Actually, it was the opposite (as is always the case since I did the DBS mod). I lose uplink within 500 meters but downlink/video is good for up to 1 mile. This is true with either my iPad or my Samsung mobile but only with the latter do I get the expected mission results. As I mentioned above, over the past few months I have focused entirely on these (DBS mod) uplink issues and ignored the mission/video results during this process. Only since last week did I go back and review the results of each of these missions.
I have been running the same mission over and over since early last fall with the plan to take the resulting videos and overlap sections to produce the effect of changing seasons. My videos from Sept last year till Jan this year work quite well for this purpose. Early this year I switched from Android to iOS as well as added the DBS mo and from that point on none of the resulting videos are usable because, in many cases, the gimbal pitch did not change from its initial settings. At the same time or shortly there after, I started getting the "mission ended" error. The videos I shot this week, however, using my Samsung, executed perfectly. More testing needed before I make a final verdict but I am losing faith in the iOS version of Litchi. If I am right I really hope they get it fixed soon because my iPad Mini 4 is sooooo much nicer to use than my phone