Cannot update firmware - newly purchased drone

MavicFlyer · May 1, 2017

FYI as of today Amazon is selling brand new Breeze 4K for $296. Wow!!!

MavicFlyer · May 1, 2017

Hello,

Please follow these steps to manually update your Breeze:

Download and save this file to your desktop.
Power on your Breeze and connect it to your Windows PC via a micro USB to standard USB cable.
Open up File Explorer and navigate to "This PC." You will see a new drive. Double click this drive to open it
Copy the .bin file you downloaded from Step 1 to the root of the drive (open area, not in a folder).
Disconnect the Breeze from your computer and, with it still powered on, reconnect to it via WiFi on your smart device.
Open the BreezeCam application, go to About, and click the Firmware Upgrade button.

Please let us know if this resolved your issue.

Thank you for choosing Yuneec!

Technical Support | Yuneec USA
5555 Ontario Mills Pkwy
Ontario, CA 91764
T: 844-898-6332

da_blackapino · May 2, 2017

yeah I had the same issue as I am running client version: 1.0.6.19 and when I check to see if there's any updates it will tell me the same exact thing, check network connection. BUT...since I bought mine from Costco..I can return mine if I'm having issues.

Alxy · May 2, 2017

MavicFlyer said:
Hello,

Please follow these steps to manually update your Breeze:

Download and save this file to your desktop.

Power on your Breeze and connect it to your Windows PC via a micro USB to standard USB cable.

Open up File Explorer and navigate to "This PC." You will see a new drive. Double click this drive to open it

Copy the .bin file you downloaded from Step 1 to the root of the drive (open area, not in a folder).

Disconnect the Breeze from your computer and, with it still powered on, reconnect to it via WiFi on your smart device.

Open the BreezeCam application, go to About, and click the Firmware Upgrade button.

Please let us know if this resolved your issue.

Thank you for choosing Yuneec!

Technical Support | Yuneec USA
5555 Ontario Mills Pkwy
Ontario, CA 91764
T: 844-898-6332

This worked out great. I updated the firmware and now I can fly up to 100m as advertised. Thank you.

Unfortunately I still do not like the drone as the range is limited to 100m and it is very slow. All as advertised. The size and the box are nice though.

Hans5546 · May 2, 2017

Which firmware have you got? Is is another link than in my post before... With "my" link above I got 2.0.4 (which also works great) - what did you get?

CraigCam · May 2, 2017

Alxy said:
This worked out great. I updated the firmware and now I can fly up to 100m as advertised. Thank you.

Unfortunately I still do not like the drone as the range is limited to 100m and it is very slow. All as advertised. The size and the box are nice though.

Well, it's not really a drone but a selfie camera that flys. That's how it's marketed. It improves with the controller and becomes more of a traditional drone with stick control and improves the user experience but still has its geo fence for safety. It's basically a very quick to launch simple camera platform for close documenting of what you are doing. It's great for vacation shots as no one cares when you pop it up because it's so cute and basic. On my trip to San Fran I was able to capture, edit, and post little vids of some great views that were just fine for friends and family to view. Its never going to be a robust professional video or camera drone nor is it a Mavic competitor as they are not even apples and kumquat in comparison.

da_blackapino · May 2, 2017

CraigCam said:
Well, it's not really a drone but a selfie camera that flys. That's how it's marketed. It improves with the controller and becomes more of a traditional drone with stick control and improves the user experience but still has its geo fence for safety. It's basically a very quick to launch simple camera platform for close documenting of what you are doing. It's great for vacation shots as no one cares when you pop it up because it's so cute and basic. On my trip to San Fran I was able to capture, edit, and post little vids of some great views that were just fine for friends and family to view. Its never going to be a robust professional video or camera drone nor is it a Mavic competitor as they are not even apples and kumquat in comparison.

EXACTLY, it's inexpensive and Does what I want, it's just that i THOUGHT it came with an Audio Selection to hear sound. Shame too, BUT...it's not like I can't Add Audio to it, but I'd prefer to have Had the option.

hko · May 3, 2017

Hi,
i have same problem - Flying Control 1.1.2, ESC 1.0.3, Camera 1.0.2 (F) - Breeze is from EU distribution (Czech distributor)
When i tried update described above it update system, but after update i lost connection to Breeze - green blinking, but i can not see wifi on any of my device (Galaxy S5, Galaxy Tab S, also disappear from networks visible on laptop and PC).

I can fly with current firmware, but i am not able change camera setting during flight or before take off (especially EV and white ballance is important for me). So it can be fine to have new firmware, especially for camera.

MavicFlyer · May 3, 2017

Deleted app reinstalled and now the update works, who knew???

hko · May 5, 2017

Today i tried discover communication between android app and yuneec servers and it looks like yuneec have some mess on their servers...
Initial connection is to www.yuneec.com/breezeota, then it is followed by few redirections and result is 404 Not Found, so it looks like no firmware until they fix it...

Code:

www.yuneec.com/breezeota
--2017-05-05 14:01:52--  http://www.yuneec.com/breezeota
Resolving www.yuneec.com (www.yuneec.com)... 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:4bde, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:4ade, 104.20.75.222, ...
Connecting to www.yuneec.com (www.yuneec.com)|2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:4bde|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.yuneec.com/breezeota [following]
--2017-05-05 14:01:52--  https://www.yuneec.com/breezeota
Connecting to www.yuneec.com (www.yuneec.com)|2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:4bde|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.yuneec.com/en_US//breeze_firmware-xml-164167.html [following]
--2017-05-05 14:01:52--  https://www.yuneec.com/en_US//breeze_firmware-xml-164167.html
Reusing existing connection to [www.yuneec.com]:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://us.yuneec.com/en_US/breeze_firmware-xml-164167.html [following]
--2017-05-05 14:01:52--  http://us.yuneec.com/en_US/breeze_firmware-xml-164167.html
Resolving us.yuneec.com (us.yuneec.com)... 64.89.45.13
Connecting to us.yuneec.com (us.yuneec.com)|64.89.45.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

hko · May 5, 2017

It looks like somebody from Yuneec read this forum, because in short time after post about bad redirection is link fixed. Good for us. Thanks Yuneec.

It is also nice to know, that current firmware is accesible and downloadable via http://www.yuneec.com/breezeota so we can made backups of .bin files in case something wrong happen.
Hope that downgrade will be possible in this case..