You could also try calibrating the forward vision system. Not that I think it needs calibrating but that would insure that it’s working OK. This problem is very similar to the situation where the P4 is facing into the sun which causes the forward vision system to think there is an obstacle. The rthOAenabled is set to false so this shouldn’t matter but it’s worth checking. Did you set OA on RTH to false?
I am having the exact same issue! I hadn’t used my P4 since last summer. When I first started using it I was getting messages to update the firmware and software. But I delayed doing that as I was out in the field at the time. Everything worked great on the drone. I flew it around quite a bit and had no problems whatsoever A few weeks later I went out and this time decided to go ahead and accept the updates. After going through all of them I started having problems right away. Particularly, specifically with return to home. But I also had issues with changing direction, specifically going forward. It would reverse and go side to side just fine. But for some reason it would slow down going forward to a crawl. If I hit return to home it would go straight up until I eventually stopped it. then other times it would just come straight down until I stopped it. I turned off obstacle avoidance in other intelligent guidance functions but left vision control and GPS enabled. Made no difference with a exception of going forwards seem to be cured by turning off intelligent controls with those two exceptions. But the return to home feature still does not work. I have to manually guide it back to me and bring it down for a landing. I’m not happy about this since It reduces my ability to have faith in the software. Plus I want to know the drone will return to me if something goes on where it needs to return home. Clearly this occurred after I updated the firmware. I have exhausted everything I can think of in terms of calibration performing both calibration on the drone itself and on the remote control. Any answers out there?
After working with a few people on this issue, I found reverting the Phantom firmware to the previous version (or any version prior to 2.00.0700) resolves this issue. That can be done from the DJI Assistant 2 application (download it here).
The people I talked to were all running 2.00.0810. Since lots of people are currently running 2.00.0810, I can only assume there is a certain setting or combination of settings that causes this to occur.
Another possibility is that DJI fixed the problem and re-released 2.00.0810 with a patch. If you want to verify, you could downgrade to 2.00.0700 and then upgrade back to 2.00.0810.
So… I downgraded to 2.00.0700, did factory reset and looks like everythink is working. And actually have some features that I was unable to see previously. Like precision landing option or remote indentification… Maybe those where removed in latest FW?
Hello to all, I can’t get my dji pro 3 to take an update. everything seems to work except for camera video. when trying to update the firmware it starts okay the Gimbal has the alternating red and green light then after about 30 seconds it turns to red. maybe if I do the factory reset then upgrade it would help.
what are the steps to do the factory reset? this will be something more I could try.
Thanks
I am having same issue with P4/. Updated P4 , RC all good. So I have set RTH to 30 + height. I also put it in course lock. So course lock works perfect then I hit RTH P4 goes far above preset height to max. No return. Then also I don’t know if bc I hit RTH it was supposed to be taken out of course lock. I’m finding forward is to a crawl as well. All similar to what everybody is posting here. Any help greatly appreciated. I’m worried about flying it at all with all these issues. Thanks …
I did all the test I could and realized that fairly recently I had purchased NEW 2’ USB to Apple cable to go from my Phantom4 remote to my iPad or phone. So I swapped out the newly purchased cable and then used the factory cable it came with. Problems solved !!! There must be something not exactly correct with the 3td partly cable. So I’m very happy now . But with this looking on DJI website does ANYBODY know where from DJI we can order extra cables that come directly from them ? Thanks everybody.
I had the same issue and i have been pulling my hair out for ages.
I would have return to home sometimes work others it would just keep ascending… and i mean acceding like see ya mate.
The other issue i had was max 10kph with OA turned off and normal movement in sports mode.
Since i downgraded to 2.00.0700 everything is fine.
RTH always works, and my drone is super fast again and i can actually have OA turned on with normal speed.
Has DJI got a fix or even acknowledged that there is an issue here?
I have tried every combination of setting with the latest firmware but for whatever reason it seeps to play hell with its sensors.
Seems like with the latest version, the altitude sensor is always reporting false data and the front sensors always think there is an object within range so it slows right down.
Also i am Running a DJI4 Standard.
An update to this, re-calibrating the sensors via the PC APP (DJI Assistant 2) solved the issues
Hello ,
Now that some time has passed. Has this fixed your issue of RTH no working ? I am also experiencing the RTH Just putting P4 up to height and hovering , never returning
