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Today, I flew for the first time with my iPad Mini 2. Yesterday, I had a number of flawless flights with my NVidia Shield Tablet. Today, it worked perfectly for the first 10 minutes, then live video became garbled and went down to 1fps. I tried to fix the problem by:
1. Closing background apps
2. Making sure "hardware acceleration" option was off.
3. Rebooting iPad
4. Turning off controller
5. Turning off Phantom 3
6. Changing locations
7. Changing location of Phantom in the air, spinning around.
Nothing worked and the live video feed was almost completely unusable. So, I went in the house and grabbed my Nvidia Shield Tablet and hooked it up. Flawless video (and latency identical to iPad, if not a little better when on high-performance mode, by the way).
To pre-emp some follow-up questions:
1. Yes, this is the same area I flew before in (yesterday many times) with no interference
2. Yes, I had clear line of sight (I was 2 feet in front of the Phantom) and I tried it out further where I could see it.
3. Yes, I have the latest firmware installed successfully on both Phantom and controller.
4. Yes, it happens whether I am recording video or not.
5. Yes, it stayed in perfect radio contact with the controller, just the video was garbled.
6. No, I had no additional electronics on me to cause interference.
7. Yes, I love my Phantom.
8. No, I already ate lunch. But, thanks anyway.
Thoughts? Let the nail-biting commence.
UPDATE: I popped my SIM card out of my iPad (Spring FreedomPop) and all seems to be well again and smooth as butter. That's the only change I made and it now works. Will need to experiment more to see why this is.
UPDATE #2: I think it's an overheating issue. I also had removed the iPad from the case and that's what seems to have fixed it.
1. Closing background apps
2. Making sure "hardware acceleration" option was off.
3. Rebooting iPad
4. Turning off controller
5. Turning off Phantom 3
6. Changing locations
7. Changing location of Phantom in the air, spinning around.
Nothing worked and the live video feed was almost completely unusable. So, I went in the house and grabbed my Nvidia Shield Tablet and hooked it up. Flawless video (and latency identical to iPad, if not a little better when on high-performance mode, by the way).
To pre-emp some follow-up questions:
1. Yes, this is the same area I flew before in (yesterday many times) with no interference
2. Yes, I had clear line of sight (I was 2 feet in front of the Phantom) and I tried it out further where I could see it.
3. Yes, I have the latest firmware installed successfully on both Phantom and controller.
4. Yes, it happens whether I am recording video or not.
5. Yes, it stayed in perfect radio contact with the controller, just the video was garbled.
6. No, I had no additional electronics on me to cause interference.
7. Yes, I love my Phantom.
8. No, I already ate lunch. But, thanks anyway.
Thoughts? Let the nail-biting commence.
UPDATE: I popped my SIM card out of my iPad (Spring FreedomPop) and all seems to be well again and smooth as butter. That's the only change I made and it now works. Will need to experiment more to see why this is.
UPDATE #2: I think it's an overheating issue. I also had removed the iPad from the case and that's what seems to have fixed it.
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