ok so after however long since the new firmware was released and all the bad things being said about it , I decided I need to find out what’s what. So I decided to update.
The way I did it is probably different for what a lot of people say, but I’ve always updated my phantoms this way.
I plugged in my iPad and turned controller and iPad on. With no drone turned on.
I then updated the firmware on the controller and restarted it. Easy.
Then I turned iPad , controller and drone on and clicked the update firmware button on the go4 app home screen.
This told me to connect the device via the lead supplied. So I left everything turned on unplugged the usb from the rear of the controller and plugged it into the adapter lead and then the phantom. Then I thought I should turn everything off and back on. So I did.
Once all fired back up I pressed the update firmware button it started doing its thing.
I had 3 weird tings happen. But kept going and it said successfull.
1st and 2nd was a error message at around 94% it said something like this device is not compatible with the update. I clicked ok and it continued through to 95% then at 96% same error again I clicked on again and it continued to 97%.
Then at 97% the camera started going crazy up down left right side to side hard as well thought it was gonna snap but I had to let it go until it reaches 100% said successful or whatever and then turned everything off quick lol.
Fired it all up again and this time it said there was a geo fencing update. Did this in like 5 seconds restarted it all again and took it outside for a very quick test.
Notes:
Seems to fly as normal. Only thing did notice BUT I could be being paranoid was it was a little more wobbly at hover than usual. It wasn’t bad and if I hadn’t read anything about this I probably wouldn’t be concerned. Could be nothing , could be the wind at the time and place I was at.
As I flew to 235 ft it looked steady like normal and the camera and horizon told me it was as normal.
Took her 1800fr distance or so for a quick flight all seemed ok, tested return to home seemed ok. It got A little annoyed with me because I had things in the way when it was trying to land and the protection cut in , but it seemed fine. It did seem like the landing was 5-10 ft off from take off but to be honest I’ve never really monitored closely how close to take off it lands.
It worked ok so I’ll test it more later.
Hopefully later me and dazzauksdad will test our p4s side by side mines updated his isn’t so that will be a good test.
If anyone wants to chip in or add something I should do etc that would be great.
On another note I updated p4 with sd card out and it seems without a more thourough look that the only setting changed were the remote c1 and c2 buttons, the rth altitude and one more non important setting but I will go through them later more thouroghly.
Daz
The way I did it is probably different for what a lot of people say, but I’ve always updated my phantoms this way.
I plugged in my iPad and turned controller and iPad on. With no drone turned on.
I then updated the firmware on the controller and restarted it. Easy.
Then I turned iPad , controller and drone on and clicked the update firmware button on the go4 app home screen.
This told me to connect the device via the lead supplied. So I left everything turned on unplugged the usb from the rear of the controller and plugged it into the adapter lead and then the phantom. Then I thought I should turn everything off and back on. So I did.
Once all fired back up I pressed the update firmware button it started doing its thing.
I had 3 weird tings happen. But kept going and it said successfull.
1st and 2nd was a error message at around 94% it said something like this device is not compatible with the update. I clicked ok and it continued through to 95% then at 96% same error again I clicked on again and it continued to 97%.
Then at 97% the camera started going crazy up down left right side to side hard as well thought it was gonna snap but I had to let it go until it reaches 100% said successful or whatever and then turned everything off quick lol.
Fired it all up again and this time it said there was a geo fencing update. Did this in like 5 seconds restarted it all again and took it outside for a very quick test.
Notes:
Seems to fly as normal. Only thing did notice BUT I could be being paranoid was it was a little more wobbly at hover than usual. It wasn’t bad and if I hadn’t read anything about this I probably wouldn’t be concerned. Could be nothing , could be the wind at the time and place I was at.
As I flew to 235 ft it looked steady like normal and the camera and horizon told me it was as normal.
Took her 1800fr distance or so for a quick flight all seemed ok, tested return to home seemed ok. It got A little annoyed with me because I had things in the way when it was trying to land and the protection cut in , but it seemed fine. It did seem like the landing was 5-10 ft off from take off but to be honest I’ve never really monitored closely how close to take off it lands.
It worked ok so I’ll test it more later.
Hopefully later me and dazzauksdad will test our p4s side by side mines updated his isn’t so that will be a good test.
If anyone wants to chip in or add something I should do etc that would be great.
On another note I updated p4 with sd card out and it seems without a more thourough look that the only setting changed were the remote c1 and c2 buttons, the rth altitude and one more non important setting but I will go through them later more thouroghly.
Daz