New FW Mavic 4 Pro

iceman77 · Jan 20, 2026

I am tempted to update myself, I am still on old .0200 FW; someone commented earlier that this new version fixes this gimbal glitch issue, but reading that some folks are having issues connecting the drone to their computer and getting data off drone. Either though, I usually just use the DJI Fly app on my phone and download footage from there, basically over wifi.

I am monitoring this thread very closely, if more people confirm no issues with it, I will pull a trigger on it

Riptide · Jan 20, 2026

On the DJI forum someone indicated that after this update their altitude limit was max 500m. These things are often region based, their country was listed as New Zealand. Just an FYI for anyone thinking of updating.

Roberto Smera · Jan 21, 2026

Edo92 said:
Do you still have the gimbal glitch issue?

No gimbal glitch for me. Just made two flights up to this day but did not notice anything wrong with my M4P. Still have to confirm if fw .0500 still allows to flight above 500m limit.

GadgetGuy · Jan 21, 2026

Roberto Smera said:
No gimbal glitch for me. Just made two flights up to this day but did not notice anything wrong with my M4P. Still have to confirm if fw .0500 still allows to flight above 500m limit.

Please also confirm which country you are in, as the 500m height limit is likely region based, but could now be worldwide, and we therefore need to segregate our testing results by country. Hopefully, in the U.S. it is still 1000m.

_seven · Jan 22, 2026

Edo92 said:
Any more feedback on this? Di you still have that annoying glitch?

it's basically non existent,

gary49 said:
If you have recently upgraded your Mavic 4 Pro to the latest firmware of 01.00.0050, please check to see if you can still connect your drone to a computer and download files, or you can still use a USB card reader to read files from the SD card. This firmware update seems to have broken my ability to do so. See: Firmware v01.00.0500 Problem

no issues still for me in windows 11 and a Mac air that my DIT used yesterday and managed to copy file with no issues . OTA filetransfer on mobile still works as well.

GadgetGuy · Jan 22, 2026

_seven said:
it's basically non existent,

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no issues still for me in windows 11 and a Mac air that my DIT used yesterday and managed to copy file with no issues . OTA filetransfer on mobile still works as well.

Excellent! Thank you!
Now we just need to confirm that the 1000m height limit in the U.S. hasn't been reduced to 500m.

_seven · Jan 22, 2026

GadgetGuy said:
Excellent! Thank you!
Now we just need to confirm that the 1000m height limit in the U.S. hasn't been reduced to 500m.

I have a shoot on the 24th that will be 50km away from an airport. I'll go ahead and try to check on the app if the limit is reduced. (philippines)

iceman77 · Jan 22, 2026

Okay folks! Decided to pull trigger on this new FW, updated the drone as well as my RC Pro 2 this morning and I can confirm that gimbal glitching is gone, drone flies amazing, even that "ghost" obstacle avoidance glitch I reported earlier is gone! I was able to download footage I took from drone over OTA. Did not try over-USB , nor I can talk about the height limit. I am in the USA, can't fly above 400ft (120m) anyways here

Riptide · Jan 22, 2026

iceman77 said:
Okay folks! Decided to pull trigger on this new FW, updated the drone as well as my RC Pro 2 this morning and I can confirm that gimbal glitching is gone, drone flies amazing, even that "ghost" obstacle avoidance glitch I reported earlier is gone! I was able to download footage I took from drone over OTA. Did not try over-USB , nor I can talk about the height limit. I am in the USA, can't fly above 400ft (120m) anyways here

what is the max height the fly app will allow you to set it to after the update in the USA?

iceman77 · Jan 22, 2026

Well, it allows me to go up to 1640ft, which is basically 500m:

Now, I don't remember what was the max altitude limit with previous firmware, but like I said earlier, I don't fly higher than 400ft anyways, so for me personally, not that of a deal breaker

Riptide · Jan 23, 2026

iceman77 said:
Well, it allows me to go up to 1640ft, which is basically 500m:

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Now, I don't remember what was the max altitude limit with previous firmware, but like I said earlier, I don't fly higher than 400ft anyways, so for me personally, not that of a deal breaker

Mine lets me go over 3000'. I have it set to ~393' and do obey the 400' law, but I also like having the option to go higher just in case. Looks like I'll be skipping this update. Wish I knew if it was the firmware on the drone or the firmware on the controller. What is the firmware version on your controller?

iceman77 · Jan 23, 2026

Riptide said:
Mine lets me go over 3000'. I have it set to ~393' and do obey the 400' law, but I also like having the option to go higher just in case. Looks like I'll be skipping this update. Wish I knew if it was the firmware on the drone or the firmware on the controller. What is the firmware version on your controller?

What version are you running yours at? I initially updated to .0300 when it came out, but rolled it back to .0200 due to that gimbal glitching and ghost OA issues I was seeing with it. Never really explored how high I can fly with it, until like yesterday.

To answer your question, my drone and RC Pro 2 are both at .0500 FW and my DJI Fly app running on it is v1.19.4. Not sure if this is enforced on controller or drone level, but I would imagine it is on drone level. I could just roll back the drone FW via DJI Assistant 2 (hoping it will still allow me to do so) but like I said earlier, fixing that gimbal glitch was more important to me, so not sure I would want to go that route. Some else would need to confirm this

Riptide · Jan 23, 2026

My drone is running .0300, my RC 2 controller is running DJI Fly 1.18.2 with RC firmware 07.00.0100. I wonder if the height limit would be restored on yours if you use assistant to roll back to .0200.

iceman77 · Jan 23, 2026

With all this max altitude settings, be it 500m or previously 1000m, I just keep wondering how da heck did they shoot this video with M4P flying at top of Mt.Everest! I understand they did not go from the very bottom, they started shooting that video from around 6500m and going over summit at 8848m, that alone is way more than 1000m. I wonder if they used some special, unrestricted firmware just for the purpose shooting this video

Riptide · Jan 23, 2026

iceman77 said:
With all this max altitude settings, be it 500m or previously 1000m, I just keep wondering how da heck did they shoot this video with M4P flying at top of Mt.Everest! I understand they did not go from the very bottom, they started shooting that video from around 6500m and going over summit at 8848m, that alone is way more than 1000m. I wonder if they used some special, unrestricted firmware just for the purpose shooting this video

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Thats the official DJI account. Altitude limits can be temporarily removed by DJI for specific locations/dates if you contact them with a legitimate permit to do so. They probably used the same function for themselves to make this video.

iceman77 · Jan 23, 2026

Riptide said:
Thats the official DJI account. Altitude limits can be temporarily removed by DJI for specific locations/dates if you contact them with a legitimate permit to do so. They probably used the same function for themselves to make this video.

I wonder if we could "hack around" and remove such restrictions ourselves. This is where we would need to see if it is enforced by DJI Fly app, or drone firmware. as if first, that could be easily patched out. Its a freakin' Android app after all. Pretty sure its doable. If it is on drone firmware side, that would be more challenging to accomplish.

But again, I personally don't need this. At least not now. Here in Texas, there aren't any mountains anyways. Just flat land, so going up to 400ft is more than enough for me. And I am happy that gimbal glitching and ghost OA is gone, so not sure I would want to downgrade my drone FW at this point

rgarjr · Jan 23, 2026

on the latest fw here

iceman77 · Jan 23, 2026

rgarjr said:
on the latest fw here

Where is your drone from? I have a SK model, is it perhaps by country of origin, or targeted market the drone was manufactured for? Your profile says Southern California, I am in Texas, we are both in US, so location wise there should not be any difference

rgarjr · Jan 23, 2026

iceman77 said:
Where is your drone from? I have a SK model, is it perhaps by country of origin, or targeted market the drone was manufactured for? Your profile says Southern California, I am in Texas, we are both in US, so location wise there should not be any difference

from SK. I noticed though when it has no satellites lock, it says 1640, but when it gets a home point, then it can be slided to 3280.