...it makes me wonder about the reason behind the problems people (including myself) had with their P3S not reporting their current firmware version and not offering any updates. DJI said that the reason was because of a "server reconfiguration" (which was very vague).
However, I have a theory. I have actually read someone mentioning that DJI supposedly said that the 1.7.9 firmware damages something in the drone and that it shouldn't be used (although that is unsubstantiated). I also noticed reports, now that 1.8.10 has been released, that peoples' P3S's are now reporting the firmware version correctly again.
I wonder whether this was DJI realising that 1.7.9 was causing so many problems (and supposedly even maybe causing damage) that they did this to try and prevent people from upgrading to it until they rolled out 1.8.10. It seems more than a coincidence that the "Firmware version: N/A" problem suddenly went away as soon as 1.8.10 came out...
Of course DJI will never admit to this anyway even if it were true. I have seen official DJI staff basically saying that 1.8.10 would potentially solve the problems people had been having with range and signal issues, however there is absolutely no mention of this in the release notes for 1.8.10. In fact the release notes are so sparse, you would wonder why they would bother rolling it out for so little, unless, of course, it is also to address the issues with 1.7.9.
Is it just me?
However, I have a theory. I have actually read someone mentioning that DJI supposedly said that the 1.7.9 firmware damages something in the drone and that it shouldn't be used (although that is unsubstantiated). I also noticed reports, now that 1.8.10 has been released, that peoples' P3S's are now reporting the firmware version correctly again.
I wonder whether this was DJI realising that 1.7.9 was causing so many problems (and supposedly even maybe causing damage) that they did this to try and prevent people from upgrading to it until they rolled out 1.8.10. It seems more than a coincidence that the "Firmware version: N/A" problem suddenly went away as soon as 1.8.10 came out...
Of course DJI will never admit to this anyway even if it were true. I have seen official DJI staff basically saying that 1.8.10 would potentially solve the problems people had been having with range and signal issues, however there is absolutely no mention of this in the release notes for 1.8.10. In fact the release notes are so sparse, you would wonder why they would bother rolling it out for so little, unless, of course, it is also to address the issues with 1.7.9.
Is it just me?