Ok.. First of all, my MP has some miles on it. According to my Flight Record, 10,835,034 feet of travel distance (2,052 Miles). I've ONLY had minor problems with it and it has RARELY acted up.
The Old City park across the street from me is undergoing a massive remodel. So I've been going across the street to take some vids of the buildings before they vanish in history. I got some great shots of before, and now I have some of when most of the buildings have been Razed.
So yesterday, I went out to see if anything new had been going on out there. Nothing but a bigger pile of debris… So I am out flying around the park, having a good time. Drone was no more than about 362 feet away from me when Boom. No video feed. No app. App locked up. I tried a few times, gave up, punched RTH on the controller and saw that it was responding. (Wasn’t too worried.) and I started debugging the app. Restarted the app, nothing. Rebooted the phone and restarted the App, nothing. Now all this time, I could hear the motors getting closer and the controller was doing it usual beeping. I’m standing about 30’ away from the takeoff point and was using my orange landing pad. I’d glance up occasionally to spot it and never could see it. But I could tell it was getting closer. RTH altitude set for about 100’ Now by this time, the motors are getting louder. I keep looking up and can’t see it. Lean way back and tip my hat back so that I can see better… and I finally spot it.. It’s about 8 FEET UP, DIRECTLY OVER MY HEAD, DECENDING AND LINED UP TO LAND ON MY HAT!!! 30 FEET AWAY FROM THE TAKEOFF POINT!! Needless to say, I ran. Dang thing landed EXACTLY where I was standing. (Never upset your drone… ) Shut everything down, rebooted phone, rebooted drone, rebooted app. Ran fine and ran through the rest of the Battery. So I get home and connect my phone to the computer and download my flight record and send it to PhantomHelp.com. On my report, it just shows my drone vanishing at 362 feet away and an altitude of 160 feet. No idea what happened.. ( https://www.phantomhelp.com/LogViewer/44D60XLSZF7WZM6IKCUA) Then I noticed something weird on my record. It showed the condition of Battery Cell #1. It showed the condition of Battery Cell #2. Both were in great shape.. Only problem is, doesn't the Mavic has 3 cells. No idea why it didn’t record anything for Cell #3. Running Samsung Note 9, 512 gb ram, and never had anything like this happen. USB cable connected to the bottom of the controller and it's one of the heaviest duty cables that I could find.
So.. whats the deal??? What happened?? Any ideas??
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