Android 8.0/9.0 compatibility with phone as a key?

[Rijder]

I have a OnePlus 5T with original Oxygen operating system, version Android 9. Both the official app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslamotors.tesla and the alternative app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sg57.tesladashboard worked.

After installing LineageOS 16, also Android 9, both apps didn't work. I have reported both app maintainers. The maintainer of the alternative app (Dashboard for Tesla) is working on a fix. From Tesla self, I haven't hear back yet, but will chase it too.

If others are experiencing a similar problem with a quality non-stock ROM such as LineageOS, please report it and chase is as fixing it is probably only minor effort and enables people using Tesla apps again.

 

[srs5694]

I have a OnePlus 5T with original Oxygen operating system, version Android 9. Both the official app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslamotors.tesla and the alternative app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sg57.tesladashboard worked.

After installing LineageOS 16, also Android 9, both apps didn't work. I have reported both app maintainers. The maintainer of the alternative app (Dashboard for Tesla) is working on a fix. From Tesla self, I haven't hear back yet, but will chase it too.

I have a OnePlus 5t and am running LineageOS, and the official Tesla app works fine for me, including the phone-as-key functionality. (The phone-as-key feature is not 100% reliable, but it's tolerably good.) That said, I did have a problem when I first paired the phone; my contacts were not importing properly. Un-pairing and re-pairing the phone got past that glitch. Also, for a while I had problems making Bluetooth phone calls, as described here. That seems to have been a Tesla bug that affected multiple phone models and OSes (including some iPhones), and it was fixed in Tesla's 2019.24.x releases.

Overall, then, I suggest you un-pair and re-pair your phone to the car. If your problem is with the phone-as-key function, I recommend telling the car to forget the phone as a key and then set it up again fresh. It's possible that your OS change has changed the way the car sees the phone and so is causing problems, but re-doing it may fix the problem.