How much RAM is required to run the DJIGo4 app? Anyone with P4P v2 with a phone that runs smoothly, which device are you using and how much RAM does it contain? Thank you.

Having lots of RAM doesn't necessarily mean a mobile device is going to be able to run DJI GO well. You can find a list of recommended and commonly used phones and tablets here:

Best Tablets and Phones for DJI GO (Updated Daily)

If you're looking to buy a new mobile device, it would be a good idea to get something that is known to work well.

Lots of people have tried many different devices that arent on the list but its kinda like playing lotto.
Your best bet is to go with a device thats on the list msinger gave you.

I'm using an S4 and everything works fine...sometimes. Other times it's as if the phone just isn't fast enough to keep up with the image processing. However, I see that the S4 has just as much RAM as most of the devices on the list. This app definitely needs better compatibility. Thank you.

1. The DJI Go app is a heaping piece of trash. It is poorly-designed, such that even the most powerful devices on the market sometimes still have issues. Ever seen an iPhone X or S9 lag on programs? Not normally, but they certainly will with Go4!
2. RAM doesn't mean much, either. Some devices are better at memory allocation and can actually run faster and more effectively with less RAM.

Just_nick Posted at 2018-9-26 17:07
1. The DJI Go app is a heaping piece of trash. It is poorly-designed, such that even the most powerful devices on the market sometimes still have issues. Ever seen an iPhone X or S9 lag on programs? Not normally, but they certainly will with Go4!
2. RAM doesn't mean much, either. Some devices are better at memory allocation and can actually run faster and more effectively with less RAM.

The DJI Go Apps are not trash, just as you are probably not an idiot for saying so. They may now have too many features to adequately handle with ordinary phones or tablets, but they also have far more features than any other drone control program in existence.

Video lag is a feature of any system that processes MPEG streams, but in most cases, you don't have anything to compare them to, such as you TV screen. Try running two TVs on digital services at the same time and you can easily find one is up to 2 or 3 seconds behind the other.

Just_nick Posted at 2018-9-26 17:07
1. The DJI Go app is a heaping piece of trash. It is poorly-designed, such that even the most powerful devices on the market sometimes still have issues. Ever seen an iPhone X or S9 lag on programs? Not normally, but they certainly will with Go4!
2. RAM doesn't mean much, either. Some devices are better at memory allocation and can actually run faster and more effectively with less RAM.

1. The DJI Go app is a heaping piece of trash. It is poorly-designed, such that even the most powerful devices on the market sometimes still have issues.
It's just a very demanding program that needs a fast processor and enough RAM.
On a good device, it runs perfectly without a glitch.

It used to be a minimum of 2gb and a quad core, but now i feel its prob an Octa core and 3gb, Nvidia Shield K1 a side, removing/disabling many of the default programs on the device could help too, afterall, its highly unlikey you use them any way

Are you on about your device being the Tab S4 or the Galaxy S4, if its the latter then that 2gb of ram will be really struggling, at the times when you notice this, i bet theres something running in the background thats making it slow down.

DJI Go 4 latest version V4.3.3 runs perfectly well on my iPhone 6s plus (2015) and my iPad pro 9.7 (2016) both of which have 2GB RAM.

So it's purely down to programming and how well things are optimised for operating system and hardware.

Both the GO app and GO 4 app run smoothly on my iPhone 7 plus and iPad Mini 4. The iPad has an A8 chip so I turn off the video cache which removed any glitches and the iPhone has an A10 fusion chip - never had an issue with or without the video cache on that. The apps use around 5-7gb's which is nothing as long as you have enough storage for back up's and saved footage on the device within the app though the storage will not impact on the image quality of the live feed.

Hi, thanks for reaching DJI Forum. We do appreciate bringing this query to us. For more information, kindly check out the list of fully supported phones/tablet below. Have a safe flight always.

Would be great if we just had dedicated apps for each drone then we could cut out some of the bloatware in the app, so it may work even better with MORE devices - BTW the app works superbly well on the HauweiM3 tablet to add to the list above...I use the without fault...

My advice is don’t cheap out, on your flight kit device...


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a good 4 core with 4 ram better octa / 4 ram