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I'm sending out an S.O.S. !
I've bought this drone the day before yesterday, through a DJI outlet and I made my first two flights with it today, - have just landed and its 8.30pm here, shops are shut so I can't phone the DJI shop now, but will be first thing tomorrow morning. Beforehand, I'm hoping to find whether these idiosyncrosies are normal, I sort of don't think they will be but am hoping someone can verify.
Compared to my M2Z there are several glaring issues, I've never flown another M2P but I imagine they and the M2Zoom should be identical
1) When hovering, the cameras field of view shown on my screen alters, it moves about I think the drone is not hovering steadily in the one place, moving backward and forward, and side to side a lot. It was 300ft away against a darker background, so I couldn't see visually how much it was moving. There was a wind blowing at about 15mph, I have flown my other Mavic 2 in stronger winds and it is rock steady in comparison.
2) Really glitchy video transmission of the image to my screen. As I fly the screen freezes momentarily and by the time it catches up the drone has moved on 20m. It does this continually. This is in clear line of sight and is the same whether 60m away or whether 400m away. I have never had that with my M2Z.
3) When return to home was selected it tried to land about 10m away, which was inconvenient as it was coming down to try and land on my roof! Which is a steep pitch so I had to stop that carry on when it was getting closer and wasn't correcting itself. I always take off from a cross formed by large concrete pavers and the M2Z always returns to that same when it leaves from there.
I updated the firmware two nights ago, the day I bought it. This it made me do while I were activating it.
I rushed out and bought it as my M2Z is in for repair and I have and event to get some footage from tomorrow evening. Think I've got a dud, very frustrating.
Do these symptoms sound familiar to anyone, say with the latest update?
I've bought this drone the day before yesterday, through a DJI outlet and I made my first two flights with it today, - have just landed and its 8.30pm here, shops are shut so I can't phone the DJI shop now, but will be first thing tomorrow morning. Beforehand, I'm hoping to find whether these idiosyncrosies are normal, I sort of don't think they will be but am hoping someone can verify.
Compared to my M2Z there are several glaring issues, I've never flown another M2P but I imagine they and the M2Zoom should be identical
1) When hovering, the cameras field of view shown on my screen alters, it moves about I think the drone is not hovering steadily in the one place, moving backward and forward, and side to side a lot. It was 300ft away against a darker background, so I couldn't see visually how much it was moving. There was a wind blowing at about 15mph, I have flown my other Mavic 2 in stronger winds and it is rock steady in comparison.
2) Really glitchy video transmission of the image to my screen. As I fly the screen freezes momentarily and by the time it catches up the drone has moved on 20m. It does this continually. This is in clear line of sight and is the same whether 60m away or whether 400m away. I have never had that with my M2Z.
3) When return to home was selected it tried to land about 10m away, which was inconvenient as it was coming down to try and land on my roof! Which is a steep pitch so I had to stop that carry on when it was getting closer and wasn't correcting itself. I always take off from a cross formed by large concrete pavers and the M2Z always returns to that same when it leaves from there.
I updated the firmware two nights ago, the day I bought it. This it made me do while I were activating it.
I rushed out and bought it as my M2Z is in for repair and I have and event to get some footage from tomorrow evening. Think I've got a dud, very frustrating.
Do these symptoms sound familiar to anyone, say with the latest update?