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For those who are not inducted into the Tesla updates system yet. That button does nothing. When you look at the wiring behind the button, it is not connected. It is like that Geoclense block.

You have been lucky then. Since 2019 when I first got my Model 3, My longest time between updates was about 3 months and that happened to be on a very flakey update. So I was on a rather solid release before, then at start of May I got a very flakey update that was very quickly pushed to...

So my first try with the new visualisations led me to the best feature about it. That feature is to turn it off.

Looks like Im getting update from 2024.14.3 to 2024.14.7 same as everyone else. The update appears to be almost 1.1GB, so hopefully contains some improvements:

All those fancy camera views and images on screen don't come anywhere close to accuracy you get from a quick glance into a mirror.

Not really hard evidence, more lice circumstantial evidence, but in QLD they stopped using signs for temporary speed cameras, stated hiding speed cameras and cars so they are not visible when approaching them and putting them behind temporary lower speed limit signs. This all seems like attempt...

I suspect that is environmental. When the nights get longer my cameras do that more when I drive late in the evening or early mornings and its still dark. For me the message is in the lines that camera is blocked or blinded when it just looks into darkness.

I believe that is to a large degree the fault of the local traffic enforcers. They only enforce the laws that bring in large fines such as speeding, seat belt, phone using and drunk driving. All others with smaller files like keep left unless overtaking, indicating, give way to the car that's...

For Android phone I have been using Pixel phones and since Pixel 6 in 2021 the Pro versions have all had UWB support. Same goes for Samsung S21 onwards. Though Tesla app on Android does not support using it.

I did that trial last year and also found that the only useful thing in the whole suite was the auto lane change. Rest was not really useful or reliable enough. Was not worth over $5k for just that one thing.

Just FYI saying "report a bug" or "bug report" does not actually report anything to anyone. What it actually does is it puts a marker inside the car logs at the time when you said it with a comment of whatever you said after it. If you then open a service ticket with Tesla and mention that you...

I had some rain today and can say for certain that on this occasion the wipers were much worse than they were on update 2024.8.9. I was driving on M1 on AP (TACC + Lane keep) set to speed limit 100. Then rain started and as it is in QLD often it started bucketing down. The auto wipers started to...

After sitting at work all day, when I got back to the car tried to launch Spotify again, this time it triggered log out from Spotify, then log in again and is working fine again, so must have been some bad cookie or setting it needed to expire. Even with the old visualisation my car has always...

I had the fog lamps saga on my previous Model 3. It was one of the first batch cars from Fremont that had the physical fog lamps but no button in UI to turn them on. When I contacted Tesla support about it, they said the lamps are physically there but the cabling behind the lamps was missing. So...

So I got the upgrade from 2024.8.9 to 2024.14.3 yesterday. The new visuals and UI looks great. Driving in the evening the matrix adaptive high beam was a strange experience. I can see how it dims the pixels that otherwise would reflect back off larger signs and such. I have no idea how much or...

I cant really comment on Macbook or most branded OEM porta-ploppies, but my Dell Latitude 7290 laptop from 2018 is going real strong and great still. I only upgraded RAM in it from original 8GB to 32GB and plan to run it for at least few more years as its only 6 years old now. With a car the...

I would not say that Australia is in any sense high EV sales or market share of cars. If you compare to countries that actually aggressively push for EV-s like Norway: 4 out of 5 new cars in Norway are now fully electric - Nordic EV Summit Where they are over 80% new cars sold last year were...

I use those: https://shop.tesla.com/product/model-3-sunshades Not exactly curtains but they do provide some shade in the hot sun here in QLD. Though not going to be easy to use to wipe the windshield with.

Now that I have been on 2024.8.9 for a while, I can say the wipers on average are much better than earlier versions this year, however there are occasional random auto wiper decision issues. On some days and drives they are near perfect, on others they are way too slow during heavier rain or way...

I am still one of those people who uses mobile phone to make calls and receive calls and texts. I know its a crazy idea and considered archaic by many, But the main purpose of my phone is making and receiving phone calls. Using it for keys, wallet and ID and occasionally as internet access...

Some of the things they skip over implementing should really be simple to implement and massive improvement for customer experience that they just ignore. A few years ago there was a moment that raised hopes they might implement the passenger seat profile presets. Tesla looking to add passenger...

I am still yet to see a single camera icon in my Tesla. Have done over a 1000km since 2024.8.9 update around Gold Coast and north NSW. Plenty of cameras around, However, the car just does not show them on the map. Will have to see if the next update changes that.

Im on Telstra wholesale network for the past 4 years with my phone and I had 5G on Gold Coast until about 6 months ago when it looks like Telstra pulled the plug on my 5G and reverted me to 4G. No change to my phone plan. Over the last few years I have noticed if I ever go more than 50km west...

True that the speeds cannot really compete with 4G and 5G ground based networks or even 3.5G HSPA+, but from what little information we get: they should be able to get up to 7Mbps, that is comparable to 3G HSPA speeds and well and truly faster than 3G UMTS or any 2G network that might still...

Considering that Starlink is working on direct satellite to cell option and are currently testing the tech, It is rather slow at current tech version. Tesla might be holding off on 5G upgrade until they get that sorted (in case changes are needed for hardware), so they would have the option of...

Any feedback on 2024.8.9 yet? I am on 2024.8.7 and my car is telling me 2024.8.9 is available, so wondering if its fine doing update when I get home after work, or hold for a few days to ensure its mostly stable?

So the only 3 phones I have used with my Teslas have been Pixel 2XL, Pixel 5 and currently Pixel 8. Back when I was purchasing my first Tesla I did a bunch of research into the BT keys and stumbled on to some advice to disable the activity detection for the app and disable any settings that try...

I suspect those times might be rather rare occurrence, as in my 5 years of Tesla ownership I have yet to see one of those times.

Thats what they told me when I picked up both of my Model 3-s. I use phone as primary and my watch as backup. I purchased Drive Electric to be able to use the watch as key, but so far the phone has been working fine and I have only tested the watch twice.

So I did about 600km driving over the weekend mostly south-east QLD and north-east NSW. I have premium connectivity that I am paying for monthly and have been paying for over the last 5 years. I am on 2024.8.7 software since last Friday. I have the Online routing enabled under Navigation and I...

The camera gets taken down usually for a few weeks every year for maintenance or testing or something. Though has not been down this year yet. I do have premium connectivity.

Yes, Well Navigation comes on automatically in the morning when I get in the car with destination already set to work.

So I was still on 2024.2.7 until yesterday, this morning got 2024.8.7 and first impression so far is, there is no adaptive headlights on my 2023 Model 3 as of yet, the wipers are almost fine, just a little laggy and slow still. The speed camera on M1 before Exit 75 (Gold Coast) does not show on...

I have occasionally tethered my car to my phone hotspot if away from home and want to apply update. It might work for UMC update also.

I would not call it "relatively quickly" unless you compare them to the still partially flakey auto wipers... On my Model 3 the auto high beams were totally useless crap for a couple of years before they started slowly improving it. It has been reasonably good for the past 1-2 years now for auto...

Those could be because Telstra is having 3G and 4G outages. https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/telstras-4g-network-goes-down-for-a-massive-number-of-customers/news-story/db76bd0ecded79d5975ee2805ba823f4

The article only mentions that it is coming on a Friday. It may have implied the following Friday from article release, but it does not explicitly state which Friday, so there are plenty of Fridays ahead.

Remote sentry view is working great on my Model 3. Though for some reason for the last 6 months Spotify appears to lose connection when car is parked for more than few hours and does not resume automatically unless I tap it on screen to retry. It used to resume automatically but over last half a...

I dont believe the API calls will generate much traffic, they are rather small data packages (few kb each). In the last week I have noticed twice that when I got home and my car connected to wifi, it did a massive upload to Tesla in excess of 1.1-1.5GB, I suspect that was video from cameras on...

There is a little more to it. I have noticed over the years that on some roads it adjusts speeds and on others it does not, also on some roads there are places where it adjusts set speed and other locations on same road where it does not. So it would appear that they have some form or road...

For me TACC is good most of the time. Well I have a tendency to have a bit heavy foot and my Model 3 has a tendency to want to accelerate way past speed limit when my heavy foot sits on accelerator, so I tend to just accelerate close to the speed limit and enable TACC to keep me near that limit...

Well, technically not exactly same car. So I bought my first Model 3 in 2019 was US made, then he bought his Model 3 Performance in 2021 and I upgraded mine in 2023 to Model 3 LR, his was probably made at the time there was massive chip shortage so possibly used alternate chips in it when they...

I do not believe the issue is peoples perception, I believe they are rather inconsistent across the fleet. Last month I happened to go in a mates car and we both have Model 3 and were on same firmware version. During that drive in full on rain his car wipers worked perfectly fine on auto with no...

Tesla has been promising that for longer than I have owned a Tesla and in the past 5 years of ownership some updates make it slightly better, some make it worse, but at no time have the wipers been as good as my old Merc from 2001 had with standard rain sensor.

Since upgrade to 2024.2.3 I got that low charge level warning with charge being at 73% and I also got alert on screen that my premium connectivity has run out, though it auto renews so not sure why it would warn about that. Also looks like everything continues to work as expected including the...

If it is, that makes even less sense as it asks to charge the battery, however the 12v lithium battery is charged automatically from the traction battery so user has no control over it, should it not just charge it rather than send me a message asking me to charge it?

So, my Model 3 just updated from 2024.2.2.1 to 2024.2.3. A few minutes after it finished updating, my phone got an alert from the car saying this: "Battery charge level too low. Vehicle consumes battery power while idle. Charge now to ensure vehicle will start and avoid potential battery...

What I got from this is that Google might be upgrading some of their satellite maps, so far in my area they have not done that for over a decade. When I look at my house on Google maps, I had solar installed on the roof 8 years ago, but map images still dont have solar. There are also multipole...

Mine is on software version 2023.44.30.8

I am so with you on that one. Since the last update my wipers are beyond a joke. It has been heavy rain daily here for the past week and auto wipers do during heavy rain a single wipe every 3-5 seconds, where as the rest of the time it is not possible to see through the rain. Yet when rain stops...