also observed some abnormal gimbal moves, especially on instant breaking.
Doesn't bother me...

 

[Strafe1]

Very little or not horizon tilt when yawing the AC now. Also, when I am at the 1.5ft hover before landing, I can pull the left stick down to start auto land, then abort the landing with full up on the stick. Even with Landing Protection turned on.

 

[DragonFly Aerials LLC]

I just tried it. It's pretty cool. It's basically cruse control for the bird.
Works great but it overrides your pre-programed C1 and C2 buttons as those are the on off buttons for cruse control (fixed-wing mode).
I'm super used to the functions I have programmed to those buttons, so now if I want to have fixed wing mode enabled, I'll have to get used to no longer having those buttons available. But you can disable the mode in the settings so that's nice.
I imagine the distance flyers will enjoy this feature as you can rest your hands wile it flies in a straight line.


A few more notes about the update that I have noticed:

DONT FORGET TO CHECK ALL YOUR SETTINGS AFTER UPDATE !!!

1-(good) The MP has always had a horizon tilt issue ever since I got it. And I know I'm not the only one as almost every Mavic pro YouTube video has this issue. Holding down C2 and moving the shutter speed wheel is a quick way to correct the horizon during flight however it's a pain in the butt to have to do this so often.
After the recent update, this horizon tilt issue seems to be like 1000% better. HELLS YEAH!

2-(Bad) I went up for 4 flights this afternoon and twice I had a really strange gimbal problem. I was about 12mins into a straight like flight in tripod mode preforming a hyper-lapse when the gimbal just started twitching and moving at random completely ruining the shot. At first I thought the drone was free falling from the sky.
The gimbal wheel was non responsive until I aborted tripod mode by flicking it into Sport mode and flew her back home safety.
That sketched me out hard. It actually happened again on the next flight!!
Clearly something's is funky with the gimbal on my MP, but I have never had any such behavior happen up until now. I blame the update.

3-(Good) Find my drone feature is super Dope!
Hope I never need to use it but it's nice that it's there. Love that you can get driving direction to it and everything.

4-(Good) this update fixed issues with a number of flight modes in the Litchi App.
Now all flight modes are working again!!

5-(Bad) I was testing out the DJI ND filters that finally arrived today. Took 2 months!!
Anyways I flew a waypoint mission 4 times and it's RTH spot was inconsistently off every time.
For the most part, RTH had never been off by more then a couple inches a foot at most.
All four RTH attempts were off by several feet. Probably more then 10 feet at worst.
This could be from the new update...

Last but not least,
6-(Really Bad) the battery life on my iPhone 7 was terrible today... What gives!!!! Normally I can fly all 5 of my battery's on a single charge with like 35% to spare.
Today I only got through 3 battery's before my phone gave me the 20% warning. (Started at 100%, no background apps running and in "do not disturbed mode")
I flew one more half battery to finish up the shot I was trying to get but I was not happy about having a dead phone when I was done!!
Is the app using more battery?

Regarding your RTH accuracy issue in 5- Check to see that precision landing is still enabled. That is one of the things that updating turns off on mine. Thanks for the report. I'm going to try fixed wing mode today.

 

[MacIak]

Just updated to .600 without any issues. I updated through DJI Assistant on my PC. RC took about 5min to update as expected, Mavic took about 8 minutes to update. There were no prolonged stops on any percentage of installation.

Quick (60% of battery) fly test showed no terrible errors, but I had to re-set all my settings as they were gone. Hover was steady and at height of 30m I had some wind warnings but since it blows at 19km/h it was expected. There were no weird glitches with gimball.
Only new thing I've noticed was blinking of video signal strength, It was full but all the time it kept slowly blinking. If anyone know what that is supposed to mean, please share.

And according to serial decoder my Mavic was build March, 7th 2017

The blinking means there is interference detected. The RC signal can do the same. Normal behavior and not related to this update, it was always there.

 

[ryo]

Anyone did a range test?

 

[tmoerel]

Anyone did a range test?

Flew away 2.8kms (9186 feet for the metrically challenged) in a straight line yesterday without a hitch. And that is with the lower power emission we are forced to in Europe!

 

[DroneTone]

I remember reading earlier in an firmware update thread that the beeping volume for a controller low battery warning could be adjusted, (turned down).
I also read someone suggesting that the beeping volume for the aircraft RTH warning, (sounded by the controller), could also be turned down.
However yesterday when I initiated a loss of connection and allowed a RTH to begin, I couldn't find any way to adjust the RTH beeping volume
within the GO app or the on the controller.
Has anyone found a button or setting to adjust the RTH beeping volume in v01.03.0600 and GO 4.0.7?

 

[Qaazar]

The blinking means there is interference detected. The RC signal can do the same. Normal behaviour and not related to this update, it was always there.

Oh, ok. Thanks for the reply. Now I wonder how I didn't see it before.

 

[Spanishcop]

How do you use the "Find My Drone" feature.....I didn't see any mention of it in the latest users manual?

I have not tried it yet. It's similar to find my iPhone. It points on map last known location for the drone.

Again.... I haven't tried it yet. So I can speak much about it.

Mike

 

[geigy]

Poor performance - lag, hangups, etc, using the 550 firmware.

Upgraded everything to 600, new DJI Go 4. Fxed wing mode looks interesting, but does not seem to work in simulator. I will give it all a shot when it stops raining.

Call me an optimist, but I have a good feeling about this rev. Someone in the software dept is sweating bullets and they have my sympathy. BTDT. I hope they delivered this time.

 

[İmaginecars]

What is the smooth option on the Rc transmitted quality settings? It was HD and normal before. Now they added smooth and video can only be at 1080p with this smooth option. Anyone knows what does smooth do? Thanks.

 

[Spanishcop]

I'm going to assume here it transmits the best quality based on the connection. So instead of losing feed from camera it can lower quality yet continue to provide images without it being spotty or jumping/skipping images.

 

[İmaginecars]

I'm going to assume here it transmits the best quality based on the connection. So instead of losing feed from camera it can lower quality yet continue to provide images without it being spotty or jumping/skipping images.

It does sound like it as it puts the video recording to only 1080p. Let's try it.

 

[JJM]

I remember reading earlier in an firmware update thread that the beeping volume for a controller low battery warning could be adjusted, (turned down).
I also read someone suggesting that the beeping volume for the aircraft RTH warning, (sounded by the controller), could also be turned down.
However yesterday when I initiated a loss of connection and allowed a RTH to begin, I couldn't find any way to adjust the RTH beeping volume
within the GO app or the on the controller.
Has anyone found a button or setting to adjust the RTH beeping volume in v01.03.0600 and GO 4.0.7?

Press the power button once while it's beeping to mute it.

Don't worry, the controller won't turn off.

 

[ryo]

Flew away 2.8kms (9186 feet for the metrically challenged) in a straight line yesterday without a hitch. And that is with the lower power emission we are forced to in Europe!

I made a test.
Take off, few settings using 2/3% of battery, then switched in sport mode and went straight line for 4km and made a u turn without stopping and back home always at full throttle. Arrived at starting point with 32% battery left and no issues at all.
Recorded at 2k.

 

[Big Fil]

Updated last night and everything seems to have gone smoothly. I did have a few questions about two things that are bugging me. First, the green AF box that comes up when you tap to focus seems to be staying on screen instead of disappearing after a few seconds. It stays no matter if i'm in the default screen with all the OSD showing or I swipe to get rid of all OSD. Also in the no OSD view there is a new display in the upper right hand corner showing my devices battery level. How do I make these go away? I like the full screen non OSD mode to not have any OSD items at all.......that's kinda the point lol.