Mission Apps drone just hovers, not moving
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tsiko
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Hello everybody,
  
We are struggling the past 5 days with a phantom 4 pro v2 with the following very strange issue using mission control apps (dronedeploy/pix4dcapture)
  
While using dronedeploy we set up a relatively simple mission (a simple square about 1hec).
  
We tried the following:
  
  
1. Mission in dense city, trying to take off a rooftop (takeoff point located in the mission area)
  
Drone is connected to remote and the app. Mission is loaded. Drone takes off about 3m of the ground and doesn't move from there. We tried any possible combinations such as changing the attitude, changing the shape of the mission, moving the mission to the next block away from takeoff point, toggling on or off obstacle avoidance and other settings, changing overlap. NO LUCK. After many tries with both apps we either had the behavior described above or got an error message: "Flight Plan. Error loading waypoints. The execution could not be executed"
  
  
2. Mission in dense city, trying to take off 250m away from the mission, on a very small park between roads (takeoff point located outside the mission area)
  
The mission is loaded and drone flies as expected. Isn't that strange?
  
  
3. Mission in a football court, trying to take off from the middle of the court.
  
The mission is loaded and drone flies as expected.
  
  
The No 1 configuration was tried over multiple different blocks in the city and we had exactly the same behavior meaning the drone was hovering without starting the mission.
  
It could be an sdk error or a limitation when flying in dense city areas?
  
We are surveyors - engineers and we are really disappointed and have already wasted dozens of hours trying to survey blocks in the city.
  
Any help would be really appreciated.
  
  
  

2019-5-5
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tsiko
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We have also tried the above in both andoid and ios supported devices
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tsiko
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The solution came to us 5' min ago after having tried almost everything.
Formatting drone's sd card did the trick.
Hope this post helps someone in the future facing similar problems.
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Hi, good day tsiko. We're glad that you already resolved the issue. Thanks for sharing this information to us, this will really help our DJI co-pilots here in the forum. Just a friendly reminder, we are not recommending customers to use any 3rd party application just in case the drone will experience some problem using the said 3rd part application, as per DJI after sales policy, there is the possibility that the drone warranty will be voided. Thank you for your kind and understanding. Have a safe and happy flying always.
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djiuser_ReXrNeLbXwzl
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I got the same problem.
After takeoff, the drone only keep hovering, not follow timeline tasks automatically
formatting sd card of the drone has not solved this problem.
Is there any solution?
2021-8-6
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djiuser_ReXrNeLbXwzl Posted at 8-6 02:12
I got the same problem.
After takeoff, the drone only keep hovering, not follow timeline tasks automatically
formatting sd card of the drone has not solved this problem.

SD card is always the problem for this. We have experienced and still experiencing this problem at some flights.
Try first deleting all card files and then reformatting the card with fat32 file system, make sure you properly eject the card from pc (by safe removing it) and try again.
Try with another SD card as well.
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