A bit of background: I bought this Phantom 3 Advanced about 18 months ago. It has several dozen flights on it, was never crashed or even landed hard, then it was put in a large "trunk" with custom foam cutouts for all the parts for well over a year. Finally have some free time so it was resurrected. In a well intended effort to make it all that it could be I decided, perhaps foolishly, to update everything. I had no choice with DJI Go as I no longer have the old iPad Mini 2 that I originally used.
- Installed DJI Go Version 3.1.28 on an iPad Mini 4
- DJI Go said I needed to update the RC so I let it. Version 1.9.2
- DJI Go said the AC also needed updated and showed me a video.
Video is the same info that's everywhere else. Format the SD card, download AC firmware, unzip and copy to the SD card. insert card, power AC on and wait while the little LED blinks red/green until it's done. Oh how I wish it were so. The only thing I can't do "properly" is format the SD card in the AC as DJI Go never gets that far. It/they were formatted on a WIndows 10 PC with the standard software and I also tried SD Card Formatter from San Disk.
AC either doesn't know or doesn't care about the SD card. It looks for an RC and if it doesn't find one it sits there flashing yellow. No red/green blinky thing. It would flash yellow until the battery died I think but I know it was still going after an hour.
What I've tried:
Reformat SD and re-download the firmware - Didn't help
Different SD Card - Didn't help
Latest Firmware V01.11.0020 - Didn't work
Older firmware V01.03.0020 - Didn't work
The AC doesn't see the SD card for some reason. It should at least give a TXT message saying the update failed or the current firmware is the same or newer that what's on the SD card.
AC will start and bind with the RC. DJI Go app sees the RC and AC but says "No Image transmission signal" and "Gimbal DIsconnected". However with the RC I can rotate the gimbal on its horizontal axis. DJI Go says the installed AC firmware is 1.8.80+
I'm pretty much out of ideas. I suspect that the no image transmission and gimbal disconnect might be caused by the old FW in the AC but that's just a guess. Might be a loose connector that's causing all the problems but I tried to make sure all the gimbal cable terminators are seated firmly.
I'm open to suggestions here folks. Thanks in advance.....
- Installed DJI Go Version 3.1.28 on an iPad Mini 4
- DJI Go said I needed to update the RC so I let it. Version 1.9.2
- DJI Go said the AC also needed updated and showed me a video.
Video is the same info that's everywhere else. Format the SD card, download AC firmware, unzip and copy to the SD card. insert card, power AC on and wait while the little LED blinks red/green until it's done. Oh how I wish it were so. The only thing I can't do "properly" is format the SD card in the AC as DJI Go never gets that far. It/they were formatted on a WIndows 10 PC with the standard software and I also tried SD Card Formatter from San Disk.
AC either doesn't know or doesn't care about the SD card. It looks for an RC and if it doesn't find one it sits there flashing yellow. No red/green blinky thing. It would flash yellow until the battery died I think but I know it was still going after an hour.
What I've tried:
Reformat SD and re-download the firmware - Didn't help
Different SD Card - Didn't help
Latest Firmware V01.11.0020 - Didn't work
Older firmware V01.03.0020 - Didn't work
The AC doesn't see the SD card for some reason. It should at least give a TXT message saying the update failed or the current firmware is the same or newer that what's on the SD card.
AC will start and bind with the RC. DJI Go app sees the RC and AC but says "No Image transmission signal" and "Gimbal DIsconnected". However with the RC I can rotate the gimbal on its horizontal axis. DJI Go says the installed AC firmware is 1.8.80+
I'm pretty much out of ideas. I suspect that the no image transmission and gimbal disconnect might be caused by the old FW in the AC but that's just a guess. Might be a loose connector that's causing all the problems but I tried to make sure all the gimbal cable terminators are seated firmly.
I'm open to suggestions here folks. Thanks in advance.....