Thanks for all the input. It WAS facing south when it went crazy. And I did determine the metal was from the screws. Cleaned it out, put back together and seems to be working fine. This forum is great. I appreciate everyone's help.
Yea I saw that too Dirby and I did that but it's simply powering solo on to fly when pointing south causing the issues. I had done calibrations early on facing different directions without issue but started doing them pointing north a couple months back, just to be safe.
This south bug is very odd but a reality I've actually experienced and it's kinda scary when you see it after waiting all this time. I'd hate to send off any part of my setup now to get it back eventually.
I can confirm also that pointing north is the way we have to do it for now..or at least it looks like I have to..
I was out this morning first time flying with the Gimbal after installing it and flew 3 battery's to test everything out!
First battery.. pointed north ..powered up..Took off..everything went well.. Gimbal performed Great and all the buttons on the controller!
Did notice a difrence on the battery life is shorten because of the Gimbla!
Second Battery...Powered up.. Display came on the controller to update the GoPro to the newest update.? I know for a fact that it's got the newest FW! So hit (dismiss) took off...then notice that my live feed from the GoPro was pointing to the ground ...Looking at my solo hovering in front of me I notice my gimbal looked dead as a duck!!
Flopped all they way down and unresponsive !
There was also A display on my controller saying gimbal not connected !
Then I realized ..I forgot to point the Solo North When I took off!!
So landed right way...pointed the Solo north..powered up Solo..gimbal came back to life but still had the displayed pop up again about the GoPro not having the newest FW? Hit ( dismiss ) again ..took off..and everything was fine!
Third Battery...pointed north..powered up...gimbal look good! But had the display pop up again about the GoPro ..hit (dismiss)...took off..everything was fine!
So overall flying with the gimbal for the first time after installation wasn't to bad!!
But yep... Point your bird North Untill 3DR comes out with a fix!!
I don't know why I was getting the GoPro not up to date FW display?
But Iv read that some other people were getting that too.
This is only happening after the Gimbal installation!
Even thoe my GoPro is up to Date! Mabe it's part of the (Pointing North) glitch ?
I was using the Ipad mimi2 with GoPro4 Silver