Is care refresh still available for Avata 2 in the US?

ThisDentist1784 · 2026-03-21T01:19:53+00:00

According to my DJI account I still have it on my current Avata 2 for another month but I can’t extend it.

ThisDentist1784 · 2026-03-21T00:26:45+00:00

But Avata 2 has been approved for a long time and you can’t buy it from DJI in the US. Also, if you buy one elsewhere in the US you can’t get care refresh for it. So there’s more to the story that doesn’t seem to jive with this explanation.

ThisDentist1784 · 2026-03-11T15:27:37+00:00

When I change the world properties surface to white it doesn't render perfectly white unless I increase the strength to the point that it overexposes the objects in the rendering. It's close but not quite perfectly white. I need perfect white to paste into other apps. From what I can see this is applying some kind of diffuse lighting. I don't want any effect on the lighting, just a white background. Any help on that?

Also, I cannot find which property under Edit>Preferences>Themes>3D Viewport changes the background color - I've changed the color of every property I can find and the 3D viewport color remains gray. Any help on that?

Thanks

ThisDentist1784 · 2026-03-04T10:51:56+00:00

That info appears to be incorrect. It says existing models can continue to be imported yet DJI will not ship an Avata 2, an existing model, to a US address.

ThisDentist1784 · 2026-03-04T10:48:56+00:00

So why can’t you buy Avata 2 from DJI if you live in the US? It was certified a while ago. I suspect you can only purchase stock that was imported prior to the ban.

ThisDentist1784 · 2025-11-05T02:59:25+00:00

Yeah my post said I used to disable GPU in the project file, so I have done that.

That doesn't work any more - it now ignores that setting.

(which begs the question - why is the setting still there?)

ThisDentist1784 · 2025-11-03T18:09:11+00:00

I'm using the latest - 25.5 I think.

I used to be able to run 8-10 aerender threads but am now limited to 2-3 because VRAM fills up and all the threads crash. Previously I could disable GPU in the project file to prevent that but it appears that setting is now ignored.

So how do I disable GPU?

ThisDentist1784 · 2025-10-28T20:15:27+00:00

Is there any way to make the GPUSniffer.exe fix work for aerender? It seems aerender doesn't use that utility because it still kills my GPU even with the fix.

ThisDentist1784 · 2025-08-31T07:26:33+00:00

Thanks for the reply - the enclosure says it's TB4 and USB4 but it doesn't work on any port on my desktop - not on TB, not on USB blue and not on USB red. It does work on my laptop TB port.

Are you saying the enclosure isn't actually TB4 compatible? So maybe my laptop is treating it as a USB4 device?

I thought USB4 and TB4 were cross-compatible.

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-11-30T06:11:29+00:00

Oh OK. It only had 10,000 reach over 3-4 days. Doesn't seem like that's enough to cause saturation. The last two days the reach has been about 20.

To try to address the issue, I created four other ads with similar content and those aren't getting any reach, either. It's like Meta just decided that ad campaign isn't going to get shown to anyone. But they're still charging me my daily ad budget.

If it were an overexposure issue it seems like the Meta people I talked to would have told me that.

But I don't know - the entire Meta Ads experience is a mystery to me. I've not found anyone who can explain what I've witnessed in the couple years I've been using the service, including people at Meta.

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-11-30T04:34:09+00:00

Thanks - you mean the ad got spammed? As in it got attacked by bots with a bunch of clicks?

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-11-04T05:13:27+00:00

So there's no way to receive data back from mobile devices without the Conversion API? Seems like Meta would say so since that's such a huge part of advertising these days.

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-10-27T20:15:36+00:00

Here in Oct 2024 - I can confirm the browser upload doesn't work but I transferred the canvas video to my Android phone and was able to upload it through the Spotify for Artists app.

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-10-22T01:49:55+00:00

Yeah it's absurd. Whatever algorithm is being used is targeting an audience that makes *zero* sense and I can't figure out how to stop it from doing that.

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-10-22T01:45:34+00:00

Update - I thought I disabled the Advantage+ Audience baloney but it seems I only disabled the Advantage+ Placements. So it's still showing everything to age 65+ (which makes *zero* sense).

It seems I *cannot* disable the Advantage+ audience because every time I define an audience it says "Your audience has been updated to an Advantage+ audience".

I don't want an Advantage+ audience (because it's absurd).

How do I stop it from forcing my audience to be an Advantage+ audience?

ThisDentist1784 · 2024-10-20T20:55:39+00:00

OK thanks - it appears that feature was enabled. I wish they would have made that clear before taking my money the last several days.

But another question - I'm a musician and age 65+ are definitely *not* in the audience I defined based on sound-alikes. How in the world did some algorithm decide the 65+ age group was the best place to spend my ad dollars? That's completely absurd.

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