Dronason
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Mid Air "Compass Error, Exit P-GPS Mode"
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That sounds like someone that should not be giving advice to anyone.
If you have an obvious compass related problem, recalibrating the IMU every flight isn't going to be any help.
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Do not use the chat support. Open a service ticket via email. Chat support is more for the folk who need help tightening the props in the right direction.
So I checked my repair status and it says repaired and tested. I used the live chat and asked them what was repaired/replaced? They told me the IMU chip… do they mean the ESC?
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Ok I wasn't sure if it was incorporated as one with ESC.
Well fingers crossed that it fixed it
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If they are replacing a board level chip rather than swapping in a new board... that's pretty cheap.
If it fixes it I could care less. Could also be that's there is a high complaint rate for this error and they are trying to find out the actual failure point. Or just cheap…
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My p3s won't even fly because of the compass error... I lost my first p3s due to stupidly. ... Been flying it for a year.... I just got the new one two weeks ago, several successful flights.. now it won't fly with the error... I've calibrated my phantom's many times, always in one shoot.. never had a problem
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Amen brother!
Mine needs to go in for the compass issue and crooked gimbal. But I'm not sending it in until our flying season is pretty much done in a few weeks.
Too many reports of birds coming back, broken
Received my bird back, compass issue fixed. Btw the camera is now nfg.
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That's VERY discouraging!
I might never send my Phantom to DJI and just keep flying the dang thing until it crashes as I see a lot of people having more trouble after sending them in for repair.
And this is after DJI claims an improvement in service !
Got mine back today. Compass error fixed.
DJI replaced: ESC center board & MC & receiver 900M.
GPS module.
Found no new problems all seems good.
Position hold seems better as well. My drone went to the California location.
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DJI replaced: ESC center board & MC & receiver 900M.
GPS module.
Found no new problems all seems good.
Position hold seems better as well. My drone went to the California location.
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I have had this error from day one of recently buying another drone. Calibrates just fine, flies fine and then suddenly goes red and says compass error. I start to come back home and sometimes it will go back to safe to fly and others I try and land or it crashes with no control. Very disappointed
If it persists you probably need to send it for repair. A pain in the *** and a lots of trouble for that kind of money spent...
Bought a P3A a few weeks ago. Updated latest firmware (v1.9.60) right away and did all the mandatory things before flying. After a short time in the air, i´ve got the "Compass error, exit P-GPS mode". Did several compass calibrations over the next days on different locations (well away from anyting that could cause interference), but didn´t help. Did IMU cal, downgraded the firmware etc. Nothing! Finally i sent the drone back to the shop and got a new one. A few days ago it arrived. Drove to a remote location (So far away from anyting that resembles metal that i dont think man has ever been there...). But what do you know!? The problem comes back to haunt me!! Takes off, flies fine in one direction, but when i rotate the copter about a 180 degrees, the dreaded red error message comes along...again and again... Have read dozens of treads about this problem without getting any wiser. Seems to be no logical explanation for this particular problem? I´m a bit lost here in what to do... Anybody has any ideas here?
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