2018.10.5 Arrived

[PoitNarf]

Am I correct in assuming that my car will be updated to the latest available software version when it is being prepped for delivery? I pick up my Model 3 on Thursday.

 

[2virgule5]

Am I correct in assuming that my car will be updated to the latest available software version right before I take delivery? I pick up my Model 3 on Thursday.

Yes that is generally the case.

 

[Roverman318]

Did anyone notice rear heated seats are now active?

 

[BhamMod3]

Did anyone notice rear heated seats are now active?
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i noticed them for the first time in this release, but it does say "previous release notes" above the description. i think there was a release or two that i never got.

 

[ℬête Noire]

Yes that is generally the case.

The caveat is the update is done when the SC does the prep work for the vehicle (taking off the films, post-shipping inspection, cleaning the car). Sometimes this is done a few days ahead of the pick-up, so occasionally a customer takes ownership with a slightly out-of-date firmware.

 

[EV-lutioin]

iOS is aggressive about swapping a background application out of RAM into the flash memory, for performance reasons. If you are using other apps that in total are using a lot of RAM. Safari, if it has a lot of web pages open, is such an application.

This swapping into flash memory is entirely seamless for the user, you can't really tell when it's happened, and when an app is swapped into flash memory it normally no longer responds in the background. I suspect that's why bringing the Tesla app back to the foreground lets it function again.

Apple will on a case-by-case basis give protection from this swapping algorithm to a 3rd party's app. The list for that is fairly exclusive and the process for getting on the list isn't publicly documented (and probably isn't entirely spelled out internally, either) so it could be some time before Tesla gets that, if they are even trying at this point.

Not sure if I have this right, but are you saying that minimizing the number of tabs open in Safari will improve the functionality of the phone key?

 

[EV-lutioin]

Hmmmmmm, I havent gotten one update since taking delivery of the car.

No wifi or bad cell reception may be a culprit i assume.

Call your service center, sometimes they don't activate a car during delivery. My Model X did not get updates for six months, until I called Tesla and they said.... oops, we forgot to activate your car.

 

[EV-lutioin]

I really want Tesla to move the temperature and time numbers to the left side of the screen over the white area above the drive/reverse/park indicator. I'm having trouble reading the time and temp. all the way to the right with the cluttered map background.

 

[ℬête Noire]

Not sure if I have this right, but are you saying that minimizing the number of tabs open in Safari will improve the functionality of the phone key?

1) Important follow-up here: 2018.10.5 Arrived (the Edit option window has passed on that old post, otherwise I'd update it)
2) If you do use Safari at all, generally the less tabs you have open the less RAM footprint it uses and so the less swapping out of RAM of other apps it will cause. So if that is trigger for these issues, yes it could potentially help to keep your number of tabs open down. I don't know what the ceiling on that is though, there's very likely a certain number of Safari tabs past which it's already hit it's maximum impact. EDIT: Note that the content of the webpages themselves have an impact on the footprint but that detail is well beyond my reckoning. It's been a lot of years since I was poking around Safari, and I never got quite deep anyway.

 

[PoitNarf]

2) If you do use Safari at all

Hell no! Safari = crap! I use Chrome on all of my devices. I hate Safari almost as much as I hate IE. I believe it is easier to manage open tabs in Chrome on an iOS device. Now only if Apple allowed setting a different browser as the default in iOS, then I’d be set.

 

[MacGreiner]

Just notified - hopefully 10.5 on the way

 

[spudnik187]

I'm getting mine with 10.1 back from tint/wrap this morning. I've got an appointment at the SC on Thursday. Hopefully, they'll update it while they've got it if it doesn't happen beforehand.

 

[kbM3]

Ah gotcha. That's ridiculous (these days). Thanks.
This is (another) great example of why there's no chance my wife is going to early adopt the 3 with me. I really need this sort of nonsense ironed out by the time Y is released, so I can get her into a Tesla via Y, and say goodbye to gasoline 100%. To move backward on the standard entry-level luxury car feature set is simply not a way to get skeptics to adopt. Granted, there's an order book of ~400k early adopters ready to go, so Tesla has plenty of time to get the feature set to par (and beyond).

Disagree completely. Being able to use a smart phone as a key and almost never worrying about a key fob, far outweighs this occasional minor inconvenience.

 

[MacGreiner]

Still no WIFI

 

[2virgule5]

Confirmed that it has new NN for AP2 - significantly better than previous versions as reported for S/X. Much more assertive and confident EAP.

 

[Msjulie]

man .. first world frustration, been waiting on this update but no joy...

 

[PoitNarf]

Tesla should have an "insiders update" program like some other companies are doing. You could opt-in to getting the latest software updates first before the general roll out to the rest of the fleet. Or at least give customers a way to force their car to check for and automatically download and install the latest available update.

 

[insaneoctane]

Tesla should have an "insiders update" program like some other companies are doing. You could opt-in to getting the latest software updates first before the general roll out to the rest of the fleet. Or at least give customers a way to force their car to check for and automatically download and install the latest available update.

They probably do. It's called their employees....

 

[montreid]

MUCH improved lane changes -- doesn't drive like a teenager anymore. Still struggles with coming out of high speed curves. Do NOT try changing lanes on a curve in EAP unless you like to surprise any cars even close to you (has huge blindspot on the back right on a curving to the left ).

 

[Wolverinegeoff]

MUCH improved lane changes -- doesn't drive like a teenager anymore. Still struggles with coming out of high speed curves. Do NOT try changing lanes on a curve in EAP unless you like to surprise any cars even close to you (has huge blindspot on the back right on a curving to the left ).

Not sure if it's because mine is still calibrating (just picked up today), but TACC works and I tried using it at 45mph on a local road. Headed toward cars at a stoplight that it wasn't tracking was pretty uncomfortable and I used the brake before I found out how close it wanted to get. I'll revise if it changes once it's fully functional, but I'd be careful for now pulling up to stopped cars! (S/X people reported this was much improved on their end)

Edit: 10.5 software installed right before pickup.