Yes, I think you are correct. I've just been out again having left it for a couple of hours and it's working once again. Phew.
2020 Ateca - Loss of All Dash Display
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Yes, I think you are correct. I've just been out again having left it for a couple of hours and it's working once again. Phew.
just as an aside this is another good reason to have a diagnostic tool, firstly so you scan to see if there is any errors, secondly you can still use the car as you can use the live data to show speed/temps/fuel level.
light comes on to see what it is.
So I could pick one of these up and just buy credits if I wanted to do any modifications? Assume I can use this just for scanning/clearing fault codes?
Yes the basic model will give you scanning on VAG, BMW, Toyota group motors and Live Data on VAG, If you want to make changes then yes you can use the one click apps or buy the subscription and code the changes yourself.So I could pick one of these up and just buy credits if I wanted to do any modifications? Assume I can use this just for scanning/clearing fault codes?
You could also look at Carista as they offer a similar product
Ah but for proper coding the subscription Pro. Carista and Obdeleven micro payment apps you can't see what it's doing. Us people with Obdeleven Pro before they moved onto a subscription basis have free subscription for life. Doesn't apply to us which is nice. The subscription pays for the charges that Vag levy on access to their systems with the new platforms, effectively a cross payment back to Vag. Mqb Evo etc. Formentor, Leon 4 etc. The handshaking back to the mother ship to apply the mods.
Whilst I agree the history only shows you that you used an app if like me you take regular backups you can easily work out what coding has been applied to the car. I also suspect that SFD2 is going to make changes as well so we will see what is still possible to code once that fully comes into being.
Agreed if you code but if you use OCA then you only see the app you have used from memory.
It happened for the second time a few weeks back. After a few hours it all came back on.
I suppose twice in nearly four years isn't that bad!
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The car goes in for its fourth serve in a couple of weeks. I've asked them to plug it in to see if any fault codes come up.
Reckon a long press on the on/off button of the infotainment unit would bring it back. It's fed from there. The infotainment system firmware misbehaves itself and runs outside of memory then corrupts itself. Yours I reckon is a mib2 standard so the very last available update is 516. You could ask to get it put on that. There might be updates for the actual virtual cockpit display, so they could update that as well. Suspect it's in the infotainment unit firmware. Their tools will tell them whether there is more up-to-date firmware. I would not think its a physical problem just duff software. You can read the firmware release for the infotainement unit off the screen.
On the Arona with the mib2 standard the display shifted 1/4" to the right after I loaded up some POIs once, a reboot corrected that (long hold on the on/off). Another time a pesky error that made the unit reboot. That was an embedded album art file in a file being played. Classic case of the programmers not thinking if you have a music file bigger than the allocated memory what do you do ?. Ignore it, not drop it into memory so it crashes the unit. Took a day or so to pin it down. Thought the map file was corrupted. No, process of elimination then found the track it was rebooting on. Non commercially produced flac file with an embedded jpeg. An album release someone had put a very large jpeg on. Unwritten rule with media servers that album art should be 512x512 or no bigger. The programmers had used that. The manual notes the restriction but the programmers didnt guard against it. School boy programming stuff.
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