DJI Spark Range Issues - My FIX
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- I have spent the last 4 days troubleshooting why my DJI Spark won't fly more than 80m before it loses signal and even returned home once. This is MY FIX and has worked for me, i hope this helps anyone else having the same problem.
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Perfect! Thanks so much for sharing this info. Now I know how to change to 2.4
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Bro absolutely best explanation
Thank you for your video. I was also having a limited distance issue and couldn’t understand why other people were flying their Spark really far. I’m going to try it this weekend. Cheers. 👍
Did it work
@@CombatVR too many wifi signals.
Here in South Africa the 2.4GHz band will give you a Max spec range in non busy areas away from any interference (open areas), on the other hand the 5.8GHz band is okay for busy areas, less interference on 5.8GHz band, (might not be as good & maybe less range). Take in consideration, open view of the Drone, right positioning of the aerials facing the drone, RC facing the Drone at all times, away from Cell towers & Power lines, buildings with Cell & Radio transmitters/receivers on top of their roofs, just take it the way it is & don't change frequencies unnecessarily unless you really want to & you might risk losing your Drone in the process (RTH or GPS failure?). Enjoy flying your Drone rather in a good & large open space, take note of the above & test your range again. Happy flying & stay away from any interference...
Thank you
Fingers crossed this gives me more confidence flying
I have been having the same problems, am going to try 2.4Ghz tomorrow thanks heaps for the video!
So how it was?
@@DaniD25 I ended up using a USB cable from my remote to the phone which fixed the range issue. For my setup that's a USB-C to USB mini type B. Using Wi-fi to connect to the drone seemed to interfere with the drone's range.
Hello, fellow South African! Thank you for this solution, I am very keen to give it a try. I've had this issue for many years now. Thanks!
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Thank you so much, I’ve been losing signal for quite a while and did solve the problem after changing to 2.4ghz🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Thanks was wondering the same thing will try this tomorrow 😊
Great video, well explained & I agree totally with your ideas & best fix... Greetings from Sunny Pretoria!...
Thanks for your comment Marc 👍🏻
Changing the position of the antennas fixed my range issues, thanks for the information.
The antennas are directional so yes have them flat towards the aircraft but also check your WiFi because 2.4 goes a lot further but I am still having connectivity issues even with parabolic dishes
This is really interesting!! Does it still work to this day?
Thank you so much this helped me 😭
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clearly explained thanks, going to test it tomorrow. I have a Andriode phone worked perfectly, then suddenly the video started breaking up, with enormous lag. The reason for this was to many apps uploaded on my phone, I got ride of a few apps that I actually don't use and video is perfect, without OTG cable.Can you make a video, how to connect to the OTG cable.
Same issues here, I am also using the small parabolic extenders....this also helps!
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same problem here, going to test your method out soon
Thanks a million. I got the FPV goggles and hope this change to 2.4.
YES - Great thanks saved me four days research- Awesome!!
Thanks that worked like a charm...
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Great dude
Too windy to try today, but if this works I will be made up. Cheers dude
thanks mate, good explanatory work. I'll try it out now.
Great vid this has helped with range so much
Thank you 🎉
yeah this thing seems to have big problems with lag and losing video feed. the controller is still connected but the video gos out in sport mode pretty often
Not a hundred percent sure but I think I heard somewhere that you're not supposed to be able to record in sport mode
Thanks bud !
I freaking love you! Hope it works as well
Hi Dave
So after experiencing the same problem I found out the reason for poor wifi signal. If you outside the USA then the wifi signal changes to CE (as you can see your 2.4ghz range is 1 to 13). CE is very poor wifi as apposed to FCC that the USA and a few other countries allow. (FCC would only show you channels 1 to 11 in 2.4ghz)
FCC is about 3 times stronger and thats why people get 1.5km plus range.
There are ways to fool the drone into FCC. Let me know if you interested.
Could you tell me how to do this I've been having disconnects at 50m
@@JohnJohnson-hn9fx
I will try keep this as simple as i can.
So basically you need to fool the spark into thinking you are in the USA to get the Wifi to change back to FCC.
Please note that you do this at your own risk and that it may not be legal in you country.
Watch this video which explains most of it and then go over the steps below it as he leaves out some important info:
ruclips.net/video/Is7_btFs1G8/видео.html
1.Confirm if you are in fact in CE by seeing 1 to 13 channels as seen at 2:20.
2. Download fake/mock GPS such as Floater.
3. Allow Floater to override your real GPS on your phone by going to: settings> system> developer settings> set mock location app.
4. Open floater and set location to anywhere in USA.
5. Open DJI GO4 and it should notify you of Wifi region changes. Select OK and give it time it reboot. If it doesn't then check then map. If it still shows your true location then the drone is relaying your location to your phone so then try again but cover the drone to block the GPS signal.
6. Check wifi channels are now 1 to 11. i.e FCC.
7. Close DJI GO4 and Floater and turn off drone. It's very important that floater is not running going forward as you now need the true GPS location for your "return to home". Check the map on you phone to confirm the location has changed when you open the app.
8.Turn drone back on, open app and connect. You should see it notify you of Wifi region changes again. Very important that you select cancel from now on every time you connect else it will reset back to CE and you have to repeat everything again.
Note: If it doesn't give you a cancel option then you need to downgrade the DJI Go4 app to a slightly older version. Watch below video to explain how:
ruclips.net/video/qmGtePu3rkU/видео.html
I installed V4.3.16 apk
Hope this helps
@@dalemacmurray3388 thanks for the help but I worked out that it was something wrong with my newish galaxy s9 because I tried a friends iphone 8 and it flew 250m in ce mode with full signal strength the whole time at the same location I flew with my s9 so I believe dji go 4 works better on apple.
@@JohnJohnson-hn9fx Good to hear. Ideally the remote is needed as it has far better antennas than your phone. If you want to fly further (i.e. Between 1km - 2km) then the remote control with FCC is needed. Enjoy.
@@dalemacmurray3388 sorry for not saying I have the controller and it disconnects at 50m because of my s9
Cheers mate. Gonna give it a go.
Fabulus it works!!
Thank you! You helped a lot!
It happened to me as well, I will give it a try to change the channels.
Bru you don’t understand this helped so much
UPDATE Well great news, problem solved. My android phone was getting even worse, and on 2.4ghz wifi it would lose the signal, dropt out of wifi, and could not find the remotes wifi, and this on the flying field without interference.
I decided to use my Apple Air Tablet, what a pleasure over 700meters range, no video dropouts or lag, this without OTG cable. So problem solved. DJI is not friendly to Android phones My phone has all the specs that is required for the DJI Spark, it worked fine for a year, not any more.
I am now even more convinced that the Spark is best on IOS, not Android, Android will work for a while and then just give trouble, maybe even lose your drone
Now I read this comment, that was exactly what happened to me when I tried to change the channel just like in the video. Maybe I need to try the Iphones of my family. But I just got a new android hahah.
hey bro what are the signs of a bad gps module ? can stil can run the motors if is bad gps module ?
iMovie editing confirmed
Does flying with the Sony make a difference?
I was watching this video thinking I was gonna change to fly 5.8 I think I might stick with 2.4
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all the lines you need have it all green bro , red means not stable im confusing
I didn't have issues with my drone it flew great until I parked it for 3 weeks
Are there any better solutions at the moment? Because this is from 2018. I am going to try this in a couple days. I also have problems with the signal
Hi Janne , not much has changed on the Sparks from last year , give it a try and let me know how it goes . It certainly worked well for me 👍🏻
@@davehoureld3245 sorry for my late reaction. I tried your advise, but when I changed the channel to 1 my mobile could not find the wifi of my sparkremote anymore..... so I could not fly and not even change the channel back to original. Later on after reconecting everything I found my wifi en changed everything to normal. So unfortunally it didn't work out with me. I need to find my solution in a other way.
The best option is to sell the Spark and buy the Mavic, it has a different control system, not crappy wifi, and in Europe the Transmitter is on low power. The OTG cable has nothing to do with range, just for video connection between TX and phone, that's how low the output is from the TX. I fly RC planes and before flying you do the range check with the TX, you have to push a button on your TX to reduce the power, at that power level your Spark TX work which is nothing. I do not understand why DJI does this, I have cheap Chinees drones that have standard over 300meter range
@@RuudyL thanks you for explanation. I bought the spark because I did not want to put too much money in it... so I rather do not want to sell it. I will find a way to use it correcly.
@@jannevanheeswijk6026 I bought my Spark form a Guy. in Amsterdam, who, on his first flight tried to fly indoors, and crashed it, broke the camera. I got it for 150euro, fixed the camera, and it was fine. Then I bought a combo set that had also crashed, also camera broken, for 200euro, I kept the remote and 2 battery's and sold the Spark for 200 now I had a good working combo set for 150euro. I went to South Africa for holiday and all was fine until I got a update for the Spark, and that is when all went wrong with my Android phone, thank you DJI. Some say you must put the Spark back on the older software, but I am afraid to do that now the Spark is working perfectly on my Apple If you do not have a Apple phone or tablet, see if you cannot lend a phone from a fiend and try to fly on that.
Money for me was also a issue, otherwise I would have bought the Mavic, much better, no wifi
I am so sick of the sparks shit range, they say 2km, i have bad reception when it's 1 meter in front of me! After 100 meters i lose connection usually.
I use the remote with flymore combo. My auto setting just goes to 2.4Ghz after a few meters because it knows the 5Ghz is crap so setting it manually wouldn't change a thing i don't think.
Also congrats on getting 500 meters, but they advertise it as 2 Kilometers. Pretty piss poor IMHO.
Anyway appreciate the video and help.
Try putting you phone in flight mode or at the least turning off your Bluetooth and wifi options in settings, apparently they don't like any WiFi signal as they interfere with the controller 2.4Ghz signal also If you are near power lines that also affects the signal. But for what it's worth I did exactly what was mentioned in this video, and had no routers or Bluetooth or wifi turned on and I got nearly 1.7km before I lost all signal and it did the whole returning to home thing, I never lost video signal either. Hope that helps a little more. Good luck mate
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How to let the drone go 2000+meters
Go to FCC mode
@@KrisParulan23 is it in the settings?
@@langgatv3138 not innthe settings.you have to do it manually. There's a video here on youtube on how to do fcc mode..
@@KrisParulan23 do you have the link?
2000 meters is the max. It is really up to where you are in more remote areas there are less other devices using WiFi in the area. I have been to multiple places on this planet and I got up to 2500 meters in Sri Lanka while only getting 200 - 400 meters in Palma de Mallorca spain. There is some like mirror thing which you can put on your antennas that doubles your range.
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