Hello Everyone,

Friday March 19, 2021 my AC powered on by itself.  Battery was obviously left in the AC after a flight.  


I was searching around the forum and found post below:

https://forum.dji.com/forum.php? ... D567%26typeid%3D567

I posted a reply in the thread detailing the same experience:


"This happened to me today.  My mavic pro 2 is sitting on the desk and  all of a sudden, the fan turns on and it lights up.  There's an option  in the smart controller "time to discharge" under the battery  tab.  After a certain amount days available in the options, 1, 2 or  3.  The battery starts to discharge to 65%.  In order to do this, the  battery needs to turn on.  I believe this is the case.  If the battery  is inside the drone and the battery turns on to discharge, the drone  turns on with it.  I would like DJI's opinion on my hypothesis."

*Can someone from the Dji team share some input on my theory as to why this may be happening?  I can see it's happening to other Mavic Pro 2 flyers as well.  Thank you!

Strange one, I have never noticed if my drone turned on when the battery entered self storage mode.  

Suren Posted at 3-22 10:28
Strange one, I have never noticed if my drone turned on when the battery entered self storage mode.

I really hope a firmware update comes out soon!

I have had batteries in the drone about 20 times now, where it has self discharging and never had the drone start by itself, but perhaps that is not a good idea? Hopefully DJI can give us an idea of how to find out what has happened, so that we all can learn for this and look out for it not to happen.

kyalami Posted at 3-23 01:24
I have had batteries in the drone about 20 times now, where it has self discharging and never had the drone start by itself, but perhaps that is not a good idea? Hopefully DJI can give us an idea of how to find out what has happened, so that we all can learn for this and look out for it not to happen.

I stopped leaving my batteries in the AC.  After flying, they get charged and put in the bag.

pauly whitehead Posted at 3-23 02:24
I stopped leaving my batteries in the AC.  After flying, they get charged and put in the bag.

Yes, I will stop doing this to from now on, just to be on the safe side. It does not hurt.

pauly whitehead Posted at 3-23 02:24
I stopped leaving my batteries in the AC.  After flying, they get charged and put in the bag.

That's not a good practise. If you don't intend to flight them soon, it's better to manually charge/discharge them at around 55%

You'll get a longer battery life in the long run.

It happened again this evening.  I stopped flying at 7:20pm.  Left battery in AC with 20% life.  At 8:34pm, the AC is running sitting on the counter where I left it.  Any thoughts?

pauly whitehead Posted at 3-25 16:41
It happened again this evening.  I stopped flying at 7:20pm.  Left battery in AC with 20% life.  At 8:34pm, the AC is running sitting on the counter where I left it.  Any thoughts?

Have you tried writing directly to DJI and asking them for advice? I guess it might not be possible for them to say what is wrong without sending the battery back to them or the whole drone. I see that some other people have had the same problem as well, but never got a reply from DJI either.

kyalami Posted at 3-26 00:02
Have you tried writing directly to DJI and asking them for advice? I guess it might not be possible for them to say what is wrong without sending the battery back to them or the whole drone. I see that some other people have had the same problem as well, but never got a reply from DJI either.

No.  I always though that writing in the forum's was a good idea.

pauly whitehead Posted at 3-26 09:47
No.  I always though that writing in the forum's was a good idea.

Yes I am sure its a good idea to start here. This way others will also learn something. But if no reply here, I am sure that the experts DJI could help. I am very intersted to learn about this myself.