Hello guys, first time poster. I own a Spark and a Mavic Pro, and yesterday I received my second ever Phantom, a brand new P4P Obsidian ordered off of Amazon. I unpacked the beautiful bird and immediately was awestruck by it's sheer beauty. My god what a looker.
I start charging batteries, registering and upgrading FW on all the devices. I take the bird out into the yard and fire it up. Immediately I am getting bad signal warning on 2.4 auto setting, so I switch over to 5.8 which seems to clear it up. I live in a suburban subdivision. I raise the bird and let it hover. Seems stable, no drift. I raise the bird half stick to about 30 ft, bam 4 dreaded red steady lights on the bird. Frak.
I look at the app; battery error. That's it. Battery error. I look at the diagnostics on the battery screen on the app. No voltage, NA's all over the screen. Awesome. I take the bird down to 5 feet, still hovering ok, seems reasonable to me, yet still 4 red steady critical error lights. I go inside, charge another battery and take the bird back outside. Please just be a bad battery. Nope, same sequence. Took it up 4 red lights, except this time left it up for a moment. Back to 2 green steady flashes. Raise up a bit more back to 4 red. Turn the drone, proceed forward, same red lights. App showing battery error, and not showing diagnostics. Freak out, take it back down. Cry.
I took the pretty bird in and cursed at it, put my hand on the top, ATTI mode. Like right away. Remove hand GPS. Cover ATTI mode, remove GPS? Normal? Thoughts? Anyone? I only have a few more hours to buy refresh, and I don't want to on this drone if it's defective out of the box? Sorry for the long winded post, but ANY help would be awesome. I have no problems with any of my other DJI birds...
I start charging batteries, registering and upgrading FW on all the devices. I take the bird out into the yard and fire it up. Immediately I am getting bad signal warning on 2.4 auto setting, so I switch over to 5.8 which seems to clear it up. I live in a suburban subdivision. I raise the bird and let it hover. Seems stable, no drift. I raise the bird half stick to about 30 ft, bam 4 dreaded red steady lights on the bird. Frak.
I look at the app; battery error. That's it. Battery error. I look at the diagnostics on the battery screen on the app. No voltage, NA's all over the screen. Awesome. I take the bird down to 5 feet, still hovering ok, seems reasonable to me, yet still 4 red steady critical error lights. I go inside, charge another battery and take the bird back outside. Please just be a bad battery. Nope, same sequence. Took it up 4 red lights, except this time left it up for a moment. Back to 2 green steady flashes. Raise up a bit more back to 4 red. Turn the drone, proceed forward, same red lights. App showing battery error, and not showing diagnostics. Freak out, take it back down. Cry.
I took the pretty bird in and cursed at it, put my hand on the top, ATTI mode. Like right away. Remove hand GPS. Cover ATTI mode, remove GPS? Normal? Thoughts? Anyone? I only have a few more hours to buy refresh, and I don't want to on this drone if it's defective out of the box? Sorry for the long winded post, but ANY help would be awesome. I have no problems with any of my other DJI birds...
