How to fix no live video or recording on RxDrone

Most of the cheaper drones found on Aliexpress, eBay, Temu and similar sites are intended to be used with the Android app RxDrone where you can see the live video feed from the drone and record video to the phone.

We recently bought a drone and had great difficulty getting the live video preview and recording working. We could control the drone using the app, and take photos, but video was near impossible. Maybe one time out of 30 attempts we could see and record video, which was very frustrating.

While searching for a solution I came across a TikTok video which had the the solution to this problem, which is to install an older version of RxDrone.

To do this you need to open the website apkpure.com in the browser on the phone.

Then search for the app "RxDrone". There are a couple of results and I chose the second one because that's what the guy on TikTok did.



Then scroll down to "Old Versions of RxDrone" and then press "All Versions" because the version we are looking for won't be in the list yet.

A new list will appear and you will probably have to press "Show More" until you can see "RxDrone 1.4.6".



Press "Download" and then on the next page scroll down and don't choose "Fast Download", press on "Download APK".



You will get some sort of warning which you will need to continue past and then the download will commence.

Once downloaded attempt to open the file which will likely result in another warning with an option to change a setting to allow to install this untrusted app (because it was not downloaded through Google Play). Follow the instructions to allow the app to be installed.

Once installed you should now be able to see live video and record video.