The Mach-E will be like the Lightning if you get three modules all updated. Sadly that's the struggle right now as most dealers don't want or won't and it's really slowly going out OTA.
Well it's been like TMobile service when we switched in 2012. After 11 years with Verizon, the prices were crazy. T-Mobile was in it's infancy and if it wasn't for the customer service and the constant real life store and support, we would have left early on. As long as Ford keeps improving, plus making us feel like a valued customer, that goes along way to long term trust. 10 years now with T-Mobile, 4 phones to 9 and we get a dedicated team that always makes us feel like family. They are doing and going in the right direction, but a ways to go. Customer relationships are so important and can result in continued business. The OTAs in the beginning with the Early First Edition Mach E was tuff, but we've seen improvement just needs to continue. The fact the Paak in this Lightning is there and truly amazing.
My dealer flat out refused, July build no paak and about 9 modules need firmware based on running FDRS report. I tired to convince them but they said no.. what for OTA.
“leave the FordPass app running”— what do you mean there? As long as you don’t force quit the app, it will generally work to unlock your car. Force quitting an app tells iOS that you don’t want to allow it to trigger background activities based off bluetooth / location. In this mode of operation it uses very little battery and isn’t even actually running in the background, an OS-wide service is doing bluetooth scanning every few seconds and deciding which apps to wake up based off of what bluetooth signals are nearby.
I mean that you must start the app and leave it running in the background without killing it, or what you call “force quit.” That is not actually force quitting, it is just turning off an app. It is terrible reactive to open apps and just leave them sitting open in the background. This uses up resources and is a primar cause of slowed response and iOS freezes. Apple recommends running only those apps that you need to keep live for a specific purpose. When I swipe up on my wife’s phone and see 10 or more open apps, I know why her phone s sluggish and acting buggy.
I’m an experienced software engineer with deep understanding of how iOS manages apps like this, and it hasn’t been true for at least a decade that failing to force quit apps results in the phone being buggy / slow. If anything, the act of force closing an app actually causes more sluggishness from being forced to run a paused process to allow it to respond to being force quit and the OS writing out a crash log for what just happened.
^^^^^^ This!
I believe the PaaK support site says “currently available on select trims” which gives me hope we just have to wait.
….I don't think its on the window sticker, I've never seen it. its part of the CoPilot 360 Active package, which is included in the 511Amay build and still no PAAK
What kind of phone? This usually means the app isn’t allowed to run in the background.
