P3S coming. iPhone 5s question

[kjohn]

I have a P3S on the way. I will be using my iPhone 5s for now. I can't get the storage down to 1 gb available without deleting some rather necessary apps. Is it imperative to have 1 gb available?

** edit: I fiddled some more and got 1.03gb free space. Still would like to see some input on this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[120CCPM]

I believe that if you disable local video caching in DJI GO, you won't need so much free space. There's plenty of posts about optimizing phones/tablets for DJI GO, both on iOS and Android, I suggest you also look into that. I did a few flights with my iPhone 5 and it worked flawlessly, despite being officially unsupported, so the 5S should work well, too.
I personally found the screen to be too small, though, so I ended up buying a cheap 7" tablet (Samsung Tab A 2016): not the most powerful and responsive device on the market, but it does the job quite well, and the screen is the perfect size for me.

 

[kjohn]

Thank you! I do plan on buying possibly an iPad Mini 4 later on. I concur that the screen on a 5s would be small. I see people walking blindly along in busy malls, etc., with their noses just about touching the screen, reading an important bookface blurb.

 

[roadwarrior]

I initially tried to use my iPhone 5s with the P3S with lackluster results; the video was VERY choppy. I had done everything that was recommended and had freed up 4 gb of space, alternately, I used my iPad Air with pretty good results.

Interestingly, the 5S and iPad Air have very similar specs but the phone just didn't seem to be up to the task.


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[kavy]

I initially tried to use my iPhone 5s with the P3S with lackluster results; the video was VERY choppy. I had done everything that was recommended and had freed up 4 gb of space, alternately, I used my iPad Air with pretty good results.

Interestingly, the 5S and iPad Air have very similar specs but the phone just didn't seem to be up to the task.


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The A7 is more than powerful enough to not get choppy video. I have a mini retina (v2) and it streams flawlessly. With Hardware decoding on it should be golden.

 

[dg8882]

My 5S was what I used to fly before getting an ipad mini 2 a few months ago. You definitely do not need 1gb of space, i never knew that you did and never had a problem with just the 100mb or so the app takes up.
The only problem I had was the feed would start to stutter quite a bit whenever I had my camera set to video, whether i was recording or not. I turned off video caching since i didn't and still don't have a use for it and no problems.

 

[roadwarrior]

The A7 is more than powerful enough to not get choppy video. I have a mini retina (v2) and it streams flawlessly. With Hardware decoding on it should be golden.

I know, it should be, I just had a lot of problems getting my 5S to not be choppy. I tried it recently and it was better, but not as good as my iPad Air. I actually have more free space on my phone than the iPad, but it did not seem to make a difference. I must be missing something in the settings that I got right with the iPad.

 

[kavy]

I know, it should be, I just had a lot of problems getting my 5S to not be choppy. I tried it recently and it was better, but not as good as my iPad Air. I actually have more free space on my phone than the iPad, but it did not seem to make a difference. I must be missing something in the settings that I got right with the iPad.

Did you try with hardware acceleration on?

I used a mini 2 and it's perfect.

 

[roadwarrior]

Did you try with hardware acceleration on?

I used a mini 2 and it's perfect.

Yep. I had (as far as I could tell) set up both the iPad and 5S the same way, as recommended by others on this forum.




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