So I found the screen shots in prior posts showing the video and camera icons on the right side of the display screen. I’ve never seen them displayed when I use the app. Here is my take on the app….
Using a Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 5.0. Placed the phone in Airplane mode. I can connect WiFi to the Phantom but when I launch the app it almost always shows its disconnected. I go into WiFi and it is connected. When I use the pull down menu to show battery charge among other things the battery charge flashes on that screen for a split second and then goes back to 0%. There is no camera display at all. I’ve spend 15 minutes switching the Phantom off/on, turning the booster off/on, disconnected/reconnecting to WiFi and after that time, finally had it connect. But before then I’d also exit out of the app and go into the DJI app and it worked perfectly.
So I was able to finally connect to and got the camera to register on my phone. However, no icons to take video or photos. They simply never showed up. So I was unable to take any video or photos.
I checked the Flight log and it’s amazing! I love the information that it returns.
However, for me the app is unusable. Spending 15 minutes working to get it to connect is miserable. Then not being able to take any photos or video… kills the whole thing.
I’m going to _guess_ that this might be an issue with the app and Android 5.0 but I can’t know for sure. Could be that I’m just hoping that it is and it’s an easy fix. But until something is done to allow these features I’ll just consider it $10 spent to try out the app. Kind of expensive given the return.
Oh... and the app crashed about 3 times during all of this as well.
DJI app... rock solid.