Hello, so I received my Breeze 4K yesterday and started to fiddle with it today to get things going. After serious problems and hiccups on getting the drone thing to even connect to my phone, I finally got everything else working but the controller, which at the moment is the most annoying one.
I have a controller with blue LED's, apparently the model with serious issues as it is. When I plug the controller to charge the home button (middle one, Pwer button, with Yuneec logo) and the ABYX buttons start blinking. The frequency of blinks depends on what cable is used and where it is plugged. I have tried to charge this piece of *arbage with the original cable and other cables, from my PC's USB ports and from a wall outlet with 2 different chargers (a normal usb wall outlet charger and a highspeed OnePlus charger). Controller has been chargin in total for about 6-7 hours now.
As soon as I unplug the cable the controller dies and is 100% unresponsive dead weight. With the cable in and "charging" I am able to connect the controller to the Breeze Cam app with no problems. So the problem is a charging problem, the controller simply does not hold any power.
Now the controller itself is a fairly decent copy of a 3rd party Xbox controller I have, and judging from the weight difference, the wizards who produce these toys for Yuneec have forgotten to install an actual battery to this thing. Due to warranty label, I am unable to look inside if this is actually a fact.
I have read plenty about these controller issues, and it seems pretty much every controller + breeze 4k kit bought from wallmart has been returned due to these controller issues so I don't have my hopes high for a replacement either. I am just wondering if anyone has found any solution to this?
I have already updated the controller firmware with the Yuneecs own updater .exe but that did nothing to solve anything.
The "Follow Me" - function which I was highly interested in appears to be completely busted aswell. 2/3 tries the Breeze Cam app just crashes when painting the target to follow and the 1/3 tries when it actually decides to work - the drone is stuck on position and only slightly turns slowly in place to keep the target on screen.
Battery life on this toy is abyssmal, I know they promised around 20 minutes of flight on one battery, but I have two brand new batteries, fully charged with the gimmicks I found online (chargin to full - removing and letting the battery to cool for a bit - chargin to full again - until the charger informs full charge after cooling the battery) and the best time I have gotten is around 10 minutes. 25% of battery life is drained on the initial take of apparently. Also when the App informs that battery life is low and need to take the drone down, powering it on and off will "restore" battery back to 70% yet this "new found charge" depletes near instantly aswell. So the charge numbers are very innacurate.
Overall this whole unit feels like a complete disaster, sold at waay too high of price compared to quality, testing, reliability and functionality of this thing.
I have a controller with blue LED's, apparently the model with serious issues as it is. When I plug the controller to charge the home button (middle one, Pwer button, with Yuneec logo) and the ABYX buttons start blinking. The frequency of blinks depends on what cable is used and where it is plugged. I have tried to charge this piece of *arbage with the original cable and other cables, from my PC's USB ports and from a wall outlet with 2 different chargers (a normal usb wall outlet charger and a highspeed OnePlus charger). Controller has been chargin in total for about 6-7 hours now.
As soon as I unplug the cable the controller dies and is 100% unresponsive dead weight. With the cable in and "charging" I am able to connect the controller to the Breeze Cam app with no problems. So the problem is a charging problem, the controller simply does not hold any power.
Now the controller itself is a fairly decent copy of a 3rd party Xbox controller I have, and judging from the weight difference, the wizards who produce these toys for Yuneec have forgotten to install an actual battery to this thing. Due to warranty label, I am unable to look inside if this is actually a fact.
I have read plenty about these controller issues, and it seems pretty much every controller + breeze 4k kit bought from wallmart has been returned due to these controller issues so I don't have my hopes high for a replacement either. I am just wondering if anyone has found any solution to this?
I have already updated the controller firmware with the Yuneecs own updater .exe but that did nothing to solve anything.
The "Follow Me" - function which I was highly interested in appears to be completely busted aswell. 2/3 tries the Breeze Cam app just crashes when painting the target to follow and the 1/3 tries when it actually decides to work - the drone is stuck on position and only slightly turns slowly in place to keep the target on screen.
Battery life on this toy is abyssmal, I know they promised around 20 minutes of flight on one battery, but I have two brand new batteries, fully charged with the gimmicks I found online (chargin to full - removing and letting the battery to cool for a bit - chargin to full again - until the charger informs full charge after cooling the battery) and the best time I have gotten is around 10 minutes. 25% of battery life is drained on the initial take of apparently. Also when the App informs that battery life is low and need to take the drone down, powering it on and off will "restore" battery back to 70% yet this "new found charge" depletes near instantly aswell. So the charge numbers are very innacurate.
Overall this whole unit feels like a complete disaster, sold at waay too high of price compared to quality, testing, reliability and functionality of this thing.
