DJI has shipped Osmo Pocket 4P firmware that lets the Osmo FrameTap remote and a DJI Mic 3 or Mic Mini 2S transmitter connect to the camera at the same time, and the change appears in none of DJI’s published changelogs. Pocket 4P owners in Japan found it this week and posted the screenshots. Until now the remote and DJI’s wireless microphones could only take turns on the camera, which made the Vlog Combo that bundles both a kit you could not fully use in one shot.
The find surfaced on September 3 from Adobe Community Evangelist Yoshihiko Ichii, a Japanese video producer who runs the country’s Premiere Pro user group, who posted a photo of his Pocket 4P with a Mic 3 transmitter linked while the FrameTap showed a live 4K/60 feed. His message, translated from Japanese: “DJI, I think you should announce it more loudly.” The post had 15,000 views by Friday morning.
Japanese Pocket 4P Owners Confirmed The Change Before DJI Mentioned It
Three Pocket 4P owners in Japan posted the same finding this week. Ichii’s photo shows one Mic 3 transmitter and the FrameTap connected together. A second owner, posting as @fridaysbeer, went further: two Mic 3 transmitters linked at 100% while the FrameTap streamed the camera view.
That second post puts the firmware at V01.01.71.31 and adds the limit that still stands: the FrameTap and the DJI Mimo phone app cannot hold a connection to the camera simultaneously. A third owner, @yuu_u001 of Photo Journal PRESS, replied to Ichii that the FrameTap ran alongside either a Mic Mini 2S or a Mic 3 for him too. His device-info screen reads firmware 01.01.71.20, the August build, so the two version screens together place the change in August and carry it into the September point release. DJI has not said which build added it.
The FrameTap And DJI’s Mics Could Not Share The Camera Until Now
The Osmo FrameTap is a 29 g (1 oz) viewfinder remote that shows the Pocket 4P’s live feed, controls recording and the gimbal, and picks a tracking subject with a double tap. DJI sells it only bundled, in the Pocket 4P Vlog Combo or with the Osmo Mobile 8P.
That combo lists at £605 / €689, as DroneXL reported when the Pocket 4P launched worldwide on July 30. A Japanese user guide published July 28 laid out the catch: under the shipping firmware the FrameTap and a DJI Mic transmitter could not connect to the Pocket 4P at the same time, so the two headline accessories in the box worked in separate takes. DroneXL covered the remote’s FCC filing last December, and Shawn from Air Photography called it a game changer in his Osmo Mobile 8P review here in June. On the Pocket 4P, this conflict held that verdict back.
DJI’s Notes For The August Update Say Nothing About Microphones
DJI’s changelog for the 4P’s August firmware, as CineD reported on August 19 from DJI’s release notes, lists the Camera Cloud Service, 10-bit D-Log for slow motion, version 2.0 LUTs, and 45-degree diagonal joystick control. No line mentions the FrameTap or the wireless microphone menu.
The newest Pocket 4P release-notes PDF DroneXL could retrieve from DJI is still the June 29 launch document, and the only FrameTap note in it points the other way. The June 29 launch release notes state that the remote does not support simultaneous connections to a mobile device and the Pocket 4P, the restriction @fridaysbeer says still applies. DroneXL found no DJI statement or support article describing the mic change as of Friday morning.
None of it reaches American buyers through official channels. The Pocket 4P remains off the US availability map under the FCC Covered List, and the guide’s author reports DJI has no plans to sell the FrameTap on its own.
DroneXL’s Take
The Vlog Combo’s pitch is a one-person film crew: remote in one hand, mic on your collar, camera on a tripod. For two months that box shipped with two accessories that could not work together, and the only documentation was a blogger telling buyers to test before anything important.
Then DJI fixed it and told nobody. Ichii had to find out by accident and ask the company, in public, to take credit for its own work.
To be fair, two months from launch to fix beats most camera makers, who would have left the limitation in the manual for good. The complaint is the silence. DJI is fighting a Covered List and a Ninth Circuit case, and the one fight entirely within its control, telling customers what its firmware does, is the one it keeps skipping. My read is that the fix landed in August under “fixed some known issues,” because a limitation DJI never listed is easy to fix without listing either.
Watch the Osmo Pocket 4P downloads page for release notes on 01.01.71.31. If a simultaneous-connection line appears, DJI heard Ichii. If it doesn’t, the feature stays folklore and the next Vlog Combo buyer learns about it the way he did. American creators can skip the vigil. The fix is for a camera the Covered List will not let them buy.
Sources: Yoshihiko Ichii (@ittsui) on X, @fridaysbeer on X, @yuu_u001 on X, CineD, HAL gadget guide (note.com), DJI Osmo Pocket 4P release notes.
DroneXL uses automated tools to support research and source retrieval. All reporting and editorial perspectives are by Haye Kesteloo.
