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As a bit of a side note...... Is it a case of removing the battery then to replace the headlight bulbs on that side? Fancy putting something brighter in our 2019 Colour Edition (Reflector for all four bulbs) as i do a lot of motorway driving at night but not too fussed if you have to remove the battery etc.....
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Not sure what HU is fitted in the Mrs’ 2019 Colour Edition but this is a photo of it and its current status.
Is this unit up to date or is there an update available? And if so how is the update done?
It was supposedly updated by the dealer last year as part of a warranty claim but I didn’t check the status before it went in so can’t say if it’s been updated or not.
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That's good to hear........ I'll start having a look around at prices knowing i don't have to either look for places that can code it as well or have to sort the coding out via here etc.......
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I confirmed with dealership and Skoda UK at the time that mine was every 5 years... (car built in October 2010). Apparently they changed the time from 4 to 5 years for cars built some point just before mine was built from what both the dealership and Skoda UK told me.
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Hi all,
Quick one...… My battery is on it's way out after being in the car for coming up to six years.
I've seen a few posts and things online regarding having the battery coded to the car once it's fitted. My question is this though..... Is this the case on all the Superbs or only those with Start/Stop? I only ask as mine does not have start/stop (2010 60 plate CR140 DSG) and whenever I see mention of coding the new battery it's always in relation to Superbs with start/stop.
So is it a case of not required at all on a car without start/stop or not required on a car without start/stop if the replacement battery is the same spec/capacity?
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Well having upgraded my D90 for a D7500 towards the end of last year i never actually got around to going out and giving it a whirl before lockdown. I finally managed to get out on Saturday to watch a steam special so gave the new camera a go. Sod's law literally just a minute or so before she arrived it started to lash it down, as you can see from the pics.
Anyway..... Royal Scot hauling The Yorkshire Rose tour to York in the rain at Grindleford, Derbyshire.
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1 hour ago, varaderoguy said:
Well, it depends on the phone. Some phones have a Power Saving feature that switches out WiFi and/or Bluetooth when the phone not in use or alternatively restricts power to the CPU...or just reduces power when the phone gets to 15%. You cannot do much about the last case but the former cases you can.
That's what i was asking about as the only thing i was aware of on the iPhone was the Low Power mode that can kick in at 20% battery..... Obviously what Android phones do doesn't matter as the issue is an iPhone only issue.
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6 hours ago, varaderoguy said:
Folks - there are some rules that need to be adhered to with either Apple Carplay or Android Auto. Firstly, make sure that any power saving features on your phone are switched OFF. If you have power saving services enabled, it will cause slowness and random connectivity issues with your MIB system. Secondly, firmware of the system....the firmware of the MIB systems can sometimes be very flaky. I found this on my 2016 Octavia Scout and on my 2018 Octavia VRS. In both cases, a firmware update fixed the wierdnesses of carplay/auto connectivity. I ended up doing a firmware update myself on my 2019 Scout on my Amundsen system. Yes, phones need to be the latest firmware too.
Please assume that most Skoda dealers will not understand or be interested in the MIB firmware issues on your car....it takes time/money to fix them and generally unless you directly show the technician what the fault is, they won't fix it.
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1 hour ago, Benz3ne said:
I wholeheartedly agree - If I cry about something that is bothering me, I'll most likely attract others who are facing the same woes. No doubt about that, however...
It would seem that of the persons who frequent this forum, with the MY19 Fabia with the HU (same as yours), that there's still a reasonably high number that do have this issue.
If it was one or two saying 'yeah mine stutters' and everyone else seeing that as strange then I'd be inclined to agree that it's not particularly widespread. To me, the fact that Skoda have admitted that there is a fault, and that it's Apple's fault, makes me think that there have been enough focus to find out that something is wrong but not to implement a fix themselves.
For reference, mine is the same as yours (Swing+). I have been told that there are issues with this when using Apple devices. I had tried the iPhone 7 (my old), iPhone 8 (OH's old), iPhone 11 (my new) and iPhone 11 Pro (OH's new) with genuine OEM, 3rd party long, 3rd party short incl. Anker cables with no avail. I had suggested that it was an issue with the USB connection in the very initial stages of noting the issue to Skoda and they simply dismissed it.
Agreed - the point in bold is what I was trying to highlight to FabiaGonzalez. It's an older model yet works flawlessly, has done from day 1, and I've seen no reports of that style of HU from suffering issues (backed up by FG's anecdote of his working throughout his ownership).
I'm wondering whether there are two 'grades' of USB connector to the radio, an older (better) unit that featured in the Amundsen and some Swing+ that prohibits the issue and a newer (possibly cheaper?) unit that is less compatible with iPhones? If someone took one of the USB connectors for the old '17 Polo and wired it into the Swing+, in an example that is exhibiting issues, then would it resolve the issue I wonder?
Yep that's what i've said before.... It can't be a general Apple issue or software issue with the unit otherwise it would be affecting all users. As it is it isn't affecting all users so to me must be something particular to those vehicles. A manufacturing change of something like the USB socket or the shielding of the cabling between the USB socket and the HU itself could well be to blame as various people like yourself and myself have proved it's not linked to a particular phone model, iOS variant or cable type / manufacturer.
As to you thinking that because Skoda have admitted there's a fault and that it's Apple's fault means that they must have put some amount of focus into resolving the issue...... It doesn't make me think that i'm afraid. It just tells me they have just passed the buck and are finger pointing at someone else otherwise they would have been able to supply further information as to exactly what the problem was and why it was an Apple issue. 😉
I see the same diversionary finger pointing everyday in my line of work.
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On 08/07/2020 at 22:27, Benz3ne said:
Talking about SWMBOs Polo, it has had zero issues since day one, nor have I read of it happening with that style of radio (similar to FabiaGonzalez’s which has also not had issues).
On the face of it, it doesn’t seem to be a minority. Unless the majority are simply not using CarPlay with an iPhone (as the combination seems to be the issue) at which point the issue isn’t realised, not that it doesn’t exist. The fact this thread has had a reasonable amount of activity from varying years of Fabia all over the country signifies to me that it’s not an isolated issue - the fix, albeit temporary, came from Greek forums so it’s clearly prevalent there too.
I know of one other person with a Fabia Mk3, same headunit in their SEL, same issue with CarPlay with differing phones. Their car approx 1/2 year older than mine.
It seems Skoda are quick to pin the blame on Apple so it acts as a get out of jail free card in essence. There’s been no effort to diagnose my issue past that point.
The thing with forums though is you only see the posts about the things that don’t work and not the things that do. If you think of the hundreds of thousands of these units out there and how many complaints of stuttering you’ve got on here it’ll be a minority.
But also which unit do you have and are you talking about as the unit in your other half’s Polo could be a totally different model especially as it’s a couple of years old isn’t it??? Ours is a MY19 Colour Edition with the Radio Swing Plus. (3 buttons either side of the screen with SD card slot located centrally at the bottom). This is the unit fitted in the majority of cars in the range along with the other VAG marques as it’s the standard unit. If you have the head unit with 4 buttons either side you have the Amunsden upgrade option which isn’t as common a unit AFAIK.
This is a picture of our HU in our car and is the model that has worked perfectly with an iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone SE and iPhone SE (2nd gen) with a 30cm Anker lightning cable for the last 12 months since the car has been on the road.
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On 06/07/2020 at 09:45, Benz3ne said:
Any ideas on this little query? I'd have guessed it's a similar story, however I have mentioned (and will continue to mention) my other half's 2017 Polo which has had ZERO issues with CarPlay since day 1.
I don’t think you can use the VW Polo has had zero issues thing though. We’ve had zero issues with the unit in our Fabia since day one also. 😉👍🏻
If you think how many of these units are installed at present and how many people are having issues it’s likely a minority otherwise it’d have been sorted by now.
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53 minutes ago, cheezemonkhai said:
@john999boy Still think it’s cheeky as it’s their box and their problem.
As £200 is way more than the cost to make one of those boxes, I would be talking to sky to get released from contract if I only found out after the 4k upgrade.
Afterall the box is included in the subscription cost.
Otherwise yes, I accept the TV part and the rest.
I believe the £200 isn't solely the charge for the box but also includes the cost/charge of an "engineer" to attend your home and install it.
Plus as i mentioned previously i don't know why anyone would ever pay the £200 charge to replace their old Q box. Everyone i know of who has wanted to upgrade to the latest version of their Q box has spoken to Sky to advise them that their box has suddenly and inexplicably developed a habit of overheating and resetting or being intermittently noisy at which point an engineer attends and replaces it without charge.
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1 hour ago, Lady Elanore said:
The only fly in the ointment for me is SKY are opting for HLG rather than Dolby Vision (my preferred HDR) or HDR10+ (my LG doesn't recognise this, but it would be good for Samsung peeps etc)
The HDR benefits of greater colour gamut and greater contrast are not a fully realised with HLG (a BBC and NHK invention) although if anyone saw the BBC's Blue Planet in 4K HDR (HLG) then they would have been wowed. I look at eh contrast side like making a portrait out of black and white Lego bricks. from a distance and with a squint it would probably work fine, but if you had grey brisks, almost white and nearly black bricks too, the image would look much better and even closer up. that's what HDR can do for contrast, add those missing steps. The 12 bit colour gamut is fantastic, except the whole thing ends up in a bottleneck of 10 bit colour due to equipment that is still working on 10 bits (some have a 12 bit look up chart), but eventually we will all be working on 12 bit with some luck and a following tailwind, although we will all have to buy new tellys for that to work 😞
Dynamic HDR images are the ultimate answer as they can take into account that LCD (LED/Quantum dot/flashy clever stuff etc) TVs can go to very high brightness but OLED can't, yet OLED tvs can go to infinite black and so have an infinite contrast ratio which LCD/LED can't do. Dolby Vision and HD10+ have the advantage that not only do they change the HDR information on a frame by frame basis 'on the fly', they also understand the tv they are working with, so to speak, and so produce the best possible images within spec.
HLG is very clever though, in that it can be packaged alongside a regular broadcast signal and doesn't chew up extra bandwidth, which is why BBC and eventually other broadcasters will use this for regular digital tv and it seems SKY has probably been forced down this route for similar reasons. Streaming companies don't have this problem luckily for them. I would say have a look at the iPlayer and it's UHD test shows but even they have been removed over the bandwidth limiting 'over reaction' that has gone on with Europe broadcasters and streaming sites.
The last paragrapgh is your answer as to why Sky have opted for HLG. I'd say probably half if not more of their HDR content here will be live sports / events. Football and F1 have already been broadcast in HDR for the last 18-24 months or so on Sky Italia using HLG i believe. These have obviously got to be broadcast alongside the existing SD, HD & UHD feeds. As you say Netflix and Amazon don't have this issue with the only live sport on these being on Amazon with it's tennis and Premier League football and is only ever in UHD rather than HDR.
Also, Not just Samsung for HDR10+ either..... My Panny EX-750 had the HDR10+ firmware update last year and i've confirmed it works with some HDR10+ material. All the current Panny HDR TVs and blu-ray players are HDR10+ compatible too along with some from the last couple of years or so like my TV but not my HDR blu-ray player unfortunately which is just outside the cut-off point.
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4 hours ago, Defenderben said:
No ideas how much Sky TV or any other TV subscription service is, got a friend that mentioned around £70 a month, which scares me....I just can’t justify paying anything like that for TV. I only get what ever comes from Freesat I think.
But out of interest what is HDR TV is it like 4K TV - a resolution thing?
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and in photography it's been around for a good few years now but is still relatively new to TV/video.
For example if you stood someone in front of a window and looked at them your eyes and brain can see both the detail outside and the detail of the person in front of the window but if you pointed a camera at that same person and focused on the person then the camera would have the person exposed but the background outside would be washed out and white. If you told the camera to focus on the background outside then that would be perfect but the person would be very dark. So in HDR photography you would take maybe five images. One a lot under-exposed, One slightly under-exposed, One perfectly exposed, One slightly over-exposed and one a lot over-exposed. Then software would merge the images together to get something very close to what the human eye sees.
The end result of HDR in video is the same..... Colours are very much brighter as they would be in reality and you see the details in the dark and light areas as well as the main focus of attention.
It is something that you need to have a 4k HDR TV and a 4k HDR bluray player to view though and not just a normal 4k TV or bluray player.
And as John says Netflix and Amazon produce pretty much all their new content in 4k HDR now.
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1 hour ago, Lady Elanore said:
You would hope so as all the bumph they have sent me states the box belongs to them as you only rent it.
I've been holding off updating to Q as they didn't have HDR support (4k does nothing for me with it) so if I find I am back at work and not insolvent, I might look at this next year
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3 hours ago, langers2k said:
Got any more details/links? I currently have a non-HDR compatible 1TB box 😕
I did ring up a few days ago but they wanted £200 for the newer box.
There's nothing set in stone as yet for time scales but a few quotes circulating from Sky saying that there will be an exchange program in place ready for the greater availability of HDR content. The people on the phones now won't have anything in place at present so will indeed charge for the replacement..... Unless of course your v1 box was to suddenly start going faulty and start getting very warm and be resetting very often for instance then you could arrange replacement of your obviously faulty v1 box.
Obviously nothing to confirm you wouldn't get another v1 but pretty unlikely.
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And for anyone going into meltdown because they have a v1 2tb box which isn’t compatible there is a box exchange program planned before the launch of the other parts of the HDR service whereby users will be able to get a newer compatible box.
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Our lad has one of these and it does the job great for a penny less than a tenner. Also from Argos.
just plugs into the controller.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5637715?clickSR=slp:term:xbox headset:19:125:2
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Afternoon all,
Just a heads up, for those that hadn’t seen the various press releases, that Sky launched its HDR service on Sky Q yesterday with a low key launch. Only three series are currently available in HDR and all are from the new Sky Nature channel, (Gangs of Lemur Island, Wilderness Reborn and Malawi Wildlife Rescue). Third party apps such as Netflix, Disney + and YouTube will be updated in the coming couple of months so that their HDR content can also be accessed.
Sky Cinema will launch it’s HDR library in time for the Christmas period and sports coverage in HDR is currently lined up for the rescheduled Olympics.
HDR content is accessed via the download option rather than on the channel itself and a UHD subscription is required along with a compatible Q box.
Having had a quick watch the quality seems pretty good but I’m looking more towards the cinema and sports launch and Netflix app update myself.
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If that's the case that would explain why it isn't affecting all users and isn't a system wide software issue as they were saying previously as it can be rectified by what seems like clearing your connection and defaulting to factory settings before reconnecting again.
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On 28/03/2020 at 11:06, Skodacs said:
It was me who formatted using Windows, to exFAT and FAT32, so it is sure.
It is Bolero HU, in 2016 Fabia.
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11 hours ago, Skodacs said:
Hi guys
I have a 2016 Fabia and for some reason SD cards are not accepted by the system. When I jack it into the slot, after a while, it says sd card error. I have tried it with class10 16GB and 8GB, neither works.
Is it common that sd card reader just stop working? Cleaning might help or only replacement?
Am I trying with wrong SD card?
thanks
Which HU do you have? And how old is the car? I've put all kinds of SD cards in ours (Kingston & Sandisk and bought from Amazon) which is a Radio Swing Plus HU with no issues. Sounds more like the SD reader might be faulty in the HU.
Only thing i can think is to check that they are formatted in FAT or exFAT?
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We have a 19 plate and i thought i'd order one of the new style washer fluid caps/cups for it. The dealer website says it is for all Fabia models 2014 and later so i ordered two, one for the Fabia and one for my mk2 Superb even though it wasn't listed as a compatible model.
Anyhow they have arrived today and i fitted one to the Superb fine. Came to fit the Fabia one and as soon as i opened the bonnet i realised that the washer cap is only a couple of mm below the bonnet strut when it is in it's storage clip.
I can't see how the replacement cap is going to fit when it is approx 20mm high from top to bottom.
I'm wondering if they have changed the height of the washer inlet pipe so it sits higher now on newer cars???
Has anyone fitted one of these onto a 19 plate or newer car?
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Two questions.......
1. Why did you post this three times?
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2. Why are they all entitled “Charlie”?
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Superb reversing lights not good! UPGRADE??
in Skoda Superb Mk II (2008-2015)
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Do these better LED bulbs require coding or flag up any bulb warnings? or do they just work OK when installed?