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... The more often you check the app, the more times your car has to wake up from sleep thus using more energy.
You can wake up the car from the app??? I've almost never been able to do that. It just spins that little wheel for a while, then reports "Connection error." It did this before they enabled wi-fi and it only had the crappy AT&T cell connection. And it still does it now that I have it set to connect to my home wi-fi, which gets a strong signal in my garage. The car goes to sleep and doesn't wake up until I unlock it by opening the door.
Yeah, whenever you "open/launch the app" it will send a signal to wake up the car and send a ping to get the status.
If you're having trouble with the app connecting to the car I would suggest the following:
• Unlock/Lock car
• Toggle On/Off Bluetooth
• Force Close App and reopen
• Put phone in airplane more and repeat any of the steps above
Also depends on long the car has been sleeping for and if it is in a "deep sleep" rather than a shorter sleep period and the internet connection of the car to be able to connect to the phone.
The whole point of the remove services on the app should be to be able to access the features without having to walk out to the car and unlock it. Once I've done that, I don't need the app. So "Unlock/Lock car" is not a solution to this problem.
Bluetooth has nothing to do with it because the phone is not using Bluetooth to connect to the car when I try to wake it up remotely.
The app has been closed and launched, and even updated. This makes no difference. Probably because the issue is with the car, not the phone app.
Putting the phone in airplane mode: Same objection as above.
Yes, obviously the car is in deep sleep mode. How much power could it use to keep the cell or wi-fi connection active? My phone with a tiny battery rated in mWh lasts all day on a charge. The car with 75 kWh can afford to keep the connection active! (And there's a choice to disallow mobile access if you don't want it active.) It's already losing about 1 kWh per day in passive drain. A few more milliwatt-hours to keep the connective active would be unmeasurable.
Note: The wi-fi signal to the car is strong, as indicated by the fact that it immediately has full signal strength as soon as I unlock the car.
What I meant about Unlock/Lock was from the app and not physically from the car.
What does your battery usage screen say?View attachment 328373
BROKEN AGAIN, even with Background App Refresh off. This worked for awhile.Fixed! Service advised changing my iphone setting for the Tesla App and turning the "Background App Refresh" switch off.