Perry
Active Member
Oh I though I was the only one with this problem since no one ever complained. This needs a prompt fix since this was not a problem when I got the car.
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Software Version 2018.50.6 - No new features
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Perry
Active Member
If that's the case than its great since the range shown never took into account how one drives. At least for me this has always been a problem since it would always overestimate the miles left by using only rated kwh/mile.
ibdb
Any excuse for a road trip
Yup.
Airplane mode on and off, too. The only thing I didn't try was to unlink the phone and relink it. Didn't want to chance that away from home. Maybe tomorrow.
ibdb
Any excuse for a road trip
The App looked fine, and it still worked for the trunk and to start and drive the car. To unlock, I just swiped down on the part of the App that's always running and selected unlock there -- just like I had to lock the car (I don't have it lock automatically as I walk away).
Could you help with an explanation about Tesla Waze please. Are you streaming Waze from your cell or is there a way to use a Tesla ( S, X or 3 ) version of Waze? Love Waze & hope it can be used through our browsers.
eladts
Member
Tesla Waze is Waze adapted to the Tesla browser. It is far from feature parity to Waze on a smartphone, but it is better than nothing.
bd7349
Member
Haven't had this issue in 2 months of ownership and 9000 miles of driving. Does the charge port just not unlock when you press (or hold) the button?
CapnOMatic
Member
I thought about this too, but then I thought if I can easily remove the charging cable by pressing the button then so can everyone else without a key to the car. I would not want anyone to do that to me, even as a joke. I have gotten used to simply opening the Tesla app and clicking on the car lock, it's fast and it does not have to wait to connect to the car like some of the other features. Just unlocks and wakes up the car. I use that every morning when the car is in deep sleep and i'm heading off to work and need to unplug the charger.
Eno Deb
Active Member
There are several threads about this in the Charging sub-forum. Basically the car cannot detect the button on the charger handle when it is in sleep mode (which may be a hardware limitation that cannot be fixed by a software update). To make the button work you first need to wake up the car. Using a door handle is one way to do this, but you can also do it by opening the Tesla phone app or unlocking the car with a key fob or keycard. If you didn't encounter the issue earlier, it was very likely because the car happened to not be in sleep mode when you tried.
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No need to open the door, just push on the door handle enough to wake, but not open. Then you can hit the button on the charger handle to disconnect.
You don't have to actually open them. I just lightly push on the back end of the door handle until I hear the car wake up. Try it. You will quickly get the hang of it.
This is mostly what I use the browser for. Occasionally radar, but mostly Waze.
And if I open it before I drive while it's connected to WiFi, it works the whole drive - even before the version updates which appear to have improved reliability.
A confirmed workaround for the charge cable not releasing immediately is to press and HOLD the button on the charging cable for a second or so. Doing that, it has never failed to release the latch within a second in my experience.
Glamisduner
Active Member
Auto lane change seems to have become much worse for me. The past two days I’ve had multiple hesitations when my 3 was doing an auto lane change. It would start changing lanes and then think there was a car or other obstacle in the way when there wasn’t anything at all and it would ping pong back between the lane I was currently in and the lane I was trying to change to. After the third attempt it made to change lanes I got frustrated and took over control. I’ve never experienced so many issues with auto lane change before. After each incident I submitted a bug report.
ibdb
Any excuse for a road trip
That's never worked for me at any point during the last 4 months.
I'm using the cable that came with my S, since it charges slightly faster than the one delivered with the 3. Since we're using one cable for both cars, I opted for the slightly faster of the two.
ibdb
Any excuse for a road trip
Stranger things.
Four family members (including me) were getting into the car today. Driver's door did not unlock on approach, as I'd been seeing. Started to reach for my phone and one of my kids tried opening the driver's side rear door, and it worked. All the doors were then unlocked, and I never got the phone out of my pocket.
Got home tonight and tried to replicate the experience. At home, the driver's side doors were not unlocking on approach, no matter what I tried. If I tried the passenger's side, they didn't work immediately, but did unlock the entire car after trying each door at least twice. I did all kinds of strange moves to try to have my phone in my pocket in similar positions relative to the car on both sides.
Phone hasn't changed. Phone software hasn't changed. The only thing that changed was the update to the Model 3 firmware.
