Crashed my drone and replaced the yaw arm and flat ribbon. The drone will fly, gimbal goes up and down on its own during start up but you can’t see anything from my screen. I have a camera sensor error and a calibrate error. I connected it to the DJI Assistant 2 and was successful in calibrating it but it would not successfully update the software. Any suggestions from here? The ribbon cable was not an OEM part so I thought maybe it was that. I rechecked all the connections. I would hate to go through replacing the ribbon cable and find out it was something else. One thing troubling is although I was told this cable would work with the advanced model, there is a small leg connector that is not being used. There is no place to connect it to. Any help would be appreciated!
Replaced yaw arm and Ribbon cable but camera is not working. Phantom 4 advanced
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Non-OEM parts are marginal at best! And aftermarket ribbon cables are famous for not working correctly or working at all! IMHO.
Just went through this with a P4P. Made a couple posts about it on this site. I also read that ribbon with the extra extension may work on the pro & advance but was skeptical. Did take some searching and did find the correct OEM cable for the pro / advance on eBay. Here’s one of the posts I made, maybe search my name for the others.
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Camera Flex Cable replacement - Phantom 4 series
When ordering the flex cable, it's recommended to get the Genuine DJI part. And then - be sure to get the correct DJI part. This is where the confusion comes in and apparently, this is a common issue. The Phantom 4, Phantom 4 Pro & Advance all use DJI Spare Part #36. As everyone knows, the...
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Thanks. I am hoping I could find away to at least verify somehow that it is not another problem before purchasing another ribbon cable and go through the whole replacement process again.
DO THIS!!
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P4P Crash! Then my DJI Repair experience!!
Went flying in a familiar place that I have been many times. Lifted off and was hovering at about 18 feet to check my Home Point. Hit the up lever and instantly the screen goes crazy! Hit a tiny phone line that I had never seen before. Down comes the Drone! Bang!! Busted it up! Two broken arms...
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this is all we need to hear yes that is the problem its written here so many times to use dji ribbons only.
Well I am sorry to hear you are having camera trouble! Now here is my story and I hope it helps you. I have a P3S,I bought it crashed to have something to do(LOL) I did all repairs and had most success,but then I got to the camera,now I know you have a P4P,but the gimbal problems are about the same. I replaced all the motors on the gimbal,the wifi board and the two boards on the gimbal ! I was not going to be beat!!! Now I am no technician,but I did learn a lot,I tried the aftermarket ribbons,I tried the oem ribbon,nothing I did worked and finally 14months later I broke down and sent it to DJI ,I about one month(+or-) a few days I got mu P3S back like new. Cost to me was $320.00 after I had spent all I had spent! Now you can take this for what its worth,maybe you are better at electronics that I am,but I wish you all the luck in the world.
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I have used many different aftermarket P4P ribbon cables and many of them still have the extra little extension that the P4Std. required. I just cut them off for the P4Pro. Keep in mind that the P4 ribbon cables are the same, ACCEPT for the end that goes in the camera module. One, of course, is a connector with the gold contacts, while the P4P has the snap in connector.
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