Hello to all.
I am also having major issues with getting the capture app to run on my Android Galaxy S 8.4
I have updated the P3P to newest firmware (yesterday)
I have downloaded newest version of capture app
Still, capture app crashes out after selection of grid mission. Sometimes map will draw, sometimes immediately.
Any tests or something to try to help figure this out?
cheers.
Ted
@Bruno: We will think about that. Maybe we could have something in the advanced mode.
@EVANDRO: And you are using the “high overlap” option, right?
@Lene: We could upgrade our drones without problems =/. Maybe you should try DJI’s support. Let us know when you have news!
@Keenan: That sounds bad. Do you have the “Drone is not flying” message? Did you update to 1.4.0010? 1.4.0005 should still work, by the way…
@Joseph: Capture 2.0.4 supposedly supports the latest public firmware (that DJI Go asks you to install). At least it is working on all our drones. I still don’t know if somebody else could make it work.
@Martin: Difficult to debug without having the tablet, actually. Even more if the App does not crash “properly” (freezes are not easy to understand). How is the App when you don’t plug the USB cable at all? I observe that mine is slower as soon as I connect to the drone, which might mean that there is something happening with the communication to the drone. Depending on the phone, the USB Accessory implementation might be different, too.
@Ted: When it always crashes like that, I have to kill DJI Go. Did you try doing this? Try to unplug the USB cable so that the phone is not recognizing the DJI accessory, then “swype it away” from the list of running apps, and also go to the “App Info” of DJI Go and hit “Force stop”. Does that help?
Hi Jonas
I have the firmware 1.4.00.10 and I am just trying to use the app (pix4d Capture) but I am unable to connect the drone by wifi
I am using an Samsung S5.
Thanks
Axel
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@Jonas. No I don’t have the drone is not flying message. I get thus with both the Inspire 1 and Phantom 3 Pro. I even tried two different tablets: A galaxy tab 4 10.1 and galaxy tab s
@jonas
and both drones are on 1.4.10. Both controllers are on the latest firmware as well. Also I’m not sure if this helps but when I use the dji fo app, I can’t get into any if the intelligent flight mides either. Just the course lock
Jonas
I can be connected to the drone now but I can’t take off.
I have 3 red cross in the checklist
Batteries level low, I choosed ignore but nothing changed
Ground Station connect failed
And drone is not fly
ing wich is right
Thanks
@Keenan: Don’t you have the same takeoff checklist as alex (see image above)? With the “Drone is not flying” message?
@alex: It says that the drone is not flying. If you click on it, it will explain that you should takeoff manually. We will try to make it clearer, but it is true that it is not intuitive. That comes from the new firmware, actually… Can you try to takeoff manually?
@Jonas
Yes I can do a test, but before, what about “Ground station connection failed” ? not a problem ?
@Jonas
The only one that is has a red X with the P3P is the ground station. The Inspire has a red X both for ground station and battery
@Jonas
Well I have some good news… I factory reset one of my android tablets (Galaxy Tab S) and just installed the bare necessities that I need like Outlook, DJI GO and Capture, and it worked. I took off, and was able to start a mission. I don’t have a good reason why it suddenly worked… it just did
@Jonas
Overnight I was able to get the app to go into Grid Mission once. I had closed everything (powered all off) and then brought rc on, tablet on and p3p on.
I opened up capture and it worked, Yey! Now I closed all and tried again and poof, nothing, would not stay opened. Grid Mission would start and then die. I would make sure that it was cleaned out and try again, and it would come up and stay on little longer or little shorter amount of time (always less than 10 seconds) and then die again. Gave up at this point and went to sleep.
Something to note, when I plug the RC into the tablet, Android asks if I want to use DJI-GO or LITCHI and if so once or always. It never asks about Capture. When it asks, I clear the page and go directly to Capture and start it. And then select Grid Mission and wait for it to die.
I wish that I had found something solid that would repeat each and every time the same, but no luck.
I am standing by to try any suggestions they you might come up with and I will still be tinkering with it as I can.
Cheers,
Ted
@axel: We will try to make this clearer in the future releases. If the drone is not flying, then we cannot open the ground station. Usually, you should try to fix one error at a time, starting with the ones you understand. Then it should be the case that the weird ones (like the “groundstation opening”) get solved =). I hope it will work!
@Keenan: I would guess that you still had Capture 2.0.3 before. With your new install, you got Capture 2.0.4… Happy to read that it works!
@Ted: I really think it is linked to DJI Go. When Android asks for something different than Capture, you should *always* say “Cancel” if you want to use Capture. Capture will ask for that when you go in the Map View (by clicking “Grid Mission”).
Could you try to “Force stop” DJI Go? Something like that: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28496/how-to-force-kill-android-applications-without-a-task-manager/.
@Jonas
Well done. I did exactly what your link showed and it is ‘now’ working. I did not fully understand / appreciate the significance of the “Force Stop” as compared to just using the app manager to get rid of it.
As soon as the rain stops, I will be out to test it. Yes, my luck, ready to test and now having some rain / sprinkle in Tucson. Go figure.
Thanks and I will update asap.
Ted./
@Ted: Yes! That is not a good fix, I know, but that is what we have for now. We will try to improve that because it is extremely annoying! Let me know if you can fly!
@Jonas, I wish it were that simple, but I did have 2.0.4. I still haven’t tested the Inspire, only the P3P. I hope to test the Inspire tonight. I will let you know how it goes.
@Jonas
2.0.4 on the Nexus 9 also freezes without being connected to the RC. Mission planer opens but then map or satellite pictures get loaded really slow and at around 60% the tablet is dead and needs a forced reboot.
@Martin: Ok, we are working on that!
@Keenan: Don’t forget that you need to “ignore” the battery level for the Inspire 1. For that, enable the “Advanced mode” in the Settings, then in the preflight checklist, click on the battery line (that has the red cross) and check “ignore”. DJI will fix the battery level issue in the next firmware, normally.
Same here with the Nexus 9 - it seems there is something with the maps loading which freezes the system.
@Jonas
I promise not to forget… So I was thinking about the whole mission way point limitation that you have to take off then you can start the mission. I have an idea that might be able to help… I hope. I am not sure how your developers implemented the take off part, however there is a take off method in the SDK called startTakeOff that is a part of the DJIMainController class. Can you call that? then upload the mission? Or were you already using it and DJI effectively disabled it.
@Jonas
I did the test and it works well.
I had to take-off before to lunch the mission and the inspire did it.
I have the pictures on the card, but I don’t know what to do now, because I unchecked the box “sync automatically when mission ends” as you suggested
It looks that the Inspire was fast, and I have to check the quality of the pictures
How does the app deal with the speed of the drone and the pictures ?
Does the app choose the right shutter ?
Again so many things to understand, but many thanks for the work.