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Just wondering if anyone has seen this problem and/or might have helpful suggestions:
I was out flying, on battery-2 of the day, when I suddenly lost video. The Solo was in LOS about 100 yards away.
The iPad lost it's Wifi connection to the tx, but luckily I still had stick control (was over the ocean).
After landing I restarted everything but the transmitter wouldn't shut-down properly. It went to a black screen that was intermittently flashing white and got stuck there. I had to disconnect & reconnect the battery and then all was well - video worked, etc. I flew a bit more (no more over water!) to finish out the battery and wrapped up early.
When I got home the GoPro footage was mostly missing. Of the 7 segments I recorded only two were properly stored and one was an improperly closed (truncated) .MP4 file.
This was using a new (as in brand-new) GoPro Hero-4 black. I had assumed it was running recent firmware but checking this morning a firmware update was available. Not sure but I think it went all the way from version 3 to 5 (?) The screen was hard to read and version on boot flashed by so could be wrong here but could this be a factor?
(The footage I did get was beautiful and actually I'm pretty impressed other than this issue)
Is this a common issue, a software bug, or possibly faulty hardware? Is the Solo safe to fly?
I was out flying, on battery-2 of the day, when I suddenly lost video. The Solo was in LOS about 100 yards away.
The iPad lost it's Wifi connection to the tx, but luckily I still had stick control (was over the ocean).
After landing I restarted everything but the transmitter wouldn't shut-down properly. It went to a black screen that was intermittently flashing white and got stuck there. I had to disconnect & reconnect the battery and then all was well - video worked, etc. I flew a bit more (no more over water!) to finish out the battery and wrapped up early.
When I got home the GoPro footage was mostly missing. Of the 7 segments I recorded only two were properly stored and one was an improperly closed (truncated) .MP4 file.
This was using a new (as in brand-new) GoPro Hero-4 black. I had assumed it was running recent firmware but checking this morning a firmware update was available. Not sure but I think it went all the way from version 3 to 5 (?) The screen was hard to read and version on boot flashed by so could be wrong here but could this be a factor?
(The footage I did get was beautiful and actually I'm pretty impressed other than this issue)
Is this a common issue, a software bug, or possibly faulty hardware? Is the Solo safe to fly?
