H213, H228 and H221 applied
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My I-Pace had campaigns H228, H213 and H221 applied last week. It took the garage all day to complete the updates, especially as the ECU needed replacement as part of H213 on my vehicle. Seems that swapping the whole module out versus upgrading it was the best approach in my case.
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After all campaigns applied, I received InControl Touch Pro software version S19A_19.24.2-375121, previously I had been stuck on 18D. This concerned me as I had heard less than good things here and on the US I-Pace forum.
However after four days driving the car daily there is a lot of good things I noticed;
- The cars systems are a lot faster to load and use. It previously took the car more than 30 seconds to become fully ready. Now I unlock the car and by the time I have powered it up and fastened my seatbelt, it is fully loaded (including navigation) and ready to go. Typing on the screen has become less frustrating. There is still some delay, but it is much reduced on the previous software. This is obviously as it was meant to be and I'm just sad I had to wait eight months for this experience. But I appreciate it all the more now it is here.
- Software Updates Over The Air is now on, confirmed by the dealer. The first big one is due in late Q3 according to my mechanic, so US customers do not hold your breath for an August update. This feature has been off since I took delivery of the car, so it is nice to finally have it available. Should be less trips to the dealers in the future.
- This might be a result of H213, the transition between regenerative braking and the physical brakes is barely noticeable now. There used to be a distinct increase in breaking effort after a moment of coasting previously when coming to a stop or breaking harder than regen could manage. Now I can barely tell when the regen ends and real braking begins. The grace of Jaguar is back and it is smooth.
- Apple CarPlay. It seems to just work perfectly all the time now. Previously I would have a success rate of just over 50% of being able to connect my phone via CarPlay and maintain the connection for the whole journey. If I received a call or a message during the journey the system would sometimes completely fail, or stall, or both. In the past four days it has been stable as a rock and very fast to boot and start playing media. Fingers crossed, but this is a much improved experience now.
- Cameras always are available. Previously on some journeys one or more of the cameras would never initialize when the car started and you would loose either reversing camera or cameras altogether. Since the update the cameras have been always available. The video feed delay is still apparent unfortunately, but it has improved a touch, likely due to the overall system performance improvement.
- Environment seems to be refined. Prior to this update when the car was warm and outside was very hot (30ÂşC or more), the fans would spin up to deafening speed to attempt to cool the vehicle quickly, regardless of the setting you selected in the environmental settings. Now even on a day at 38ÂşC, the fans set to soft are far less noticeable.
And now the bad. There is only one but it is annoying.
- The GOM is now locked to show 201 miles on a full charge. I cannot reset it using the standard two pedal trick. It appears that this is a known issue, reported in Topix as SSM74445. However it is a shame this was introduced when so much else was improved. I can only hope it will be addressed in the next update that arrives over the air.
Overall I am very happy with the update. It was a long time coming but makes this great car even more enjoyable.