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CKourouklis said
Thank you, Sir!

Having reviewed the 800g thread, there's one other item I can add, perhaps to your disappointment: the 107C shares its remote with the 800, albeit not allowing for any lateral movement on the throttle stick.

Having bent these big mitts of mine to fine detail work for my main hobby, plastic modeling, I find the trade fairly even - you lose the nice meaty gripping surface of the 107/107g remote, but you do gain the wider, more generous tips of the control sticks.  I may also have the advantage of relatively short exposure to the first remote before stepping up to the second.

Actually, the S107C remote is larger than the S800G  remote.

I feel it is much better than  the one that came with my S107G.  I can fly much better with the C remote.

Unfortuantely, my S800G was a dud, but I tried the remote with the S107G & C and it seemed alright, although a bit smaller.

My camera got ruined on it's maiden flight.  Got tangled with a curtain and it crashed  into the dog's water bowl.  The helicopter is fine but camera unresponsive.

I put a 1GB card into it before flying to avoid any problems with the original card.  I tried putting it into my card reader after the crash and got nothing, nor would my phone recognize it.  Tried a new card in the camera, and no lights or anything.

Hoping it is just the camera, and not a problem with the connection on helicopter.  Have a new one on order, so we'll see.

{EDIT:  Now that I have posted....I am getting erratic results. I have been able to get some photos, and just a smidge of one video...even though I recorded several videos. It leaves me confused.}

Hello.  Very new S107C owner here...as in it just arrived today. This is my first RC Helicopter (other than a 2 channel I got for Christmas one time that I could never get to leave the ground).  

Anyway...learning to fly this little copter, and it's been great fun.  I wish I could fly longer at one time, but I bet we all wish that! 

My problem is the camera.  It doesn't seem to actually record video or photos.  I have tried reformatting the stock card, and also tried using another quality 2GB card. Result is the same with both.  After a flight where I tried both test images and videos, there are none to be found on the SD Card.

The camera will write the folder structure.  I can see the following folders on my memory card:

IMAGE

      __ DCIMG

VIDEO

      __ DVREC

However, there are no videos or images in those folders.  The fact that the folders exist after a fresh format tells me the card can be seen by the camera and written to.  

During the testing, I can get the red light to come on after pressing the video button.  Pressing it again causes the red light to go off. (This is all in flight of course.)  I can't figure out why its not saving the video though.  

When I try still photos, the red light stays on (much longer than I expected) and may be hanging up.  Not sure. 

I was hoping someone here has experienced something similar and could offer some advice. BTW...my method of accessing the SD card is to pull it and use a card reader on my computer.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Oh...and here's a photo as I wait for another charge. 

I cannot see any picture I take. Every time I connect my camera to my PC it shows it as a drive. Where can I download drivers for this.

Best regards.

The last weekend I was in my resort house and I had the opportunity to flight every day because I have spendit place outside.I take with me also the S107C with cam in the sunset without wind very very calm I fly this Heli 3-4 sec in the air and then fallen down like it loose the signal the transmitter has new batteries calm afternoon no sun at all ,and every time I try a flight exactly the same happen.Is anyone explain to me why? Does Syma Copters flies outdoor in calm days or not?any comment welcome

CKourouklis said

Hello, All.  Just joined and did a reasonably comprehensive search, couldn't find a thread already established on this - if there is one and a mod wanted to redirect me and junk this topic, that'd be fine.

 

I'ma start off a little more bone-headed than some of you guys busting out the soldering irons and hot-rodding your birds.  My prospective stepdaughters, one in particular, have found these copters pretty addictive and by association, so have I.  Ordered three for us to play with on vacation, and I took the one without Syma logos on the box (from Amazon too, oops).  Mine, presumably a clone, was a little noisier and coarser - comparatively sluggish on fore-aft, but surprisingly, a little crisper on right-left than the authentic Symas.

All of which is the set-up leading me to try out a 107C, and the reason I started this thread.  All-'round, it's considerably more refined than my yellow clone.  As you likely know, the remote's set up a bit differently, and even as a novice, I appreciate the absence of a spring on the throttle and the vernier trim relocated to a fingertip dial on the side, just right of the directional collective.

Its flight is pretty smooth and idiot-proof (as intensely idiotic as I get, I can attest), and in its initial 15 or so flights, there hasn't been any problem there.  No matter how you switch up the channels, the copter has been quick to recognize the remote from the git, and the camera appears not to have a huge effect on its response and performance.

The camera itself was a bit slower and fussier at first; took some time for it to recognize the video trigger on the right and the still on the left.  Then it got to a point where the red indicator pin-light on the bottom started flashing and the camera refused to shoot at all - usually, it's on continuously as the video rolls, and off when you're not shooting.

Was the card full? Possibly. I tried archiving the videos and deleting them from the card, and sure enough, the card looks empty when you open it on a computer.  But the camera light still flashed when I put it back in.

Because the camera was a little tricky to plug in and seat under the landing gear, I tried exhausting the battery to see if a power-off reset would do the trick.  No dice on that, so I carefully unseated the camera and tried unplugging and re-plugging it back to the copter.  Still had the indicator flash.

Then on a whim, I swapped in the micro SD card from my phone, and lo and behold, we were making movies.  I've since popped in a new 8GB micro SD, and so far, so good.

A flying camera for under fifty bucks mandates cost considerations, and I'm guessing the budgie was trimmed a little at the supplier of the 512MB cards.  After shooting about twelve short segments, the li'l C apparently decided it didn't like its original chip, and it seems quite content with replacements - though I think I may re-check the factory SD on another computer to make sure it's not somehow still clogged with data.

If it's a defective SD card, I'm not saying yours will necessarily have a problem.  But if you start seeing that flashing indicator, you might want to start by ejecting and re-seating your SD chip, and then experiment with other micro SD cards if the re-installation of your factory 512 doesn't work.

Video Below

 

Τα πολλα λόγια ειναι φτώχια.this is a flight of the S107C HD cam on board on this site I have upload a video taken from this Helicopter please comment both.Φιλε στην Αμφιαλη κατοικω.

Syma Freak said

You look very relaxed in that chair flying the Syma S107C ..Great to see!! More videos please!!!

Thank you very much for your comments I'm feeling good while I'm flying indoor now I will start my outdoors flights and you will watch more videos .Thank you again

Looks good!