Why Is My DJI Mavic Mini Only Going 160ft MAX? [FIX] + Range Tips & Tricks For Mavic Mini!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Are you having issues with your DJI Mavic Mini stopping you at 164FT/50M distance and 98FT/30M height? In this video, I show how to fix the issue, as well as give some tips and tricks for MAXIMIZING your range with the DJI Mavic Mini!
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props protectors are recomended to fly only for indoors and not to outdoors cause the weight change the load of power on motors ,take the off and u will fly anywhere beyond the limitation u saw,
Yep, I know and have seen a TON of people fly them outdoors like I did though in this video though which contributes to this error unexpectedly popping up!
Bro, the Mini is supposed to always be engaging Payload Mode, if it doesn't recognize it then there is something wrong..
I wish that every Mavic Mini owner would just read that little book just one time... So much useful info in there that prevents stuff like this...
Sweet
I never got the little book
@@filiplaskovski9993 really, wow, amazing... Well there be such a thing as Payload Mode in the menu options and it automatically or manually can be engaged..
Basically if the Mini senses that it's difficult for it fly, well more difficult than normal, then it realizes that it's carrying something and by Automatically engaging the Payload Mode it restricts the max altitude and max distance to be safe and close to the pilot..
Sweet
Keep well and be safe bro.
Had this exact issue with the mini when I flew it for the first time on Tuesday. Gonna have to try it without the cage tomorrow. Thanks!
We need a little more COW-bell. Sorry, Carson, couldn't resist. Great work. CK/CG
Nice one ;)! Thanks for watching!
YES YES MORE COWBELL
Please do a DIY booster for Mavic mini would really help while in quarantine and can’t make money
Michael _Gaming , in the mean time until he makes a video , try folding a piece of foil and sticking it right behind your antennas like the range extenders would be. Sometimes a hassle to keep it in position, but works about the same as range extenders, it works great for my Evo drone, never tried it with the mini yet , I’m sure it will help you keep a stronger signal, it does become more critical to keep the controller facing the drone , especially if you stretch way out , if you try you will see what I mean . Happy flying!!
Glad there is interest! I’ll consider it very soon. Thanks for watching Michael :)
Scout is cute. Could you tell us more about the motors in the mini overheating. Good videos.
Thanks Kevin :). I’ll keep in mind the interest of a video around that issue. Thanks for watching!!
motor error is usually caused by bent props,overheating is caused by too much strain on the motors which would be the drone working too hard in high winds...if this happens lower your altitude fast
Weight sensors. I believe either over 40g or 50g mini will automatically go into the limitation setting for battery/motor efficiency
Like I said, there are NOT sensors to measure this. A couple commenters said it’s likely that DJI monitors the battery voltage draw and are able to tell they are on by that. Good theory though!
I love Scott! So cute! Thanks for sharing this discovery. Payload should be calculated from the motor throughput by comparing with and without the load. With load at the initial setup, the drone computer calibrates through the control system and notice there is load. Prop protector is a must for indoor flying experience, but don’t use it outdoor.
I keep getting a alert after reaching 49m idk how to fix it and I fly without prop guards
The same with Mini 2. This video doesn’t give a solution to the problrm
I currently having the same issue you find out what the problem was?
Babar masood did you resolve this problem? If so how?
Hi Carson, just had the mini bought me and had just 1 flight as always raining here in UK... found your site earlier and I’m going through your videos, fantastic mate thanks 🙏 I’m learning a lot 👍🏻🇬🇧
Hi Carson, yes to your own range extenders.
You are so helpful. I have had this issue for 2 years now and I finally got it fixed because of you.
Nice work iv spent this last week trying to understand why it dose this
Glad to help you out!!
dude you are a life saver , great vid ... got mine a few days ago .plz keep up the good info sharing..... time to fly....
Thank you, Michael! I’m glad you find my content worthwhile to watch. Stay healthy and safe!
I have the first gen of the mavic mini, i used to be able to fly it as far as i wanted. Now it will only go 165 feet. The latest update has messed me up. any suggestions? i used to be able to do what i wanted.
Ayyyyy my hometown on your shirt 🤙🏽🤙🏽
the prop guards put the drone over the 250g FAA limit so that makes it so its not legal to fly without registering the drone with the FAA so its better to just take off the prob guards you dont really need them anyways
Hi i just bought this but on my dji fly ap it’s not showing the bottom middle sign on ur screen which shown the direction of the aircraft towards you or where ever it is. Is it an option to turn on ? App version is 1.4.0
I am near a bit Rock face. I can only fly to 468', however I'm only about 1/3rd up the face of the cliff. There is a flag at the top that I wanted to video. I have 18 satellites, and full bars of service. My settings are set at unlimited. How can I fly above limits of 468' ??
Just bought mines today flow it around 1334 feet and it say single lost and that’s only up the street from my house but my buddies mini fly past my drone and keeps going what’s the issue help please.
I cant get mine to go past like 300meters without signal loss and ive tried parabolics , still no difference
Hi Carson I am from India recently I have purchased Dji mavic mini and I am using it with my iPhone, unfortunately I am not able to fly this more than 15 m altitude. So I am not getting the proper drone view. Any solution on this so that I can fry it more than 15 m altitude
I bought it two weeks my mini drone starting to learned it. Lucky i found your you tube channel so stressfull why? I have a limited flying even i setting it out the Altitude and distance .THANKS
The drone can tell they’re on.. Props will work slightly harder to propel the drone cause of the slight weight increase
The mini "knows" its prop guards are on because the icu has to give more power to lift off, this additional power is registered and it automatically limits the distance, if you add the small prop guards the mini doesnt react to extra weight and flys normaly.
I would love a DIY range extender tutorial!
I just completed prototyping - I now just need some testing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@carsonmtech Testing you say?
Is there any way to get the active track feature on the Mavic Mini? I’m trying to film retrievers who race out and make retrieves of up to 400 yards. It’s a real challenge to manually track a fast-moving dog with a nice video composition. Any suggestions, other than buy the Mavic Air 2?
Sorry, but the Mavic Mini and Mini 2 drones both do not have any form of active track, sadly :(. Your only other way of getting it would in fact being to upgrade to the Mavic Air 2 or similar drone that does support active track.
The Reason it's reconized is bc the Mavic knows what it weighs, with the prop guards the weight itself puts the Mavic mini into default safety mode! Hope this helps
Super like for u
I have faced similar issue.and ur guidelines helped me alot.
But in mean time with propeller gaurd on the drone cross the 100/160 limited of altitude n distance. This happen onces after 15/20 flight. Can help me with this why does this happened?
LOVE YOU FROM BRAZIL MAN THANKS FOR SHARING
Hi Carson,
I hope that somebody gave you a solution for your distance issue but something is sure, Do not fly near power line post. It could give a lot of interferences and giving weird effects on your screen. Seems that there was not a lot of winds anyway checking the video.
You should avoid things like this.
😁
Brilliant, answered my questions perfectly. Thank you!!!
Thanks for the info. :)
how does other gear effect the height and distance? like landing gear, filters, gimble guards, etc. ?
My nephew got a mini the other day and his second flight he was over the water about 15’ high. The drone was 323ft away from him and it lost gps signal. Nothing between Him and the drone. The drone went into attitude mode and starting drifting I guess and went into the water. Why would it loose gps signal that close and will dji replace it with the refresh program
I removed my rotor cage but still facing 'max distance reached issue', any more suggestions?
Hey this comment has nothing to do with this video but I want to know if you know how to fix a message that says gimbal disconnected on my DJI Phantom 3 standard??thanks
I would make sure that all cables from the gimbal are attached to the drone and gimbal, recalibrate the gimbal if possible.
How do you add the app/phone display to your videos? Do you use a separate audio recorder? (not the mic on your camera?) Do you edit your videos using an editing program having to sync your audio files to your video clips and make sure it matches in the timeline? I'd love to see you do a tutorial about how you record and edit everything you do. Thanks!
I showed how I do this in this older video here showing how I edit: HOW TO UA-cam: How I Edit My Videos With Final Cut Pro! ua-cam.com/video/rJRijP274NY/v-deo.html
@@carsonmtech Thanks, Carson. Makes sense. How about your audio? Are you recording it as a separate file syncing it to your video clips?
Nope, I’m using a wireless lav system which is plugged into my main camera, the Panasonic G85!
What if you just straight up loose signal after 200 feet
I've read about another cause of flight height/distance limitation. When the DJI Fly app is installed on a Smartphone, a DJI id is requested. If this is not provided, flight height/distance limitations will become effective. I don't remember from where I obtained a DJI id, it might have been from DJI Assistant 2.
Your court is dope.
Why didn't you mention that Beginner Mode will also limit distance and height ranges?
The DJI Mavic Mini doesn’t have a beginner mode!
Your videos help a lot, good job 👍🏼
Hey great video thank you I appreciate it. I'm just getting this drone delivered now. So this information is very valuable.
DIY range booster would be great. Keep up the good work.
What about transmission mode. Should be on auto or manual?
I was understanding that the DJI Mavic Mini had GPS on it, so you can fly it on the GPS and not Wifi.
No. No DJI drone is like that. The GPS is there to allow RTH (return to home) to return the drone back go home when connection is lost, it allows the drone to know the home point so it can keep track of how far the drone has gone, and a couple other things. It doesn’t allow you to fly the drone over GPS though. Some apps out there that are 3rd party and not made by DJI allow autonomous flight, even when the drone is disconnected from the flight controller which is very odd, but it’s not impossible. I wouldn’t recommend this though!
Thanks nice to learn this
Why my drone is restricted to fly only 30 meter altitude
How do you set home position and come to home ..?
Mine won't go beyond the 160ft. I don't even have payload mode on.
Interesting great info thanks for sharing
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Carson nice Video Thanks !
No problem!
This is a good video. I had this same issue recently when flying from my balcony and it almost crashed because of the height limit. But luckily it landed safely. My latest video is about this experience.
Thanks, you save me!
Hi great video.i just bought a Mavic mini. I am having problems recording video it keep turning off after 10 seconds and on a different sd card it shows recording but when I try to view it it says no video found.can you help please.
daniel o rorke try to format your sd card
^^ What DroneViral said
it could be the card has too slow a recording speed to work in the drone. It should be at least a UHS-3 spec one to record 2.7k footage
daniel o rorke , what the other one said too, seems like my mavic air did what you are discribing cause I had a low speed sd card installed, a good quality card with proper speed and format it in the mini first . If you can’t get a different card maybe shoot at a lower resolution or just use the onboard storage maybe, uuuumm, I think the mini has onboard, I’ll look at mine and if it don’t I’ll edit this. You will have to down load it from the drone to get it after the flight though. The drawback to that method. Hope some of this was helpful, good luck!!
the sd card i have is a sandisk ultra (10 HC1 32gb
Hey bud love your vids, just asking. Why is mobile device not connecting to rc, i have android. And its a bummer cause i flew it for 3 hours so far, this is my 1st drone. And out of nowhere i cant connect.
Could be your device is set to not allow data transfer through the USB port through settings. I don’t personally own an android device but I would poke through settings and if you can find that, that should fix it! Otherwise, it’s likely a bad cable and I would contact DJI for a replacement.
@@carsonmtech thanks for the reply. I will check on setting but thats what i mean. I used it for a week now building up to a few hours and it now happens.... hm
What a great fix
I don’t use prop protectors and mine limits every time super annoying
Nice great video man
Wow, nice work my friend 😎👍🎬📹 Keep it up and stay safe 😷🤟🏻 Fly safe
Thanks, yes please post the DIY. Best wishes
Am I safe going 1 mile out?
The payload mode ramps up the motors do to the increased weight it doesn’t decrease them you got that completely backwards are you sure you want to listen to this video.
Thanks so so much 👍
I like your vids bruh
First off, Scott is cute, but the payload solution you provided, sorry to say, is totally irrelevant. I've found out what the cause behind this is, simply the controller and your app/phone are no longer in sync or not fully connected, and it seems like it's a safety measure that the app wouldn't let you fly far so that you always see your drone. The quick solution is to disconnect the cable from the phone and reconnect it again., however, what I'd do is return the drone, then disconnect my phone, reboot my phone, reboot the controller, reboot the drone, and it works fine, but if that's too much, disconnect and reconnect the controller cable. Hope this helps.
Thank tou so much
Hey are you in Canada??
Nope! I live in the United States.
Gave you a like just because of scout come & said hello 👋 👍👍
Love the cows :-D
The drone detec the weight of the props guard
No that limit is because with prop guards it’s heavier than 250grams
I am getting a message - Max flight altitude for this aircraft is 15m as per local laws and regulations, this has suddenly come today, it was not there before. What could be the reason? I am from India.
New laws in india for drone flying, you can just fly out up to 15m in india
@@vanitas8582 I spent 11 hours yesterday how to solve it, I found the old DJI Fly app and somehow got it installed in iphone, it brought back the altitude adjustment.
@@tarinidas7248 nice good job
thank you I flew with the guards orn
It's because it senses the weight which is recognised as learner mode and it obviously restrictions accour
So simple and easy to see
DOH lol
your dog is so cute,what breed is him ?
He is an F1B Goldendoodle! They’ve become super common in recent years and are a mixed breed between golden retrievers and poodles. Super cute breed though!
I just ordered one first time owmer
Nice Dog😍😍 Bro
Ain’t he a cutie?
@@carsonmtech he is Lol..
Also another tip to increase range and video reception is to put your phone or tablet into Airplane mode in conjunction with a range extender like the parabolic ones. This has helped greatly increase my range. Your drone still connects to the controller fine and RTH still works perfect. I like the parabolic range extenders because they have a wider area in which you can point your controller at the drone. The Yagis are a little dangerous as you have to be pointed exactly at the drone or you completely loose signal!
5:43 is that a snake?
OH MY GOSH IT WAS THE COWS AGAIIIIIIN!!!
To save you 10 mins of your life.... take the rotor guards off.
Hi scout...
Somebody had a sawed coke can for directors
Yep, I’ve heard of that one before!!
Are you flying this thing outside with protectors on it? Stop! It is at least 2 times less resistant to wind this way. One day you will lose it, I bet. Protectors are for indoor flying only.
/I/ personally do not fly with protectors on outside for the reasons you have listed. However, MANY people have and will continue to do. For that reason, I made this video for educational purposes to let the people who do fly with these on outside WHY their drone isn’t flying how they’d expect.
Hello
Howdy!
thanks buddy... I nearly return it to the store
His parents must be wealthy, look at this yard omg.
I mean, you don’t have to be wealthy to have a nice looking lawn, but I do agree that the lawn looks superrrrr nice here in this video - that’s due to it being mown literally 30 minutes prior to filming this video😂
Carson Miller so you didn’t mow the lawn?
No, we have people mow our lawn each week. Sounds expensive, but long term it’s actually cheaper than if you have to pay for maintenance, new mowers, etc.
This video has nothing to do with being wealthy, rich, having a fat wallet.... its educational.... right Carson???
Right Rick
Do Not Fly Mavic Mini with prop guards outside
What joke, line of site. Those little drones disappear in 400ft. So no one can fly farther than that yet countless videos show them going miles.
Took 7 minutes to get any where need the point!
Change your settings duh
“Flys over powerlines” “WHAT IS HAPPENING”🙄
Hmmm why is there interference near 2-3,000 volt power lines? 😂
Can you do the diy signal booster pleeease!
One time I was fling my Spark months after I had first gotten it, and it gave me a distance limit. I was super confused and looked into the settings and saw that the drone was in beginner mode. It wouldn't let me turn it off even after restarting it several times. I gave up for the day and when I tried again a few days later, it was back to normal. DJI drones have weird quirks sometimes. It's interesting that something similar yet not exactly the same is affecting the Mini. These problems kind of should not be affecting a drone that has been out for many months at this point haha... Anyways, great video as always man! Thanks for helping out the community and providing such quality content!
I think Prop guards are ONLY meant to fly indoors. I felt the same as once I was flying from inside the home to outside and across the neighborhood with prop guards on and got the message “Max Distance Reached”. Why? Got the answer today. 😀👍
I would love to see a video on how to make the range extenders!
Thanks!
You had to go into profile and activate the propeller protector, just click on the red warning cap! You fly without sar permission to fly with Protector, all wrong
The motors have to work harder to produce enough lift to make the drone fly. That’s how the drone knows the prop protectors are installed. The mavic air 1 also knows when you install it’s prop guards. I’m not sure whether it limits the max distance though. That mini is cool as an indoor flier, I can fly it into every room in my house from one my bed room, at times there are at least 3 walls between controller and drone. Keeps perfect signal though always. I wouldn’t try without the prop guards on though. LOL!
Same with me! Even though I’m actually pretty good at flying drones, something can happen at any time and I could break my drone... I don’t want to take a chance