strong interference warnings with new firmware?

PatrickP · Nov 29, 2017

Has anyone else experienced strong interference warnings with the newest i2 firmware. Every flight since the new firmware update, in different environments, city, rural, with different iOS devices, I've received strong interference warnings. Any ideas?

I have to say the new firmware has been buggy at best. I've had app freezes , video lag, issues with the craft not landing. the above mentioned interference warnings, seems like flight is less stable (probably need to calibrate IMU etc for that one). none of which i had previously. it was rock solid before the latest firmware.....

NickU · Nov 30, 2017

Yes, I've had them pop up. Turned the tablet onto airplane mode and they stopped appearing.

These have only appeared with the new firmware... 50+ hrs flight time without them beforehand, and one location which has 3 or more wifi networks nearby has previously never given a warning in over a year's flying, installed the firmware and its whinging about interference now

another 70hrs on a Phantom 4 in the same locations and never had a warning.

Quite honestly I'm fed up of Dji go's 'warnings' - interference, high wind, right dial locked.... they're a nuisance and pointless distraction and their threshold's seem to be set waaay too low

The Editor · Nov 30, 2017

NickU said:
Yes, I've had them pop up. Turned the tablet onto airplane mode and they stopped appearing.

These have only appeared with the new firmware... 50+ hrs flight time without them beforehand, and one location which has 3 or more wifi networks nearby has previously never given a warning in over a year's flying, installed the firmware and its whinging about interference now another 70hrs on a Phantom 4 in the same locations and never had a warning.

Quite honestly I'm fed up of Dji go's 'warnings' - interference, high wind, right dial locked.... they're a nuisance and pointless distraction and their threshold's seem to be set waaasy too low

Yup - Nannying at its best.
I know of two guys now who have got so fed up with the whole DJI restrictions and pointless warnings that they have completely ditched everything DJI and are happily flying other platforms with no restrictions whatsoever.
The thing is, as a professional/commercial operator you know exactly where you should and should not be and what to do to gain all the permissions to allow a flight in controlled airspace.
None of us need to be hand held and stopped from flying anywhere by some overzealous app that has been badly coded.
The migration away from DJI equipment has already started!.....

Casey53 · Nov 30, 2017

Yes, far too many notices! Must waste a minute in GO just reading and trying the "X" them off. That incessant "Press right knob for camera control" is ridiculous!

If my car had that many notices popping up on the display (Newer cars are getting worse, like no volume knob but only a touch-screen volume button only!), I'd crashed it into something by now.

Wish I could turn them off in GO somewhere. Okay, the nix the **** DJI Spark ads, movies, and photos that pop up in my photo gallery with each GO version update too!

samtheparrot · Nov 30, 2017

I have the strong interference warning now after update also...

PatrickP · Nov 30, 2017

I refreshed the firmware for the RC and i2 , deleted and reinstalled the dji go 4 app. so far the interference warnings have gone away after first round of testing.

the right dial locked warning is the most useless bit of information..... what are they thinking..... and the quiz come on.....

ajobmusee · Nov 30, 2017

PatrickP said:
Has anyone else experienced strong interference warnings with the newest i2 firmware. Every flight since the new firmware update, in different environments, city, rural, with different iOS devices, I've received strong interference warnings. Any ideas?

I have to say the new firmware has been buggy at best. I've had app freezes , video lag, issues with the craft not landing. the above mentioned interference warnings, seems like flight is less stable (probably need to calibrate IMU etc for that one). none of which i had previously. it was rock solid before the latest firmware.....

Oh yeah quite annoying when I’m in 2.4 so I switch to 5ghz

PatrickP · Nov 30, 2017

flew again today and no interference warnings , hopefully reloading the app and firmware solved the issue, not sure which actually did it, so far so good after three rounds of testing

samtheparrot · Dec 1, 2017

How do you remove and reload APP on CS?

ajohnsonlaird · Dec 2, 2017

The Editor said:
Yup - Nannying at its best.
I know of two guys now who have got so fed up with the whole DJI restrictions and pointless warnings that they have completely ditched everything DJI and are happily flying other platforms with no restrictions whatsoever.
The thing is, as a professional/commercial operator you know exactly where you should and should not be and what to do to gain all the permissions to allow a flight in controlled airspace.
None of us need to be hand held and stopped from flying anywhere by some overzealous app that has been badly coded.
The migration away from DJI equipment has already started!.....

Well said, Ed.
The addition of the Department of Homeland Security's report regarding concerns that DJI is sharing flight data with the Chinese Government is worrisome to say the least -- even assuming for a moment that the alleged facts in the report are only partially true (and I have no data either way). See https://www.suasnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DHS-DJI-memo.pdf for the actual report.

Andy

Urban Kixx Filming · Dec 2, 2017

It' going to take a class action. Against DJI to allow us the customer to do what we want with these Drones we spend so much money on. It' crazy you kick out 10,000 for a drone and all the bells and whistles to get it up and going but yet DJI for the life of the Drone they tell you what and when about the use of it. They loose more money with a class action maybe they will leave us alone and open up this market so
Everyone can enjoy it

PatrickP · Dec 4, 2017

weird first few times i flew the interference warnings were gone, now their back on the 5th flight in the same location. ill have to pay attention if its using different RF channels or something.

NickU · Dec 4, 2017

Probably hoping from 2.4 to 5.8 or vice-versa

rmb · Dec 6, 2017

Yeah, whats strange is that it started happening to me after a firware update on my I2, but it is also now doing it on my PH4P and I have not done the update. Very odd indeed.

NickU · Dec 6, 2017

If you're using the same tablet for flying both, it's probably not the firmware that has the issue... it's the DJI Go 4 app.

rmb · Dec 6, 2017

Thats a great point. I did just ditch the Go App and reloaded it. I will test shortly.

Thanks

RobUK · Dec 7, 2017

ajohnsonlaird said:
The addition of the Department of Homeland Security's report regarding concerns that DJI is sharing flight data with the Chinese Government is worrisome to say the least -- even assuming for a moment that the alleged facts in the report are only partially true (and I have no data either way). See https://www.suasnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DHS-DJI-memo.pdf for the actual report.

I read in the report that Homeland Security accuse DJI of releasing details of users of DJI products to the Chinese government.
I guess they need to deflect attention away from what the US government is doing with CALEA, eh?
... Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cisco, US Banks ... all this customer data worldwide is already intercepted by the US ...

WildlifeDrones · May 7, 2018

Glad to hear some options for addressing the interference issue - flew one day fine, then at the same location the next day had warnings all the time - very frustrating. No issues with interference with the P3P at the same location/time. Will try reinstalling everything. Thanks!