SirChargesAlot
Well-known member
Hi everyone,
I have read about the 3g scandal and believe nothing related to any "online" service works on the A3 e-tron because Audi chose to leverage 3g technology at it's end of life and once AT&T took down their 3g towers, the car went from being connected, to not. This was a significant loss of functionality especially considering this is a hybrid vehicle and remote charge monitoring and other things can be important to some.
Having mentioned the above, I see several bars of service on the MMI display with LTE showing as active. Now my question is, how is it that the car is showing being connected to a cell phone network, that LTE shows as active, but zero online features work? These thoughts came to mind when I tried activating google maps in the nav app to see satellite imagery instead of the usual vector style reproductions. But nothing happens.
Does anyone have any explanation for this? It feels like the car should not be connected to towers and should not be able to even display active LTE in order for things to stop working?
I have read about the 3g scandal and believe nothing related to any "online" service works on the A3 e-tron because Audi chose to leverage 3g technology at it's end of life and once AT&T took down their 3g towers, the car went from being connected, to not. This was a significant loss of functionality especially considering this is a hybrid vehicle and remote charge monitoring and other things can be important to some.
Having mentioned the above, I see several bars of service on the MMI display with LTE showing as active. Now my question is, how is it that the car is showing being connected to a cell phone network, that LTE shows as active, but zero online features work? These thoughts came to mind when I tried activating google maps in the nav app to see satellite imagery instead of the usual vector style reproductions. But nothing happens.
Does anyone have any explanation for this? It feels like the car should not be connected to towers and should not be able to even display active LTE in order for things to stop working?