Low Power Mode - Always On Regardless of Setting

[AO-Pete]

Anyone else seeing this issue? Just got the truck back from the SC for being bricked (full charge, but no drive), and immediately started getting these errors. I've tried a reboot via scroll wheels, but the issue persists. Obviously, the battery has a high state of charge, and the mode isn't even enabled, yet alone the charge level being close to the threshold. I did reach out to the SC, but got the standard reply of book (another) appointment (and no doubt wait 20+ days).

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[mongo]

Anyone else seeing this issue? Just got the truck back from the SC for being bricked (full charge, but no drive), and immediately started getting these errors. I've tried a reboot via scroll wheels, but the issue persists. Obviously, the battery has a high state of charge, and the mode isn't even enabled, yet alone the charge level being close to the threshold. I did reach out to the SC, but got the standard reply of book (another) appointment (and no doubt wait 20+ days).

Have you tried enabling low power, changing the threshold, and then disabling it?

 

[AO-Pete]

Yup, forgot to say, I tried toggling it on and off, changing the % etc.

 

[RayzorBEV]

Looks to me like you have a software gremlin
No issues with any of my 4 Teslas. My only beef with the Low Power Mode so far is the inability to turn it on/off using our phone app. If I turned it on and a few hours later while I'm away from my Tesla, if I wanted to turn on my Sentry Mode, it will not allow this action due to Low Power Mode being activated. I'm sure a future software update will fix this.

 

[hemiarch]

I was under the impression you could itemize it but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
So let’s say you want to turn low power mode on but allow usb plugs and cabin overheat protection without let’s say the hungry sentry and summon standby or the AC plug inverters in the case of the Cybertruck.
When you try enable “keep aux power on” or cabin overheat protection it just says. “Feature not available in low power mode”. Which is rather lame.
Why would you want to do this? you ask. Well, there is no real other way I know of to turn off summon standby for example in our model x.
Also agree with @RayzorBEV , toggling this mode on and off from the app is crucial.

 

[mongo]

I was under the impression you could itemize it but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
So let’s say you want to turn low power mode on but allow usb plugs and cabin overheat protection without let’s say the hungry sentry and summon standby or the AC plug inverters in the case of the Cybertruck.
When you try enable “keep aux power on” or cabin overheat protection it just says. “Feature not available in low power mode”. Which is rather lame.
Why would you want to do this? you ask. Well, there is no real other way I know of to turn off summon standby for example in our model x.
Also agree with @RayzorBEV , toggling this mode on and off from the app is crucial.

As far as I know, low power just toggles all the other options off, so you can piecemeal it manually. Forcing deactivation of low power mode before reenabling the battery draining features seems like a good extra protection since accidentally having those on is what causes the drain in the first place.

Summon standby can be turned off in UI settings and automatically disables after being in park 24 hours (per the manual, at least).

 

[hemiarch]

As far as I know, low power just toggles all the other options off, so you can piecemeal it manually. Forcing deactivation of low power mode before reenabling the battery draining features seems like a good extra protection since accidentally having those on is what causes the drain in the first place.

Summon standby can be turned off in UI settings and automatically disables after being in park 24 hours (per the manual, at least).

Good to know about summon standby, I’ll try find that toggle. Maybe I just overlooked it.
but the first part is definitely not true with my current version. Try enable low power mode and then turn on your cabin overheat protection or your keep aux power on features. There is a specific message that says “feature not available in low power mode. “ and then you have to deactivate it and go back to turn the feature you want back on.
You’re right about it being a good safety feature but I think a warning would suffice. Maybe a periodic app warning a la “this has been on for 5 hrs dummy” which also ties back to “this all should be enable-able and disable-able from the app.”
So as I understand it, the way it’s supposed to work is just to be a grouped quick access toggle to all the power hungry features?

 

[mongo]

Good to know about summon standby, I’ll try find that toggle. Maybe I just overlooked it.
but the first part is definitely not true with my current version. Try enable low power mode and then turn on your cabin overheat protection or your keep aux power on features. There is a specific message that says “feature not available in low power mode. “ and then you have to deactivate it and go back to turn the feature you want back on.
You’re right about it being a good safety feature but I think a warning would suffice. Maybe a periodic app warning a la “this has been on for 5 hrs dummy” which also ties back to “this all should be enableable and disable..able from the app.”
So as I understand the way it’s supposed to work is just to be a grouped quick access toggle to all the power hungry features?

Yeah, I meant that the single low power option turns off a bunch of things that you can turn off yourself, it doesn't do anything additional (besides blocking you from reactivating those things).

It's like a combo meal that doesn't allow you to make substitutions.

 

[hemiarch]

Yeah, I meant that the single low power option turns off a bunch of things that you can turn off yourself, it doesn't do anything additional (besides blocking you from reactivating those things).

It's like a combo meal that doesn't allow you to make substitutions.

Great analogy. I’d like it a little better if I could get apple slices or extra fries when I wanted to

 

[Qixer01]

Looks to me like you have a software gremlin
No issues with any of my 4 Teslas. My only beef with the Low Power Mode so far is the inability to turn it on/off using our phone app. If I turned it on and a few hours later while I'm away from my Tesla, if I wanted to turn on my Sentry Mode, it will not allow this action due to Low Power Mode being activated. I'm sure a future software update will fix this.

Low power can be controlled via the app

 

[Qixer01]

Also agree with @RayzorBEV , toggling this mode on and off from the app is crucial.

Low power mode can be controlled via the app

 

[hemiarch]

Low power can be controlled via the app

Yay! That’s awesome! Under shortcuts it looks like?

 

[Qixer01]

Yay! That’s awesome! Under shortcuts it looks like?

Yes. I had to manually add it to the main screen.

 

[hemiarch]

Looks like you have the most crucial features including farts on there. Good choices.

 

[hemiarch]

Ok. So let’s say you have “keep aux power on” and cabin overheat and sentry on, and you toggle the low power mode fro the app, they turn off. Easy enough.
Then what happens when you toggle it back off? Do those turn back on?

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