BYD Seal tips, tricks and help

[dpeti73]

In Europe the AWD model around 2.000.000 THB so don't complain here in Thailand 🙂

 

[mistral53]

2 minutes ago, dpeti73 said:

In Europe the AWD model around 2.000.000 THB so don't complain here in Thailand 🙂

 

Sadly - it also indicates that the whole climate change alarmist sham will unravel shortly, for if we are to do everything to reduce greenhouse gases, politics would have to take a backseat, and sales of electric vehicles be pushed to the hilt - Chinese made or otherwise!

 

As for myself - if I did not have my own 'gas' station on my roof, I would probably pass on electric vehicles......... alas, maybe not, because the technological superiority of Chinese made cars is hard to pass up, too. 

[Pib]

33 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

Sadly - it also indicates that the whole climate change alarmist sham will unravel shortly, for if we are to do everything to reduce greenhouse gases, politics would have to take a backseat, and sales of electric vehicles be pushed to the hilt - Chinese made or otherwise!

 

As for myself - if I did not have my own 'gas' station on my roof, I would probably pass on electric vehicles......... alas, maybe not, because the technological superiority of Chinese made cars is hard to pass up, too. 

 

I have reported your post to the AseanNow moderators as a dangerous post because in your last sentence where you say, ".....because the technological superiority of Chinese made cars is hard to pass up..." is going to make some pro-ICEV/anti-EVers really mad....possibly cause a dangerous rise in their blood pressure in turn causing a stroke. 😜😉😉 

[Gweiloman]

23 hours ago, Pib said:

 

I have reported your post to the AseanNow moderators as a dangerous post because in your last sentence where you say, ".....because the technological superiority of Chinese made cars is hard to pass up..." is going to make some pro-ICEV/anti-EVers really mad....possibly cause a dangerous rise in their blood pressure in turn causing a stroke. 😜😉😉 

Every time I sit in a legacy automaker’s car, I am underwhelmed. Black plastics, a piddly little infotainment screen with crappy proprietary software, vibrations, noise…

 

Could never go back to an ICE unless it’s one of the top range German premium vehicles in which case I would probably choose to EV version.

[Bandersnatch]

On 12/24/2024 at 9:31 PM, Andrew Dwyer said:

 

@JBChiangRai, @Bandersnatch and @mistral53 have also done the SIM swap possibly, i wonder if they are having any similar issues ?

 

I was a BYD today and asked about the SIM swap and they said that my SIM would be "updated, not replaced" they are doing it today, I will report back any findings

[Pib]

11 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

 

I was a BYD today and asked about the SIM swap and they said that my SIM would be "updated, not replaced" they are doing it today, I will report back any findings

The SIM that is currently in BYD vehicle is a SINGTEL SIM....Singapore Telecon...or at least that what was in my Atto that I personally confirmed before having the SIM swap accomplished....and others in Thailand on the social media circuit have made similar posts.  After the SIM upgrade...swap...etc., I had a True SIM in my Atto that I once again personally confirmed by going into the Infotainment system where you can see the name of the SIM installed (not to be confused with whatever local network such as AIS, True, DTAC, etc., the SIM may connect to....just like how a foreign SIM will connect with local networks.

 

Now maybe BYD dealerships have the capability to basically rewrite a SIM like a flash drive and they just reuse the current SIM....but I kinda doubt they go that route.  Instead, they probably just have SIM swap/upgrade kits with a True SIM and then they update the BYD server in the sky saying the car no longer has SIM so-in-so but this new SIM so-in-so. 

 

But hey, whether they put in a new SIM or rewrite the old SIM the results are the same.

 

[Andrew Dwyer]

22 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

 

I was a BYD today and asked about the SIM swap and they said that my SIM would be "updated, not replaced" they are doing it today, I will report back any findings

As Pib says, probably replaced .

Yep, apparently they will now give a further 3 months validity ( 2 years and 3 months instead of the original 2 years)  on the 2gb monthly data.

 

They will probably add an app called Gbox and add several apps ( YouTube, Google Maps and a Thai digital radio app etc ) within Gbox will be a further list of available apps and Google Play Store within which will be numerous apps and games etc.

 

Don’t get too excited though its a bit of a non event imho.

[Bandersnatch]

@Pib @Andrew Dwyer

 

Yes you are probably right... lost in translation 

[JBChiangRai]

Mine has been done at service too, I got GBox and a couple of my apps disappeared.  I sill can't get ChargeLoma or PlugShare to work.

 

I still have Aurora Store which I installed a long time ago, it is like a Google Play store so I can find almost any app and download/install it from Aurora.

[Andrew Dwyer]

Just now, JBChiangRai said:

Mine has been done at service too, I got GBox and a couple of my apps disappeared.  I sill can't get ChargeLoma or PlugShare to work.

 

I still have Aurora Store which I installed a long time ago, it is like a Google Play store so I can find almost any app and download/install it from Aurora.

Yes some of my sideloaded apps disappeared also, i think only Waze survived.

Will take a look at Aurora as apparently it is possible to sideload again now.

 

TBH, if I could just put Google Maps on the Home Screen to replace the Navigation i would be happy, I had it before and worked great even in portrait mode.

Charge Loma and PlugShare never worked for me either ( maps never showed ) , EV Station Pluz app might be handy to have on the car screen ?

[JBChiangRai]

Google maps works and loads for me, but it only gets my vehicle's location at load time, it doesn't seem to update my location as I'm driving.

[Andrew Dwyer]

1 minute ago, JBChiangRai said:

Google maps works and loads for me, but it only gets my vehicle's location at load time, it doesn't seem to update my location as I'm driving.

Been using Google Maps via CarPlay and it seems to work okay but is a bit strange .

[JBChiangRai]

Google maps on the infotainment system has a very high resolution map, the position update is probably something to do with app permissions.

[Andrew Dwyer]

18 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

Google maps on the infotainment system has a very high resolution map, the position update is probably something to do with app permissions.

Will give it a go ( via gbox you mean ? ) via CarPlay now has a big border top and bottom and looks kinda funky !

[Bandersnatch]

Love using ABRP (A Better Route Planner) in portrait mode. If you use ACP or AA you can't use Portrait and have to pay for premium ABRP 

 

 

[Bandersnatch]

Gbox YouTube while driving is a big hit with our little monkey.

 

Don't worry I have no problems keeping my eyes on the road

 

 

[motdaeng]

9 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

Love using ABRP (A Better Route Planner) in portrait mode.

 

what are the benefits, in your view, of using a better route planner (ABRP) compared to google maps?

thanks motdaeng

[Bandersnatch]

7 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

 

what are the benefits, in your view, of using a better route planner (ABRP) compared to google maps?

thanks motdaeng

 

Enter your starting battery % and log your vehicle type and ABRP gives good estimates of % at various stages. Enter your requirements for battery % at the end of the journey and choose short but many or fewer but longer charging stops

 

 

 

 

I also find it less intrusive than Google maps eg "in 5km keep going straight"

 

I'm not an expert - anybody else have any suggestions about ABRP?

 

 

 

 

[Andrew Dwyer]

1 hour ago, Bandersnatch said:

 

Enter your starting battery % and log your vehicle type and ABRP gives good estimates of % at various stages. Enter your requirements for battery % at the end of the journey and choose short but many or fewer but longer charging stops

 

 

 

 

I also find it less intrusive than Google maps eg "in 5km keep going straight"

 

I'm not an expert - anybody else have any suggestions about ABRP?

 

 

 

 

ABRP is exactly as its name implies, the ability to plan your stops to your preferences is a great advantage over Google Maps.

 

With the addition of GBox and subsequent ABRP and Google Maps apps ABRP comes out on top for a road trip.

ABRP

 

as stated your stops can be adjusted to suit your needs ( from road warrior to weak bladder ! ).

 

Google Maps can give you a general overview of where charging stations are but you would have to manually add stops in your route whereas ABRP does it for you.

 

 

Apple CarPlay has lost out big time.

No portrait mode available for any app , ABRP will only work in a Premium/paid version.

 

 

and Google Maps appears to be a reduced version with a smaller screen size and when searching for chargers the results are relatively useless.

 

 

 

 

Not having checked both for accuracy but I would choose ABRP for the road trips and Google Maps for the closer to home stuff that don’t require a charging stop purely for the reason i am familiar with GM’s interface, but that could change.

 

Waze is another alternative that I have but haven’t explored much.

 

[carlyai]

ABRP as yet, to me, doesn't have a Sealion 7 car.

[JBChiangRai]

Since the latest SIM swap/update, every time I say "Hey Siri..." I get a message from the infotainment system saying "Siri can be used on your phone...." before it cuts off and Siri responds on my iPhone, any idea how to fix that?  I suspect I have a wrong setting somewhere.

 

I particularly like the new feature of having the heated/ventilated seats accessible on the climate screen and displayed for a minute or so after turning on the car.  In Chiang Rai sometimes the heated seats are very welcome first thing in the morning and the ventilated seats are welcome by late afternoon.

 

On the subject of ABRP, I am against SaaS offerings (Software as a Service) , I think they are the biggest rip-off going in the IT world.  I typically convert the quarterly charge into an equivalent 5 year lease rate and ABRP comes out at about 9,000 baht I do like the look of it a lot, I suspect BYD will eventually this kind of functionality in the built-in navigation, I certainly hope so.

 

For the IT guys here, I'll go off topic for a moment.  I was stunned when SalesForce.com was successfully sold as SaaS, in my business we used ACT! from conductor software, networked across our office with a central server.  When they demonstrated SalesForce.com to us, the only extra functionality it offered was client/remote access.  I paid GBP 119 per client for our installation, SalesForce would have come out in the thousands on a leasing rate equivalent and it was slow where our installation was lightning quick.