• SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo
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      1 year ago

      That’s the most ridiculous part to me. Why isn’t this able to continue off the car battery? It should be do not disconnect car battery if anything. I hope there’s some sort of fail safe to prevent it from bricking that doesn’t involve a factory reset or dealer visit.

      • Poe@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s because they don’t want the car battery running flat during installation. Kind of like how your phone requires a minimum battery charge to update

        • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo
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          1 year ago

          Yeah but shouldn’t the power usage for the infotainment system be similar to a cell phone at this point with similar hardware where it really shouldn’t be possible to run a car battery dead during an update?

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        1 year ago

        I’m extremely curious what would happen if I just shut it down and left it as usual while it is updating but I’m not ready to test it out yet. Lol

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          1 year ago

          So that sort of happened to me on the previous gen of this infotainment unit.

          I used the app to turn on the car and it keeps the car on for a short time, I started the update but it took way longer than I expected and the car shut off halfway through.

          It seems to me that the unit is kept in some low power standby mode, when I turned the car back on, it just continued from where it stopped.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      1 year ago

      Well, if it’s a new car, it might not use any battery from idling anyway. Still a stupid requirement though.