Hi all, do you know if there is a VCDS setting I can change so that when I put the car into reverse it shows the parking sensor screen as default rather than the camera display as it does now.

 

Weird request I know, but I dont really find the camera a help and would rather have the traditional parking sensor display when reversing.

 

These are the two screens:

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

Edited 26 June, 20187 yr by Plantman

not weird - I have the camera and agree with you

1 hour ago, Jaco2k said:

not weird - I have the camera and agree with you

I agree 500%

I hate the camera

Might come from years of truck driving but that camera is almost a hazard as far as I'm concerned

You can completely disable the camera on the 5F module by unticking byte 19 bit 4.

The default screen probably can't be changed.

Thanks, nah I want my cake....so I want to reverse the default action, so when putting it into reverse it just shows the sensor screen as the default. I still want the option to press the button to choose camera though should I feel a weird need to use it

 

Don't want to disable it ...just swap the options around.

 

 

Edited 27 June, 20187 yr by Plantman

20 hours ago, aki78 said:

You can completely disable the camera on the 5F module by unticking byte 19 bit 4.

The default screen probably can't be changed.

I haven't looked into this myself yet (I have OBD11, but not VCDS)... but does anyone know if the camera screen can be made to stay on longer, AFTER you take it out of Reverse and back into Gear?
Opposite to the OP's question.

I'd like to see the camera screen still showing as I drive away, for several seconds before switching off.... for things like noticing if I've remembered to close the garage door, or if the wife is running down the road chasing me with my forgotten lunch, etc, etc.
And yes, I know I can just look in the rear-view mirror for that.... in which case, why do any of us bother having reverse camera?

8 minutes ago, spinifex said:

I haven't looked into this myself yet (I have OBD11, but not VCDS)... but does anyone know if the camera screen can be made to stay on longer, AFTER you take it out of Reverse and back into Gear?
Opposite to the OP's question.

I'd like to see the camera screen still showing as I drive away, for several seconds before switching off.... for things like noticing if I've remembered to close the garage door, or if the wife is running down the road chasing me with my forgotten lunch, etc, etc.
And yes, I know I can just look in the rear-view mirror for that.... in which case, why do any of us bother having reverse camera?

 

Maybe for those with small wives that chase them down the road, not visible below the rear windscreen? 

 

I find it useful just to check I'm not about to reverse over a kids toy they've left lying behind the car on the driveway for example - the sensors don't always pick up low lying obstacles, or moving obstacles like kids about to run behind you...

My reverse screen stays on until the door locks kick in at around 15/20mph - slower than that and the reverse screen stays on.

1 hour ago, YMe said:

My reverse screen stays on until the door locks kick in at around 15/20mph - slower than that and the reverse screen stays on.

 

Wow... mine doesn't. It goes off as soon as I take it out of reverse.

Is yours a facelift model?  As a FL model I used as a loan car a couple of times (while mine got serviced), the camera stayed on a lot longer, as you've described.
And it had a lot more view settings options to fiddle around with, in the camera view screen.

Mine is a pre-FL model, vRS.

3 hours ago, YMe said:

My reverse screen stays on until the door locks kick in at around 15/20mph - slower than that and the reverse screen stays on.

 Same here FL vRS 230 DSG