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Hi,

I took my ID4 into the garage a few months ago, to upgrade software ready for the 3.0 OTA upgrade. The car was in the garage for 4 days as the update took this long.

I am yet to receive an OTA upgrade to 3.0 - has anyone else in the UK had this yet?

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Hi,

I took my ID4 into the garage a few months ago, to upgrade software ready for the 3.0 OTA upgrade. The car was in the garage for 4 days as the update took this long.

I am yet to receive an OTA upgrade to 3.0 - has anyone else in the UK had this yet?

Thanks.
Nobody has it yet here in the UK.

VW have setup a 3.0 OTA ‘trial’ from the Facebook groups, and I believe some people who signed up for that are receiving emails to agree to the terms and conditions for it.

I think it kicks off on Monday here (and elsewhere in Europe) and assuming those updates go well it will rollout to everybody else who has 2.4 sometime after that.
 

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I signed up for the trial and got the email last week to say they were now rolling it out, but then my car went offline and has been unable to connect ever since. I have not pulled fuse 19 out yet, just giving it time to reconnect on its own. It seems more than co-incidence for the car to go offline the same day I get an email to say the upgrade it finally on its way!
 

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Let us know how it went.
Stage 1 went ok, strange warning light when I first got back in the car to say there was an issue with the lights but that has gone away on its own now and the lights seem to be working fine, and I had to mess around with the app to get it working again (delete vehicle and re-pair), but so far it is ok.

Waiting for the second download to complete now, there is no indication it is doing anything, I assume it will just pop up like the first one did. Ill test scheduled charging after the second download as there seems little point until I have both.
 

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Did you follow the instructions on the V3.0 OTA web page on the VW site to re-register the WeConnectID app or did you just do it by trial and error? (https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/own...-update/software-update-3-0.html#installation)
I didn't realise there was a website page devoted to the upgrade so I just used trial and error, just deleting the car from the app and re-registering.

Part 2 of the update has been downloaded and installed now, I had the same error (cornering light error) come up initially but that has gone away just like the first time when I started the car and not returned. All the lights work fine.

The system info page now shows I have v3.0.0

I will test the scheduled charge as soon as I have depleted the battery a bit, my wife is in hospital at the moment and they have a free pod point charger in the car park so I'm using that right now!

I hope they roll the update out to the masses soon based on my experience.
 

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I will test the scheduled charge as soon as I have depleted the battery a bit, my wife is in hospital at the moment and they have a free pod point charger in the car park so I'm using that right now!
Thanks for posting your experience with it, sounds promising.

Hope your wife’s stay in hospital isn’t serious, and that she’s home and well soon! 👍
 

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Didn't see this page previously as I don't look at the ID4 section often, but just to add, I have had OTA 3.0 since a day or two before ukwizard I think and it is working well. Scheduled charging is working perfectly. The system in my car takes very slightly longer to boot up but is noticeably quicker once running (it was never a slow booter though, to avoid scaring people - it used to boot up fast but be laggy in use). Lane assist now does a better job of actually keeping you in lane on a motorway rather than letting you get slightly over the line, and not zigzagging quite so hard - although still annoying on other roads. The navigation is a big improvement for long drives with chargers - it gives you estimated arrival % and required departure % at each stop, and integrates the live availability data from wecharge in to the nav. Obviously you can can see SoC and outside temperature in the driver's display too.
The only negative for me so far is that I can't use online voice control. There is a bug in the app that is preventing me from enabling permission for the car to use it. I have seen a few other people with the same. Given that online voice control for navigation was laughably poor before the update this is not a big loss, but since the whole point of part 2 of the OTA update was to improve it, I was hoping to try it out.
I found the installation process ok but there were more steps than I was expecting even having read the instructions. You should definitely read the instructions so you know how to set up a profile after part 1 completes (and ideally allow 20-30 minutes in the car to do it).
There have been a small number of bricked cars on people's driveways but none in the UK that I know of, overall the programme seems to be going a lot better than 2.4 I think. Think they must be reaching the end of the 1000.
Oh, I saw someone reporting that the send-location-to-car function in the app now works repeatably and quickly...not for me!
 

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Only took delivery of our latest ID4 last Wednesday that came with bigger battery and 3.1 software. This morning there was another download available to 3.2 it only took 2-3 mins and tech notes said quite a few item updates and error fixes so hope everyone gets theirs soon.
 

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Minor update to my post above; the online voice control is now fixed. It's much better than 2.3/4 at recognising spoken destinations too, although still not on a par with Google.
 

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Anyone have the S pin pop up on the infotainment screen asking to input a code (4 digit number) it offers a line to enter number + an option to save.

Do we just choose a 4 digit code and save it and it's a once only thing
 

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Anyone have the S pin pop up on the infotainment screen asking to input a code (4 digit number) it offers a line to enter number + an option to save.

Do we just choose a 4 digit code and save it and it's a once only thing
You need to create it and remember it. When you next switch on, to begin with it will ask you for the s-pin, but when logged in you can go in to the user menu and tell it to default to not asking in future.
 

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Did everybody that has the software sign up on the Facebook page? I haven't but will if it means I can fix the charging!
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You didn't have to join the Facebook group. You had to send an email to VW with a specific subject line by a specific date in October - the means to do this were advertised on the Facebook group. You are too late now and this wave was oversubscribed anyway - only 1000 out of 3800 people who sent the email were selected. They are now apparently making improvements in response to how this wave has gone before rolling out to more people. You'll have to wait a bit longer.
Joining the Facebook group is worthwhile if you want to be bang up to date when VW provide another update, however that could be a month or more away, and there is a lot of bumf on there...
 
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