What are your thoughts on this guys?

This happened right out of the box, first flight. Happened around 6/7 times during 1 batteries worth of flight time.

Video recording ends and the gimbal looks around for a few seconds.

https://vimeo.com/234308558

I've had this happen once to me in about 35 flights. Just shooting in the dark here, but since you said "out of the box", did you upgrade your MP to the latest firmware when you received it? Do you anything obstructing the gimbal (like a 3rd party filter)? Is the gimbal seated properly in the mount (are the three rubber tabs tucked under the chassis)?

Paul_IA Posted at 2017-9-18 05:11
I've had this happen once to me in about 35 flights. Just shooting in the dark here, but since you said "out of the box", did you upgrade your MP to the latest firmware when you received it? Do you anything obstructing the gimbal (like a 3rd party filter)? Is the gimbal seated properly in the mount (are the three rubber tabs tucked under the chassis)?

Stock FW was .800, I've tried a different FW and it had the same problem so I'm guessing it's not FW related. Read that others were having the same problem on FW .1000.

Is there a photo anywhere of how the bands should look like? I can see the bands just not sure how they're supposed to be. Only had two flights so far and it did give me at least 6mins of recording without it happening.

Was recording in 2.7k and using the 16gb extreme SD that came with the Mavic

Is it doing this by moving the camera up/down; looks like the video is cutting in/out.
It maybe the ribbon cable on the camera itself that is bad. I had experienced gimbal freaked out mid flight, the video doesn't cut in/out it just stopped.
This is from my own experienced only.

Eagle_Eye Posted at 2017-9-18 06:51
Is it doing this by moving the camera up/down; looks like the video is cutting in/out.
It maybe the ribbon cable on the camera itself that is bad. I had experienced gimbal freaked out mid flight, the video doesn't cut in/out it just stopped.
This is from my own experienced only.

The video is not cutting in and out. I should've been a bit more clear, the video posted is a compilation of clips from the first flight. At times I wasn't even aware the video cut out as I was flying by looking at the drone. I'd then look at the screen and see that it's stopped recording. When I did witness it happening on the screen, I saw the camera make those movements and then the horizon tilts but the recording doesn't capture the whole reset as it cuts off early.

Eagle_Eye Posted at 2017-9-18 06:51
Is it doing this by moving the camera up/down; looks like the video is cutting in/out.
It maybe the ribbon cable on the camera itself that is bad. I had experienced gimbal freaked out mid flight, the video doesn't cut in/out it just stopped.
This is from my own experienced only.

Did it continue to happen after the first time? How did you go about fixing the problem?

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-18 08:44
Did it continue to happen after the first time? How did you go about fixing the problem?

After the 1st/2nd time it happened diff days, it just went away; for sure it will happen again (hoping not anymore). Just don't panic keep it under control; it's just the gimbal resetting and you still have full control of the AC.

Eagle_Eye Posted at 2017-9-18 10:31
After the 1st/2nd time it happened diff days, it just went away; for sure it will happen again (hoping not anymore). Just don't panic keep it under control; it's just the gimbal resetting and you still have full control of the AC.

Haven't had much time to fly but I hope it stops happening on mine as no one has pin pointed the cause of this fault yet.

So you had updated the firmware to the latest version and the issue still persists, right? If no, please try the latest firmware and test again. And our engineers are working further for this question, hope it can be addressed soon. Sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-18 23:51
So you had updated the firmware to the latest version and the issue still persists, right? If no, please try the latest firmware and test again. And our engineers are working further for this question, hope it can be addressed soon. Sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Thor, I have a latest firmware on my Mavic and have this trouble once. I thought thaf drone was falling or stolen by a bird -- I saw sky, propellers, turning horizont and other scary pictures. But it was a camera reboot -- recording interrupts at that moment.
It was normal (P) mode, not the "direct sun" flying and not some random joystick slams. Just a normal linear flight...
Please, find a solution in a new firmware

Hitty Posted at 2017-9-19 01:03
Thor, I have a latest firmware on my Mavic and have this trouble once. I thought thaf drone was falling or stolen by a bird -- I saw sky, propellers, turning horizont and other scary pictures. But it was a camera reboot -- recording interrupts at that moment.
It was normal (P) mode, not the "direct sun" flying and not some random joystick slams. Just a normal linear flight...
Please, find a solution in a new firmware

Yea it is quite acary when you see what's happening on the screen. 3 minutes into my first flight I see it happen

It looks like something that could be fixed with a FW update.

Hitty Posted at 2017-9-19 01:03
Thor, I have a latest firmware on my Mavic and have this trouble once. I thought thaf drone was falling or stolen by a bird -- I saw sky, propellers, turning horizont and other scary pictures. But it was a camera reboot -- recording interrupts at that moment.
It was normal (P) mode, not the "direct sun" flying and not some random joystick slams. Just a normal linear flight...
Please, find a solution in a new firmware

Can I ask if you have the plastic protection sticker still on on top of the gimbal? Could that be a factor?

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-18 23:51
So you had updated the firmware to the latest version and the issue still persists, right? If no, please try the latest firmware and test again. And our engineers are working further for this question, hope it can be addressed soon. Sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

So DJI are aware of this problem? Is there any news on it?

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-19 04:18
Can I ask if you have the plastic protection sticker still on on top of the gimbal? Could that be a factor?

I carefully removed it right after unpacking.

Hitty Posted at 2017-9-19 01:03
Thor, I have a latest firmware on my Mavic and have this trouble once. I thought thaf drone was falling or stolen by a bird -- I saw sky, propellers, turning horizont and other scary pictures. But it was a camera reboot -- recording interrupts at that moment.
It was normal (P) mode, not the "direct sun" flying and not some random joystick slams. Just a normal linear flight...
Please, find a solution in a new firmware

Our engineers are aware of this and working on it. Hope it could be resolved shortly.

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-19 06:50
So DJI are aware of this problem? Is there any news on it?

Yeah, our engineers are working on it, don't have more news at the moment. Feel regretful for this.

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-20 01:32
Yeah, our engineers are working on it, don't have more news at the moment. Feel regretful for this.

So I should hold onto my Mavic and not send it in for repair?

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-20 02:36
So I should hold onto my Mavic and not send it in for repair?

If you send the drone back, we will also help to take care of it for you. Please fill in some info on our online repair link of our official web and then send it back if needed. Here is the link: https://repair.dji.com/en/SelfRepair/Area
We will do our best to help this out. Thank you.

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-22 00:02
If you send the drone back, we will also help to take care of it for you. Please fill in some info on our online repair link of our official web and then send it back if needed. Here is the link: https://repair.dji.com/en/SelfRepair/Area
We will do our best to help this out. Thank you.

Lastly, could you confirm some details regarding warranty for me please. Im in the UK and bought my Mavic from a internet retailer based in China.

I understand that I would have to ship it to China for warranty repairs. Will DJI provide a shipping lable for me for UK to China? And will the Mavic be shipped back to the UK when repair is complete?

Thanks

Any DJI moderators able to help me with the question above?

So I was trying to film this shot but the gimbal reset at more or less the exact same spot. Could it be the exposure?

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-22 05:59
Lastly, could you confirm some details regarding warranty for me please. Im in the UK and bought my Mavic from a internet retailer based in China.

I understand that I would have to ship it to China for warranty repairs. Will DJI provide a shipping lable for me for UK to China? And will the Mavic be shipped back to the UK when repair is complete?

Sorry for the late reply, please provide me with your drone's serial number, I'll check it first.  

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-25 22:13


So I was trying to film this shot but the gimbal reset at more or less the exact same spot. Could it be the exposure?

Are you recording at that time? Could you please upload the original videos or the gimbal reset and camera reset issue that happened to your drone from the SD card to Dropbox so I can forward to the engineers to have a look into it?

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-27 02:43
Sorry for the late reply, please provide me with your drone's serial number, I'll check it first.

08QUE77028372!:!

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-27 02:47
Are you recording at that time? Could you please upload the original videos or the gimbal reset and camera reset issue that happened to your drone from the SD card to Dropbox so I can forward to the engineers to have a look into it?

Yes I was recording. The video captured on the SD card stops a second before what you see on these clips so you don't see anything other than a clean cut of the video like the user had manually stopped recording.

I had this same phenomenon happen today for the first time, sortie number 21 after 9:05 minutes of flight time. I've got the latest firmware (upgraded the same day it became available) and GO 4 App Android V 4.1.9. Altitude was 150 meters just crossing a highway, freaked me up good because the feed on the display looked like the MP was falling down on a violent spin of death...

After the incident the camera remained crooked so it looked like the MP was falling down its side first, but it was just a momentary illusion which corrected itself after a while. Too bad the recording stopped the very moment the troubles began. Hit the RTH button and the MP was recovered without further drama.

Olde Gunner Posted at 2017-9-28 11:25
I had this same phenomenon happen today for the first time, sortie number 21 after 9:05 minutes of flight time. I've got the latest firmware (upgraded the same day it became available) and GO 4 App Android V 4.1.9. Altitude was 150 meters just crossing a highway, freaked me up good because the feed on the display looked like the MP was falling down on a violent spin of death...

After the incident the camera remained crooked so it looked like the MP was falling down its side first, but it was just a momentary illusion which corrected itself after a while. Too bad the recording stopped the very moment the troubles began. Hit the RTH button and the MP was recovered without further drama.

Exactly the same thing happened to me several times. Scares the crap out of you, especially if you are not VLOS, like most of us. Not limited to latest firmware. Happened a couple months ago, too. The SD video does not pick it up. Camera simply cuts off. Takes a minute or so to get itself back together to where you can record again. Camera operations (play-record) seemed to be "frozen" in the app for that minute, like its rebooting. Maybe this will get fixed with the CPU Overload issue in the next release. Fingers crossed.

IPad Mini2 32GB, IOS 11, all latest firmware and Go 4 app...

Olde Gunner Posted at 2017-9-28 11:25
I had this same phenomenon happen today for the first time, sortie number 21 after 9:05 minutes of flight time. I've got the latest firmware (upgraded the same day it became available) and GO 4 App Android V 4.1.9. Altitude was 150 meters just crossing a highway, freaked me up good because the feed on the display looked like the MP was falling down on a violent spin of death...

After the incident the camera remained crooked so it looked like the MP was falling down its side first, but it was just a momentary illusion which corrected itself after a while. Too bad the recording stopped the very moment the troubles began. Hit the RTH button and the MP was recovered without further drama.

@Olde Gunner kindly note that at 9m5s the file recorded at 4k resolution was filled up at 4gb and the sd filesystem doesn't allow the file to grow more.
The aircraft has to rotate the recording to a new file but sometimes failed (firmware bug) and probably the exception forces something in video subsystem reboot

Actually, the max file size for exFAT (64GB SD is formatted exFAT) filesystem is 128 PiB which is 128x1125899906842624 bytes (=a big file). But I do think you are on to something, since the max file size of 4GB is coded into the firmware and the bug bit at the exact moment of starting a new video file.

Guess I should reformat the SD, since the media tends to act weird if you just create and delete files without formatting. This is what I've done before and there were no problems then.

Thanks for the food for thought, MPV!

Not everyone is getting cut off at the 4GB point. My last clip that was posted I got cut off at 10 and 11 seconds

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-29 02:12
Not everyone is getting cut off at the 4GB point. My last clip that was posted I got cut off at 10 and 11 seconds

I personally had the cut at 9m5s with also simultaneous temporary uplink/downlink data loss for 10s at the same moment of gimbal freak out. The AC entered to RTH Failsafe.

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-28 09:44
Yes I was recording. The video captured on the SD card stops a second before what you see on these clips so you don't see anything other than a clean cut of the video like the user had manually stopped recording.

Thank you so much of your feedback, I will forward this point to the engineers. And we would be inspired if you could provide the original footage also. If the drone is by your side, could you also please help to confirm if it happens when you are not recording, and when there is no SD card inside the drone? Really sorry for the inconvenience, appreciated your help.

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-28 09:42
08QUE77101003N

And I had checked the serial number, the drone needs to obtain warranty in Chinese repair center if it is a warranty case. DJI couldn't offer you the shipping label, if you have a friend in China, you can ship to him and ask him to help to ship to the repair center, or you can contact your dealer. Sorry for the inconvenience.

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-29 18:03
Thank you so much of your feedback, I will forward this point to the engineers. And we would be inspired if you could provide the original footage also. If the drone is by your side, could you also please help to confirm if it happens when you are not recording, and when there is no SD card inside the drone? Really sorry for the inconvenience, appreciated your help.

Haven't noticed it happening when not recording. Only when recording. Haven't flown without an SD card yet.

YouserName Posted at 2017-9-29 20:31
Haven't noticed it happening when not recording. Only when recording. Haven't flown without an SD card yet.

OK, is it convenient for you to provide me some original video from the SD card? It's alright if it is not.

DJI Thor Posted at 2017-9-29 23:13
OK, is it convenient for you to provide me some original video from the SD card? It's alright if it is not.

I'm not sure if I have any at the mo. When I fly next and capture anything I'll send. Would a YouTube link of the original footage be ok? Or you need the actual file?

So this is the what's happening now

https://vimeo.com/236410857

Looks like the frame of the video is changing just before the cut off.

On the app, it changes from video recording to camera. I selected Video recording quite quickly after the reset this time and noticed a screen with lots of purple lines. Switched back to the camera and then to the vodeo again and ot was gone.

I can upload the original video, please confirm how I should go about doing that and of YouTube will be ok?

YouserName Posted at 2017-10-2 05:32
So this is the what's happening now

https://vimeo.com/236410857

Very appreciate your feedback, please send the original video from the SD card to Dropbox so I can download it. That's what I have been looking for, it is said the engineers' need.

This is my first post, just to say that I have this exact issue with my new Mavic. Mavic has only 1 hour flight time, newly calibrated IMU, Compass, Gimbal, Vision with the latest firmware. I am afraid of flying now. I am sure it is not the Gimbal as my friend has the exact problem on his new Mavic.

Hope you can help.

Here is my video from my video cache. It is not exposure problem, nothig hit the gimbal. The blue thing that you see on the video is my hood. Recorded more than that but it seems it only took 3 seconds clip, camera resets to 4k 24fps as well, originally my setting is 30fps 4k.