It seems that once you get in the range of 50 power cycles, the "intelligent" battery begins to fail. The primary symptom being shortened flight times and sudden drop in battery percentage on the newer firmware. There's also slight puffing.
I have purchased 7 batteries over the past year labeled 1 through 7. A few months ago, batteries 1 and 2 started to go bad right at 50 cycles. Now battery 3 with 55 cycles has exactly the same problem. And it's not for the lack of taking proper care of them!
So this battery that is advertised to last 200 cycles only makes it 50. Is anyone getting DJI to replace theirs? This is getting costly. I want the other 150 cycles on each battery that I paid for!
Who's ready to let DJI know they owe us the full 200 cycles? I think it's time for a new campaign!
P.S. If you have a bad battery, register it here:
http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/the-dji-bad-battery-registry.26733/
I have purchased 7 batteries over the past year labeled 1 through 7. A few months ago, batteries 1 and 2 started to go bad right at 50 cycles. Now battery 3 with 55 cycles has exactly the same problem. And it's not for the lack of taking proper care of them!

So this battery that is advertised to last 200 cycles only makes it 50. Is anyone getting DJI to replace theirs? This is getting costly. I want the other 150 cycles on each battery that I paid for!
Who's ready to let DJI know they owe us the full 200 cycles? I think it's time for a new campaign!
P.S. If you have a bad battery, register it here:
http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/the-dji-bad-battery-registry.26733/