I recently got a new p4 (bought used but the seller said that it was only a week old and only flown a few times (never crashed according to him) and had a receipt to prove it) and i use a nexus 9. the dji go app always worked well on my nexus 9 on my p3p. i haven't not flown my p3p in about 3 months but the last time i flew the p3p it worked fine.
Anyway, I took this out today and it started out well but after a few minutes, the dji go app crashed on the tablet. I re-opened it again but it kept crashing again. The app wasn't all that stable because the video on the screen would flicker a lot, etc. It did this on my Nexus 6P phone before when I tried using it month ago so I stopped trying to use that phone with my phantom.
I made sure to explicitly set my home point at the start and I didn't fly far so it was easy to fly the drone back. I also tried using RTH on the remote and that seemed to work as I was able to see the drone turn back towards me and fly towards me.
I turned off RTH on the remote and flew back myself but after a minute or so I noticed that the bird was still descending and it seemed to be descending fairly quickly (well, more quickly that I usually descent when I manually land but I'm also very conservative). I'm not sure if it was descending back home or if it had some type of issue that would cause it to descend right away. The battery was full when started and
I pulled the left stick up and it worked to slow down the descent. I'm not sure if it would ascend but maybe a little bit.
I used the left stick to control the descend and landed safely.
There isn't much of a flight log. I was flying for probably around 5 minutes but the log is only like 30 seconds.
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So what happened here? Is this normal?
1) Anything I can do to get the dji go app to run properly? I suppose I can get an iPad air but I like android much more. I'm pretty sure that I'm on the latest version of the app. All firmware is up to date.
2) Since the app died, do you think that would cause an auto RTH? the light on the RC was green the entire time since the bird wasn't far away though.
3) Is the short answer that the app crashing causes problems?
Any other thoughts? I'm going on a trip tomorrow and I'm not sure if I want to bring this drone as I might be nervous to fly it far away.
Anyway, I took this out today and it started out well but after a few minutes, the dji go app crashed on the tablet. I re-opened it again but it kept crashing again. The app wasn't all that stable because the video on the screen would flicker a lot, etc. It did this on my Nexus 6P phone before when I tried using it month ago so I stopped trying to use that phone with my phantom.
I made sure to explicitly set my home point at the start and I didn't fly far so it was easy to fly the drone back. I also tried using RTH on the remote and that seemed to work as I was able to see the drone turn back towards me and fly towards me.
I turned off RTH on the remote and flew back myself but after a minute or so I noticed that the bird was still descending and it seemed to be descending fairly quickly (well, more quickly that I usually descent when I manually land but I'm also very conservative). I'm not sure if it was descending back home or if it had some type of issue that would cause it to descend right away. The battery was full when started and
I pulled the left stick up and it worked to slow down the descent. I'm not sure if it would ascend but maybe a little bit.
I used the left stick to control the descend and landed safely.
There isn't much of a flight log. I was flying for probably around 5 minutes but the log is only like 30 seconds.
HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters
So what happened here? Is this normal?
1) Anything I can do to get the dji go app to run properly? I suppose I can get an iPad air but I like android much more. I'm pretty sure that I'm on the latest version of the app. All firmware is up to date.
2) Since the app died, do you think that would cause an auto RTH? the light on the RC was green the entire time since the bird wasn't far away though.
3) Is the short answer that the app crashing causes problems?
Any other thoughts? I'm going on a trip tomorrow and I'm not sure if I want to bring this drone as I might be nervous to fly it far away.