S100D
Member
You must have recently got your Tesla, almost all of the software updates breaks something. Two steps forward, one step back.
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Software Update 2018.32.2 3817fdd
- Thread starter ranma64
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Crazy. Just went for a drive and tried it this morning and everything is working again.
Still on 2018.32.2. It works both on LTE and Wi-Fi. I have no exclamation
If you look at my sig line, you'll see I've had my MS longer than you - almost 3.5 years. The updates have been particularly bad lately, starting with nag.You must have recently got your Tesla, almost all of the software updates breaks something. Two steps forward, one step back.
I’m not up on all the online lingo. Not on Facebook, Twitter and the like. Only Tesla related forums...had to look it up in the Urban Dictionary.
Is this what you were trying to point out?
Should have said:
I have no explanation!
iPhone voice-to-text got me again.
You said you had no exclamation. He fixed that for you and added an exclamation mark in the quoted text from you.
Seriously, I have thought about a saboteur in software department. Since summer last year, they have introduced quite a few bugs, I remember these:
* the disabled front park sensors
* the sound was destroyed
* the media player issues
* the frozen trafic info
* something with the heated steering wheel
TaoJones
Beyond Driven
Possible perhaps, but suboptimal regression testing seems a more likely culprit.
I missed that. Usually don’t we read quotes of my own posts.
Actually went back to the original post to reread it so I didn’t pick up on that.
Thanks for clarifying this for me.
cruiserlarry
Gadgetologist
Unfortunately on iOS iPhone, signatures do not appear in portrait mode, only landscape. I really wish they would.
Except that I do remember one release some time last year where the heated steering wheel specifically wouldn't heat, showing it's definitely still firmware/software initiated.
S100D
Member
The heating of the steering wheel is hardware but turning it on is firmware. I have forgotten what firmware release caused the issue but after an update, the steering wheel heat would not turn on.
Tesla is now managing a lot of hardware combinations between various iterations of the cars. Some things are hard to regression test in an automated way (like sound quality) and other things that break are not easily testable in software because they depend on firmware in each version of a hardware component. Tesla knows that their current approach sometimes breaks things which is why they always deploy to a small number of cars first to evaluate in the real world.
There is definitely a strategic choice here, smaller, faster more frequent releases (with automated but imperfect testing) for each feature or less frequent quarterly releases which are more thoroughly tested.
I haven't done a longer (3+ hour) drive yet, but I have not had any issues on many short drives < 1hr.
I just got off the phone with vehicle support. Apparently version .32 does fix the instrument cluster reboots. However it contains numerous new bugs and distribution of .32 has been halted. I was asked to be patient a little bit longer.
