In-car browser to get updated to Chromium!!

[chronopc]

I wonder if this will support video playback?

 

[scaesare]

So, I have:

- MCU1 (early 2013)
- 3G
- LCD screen bubbles that started a few months back
- Indications I _may_ be starting to have flash memory reliability issues


I have been hoping the rumored new LCD screen replacement part coming this summer would arrive in time for me to tackle the LCD and flash replacement at the same time myself. If there's a reasonable MCU upgrade path that would potentially include LTE and a faster processor as well, I might just bite the bullet at that point and have them do it.

The downside is that I'd probably have rooted at the same time... and if I don't have an excuse to tear the dash apart I might not bother (at least for a while)….

 

[SoCal Buzz]

Taking bets on when we wil ACTUALLY see it in our cars.....2 months....3months....6 months definitely. The list of “Musk tweeted this will be in our cars.”...is growing by an order of magnitude. Most of us still on 2018.50 and form another post here over 10 Musk TweetPromises from 2 months ago forward still conveniently missing.... #AnotherElonLetDown

The browser is already fixed and working great on 2019.5.15 for me.

 

[ahkahn]

The browser is already fixed and working great on 2019.5.15 for me.

Can you verify that it is Chromium? Or is it the same old browser that has been tweaked?

 

[KyleDay]

Can you verify that it is Chromium? Or is it the same old browser that has been tweaked?

It is not chromium yet. I'm on 19.8.2 and it's the same crappy browser as always.

 

[SoCal Buzz]

Can you verify that it is Chromium? Or is it the same old browser that has been tweaked?

No idea, but it works for Tesla Waze, CNN, weather, etc. with no lock ups in 3 weeks.

 

[Snowstorm]

No idea, but it works for Tesla Waze, CNN, weather, etc. with no lock ups in 3 weeks.

Do you have MCU1 or MCU2? When was your car built?

 

[SoCal Buzz]

Do you have MCU1 or MCU2? When was your car built?

MCU2, April ‘18

 

[viper2ko]

MCU2, April ‘18

Mcu 2 makes all the difference

 

[SoCal Buzz]

Mcu 2 makes all the difference

So does proper browser memory mgmt. I used to reboot car every single time I needed to use Tesla Waze.

 

[Mr.D]

I was not aware of the sketch pad "hack", so I just went a head and tried it, and it makes the browser "usable" again... The difference in speed and load time between having the sketch pad in the background compared to the NAV is HUGE!
However, in my trials I was messing around with the NAV settings, I usually drive with the NAV showing the map, and not the earth/real view... and I was browsing with the NAV open and using the browser with the earth/real view the browser in my car works just as fast as when with the sketch pad in the background... swapping back to the map view in NAV the browser is slow and useless again... WTF?!?!
Anyone else tried this? Turning on and off the traffic function made no difference, but toggling between maps and earth view, HUGE difference!

Also running the car with the MARS view has the same effect as the sketch pad. Speeds up the browser/load time.

 

[Snowstorm]

I was not aware of the sketch pad "hack", so I just went a head and tried it, and it makes the browser "usable" again... The difference in speed and load time between having the sketch pad in the background compared to the NAV is HUGE!
However, in my trials I was messing around with the NAV settings, I usually drive with the NAV showing the map, and not the earth/real view... and I was browsing with the NAV open and using the browser with the earth/real view the browser in my car works just as fast as when with the sketch pad in the background... swapping back to the map view in NAV the browser is slow and useless again... WTF?!?!
Anyone else tried this? Turning on and off the traffic function made no difference, but toggling between maps and earth view, HUGE difference!

Also running the car with the MARS view has the same effect as the sketch pad. Speeds up the browser/load time.

Very interesting, so you are saying that the satellite view allows browser op but not street view. I wonder if the switch to vector rendering is the issue.

I can’t try that now as my browser is totally not working now until I reboot. 2019.4 MCU1

 

[Mr.D]

Yes, at least for my car, putting the NAV in satellite view does the same for the browser speed as putting on the sketch pad or mars view.
Really strange! Putting the NAV in “map view” the browser becomes useless so to speak... the funny part is that if the NAV is in “map view” and I try to load a site, nothing really happens, but the minute I change to satellite view during the load period the browser just accelerates and finished to load the site!

Also in my testing, if you try to load a site and it is really slow (for example because of map view) pressing the T on the top of the screen so the Easter egg menu appears makes the browser speed up the same way as if your switched from map view to satellite view...

So short story long, for me, if I wanna use the browser set NAV to satellite view and the browser is “usable”, still slow but, a lot better.

Anyone else experiencing this?
I am on 2019.4.3, MCU1

 

[Snowstorm]

I just tried it. MCU1 AP2.0.
Map view, nothing works. Tesla winds never updates.
Sat view. Kinda works a little. Tesla winds update once every 3-10 seconds sporadicly
Sketch pad. Works more or less (still slow) Tesla winds update every 1s as it should.

I am guessing vector map in maps mode is more CPU intensive than raster satellite maps. But less data intensive on the LTE

 

[Mr.D]

When I did this I was on WiFi, I tested this when on LTE and I then see a decrease in speed on satellite view.


Map view
WiFi and LTE = browser is useless (not really working)

Satellite view
LTE = Really slow, but at least loading
WiFi = OK, same as with sketch pad

Sketch Pad
LTE = OK, well sort of
WiFi = OK, well sort of

Strange!

 

[HankLloydRight]

You can use this webpage to test the browser user agent and MCU version:

MCU Tester | TeslaTap

 

[StarLog]

Teslawaze does not seem to work, is it dead?

 

[TeeEmCee]

I wonder if this will support video playback?

Will it support buyback?

 

[SpudLime]

Teslawaze does not seem to work, is it dead?

It worked fine for me today on my way to work.