hi there everyone if you've just purchased a brand new dji drone
and you want to be sure that you are still able to do the unlock to re remove the
no-fly zones as well as the altitude limits and enable fcc then this video is for you
so first things first when you get your brand new drone in this case the brand new a2s
what you're going to do is you're just going to open it up
and once you've opened it up we are going to get the drone out and get the ball rolling
this is what you should do with any brand new dji drone because dji is now limiting you
on the firmware they are blocking you for doing any sort of mod on the drone so the latest
a2 and a2s firmware will block the firmware from ever working on the drone
so you really need to make sure that you follow this step before you actually activate the drone
because as soon as you link it up it is going to ask you for a firmware upgrade and if you've done
that firmware upgrade then there's no way of going back so in this case we're just quickly opening
up the package from brand new sealed unit as you guys can see sealed units opening it up drone is
completely still sealed so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to remove the drone i'm not going
to touch anything else on this unit and i'm going to quickly see if we can get this unit powered on
now luckily we don't need to have a ton of battery power to be able to use this so what i'm going
to do is i'm just going to see if we get some juice on it otherwise i'll stop the video here
and just quickly power on the battery a little while so it can just get some
power on the actual battery before we start the actual mod so all you do is just take your
drone out and then as you can see this battery is still not activated so all you need to do is just
put it on the charger for a very short period of time so that it can charge it just get something
well as soon as it's activated it's going to work so let's just quickly get the power brick
the whole dronex process is actually going to take a very short amount of time so we don't need
to spend um a lot of time charging the batteries like for instance a fully battery is always a good
idea but if you don't have a full battery then that's fine the thing is i just want
to prevent you guys from powering up the drone registering everything because i know you're
going to be excited so what we need to do is we just need to get the battery on the charger
put it on and once the batch is activated super regular to run about 50
now all batches are typically shipped at storage voltage as you can see it's got two lights on
and what we need is we need to have at least well the third light needs to start blinking
once a third light starts blinking then we know we're over 50 and we can move on from there okay
so while the battery is charging we can go to the drone hacks website it's quite simple all you need
to do is just go to the dronehacks website by typing in drone hacks.com into google search
or google and the dronehacks website is going to open now we need to make sure that our drone
is on the correct firmware so before you do absolutely anything out anything be
upgrading software or linking it up or activating it we are just charging the battery
and we've got our drone ready and all we need to do is make sure that we put the correct firmware
on the drone before it does anything so we are not modding the drone we are not doing anything to
change the drone in any way we are just going to use the dronax application to flash the firmware
that we want now what you want to do is we want to make sure what version firmware we're going to
use to do this you just click on the bird map on your screen and since we've got the a2s i'm going
to select the a2s and i can take a look at the bunch of firmware that's available so the latest
firmware currently available is zero two zero four two one one zero and you can see upgrade and
downgrade not possible do not buy a license or do not use this if i go to the previous version you
can see that the downgrade is available and you can downgrade so if you are on zero two zero four
two zero eight zero then you can downgrade to the previous version unfortunately if you've ever had
the version zero two zero four two zero seven five well the whole thing is not going to work
so how it works is once the firmware gets upgraded the it moves a little step so you can get a
unlock code for instance of one and then you get another firmware update the unlock code is
going to upgrade to maybe two it can never flash firmware that's older than the current unlock code
on it so in our case our drone is brand new out of the sealed box meaning that we shouldn't be on any
of the latest firmware yet but we might be on zero two zero four one six four zero but i don't want
it to automatically update to the latest versions because that was that is what's going to happen
if you link it up to your dji flyer app or if you get up to dji assistant for consumer drones
it is essential that we get to the correct firmware version zero two zero four
zero because it allows all of the hacks and also none of these new firmware versions have brought
any new functionality or any fixes to the air 2s or air2 there's a simple year to block
and make the no-fly zones even more restrictive so if you can stay on this version once again
zero two zero four two zero four zero then that is what you want as you can see i'm not going
to do anything like this i'm just going to go straight to the download page and i'm going to
click the dji button because i've got a dji drone and i'm going to go and download the windows 64
file now i've already downloaded if you click it's a 20 make file it's just going to download to
your pc but once you've got it downloaded to your machine you will have the drone hacks application
now you won't have anything in the screen over here because you don't have a dronex account
and you don't need one but what we want is is we want to be sure that our drone is on the correct
firmware now before i start doing anything and connecting my drone up i'm going to go do the
hacking or the flash original firmware option now if i go to the flash original dji firmware tab
i can click on download firmware and what this is going to do it's going to automatically open
the drone dank drone downloader web page where you can go and select the drone that you want
in my case i want to select a dji drone i want to select an air 2s so let me just scroll down mavic
there we go there's an ao2s i select that one and then i select my firmware version now i already
know by checking the bird map that i want to be on zero two zero four two zero four zero so if
i select that one i will have another option i can only select the aircraft option so that is
what i want so if i click submit it's gonna open the page and i'm gonna have an option to download
the firmware to my machine this is also fantastic because if i download it which i'm going to do now
it's going to download the firmware file to my machine and i can then use this anytime i want
to so i don't need to have an internet connection the next time i want to flash my firmware
the file is about 180 megabytes big and once that's done you can actually go and download any
other firmware you want as well but in this case this is the only one that i'm concerned of so i'm
flashing towards this one once i have this one i'm going to quickly go to my dronex application and
i'm going to load the firmware into the machine now our battery has still got two stripes on it
but this is actually enough so once the firmware is downloaded i am going to flash the firmware
and we are going to check and make 100 sure that everything is done correctly on the drone
now if you want to you can still hook that up to the dji flight and check what's going on
but you have to force close everything once the popups appear because it dji might force you
to do an upgrade in this case as you guys can see i have not touched my phone i've not touched
the dji fly i'm doing everything before i am going to connect it to my phone or my device
so the firmware version has now been downloaded and i have got the drone hacks application
also open i've got two bars on my battery so what i'm going to do is i'm going to unplug my battery
i'm going to put it into my drone
i'm going to open my usb port
and i'm going to connect it to my machine so yeah i've got my usb c port already
and i'm going to plug it in now once it's plugged into the drone itself
all we need to do is power on the drone and the pc or will detect the drone automatically
so yeah the first time this drone has ever been turned on is going to happen now once and twice
remember this drone is not activated nothing has been done on this drone before
there we go windows has already detected the drone i'm just waiting for dronex detected as well if i
close it you can see device connected on my screen over here and you can see it's going to complain
about username and password because i don't have one specified i you don't need one if you have a
dronex account unlicensed then of course you need one but if you're not going to you just want to
use the firmware or maybe change the parameters for instance i can click on the parameter page
over here and i can actually change the the ascend speed and the descent speed of my drone or even
the forward pitch angle as well as you can see over here but we are not interested in changing
this right now so once again we're going to go to the flash original dji firmware page
and this is all free you do not need to pay for this i've already downloaded the firmware so
i can select the firmware version before i do it i can actually go look on the welcome page
on what my current firmware version is and as you guys can see my current firmware version zero two
zero four one six nine one if we go to the drone hacks page again i can go to the bird map i can
select the air to s and i can see that my current firmware is actually a developer firmware it's not
an official firmware i've got zero two zero four six nine one very important you guys understand
this because this will work the way it is but it will prompt the system to automatically update
to a firmware that is official so as you can see it actually gets launched with a pre-release from
your unofficial release firmware therefore when you get a brand new mavic air 2 you can using this
method go to the correct firmware version without needing to automatically or being forced to update
okay so in this case we know what firmware version we're on we know we already downloaded
the correct version so i'm going to click on flash original firmware choose file a little pop-up is
going to be i'm going to go to my download page there's the file i just downloaded click open
and all i need to do now is just click the flash button so in this case i'm going to click flash
as you guys can see flashing is possible on my screen and i'm going to click flash
that is it this is going to do everything for you and you just need to sit and wait i am going to
speed this up just to make sure we don't spend about 10 minutes just waiting for it to complete
but two bars on your battery is going to be more than sufficient
now as you guys can see the total progress is still on zero percent
the total progress state is one from two and the upload process is almost complete
it's first transferring the firmware file to the drone before the flashing part
can actually start now that the upload part is finished we are now moving over to the flashing
part so now the firmware has been is being loaded or flashed to the drone this is the part where if
you disconnect the drone you can cause some damage so please do not disconnect your drone
once you get to the end of the flashing part the drone is going to restart so don't be surprised if
you see a restart procedure happening remember just because it restarted does not mean the
flashing has completed please wait for drone hacks to say that it's completed we're just waiting
current progress is currently at 99 percent
there will be a pop-up at the end stating that the flash has been well has been successful or not
now guys if you have any questions please leave a comment below
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as you guys can see there we go flashing has completed successfully
and we are now done so drone has now been completed the firmware version as you can see
on the top of my log screen at the top has also updated there we go firmware version zero two
zero four and we can even go to the welcome screen and confirm this as you can see we are now on the
correct firmware version this is the last firmware version i would recommend you guys ever flash to
do not upgrade higher than this if you guys have any questions or unsure of how to do this
there are ways to block it i have a video on how to prevent forced updates you can just check my
channel i'll also link it in the video description below and also if you have done this and you are
interested in maybe removing the no-fly zones the altitude limits and enabling fcc mode
then i also have a video on how to enable that using the dronex application if you're using the
dronex application for anything other than just the firmware flashing and the parameter modding
then you will need to purchase a license and how you do this is you go to the drone hacks website
you select on the bird map your drone as you can see we are now currently in this firmware version
and you can just click on buy license if you click on buy a license it's going to add it to the cart
obviously you need to go and create an account that account is your email address and poster that
you've used to create your drone hacks account with and you never need to log into anything
once you've purchased the license and you log into your dronehacks application with the email
and the password that you've used to create your dronex account it will automatically link
the license to your drone please note that the license is linked to your drone's hardware or
serial number so if you ever sell your drone or get a new drone or crash it and it needs to get
repaired or whatever and you have different parts on the inside then that license will
not carry over okay so the license is linked to your drone not to your account only okay
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