hi there everyone welcome back to my channel
today we take a look at the mavic mini and how we can make it better
let's just start off by saying that the mavic mini is really a great little drone
for what it's made to do but unfortunately it's not great in wind and it's also not great with
range because of the wi-fi transmission system for those of you guys that haven't watched my
video on how to improve the range with the ce boost mode or putting it into fcc mode if you've
got a us version mavic mini take a look at the top right corner i'm gonna link a video there as
well as in the video description below now if you found any of the content useful please consider
to subscribe it really helps out the channel so without further ado let's get to this video in
this video we're going to improve the tilt angle of the mavic mini and that's going to make it a
lot better in the wind so the mavic mini only has a tilt handle of 20 degrees in normal mode and 30
degrees in sport mode but the mavic mini 2 has got a tilt angle of 30 and 40 degrees in sport mode
this makes it a lot better in wind barely because it's got a more aggressive tilt angle
it's not about top speed as per say but also the aggressiveness of the angle that it can go forward
so the mini one's got a big disadvantage by being 10 degrees less and in this video we're going to
increase that to the same or more than the mavic mini 2. now as a baseline take a look at the
bottom left and you'll see the speed of the mini before it got modded this is the speed that the
mavic mini is allowed to go to by factory settings before we're going to change any of the parameters
now to be able to do the mod you will need to have a pc or a mac and you'll have to link your drone
to the pc and download the software the following steps is going to show you step by step what needs
to be done so here we're just going to go into google and we're just going to type in drone hacks
and drone hacks is by think awesome just click on the download link and it should open the drone
hacks web page now i've gone to the main page and i can decide which options i want to select
but you can go straight to the download button and just go through there i always recommend
going through the drone hacks page because there might be some additional options available for you
if you've maybe got a different drone as well but for the mini itself if you go to the top and click
on the bird map you can go to click on the mavic mini and you can scroll down and you can view
which mods are available for which firmwares in our case we want to modify the parameters and as
you can see it's an actual free option so we don't need to pay for it now if you want to pay for it
to do the ce boost mode i really recommend it it's very easy to do and you can support the system
now if you click on the download button you can scroll down and you can click okay for dji
or autel in our case dji and since i'm running a windows pc i'll be downloading the windows version
once it's downloaded it's just an exe file all you need to do is just click on the file itself
and it's going to open up and you're going to have to log in if you don't have an account just create
an account on the dronex website by clicking the my account in the top right side there's an
option for you to sign up now once you've opened the application you can see there's an option to
connect the mavic mini there's some certain steps just make sure you follow them in order
i'm also going to show you a step-by-step way of how i connect my mavic mini to the pc
now the way that you hook this up is you'll get your mini and you're going to power it on now
once you've powered it on you're going to have to wait for the gimbal startup process to complete
successfully a lot of guys will tell you to just plug it in once the chime is completed
but in my experience it works best if you just wait for the calibration to complete
now once you've plugged your drone into your pc or your mac you will notice that
the dronehack software is going to detect it it typically takes like 20-30 seconds to complete
but you'll notice that it's going to say it's picked it up and there's no upgrades going in
process and then it's going to continue to log into the application itself now once
it's logged into the application we will be able to see the firmware version that we're currently
at in this case 500 and we want to downgrade to the previous ones to be able to do the mod
but let's just click on the hack parameters on the top right and it's gonna take a while to load but
once it's loaded you're going to see the current configuration of the system now on this current
firmware you're going to see that we cannot go further than 30 degrees that's our max so we we're
not able to make any adjustments here because it's already set to the maximum limit it can go to
to make this change we're just going to click on the fermi button and there's going to be a button
to open dank downloader and this is the place where we can download the firmware that we require
we require 0.400 and you'll notice that drone hacks has already pre-populated
all the information for you on the dank downloaded page just go and click the download button so you
can download the file you're going to notice that it's going to take you back to the dank
downloader page directly after that and then it's just going to be a blank page please select
the mavic mini again so dgi in the first plane then you're going to select the mavic mini and the
reason we're going to do this is we want to have all the firmware on our machine so select firmware
version 500 the latest version and it's for the aircraft itself now the reason we do this once
again is so that we have the files on our machine so that we can restore back to previous versions
if we need to without the need of an internet connection now once we've downloaded the files
we can then go click choose firmware and it's going to open your typically your download page
and you're going to select the firmware wherever you download it to so once you've got the file
you just click flash firmware and this is going to take 5 to ten minutes just gonna speed it up
600 times and it's going to run through the whole process for us once it completes it's going to ask
you to check your mini because your mini after a firmware upgrade would have shut down so that
requires you to turn your mini back on again now while we wait for this to complete remember you
can also upgrade or sometimes downgrade your firmware using dji assistant but drone hacks
is a much easier to use tool since you don't need to have an internet connection if you've already
downloaded the files so really worthwhile keeping that with your machine now once the firmware
finishes like i said it's going to complete the firmware upgrade it's going to ask you to
turn the mini back on again so click ok you'll notice that it's turned off power it up up again
and then you're going to proceed with the process after drone hacks has detected the drone again
once again we're going to go through the connection process remember you power on
the mavic mini you wait for the gimbal process to complete you can plug it in just after the chime
and i always recommend just waiting for the gimbal calibration to complete before you flip it over
plug in your cable wait for the drone hack software to detect your mini
once again you'll notice that your firmware version is now updated but you have to check it
you can check the firmware page and just wait for the mini to connect properly and you'll notice
that the parameter option becomes available this takes some time to read the parameters of
the drone again and we want to see more flexible options available remember last time we couldn't
go past 30 degrees look at this we are now going 45 degrees so i would go to 45 degrees because i
know the mini is not as powerful as the mini 2 so i'm just going to try and match it slightly
i'm just going to go up on to 30 degrees or 30 degrees on normal mode and increase the vertical
and descent speeds by a little bit and i'm going to click save button now you can reset the button
go reset the settings and if you click that button it's just going to restore everything back to the
default settings so it's nice and easy for you if you don't like it or you don't feel safe
you can just easily just reset it now remember we're on a lower firmware version
so if you just update the firmware in the app when it prompts you for a firmware update
you would also reset to the original values so let's just quickly set up the previous settings
and then we're going to click save now we're not going to use any of the other options because
that's for the advanced users so once we just want to do is click on save essentially that
is now done all of our settings has now been sent to the drone and we can now disconnect the drone
and go take it for a test flight please guys if you like the content please consider to subscribe
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now once you've disconnected your drone take it outside and take it for a quick test flight
in this case i'm taking off at the same spot please ignore the
sd card malfunction it's just an old sd card i plugged in there to see if it's going to work
now remember to take a look at the bottom left we want to focus on the speed so as i'm flying
over the park don't worry about the speed yet just take a look at the picture on the middle
of your screen of the speeds that is the default values now we've obviously changed the parameters
so our speech should have increased or at least be very similar just gonna switch over to p mode
so in position mode if we're going up or down you can see that my maximum ascend speed should be 7.2
but it was over 10 and likewise my descent speeds also over 10 kilometers per hour
so in this case we know that our mod has taken effect and that our altitude gain and decrease
speeds have already been increased so remember the limits have been changed on the drone itself
so let's just check sport mode i'm hitting 18 kilometers per hour ascend and 10
kilometers per hour descent so that's already way higher than the original values that were set on
the drone just to confirm you can check that the firmware version is zero that four one hundred
if you upgrade you're going to lose the mod so zero four hundred is the one that you require
now i'm just going to fly a bit higher up and get some distance so i can get a good line of
sight as i'm gonna go and see my sport mode speed test just to see if my angle has improved my top
speed it shouldn't really change my top speed but remember the tilt angle is now up to 45 degrees
so the drone is going to be a lot more aggressive while it's flying forward or in the wind in this
case you're going to see that i'm clocking around about 47 that's already more than the default
and i'm maxing out at 53 kilometers an hour and this is just in a short 100 meter range
now that we know the mod is working i hope you guys can see how easy it was to perform
and how to complete the steps the dronex software really makes life so much easier
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