Hello All,

I would like to know your opinion which of the Mavic Air's firmwares was best in terms of stability and usability. Please vote if you can. I saw a lot of issues with 01.00.0400 which was even not downgradable.

Thanks,

David

Bought the Air with .300, updated after 2 months to 0.400. Had a million little and huge problems with .400, hated it. 0.500, so far, only very minor irritations, video feed and a couple of disconnections, with the latest firmware, but a 100% better than 0.400.

Charissa Posted at 1-27 23:40
Bought the Air with .300, updated after 2 months to 0.400. Had a million little and huge problems with .400, hated it. 0.500, so far, only very minor irritations, video feed and a couple of disconnections, with the latest firmware, but a 100% better than 0.400.

Thanks for your opinion.

I only experienced .300 update for a couple weeks or so before committing to .400 update.  When I got my Mavic Air it was .300.

.400 introduced a range of connection issues, looser signal quality, and glitches like yaw glitch, also first time my Mavic Air ignored my input and scared me like my spark did.  I had 2 battery failures (one warranties by DJI other from a amazon seller) however one was more my fault for flying too low power, the other was a bad battery or bad telemetry either way bad one was Warrentied.

.500 came out and updated right away.  I had a list of issues including update related issues I had to refresh a few times because my drone was very buggy after initial update.    Now I have a RTH glitch that it sometimes initiated RTH and just sits there facinbtg my direction not moving up, down, forward or backwards or any which way... just sits there for an alarming amount of time burning power. I no longer have yaw glitch, but I do have the glitch where is signal issues it may ignore the controller and keep moving as well as. Reduced signal quality from .400.   

Downgraded and updated .500 applied something can’t reverse it appears not sure what.. because some .500 specific bugs appear for me in .400 and I didn’t see them in .400 before and yaw glitch no longer an issue for me like it was in .400where was sometimes hard to fly ina. Straight line and the drone would sometimes just slowly rotate itself mid air for no reason this is patched after rolling back so some of .500 update sticks even during a rollback.

Inconclusion I’m not entirely sure... .300 for me was less buggy but it’s what my Mavic Air arrived with and was probably applied correctly at factory and thus less buggy in nature being original device firmware for my drone.   .500 is what I would call stable as it doesn’t experiance any hard crashes  but not what I would call refined or polished.. people still having issues with their drones maybe if which are firmware/software related,  me included which can be either corrected with software or optimized to occur less often or less severely.

Hello and Good day David. Thank you for reaching out. I hope you'll get the best opinion here from our valued DJI Members and Customers. Thank you for your support.

This is a dumb question but how do I determine which firmware update is currently on my MA?

NitemareTrainer Posted at 1-29 15:55
This is a dumb question but how do I determine which firmware update is currently on my MA?

You could check it in DJI GO4 app in about section or ind DJI Assistant 2 application in your pc when connected via USB.

NitemareTrainer Posted at 1-29 15:55
This is a dumb question but how do I determine which firmware update is currently on my MA?

On app main telemetry screen 3 dots top right hand corner click and scroll to the bottom ABOUT click on that it’s there.

wow .300 and .500 holding it down.   Not entirely sure what conclusions can b drawn from that.  

HereForTheBeer Posted at 1-31 13:12
wow .300 and .500 holding it down.   Not entirely sure what conclusions can b drawn from that.

I think it only proves a lot of complaints regarding .400 firmware version. That one seems was really not good.

DH_Pilot Posted at 2-1 00:03
I think it only proves a lot of complaints regarding .400 firmware version. That one seems was really not good.

ya .400 was trash for me... sadly .500 isn't that great compared to .300 i think....300 was actually functioning as intended but my bias maybe because .300 was pre-instaleld on my drone when i got it so...

HereForTheBeer Posted at 2-1 00:04
ya .400 was trash for me... sadly .500 isn't that great compared to .300 i think....300 was actually functioning as intended but my bias maybe because .300 was pre-instaleld on my drone when i got it so...

I had never issue with 300, not using mavic air at all so it is still sitting in box with 300 firmware and I will probably leave it as that. I cannot compare with 500 but nothing is forcing me to update so far.

And the directive is to always keep equipped latest current soft and hard.
Yet there is no lockout should you resist.
Whats that say?
Use at your own risk?

How thorough are the revision presentation writeups, if any? Microsoft posts what the revision accomplishes so users understand and can decide intellectually to use it or not

cutis Posted at 2-1 11:05
How thorough are the revision presentation writeups, if any? Microsoft posts what the revision accomplishes so users understand and can decide intellectually to use it or not

dji doesn't usually force updates, just make it slightly annoying if you ignore.  only been a few times i know of DJI forced an update onto users.  

It’s good to see that the FW we are on now is preferred by most, I wonder would .600 help anything, I haven’t had any problems flying MavAir on .500, I see some are but going by this forum which is a place people come to complain there are very few, maybe new FW might just be about a couple of features people are looking for and some more optimizations.

It's a tricky one, I have had two Airs in the past few months, the first I flew .400 with no major issues, then upgraded to .500 and that was ok, but I did have transmission issues in the same remote locations where I did not on .400. The new Air was delivered running .200, but I was surprised to see i was able to do incremental updates when plugged into DJI Assistant, so upgraded from .200 to .300 and flew it yesterday, was great!! no issues at all, just a HEAP of "attitude too large" errors that I'm pretty sure they toned-down in .500. Might leave it on .300 for now.

.0300 for me. no issues at all.

I am still on .0300 as well, had no reason to upgrade so far.