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[Happyonmyhill]

Might be posted elsewhere but found a feature I didn’t know about yesterday. Had my phone about 1/2 charged but a full charge on my controller so enabled charge phone in menu. What I was surprised at is that it moved all of my still shots directly to my phone! Not vid but all of my stills were already on my phone and synched to iCloud. May not be everyone’s workflow but I generally do light editing on my iPad so this saved a step. I still have to remove card to download video but if your ever out and shooting just stills it’s convenient!??

 

[sar104]

That doesn't make much sense - how would they be getting to your phone? Are you thinking that the aircraft is transmitting the full-resolution images over the comms link? Are you sure those are the full resolution versions?

 

[crosswired]

they're are low res pics used by app for flight logs

 

[Happyonmyhill]

If 5mb is low res then maybe. I was as surprised as anyone to find them there. My card is still in my drone. These are right from my camera with a 256 ND filter on

 

[Happyonmyhill]

This is the unedited file. 5mb. If that’s low res I’ll take it.

 

[Happyonmyhill]

The controller has internal storage right? Maybe when it’s got the space it copies it there and then the lightning cable is bi directional and when the charge phone option is enabled it transfers? Idk I was very surprised to see them. They are NOT low res. Might not be full. I’ll let you know when I pull them off the card and compare.

 

[sar104]

That is interesting. I've no idea how that could be happening.

 

[Happyonmyhill]

I literally have not removed the storage card from the drone. I was going to post some photos to IG and was like WTH? How did those get here? Using iPhone 11 Pro Max with current iOS. Lightning cable out of the box connected to controller with ‘charge phone’ option turned on pre launch.

 

[Ice_2k]

There’s a “sync hd photos” or smth like that option in the Fly app

 

[Happyonmyhill]

Yep. I have confirmed it is the same full resolution file on the card. Shot taken in manual exposure with filter on. This is image pulled from card.

 

[GadgetGuy]

There’s a “sync hd photos” or smth like that option in the Fly app

Yeah, I've been trying to figure out what that toggle does! Still not sure, but this thread might be a hint!

 

[MavicMike55]

Probably had the "sync HD photos" option on and just happened to notice the photos on your phone at that time.

 

[Northwood Mediaworks]

I believe if you have the sync HD photo toggled on, when you are flying and shoot a still, it downloads over your downlink into your mobile device in full res. The reason you can toggle it is that some may fear it will affect your transmission signal if you are stretching the distance from the controller. Same with the smooth vs HD transmission image to your controller.

 

[Happyonmyhill]

I’ll have to check but don’t believe it’s ever happened before. I do usually dump my card into my iPad immediately after flight tho so it’s possible. The only thing I did on this flight was enable charge phone. All other settings the same.

I’ll test it out tomorrow and see if I can isolate it. If you’re correct I’ll want to uncheck that synch function. Rather have less data moving between craft and controller. Thanks for suggestion!

 

[Hopper13]

I’ll have to check but don’t believe it’s ever happened before. I do usually dump my card into my iPad immediately after flight tho so it’s possible. The only thing I did on this flight was enable charge phone. All other settings the same.

I’ll test it out tomorrow and see if I can isolate it. If you’re correct I’ll want to uncheck that synch function. Rather have less data moving between craft and controller. Thanks for suggestion!

Synch HD photos works great. You do not have to have phone charging enabled. If Synch HD photos is not enabled, you can still select and download photos wirelessly from the drone using the playback function.

 

[kidroc]

Do you have sync hires photos enabled by chance?