hi there everyone welcome back to my channel today we can take a look at how to fix dji assistant
so that you are able to upgrade and downgrade your firmware via dji assistant 2 for consumer drones
in the scenario i've got over here you can see that i've got the issue
where my aircraft firmware displays as not available and this is because the
firmware just doesn't register correctly on the drone itself so i would like to do a firmware
refresh or at least downgrade now we take a look at how to fix this in assistant 2.
now to get started you'll need to download dji assistant 2 for consumer drones and to do this
you need to go to the dji download page once on this page you're going to notice there's quite a
few options available in the top download section you're going to see the most popular ones this is
typically the dji fly app or the go4 app that are made for your device so your phone or your tablet
we are interested in the dji assistant application for your computer or your mac
where you can upgrade and downgrade the software so click on software now once you've clicked on
software you'll see this dji assistant 2 series and there's going to be lots of options available
dji assistant 2 is for the older mavics pros the sparks and so forth dji system 2 for mavic will be
for the mavic 2 the mavic mini and the air 2. but this is where things get confusing because
dji assistant 2 consumer drones supports the mini 2 the mini 2 sc and the air 2s it can get very
confusing for new guys because you've got a system that supports the mini and now suddenly you've got
another version that supports another mini why dji just doesn't support all of the drones and all of
their products in one suit i just don't know any case we downloaded and now we're just going to
install it quickly it's literally clicking next next and next and i'm just going to speed it up
500 times because obviously it's just gonna waste some time so once this is done you can open dji
assistant and while it's opening you can get your drone and a usb cable and get ready to connect
everything up once dji system is open you can just click agree to everything but i always click
do not consider at the end because i do not want to join the consumer program
now power on your drone or mini in this case you got to wait for the chime to complete first
i always wait for the calibration to complete before i connect the drone to the pc in this
case you're going to see dji assistant detect the mini as soon as it's connected to the pc
now once i click on the mini you're going to see dji assistant open but there's nothing i
can do i can do a log export that's not really useful because i want to upgrade my software or
downgrade it at least so the way to do this is you'll need to close dji assistant and once it's
closed you can navigate to the directory where you've installed it this is in program files x86
you're going to see the dji product folder scroll to consumer drones and in the dji engine directory
you're going to see there is a default settings file you're probably going to see
default settings.ini you can right click on it and you can open in notepad please do not open
it in any other app because it's going to change the formatting so notepad or notepad plus plus
or something like that in my case just notepad now do not select always use this because otherwise
you're going to open it every single time now once you've opened it you can see that upgrade
enable is not enabled it's set to zero we need to change this to a one so it's quite simple
just simply change it to a one but you're gonna run into another problem once you've changed it
and you wanna save it you're gonna get an error because you do not have permissions to do this
so the only way to fix this will be to update the permissions of the file itself so close everything
up right click on the file and then simply click on security once you're on the security tab click
on the edit button and once you click the edit button you're gonna select full control be sure
to select the everyone user group just in case you do not have the correct profile on the pc
now once that's done you can go and open with again and you'll see that you can change it again
now the difference now is you've got the permissions and you can now save the changes
so in this case just click file save no error message and your dji assistant 2 4 consumer drones
will now support the upgrade and downgrade option of your dji mavic air 2s or the mini 2 drone
so just power up your drone again once again go through the procedure with the mini and the mini
2 turn the drone on wait for the chime once the chime is done then you connect the drone to the pc
you'll notice that it pops up once it's popped up you're going to see a few more options there
we go firmware update option is available i don't want to update my fly safe database but
you can just click ok and on the firmware update page you're going to see quite a few more options
now i want to either refresh my firmware or i want to downgrade it in my case i'm going
to select the downgrade option and it's quite simple you just click on the downgrade option
now remember sometimes you want to upgrade or sometimes you want to downgrade your firmware
but in most cases you're most likely just going to refresh the firmware if you're having an issue
with the product that you're working with now in my case i'm going to click on the downgrade option
and it's quite simple you just have to have an internet connection
once that's done you can click on start update once again guys if you find the content that
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the upgrade process probably going to take about five minutes depending on your internet speed
it's only about a 50 meg file you need to download once it's done your mini is going to shut down
and you have to restart it now jumping over to the fly app you're going to notice that there's
a upgrade for us to install i'm not going to click on that i'm just going to go straight to
the about option and you can see that my downgrade option was successful now i can simply go back and
click on the install button and upgrade my firmware to the latest version if i want to
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