My car will not wake up with the app. It just stays saying “waking up”. If I have the app open and get in the car, it will connect about 10 seconds after the screen comes on. Also, the screen takes 5-10 seconds to turn on after opening the door.
Anyone have a recommendation for a fix?
I have had this problem forever. The app basically takes forever to wake the car, or completely fails to wake the car, on demand. It's really unreliable.
However, I have figured out a workaround,
as long as I am in Bluetooth range of the car:
I hit the "lock" symbol (it won't be grayed out
if you're in Bluetooth range). It may say it failed and complain about a vehicle connection error (may be due to Bluetooth range issues or general Tesla flakiness).
But you just keep hitting that lock button a few times, and it WILL wake up the car. It's the only effective method I've found to budge the app and car connection out of the "recalcitrant" state.
And then your car will be accessible from the app.
The very long screen wakeup is an intermittent problem for me. Most of the time my screen wakes up rapidly, but responsiveness is a problem until the contactors clunk closed and few seconds after that, the car shakes the cobwebs out. It's all a bit silly, but it doesn't rise to the level of inconvenience unless I'm really in a major rush. If you wake up the car via the above method first, and it's still awake (listen for those contactors - that's the car talking to you - there are two distinct noises, one for closing, one for opening!) when you go to it, I think you'll likely have no problem.
The much more annoying thing is that the PIN-to-drive never "sticks" if I have the door open when I enter it (this happens when you're in a hurry!) - I enter it successfully, then when I close the door, the screen briefly blacks out and then comes up with PIN-to-drive again. I think this is a bug, though it could also be a feature and slightly improve security. But they should just not permit entering the PIN with the door open if they really want that.