I just recently purchased the
SC and have updated everything to the latest firmware. To be perfectly honest I also installed Litchi and DroneLink on this controller as both claim their software to be supported and I can't really use the DJI 4 app for good waypoint planning yet + why use an iPad if you spent 600.- on a fancy controller right!?
The
SC has done a few surprising things in both those apps and in DJI 4 which frighten me:
1.) complete freeze up
2.) sudden black screen
3.) application crash (on litchi and dronelink)
4.) sudden mission stop (on dronelink)
I don't use screen record and it only takes me a few minutes of playing with the settings for this to happen even without loading any mission or starting a flight or recording anything.
Yesterday I went flying and screen went black just as I started a new mission in DroneLink, luckily the
M2P was within reach so I attempted to grab ASAP and twist 180 upside down, but it didn't shut off and really went nuts on me instead (probably cuz thats a Spark feature and not a
M2P one lol) so things got nerve wrecking really quickly and my controller was now out of reach (since I needed 2 hands to control the drone when it went nuts), I attempted to hold it steady and luckily it suddently calmed down but almost to standby mode (like just before takeoff). I tried to power off the battery, but it would not work and just stayed all LEDs on! Finally with props still spinning I somehow managed to force the battery out without loosing my fingers. The battery remained all LEDs on until I push and held again. It was quite thrilling and the spectators who were hating before were now very amused
I'm thinking of doing a full factory reset and testing before installing any extra software or also just messing around in a safe place and see how to recover, but if RTH does not trigger its no fun since some of my missions are far enough that I can't see the drone anymore, so hopefully it at least triggers RTH on battery critical