Graphics, Pictures & Video Internet & Web Apps Web Design & Development More AboutAffiliatesBlogsCommunityFAQFeatured Retail PartnersHow Do I Use This Site? Shop Now BookseBooksVideoWeb Editions My son had same problem so I scouted for answer, couldnt find it so i rang helpdesk. Wait for lights to go green Hold power button for 20 seconds (a little longer for luck) Release and drone is reset when you turn back on I also got same problem with my MINI Drone cargo.. It doesn't really hard hit/crash.. one of motor keep spinning and can't charge.. if anyone know how to fix it please help... Hello, My name is Eloy and I am 10. Today is one of the collest days of my life because I got my Parrot Blaze drone as a present from the 3 wise men. I have only flown my drone twice inside my house and the second time had a small crash (with the protections). Now the back right propeller (when the drone is facing you) does not stop EVER as long as the drone has battery, and although once the app connects the other propellers will work after pressing TAKE OFF, it cannot be controlled, trimed or anything.

Of course we also cannot charge it since the propeller will continuously be turning (just as well atht I bought the extra battery)... We (with my daddy who is a telecoms engineer) have tried to reset it to the original state in the app, press the level button when it was on a flat surgace to try and level it back, everything, but nothing has worked and we cannot find anything in the web that can help us eitehr. I only have 3 days left to play with it before I have to go back to school, Can you help me, please? Same problem here with my mini drone airborne night. I have emailed parrot tech support and its been a week now with no response. Hi this is Otto age 12 from from Hong Kong here and I have exactly the same problem; rear port propellor will not stop - and we have not crashed this drone either ...just went like this on a charge...only bought it yesterday with ALL my pocket money from the past 6 months !! My Dad (who is not an engineer) has spent hours trying to re install the software, and then find a Parrot service centre in Hong Kong - in his words it seems "they are very happy to sell you one and then try and sell you another but service the things - no way".

My dad may not be an engineer, but he is a lawyer and Parrot SA may in his words about to get: "a rocket propelled drone...with law suit attached" if this turns out to be a wide spread problem and they make no effort to look after the kids who work hard save their money and buy these things that do not work. Anyone from Parrot interested to provide a solution - or are they too busy selling the things to ensure they work? I do have exactñy the same problem, and noe I am more concern as it seems that no solution was found!!! Please help from Parrot!!!! i've had a problem installing the update and haven't even had the opportunity to fly mine around before it has problems. but in the process of researching for ways to reset the drone so i can try the update again, i found in one of the user manuals that you can reset the drone via the app. swipe left to bring up the menu, then scroll down to settings and tap it. in there is all your drones setting, and if any of them can be reset there is an circular arrow in the top right hand corner that should do exactly that.

unfortunately this doesn't work for me as even though i attempted to install the update it hasn't registered as it being updated, resulting in it thinking its already at its original setting, but i also cant re-install the update as obviously parts of the installation have worked and its picking up on the computer that there is a problem.parrot ar drone documentation back to trying to find answers. parrot ar drone won't hoverif anyone knows a way around this you will be a legend in my eyes and your story of your heroicness will be passed down for generations to come ;pparrot ar drone replacement hull I had the same problem with my Rollin Spider and here's what worked.macdev drone dx upgrades

- First do a factory reset on the App. You will see a reset icon on the top right corner in the appparrot ar drone houston -Second remove all the propellers and swap their positions interchanging left to right and from one side to the other.parrot ar drone cena - press down the propellers till you 'feel' or hear a clicking in sound. - on the app choose the normal mode and you are all set to go. I am commenting to let you know what a terrific experience I enjoyed reading through your web page. I noticed a wide variety of pieces, with the inclusion of what it is like to have an awesome helping style to have the rest without hassle grasp some grueling matters. I simply wanted to thank you so much again. I am not sure the things that I might have gone through without the type of hints revealed by you regarding that situation.

press on/off button for 15 seconds, then reboot, you can confirm it by looking if the photo's are deleted! I have the same problem. I can't connect my drone i mean it just doesn't connect with the Bluetooth. I don't know what to do. If someone knows let my know :( How to reset my drone to flyThe Australian's Chris Griffith test drives Parrot's new Rolling Spider and Jumping Sumo minidrones and discusses the advanced technology behind them. The Rolling Spider drone by ParrotParrot’s Rolling Spider minidrone is a smaller and less capable version of the AR Drone but is well suited to indoor flight.123AT last, flying toys I can terrify my fellow journalists with in the ­office.Unlike the big Parrot AR Drone 2.0 that we still fly in parks around Sydney, Parrot’s smartphone-operated minidrones — Rolling Spider and Jumping Sumo — are suited more to indoor use.It will be up to your organisation’s health and safety rules whether these drones see the light of day anywhere near your office — but, if not, you can play with them at home.

The two toys we reviewed are different in what they do and how they connect to your smartphone.The Rolling Spider is a quadcopter drone. In flight, the noise from its four tiny propellers sounds like a menacing swarm of bees and, for this boomer, brought back memories of that 1978 low-budget horror epic The Swarm .The Spider can be flown with or without a set of large wheels. Without the wheels the Spider is faster, but the propellers are odds on to get damaged during crashes you inevitably will have while learning to pilot.Those tiny propellers rotate at a mean rate, so I wouldn’t fly it anywhere near children or even close to adults without the protecting wheels.With the wheels attached, the Spider can crawl up the walls and run along the ceiling — here at The Australian’s office, however, it did come a cropper when it became entangled with a light fitting.I did fly the Spider outdoors, and this certainly is possible. With hardly any wind blowing I took it to its maximum 10m height and took overhead selfies using its downward-facing 60 frames per second stability camera.

The photo resolution is basic, just 0.3 megapixels, but OK.You retrieve the stills through the Parrot Free Flight 3 smartphone app or when you connect the Spider to a computer by USB.But wind is the enemy of such a light device and you can quickly lose manoeuvrability and find your Spider on collision course with a tree if the weather isn’t so perfect.The Rolling Spider connects to your phone or tablet using Bluetooth low energy. Don’t go looking for the connection in your list of Bluetooth devices in your phone’s setup, as it isn’t there. Parrot’s app handles the connection and provides the means for piloting.The Bluetooth low energy connection paired without incident and was stable. It worked well, but at 20m away I lost the link just as the Spider was hovering above the heads of a bunch of newsroom subeditors — not a good thing.The app is available now for Apple and Android devices, with Parrot promising a Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 version by mid next month.The piloting experience using the app is similar to the big AR Drone.

In normal mode you have two sets of controls. You move the drone backwards and forwards or left and right by placing your right thumb on the right-hand control and angling your phone or tablet. You use the left control to increase and lower height, or rotate the Spider left or right.If you don’t like this setup, there are two other piloting modes: “ace” for advanced users and “joypad”, which lets you video the Spider in flight as you fly. In practice, I couldn’t pilot the minidrone with any dexterity and make a video at the same time. It’s a big ask.The big problem is battery life. You get only six minutes from one battery — if that, and they take 90 minutes to charge. Parrot gives you a second battery, but you can charge it only when it’s in the Spider. I’d be getting a few more.Parrot needs to take another look at its battery technology; flying time on standard batteries, even with its big AR Drone, is just 10 to 12 minutes.Giving mini­drone users a battery charger capable of recharging, say, four cells at once would be some compensation.

Looking somewhat like a miniature moon buggy, the other toy, Jumping Sumo, doesn’t fly, and it doesn’t use Bluetooth low energy because it needs more bandwidth. It has a forward-facing camera that streams to the app in real time.It’s a WiFi device and you connect to it from your WiFi settings on the 2.4 gigahertz or 5GHz bands. The downside is you can’t be connected to your home or workplace WiFi at the same time.Unfortunately I found the connection flaky on two test units. I could connect the Sumo to Wi-Fi but the app would connect and quickly disconnect. Then it would be OK. Then it would be disconnected again. I used an iPhone 5S and an LG G3 Android phone as controller.You pilot the Sumo using the same FreeFlight 3 app you use for the Spider, but you can now see where you are going thanks to the forward-facing camera stream. The Jumping Sumo jumps vertically, and forward and up — a bit like a long jump.If you practice enough, the Sumo can jump from the floor on to a chair, then to a table.