hi there everyone welcome to my channel today we can take a look at how to upgrade or downgrade
your dji drone specifically taking a look at the mavic mini 2 and the a2s because there's currently
an issue with the dji assistant software that does not allow you to upgrade or downgrade the software
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now we're going to start things off by downloading dji assistant for consumer drones
it's very important that you guys have the software on your machine it really simplifies the
process of downloading logs if you have an accent with your drone and you might need to send ddi
or if you want to upgrade or downgrade the software and even calibrate your sensors now
for the mini 2 and the a2s currently you cannot upgrade or downgrade the software
via dji assistant but there is a way where you can change the settings in the app itself which allows
you to do it it's a bit of a hack and i will show you guys how to do that in my next video so please
remember to stay subscribed so you don't miss out it's really easy to do however today we're going
to cover downloading the software because it's very important to have it on your machine for
future reference as well if you've got other dji drones now once you've opened the dji website you
click on the downloads page and you'll see there's a bunch of apps you can download now remember you
cannot download the dji fly app off the google play store and i think the apple store as well
so the only way you can get it is from the dji website itself now right underneath there you're
going to see dji assistant series on the software and if you click on each of these models you can
see what drones are supported so the air 2 and the mini is supported by the dji for mavic but the a2s
and the mini 2 is not supported it is supported by the dji assistant 2 4 consumer drone series drones
so you need to click on that one and download it i've already downloaded it so there's no point in
me re-downloading it but let me just quickly run through the install process it's extremely easy
all you need to do is click on the actual exe file and it is then going to run you just need
to click next next and next the install should take approximately about two to three minutes
i've sped it up so that we don't have to wait for the entire process to complete
once it's done just click on the finish button so you can open the application automatically and
then you can just follow the prompts and accept all of the terms and conditions that they request
once you've agreed to everything you will then be presented with the log on screen or the connect
screen and now you can go and connect your drone in our case we're connecting a mavic mini there's
specific steps you need to do it you need to turn on the mini first wait for the calibration or the
beep to complete then you connect it to the drone this is true for mavic mini as well as the mini 2
all other drones work perfectly well without it so once you've connected it will display on
your screen and you'll be able to select it and if need be you can update your flysafe database
i always say cancel for this or you can download your flight logs now normally there would be a
selection where you can download the firmware for your drone and calibrate the software like with
the mini 2 and the a2s that's not possible so what we're going to do is we're going to use the drone
hacks application and it's very easy to find you just need to go to the drone hacks website just
type into google drone hacks by think awesome and you'll be presented with the drone hacks screen
now on the screen you can go straight to the download page but me personally i select the bird
map first because i want to take a look at all the available options for my drone dronex doesn't just
help you upgrade and downgrade the firmware it actually has other mods available as well now
remember if you only want to upgrade or downgrade the firmware then you can do it via dji assistant
app i'll make a video accordingly but this is a nice option because it gives you the additional
options on the mavic mini 2 air 2 in those drones you can actually get the dji companion app
where you can enable fcc mode for further range and better signal quality now if you're on the
download page you'll select the option that you want in my case i want the windows version
so i've already downloaded it so i'm just going to click on the exe now if you've got an account
with drone hacks you'll have access to more mods and you can log in but for free you do not need
to have that you can just connect your drone to your pc and then wait for it to be detected by
the dronax application once it's detected the hack firmware tab is going to become active
and you can click on it and then go click on the dank download option where you can download the
firmware now dronex is quite nice it will auto populate everything for you but you can go and
select different options if you need to now as you can see on this page uh 1.03.0300 is
the latest version but you can select any one from the dropdown box that you prefer in this
case the oldest version available is zero 700 i recommend downloading the oldest version first
actually i recommend downloading all the versions they 50 make a piece so it's really worth it
and the advantage is is that you will always have it on your machine and you can just go and select
every one you want and you can then upload it to your drone via the dronex application
if you want to know what the differences are between each firmware upgrade when you select
it it'll actually display the changes that have happened in the new firmware version for you so in
our case it could be on the latest version but the dji flyer doesn't luckily the drone hacks app does
show it but it also shows the recommended firmware is the oldest one now this is because it's got the
most exploits available so don't worry about that so what you can do on the dronex page if
you want to test it out you can download it and you can then run it via the application itself
now if you click the download button it will then take you back to the dank downloader main page
and this time it's not going to have everything pre-populated you'll have to select it from
the drop-down box so the first one is you're going to select the dji from the drop down menu
then you're going to select the model number and so forth but remember we are on zero 300
and we want to be sure that we downgrade to the older version which you've already downloaded in
this case 0-700 so if i select it and i try and run the firmware now my drone's already connected
you'll see that the firmware option never becomes available read the log section at the top of the
screen and you can to see that the anti-rollback software doesn't match or version doesn't match
this means the firmware is too old essentially is not even supported
so you've upgraded past that certain version it means you cannot go back that far anymore
so we already know we're on 0 1.03 firmware which is the latest but we currently have an
issue so we need to sort it out so my advice would be to go back one firmware version so
just go to dag down on the page again select the previous version for the aircraft and then click
submit you'll see the change log at the bottom there if you want to know what changes we made
you'll click the download button luckily for the mini 2 it's very small files
so it shouldn't be much of an issue now i always recommend downloading all of the firmware versions
so that if you have it on your machine you can always revert back to whichever one you require
in this case we've already downloaded it in drone hacks we're just going to select the file again
and now we're going to upgrade as you can see the rollback version is the same and the flash button
at the bottom is now available clicking that is going to start the firmware upgrade or downgrade
process for you very simple it's just following the prompts yeah you're just gonna let it go
just gonna speed it up a bit it should take about five minutes to complete
and once it's done the mini two should actually turn off now other drones might just restart but
the mini 2 itself will turn off and you'll be asked to turn it back on again now if you guys
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also just like you guys to go take a look at the drone hack site they really have a great product
here especially because it gives us the ability to upgrade as well as downgrade our drone software
without the need of an internet connection this is great because some drones firmware is like two 300
megs each so if you're upgrading and downgrading constantly using dji assistant you'd be using
quite a lot of data as you can see the drone has now completed the firmware upgrade since it's a
mini it is now shut down what you can do now is you can turn the drone back on connect it to your
controller and log into the app and check if the firmware has indeed been upgraded what you can
do as well is you can connect the drone hacks and you can just see this firmware version has updated
but remember we had the issue where the mavic mini did not show the firmware in the app at all and we
want to make sure that the dji fly app displays the information correctly as you can see if we
go to the about tab we are now on the xero 300 firmware and it does not display not applicable
anymore so the upgrade has been successful we are now on the previous version of the firmware
now you can upgrade via the dji fly app again not a problem however i prefer to downgrade and
upgrade via the drone hacks application or the dji assistant one so what you're going to do is you're
just going to turn your drone back on again as you can see in the top right corner you wait for
the gimbal calibration to complete and the chime to happen and once that's done you connect the
drone to the machine again this is very important otherwise it's not going to be detected by the pc
once that's done you will see it show in the lock section at top of the dronex application
and your firmware will be displayed as well now we want to upgrade to the latest version and we've
already downloaded the latest version earlier remember so i can just go to my download page
select the latest version click ok and flash the firmware as simple as that this is such an easy
tool to use as you don't need to re-download the firmware every single time you try and upgrade or
downgrade the software on your drone so i really recommend it i hope you guys found this useful
it really is a much nicer application in my opinion than the dji assistant 2. the
dji system 2 1 is just more limited yes it's more user friendly and you can calibrate your sensors
so you should have both but with regards to firmware i always recommend using the drone
hacks application purely because you don't need to re-download the firmware every single time
this is extremely useful especially if you've got it on your laptop and somewhere you find your
drone is not acting the way it used to the easiest thing and if you check forums the first thing they
tell you is did you refresh the firmware what they mean by refreshing your firmware
is just reinstalling the same firmware again so just essentially loading it over the existing one
that typically resolves most of the issues that a lot of guys are experiencing and hence it's
the most popular solution on all the forums out there now as you can see the firmware
is completed just going to hook it up to my app again and as you can see the firmware has updated
guys this is the end of the video hope you guys enjoyed it
thank you very much for your support and i'll see you in the next one
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