Waiting for GPS - Solo won't fly

Posted by Ken Nelson on June 6, 2015 at 1:54pm

Solo waiting on GPS for hours. Never able to lock on so no flying. Solo requires GPS signal to fly even when in the Android app under advanced you set "Enable Advanced Flight Modes" which supposedly allows "fly without GPS." 

I have done a factory reset - held down power and fly, re-paired controller and Solo, re-updated software but no luck. 

As you can see from the pic below a GPS signal fix was available on tablet:

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In the picture below you can see the yellow icon at bottom left of screen which indicates "Waiting for GPS..." 

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Has anyone else been able to solve this issue?

Disappointed 3DR would make me wait till Saturday when they are closed to download Android app in order to update to be able to fly. Received Solo on June 3 had to wait till June 6 to update and now have to wait till June 8 to speak with tech support. Odd they couldn't ship with updated working firmware.

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    • 3D Robotics
      Jeevan Kalanithi > Ken Nelson June 7, 2015 at 9:08pm

      Great! Thank you so much for helping us identify this.

      As Chris said, we will improve our Standard Operating Procedures at the factory to ensure this connector gets tested more fully.

    • Ken Nelson > Jeevan Kalanithi June 7, 2015 at 9:12pm

      Hi Jeevan -

      Just glad we got to fly this weekend. It simply is awesome. Wishing gimbal I ordered would have arrived - my pictures need its help! Any idea when it should ship?

      Thanks,

      Ken

    • 3D Robotics
      Jeevan Kalanithi > Ken Nelson June 7, 2015 at 9:27pm

      Still workin' on it! We hope to share more official news soon.

    • 3D Robotics
      Chris Anderson > Ken Nelson June 7, 2015 at 12:50pm

      Congrats and thanks for the detective work! We'll have the factory double-check those. 

      Chris

    • Michael Visser > Chris Anderson June 8, 2015 at 3:25am

      Hi Chris, now that we're starting to see the guts of the Solo any chance of an official photo release of what's inside the Solo? :)

    • Ken Nelson > Chris Anderson June 7, 2015 at 1:03pm

      Thanks!

      Solo is beyond awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      Life has surely changed from the Hirobo Shuttle of the '70s!

    • Developer
      Bill Bonney > Ken Nelson June 7, 2015 at 9:00pm

      The GoPro can be set to work either way up. I'g guess len would be lower, if that's an advantage

    • Mike Carr > Ken Nelson June 7, 2015 at 5:07pm

      I am curious, why is your GoPro upside down?

    • Ray Brothers > Ken Nelson June 7, 2015 at 2:23pm
      Nice!!! Glad you got it going!
    • 3D Robotics
      Brandon Basso > Jeevan Kalanithi June 7, 2015 at 10:36am

      Hi Ken,

      Some other things to try that might give a better sense of the issue...

      You've probably though of this, but did you actually try to arm (Holding down Fly)? You can do this in either the mode Solo starts in, which requires GPS, or any of the advanced flight modes that don't, eg. Fly:Manual.  How Solo responds to arming--messages, sounds, etc.--would tell us more.

      If you can actually arm in Fly:Manual (this is basically Altitude Hold mode) and are comfortable flying in a more manual mode, try hovering for a bit at 20ft or so to see if you eventually get GPS when off the ground.

      Sorry to hear you're not up flying this weekend!  Hopefully we can find the culprit and a speedy solution.

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