I have a P3S (a year with almost 1 million feet), fly three batteries and use an Insignia Flex 7.85 pad (android), Recently I have been having issues with signal loss especially on the video feed side but it is so random-It can happen right from the start, I shut everything down and restart it and it's fine for an entire battery, then does it again. it can happen in mid-flight, and has on occasion restored itself in mid-flight too. Either there is no image at all, or the image gets choppy, then freezes, no rhyme or reason to it. The other weird thing is it still records video unless I restart the app, even if I have no downlink. I have had instances where there is no telemetry information but I still have control of the bird, so I'm not overly concerned yet-but it is strange, in all the time I had this it has not done this and now seems almost normal. I installed a Argtek back in May or June and have flown a lot since installed and range was noticibly better, but I do not push it-I usually keep it under 1000 feet out and rarely over 300 feet high. The area I fly in is very open but it does have a decent amount of wifi, always has since I've gone there. I check my Hover app before I fly and pay particular attention to KP, and always top batteries off prior to take off. I'm starting to suspect there is a problem with the device, like something on the android running in the background but I don't know a lot about androids (pc guy), and think the next time I fly I might try using my iphone 5 just to see if that has anything to do with this...I also might open the remote and check the connections to the video antennae but I kind of doubt that is the issue since it is so random.
Any and all suggestions welcome and appreciated, this has never been crashed and has been pretty much flawless in all the time I've had it, until recently. I've looked at records on Healthy drones and can see it loses contact or indicates a poor connection randomly. I have glanced at the screen and seen a red bar that says 'poor connection' or something like that but I tend to look at the bird when flying and not the screen and it happens then disappears quickly.
Any and all suggestions welcome and appreciated, this has never been crashed and has been pretty much flawless in all the time I've had it, until recently. I've looked at records on Healthy drones and can see it loses contact or indicates a poor connection randomly. I have glanced at the screen and seen a red bar that says 'poor connection' or something like that but I tend to look at the bird when flying and not the screen and it happens then disappears quickly.