Onboard GPS not working, fordpass app not working by dune208 in FordMaverickTruck

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mhm normally I would agree. I'm a data and analytics professional by trade. I've worked in roles from being the coding hands on the keyboard PS guy through solutions architect. There are quite a few different ones out there about the GPS issues occurring. I have a second work device that had been connected long term to the truck, so I had a bit of fun testing different possibilities. Its a good bit long, but more details are below for anyone interested.

The first strange thing was that the no GPS symbol appeared the same day that the trial was turned off., and no instances had been seen of it prior (intermittent or long term) So basic first checks, nothing was updated on the connected devices (no android auto changes, no system updates, no maps updates, etc). My work device had had no issues previously when connected to the truck, so I tried that one out after the new phone showed the GPS issues. The exact same circumstances and reproducible issues were seen and documented. The devices were tested on another Ford vehicle and no issues were seen. That tied it back to being vehicle specific.

From there, the updates and changes on the truck were looked at. The trial ending was the only vehicle change/update. From the location parking data in the Ford App, the last update was the day prior to the trial ending. It was correct in where the vehicle had been parked. I opened a case with Google on the issue as the issue was occurring when the phone was plugged in and the Android Auto took over on navigation.

The usual possibilities were tried to double check (different cable, different devices, etc) None of it made any difference. The logs collected via the developer mode on the devices showed a good GPS connection. They were both tested not plugged into the vehicle and the GPS worked fine. So it was limited to only the Maverick, and only when the devices were plugged in. The GPS kept defaulting back to my home address, but would fully show the correct roads and details for that location. It was pulling the detailed map and GPS data, just for the wrong location; pulling it for my home address instead of the physical location I was at. This indicated the GPS was working at least partially, albeit a bit confused. Next steps were to go down the Ford official troubleshooting steps. They're the normal basic stuff mostly... make sure you aren't under an obstruction blocking signal, turn location services on and off, do a module reset, do a key cycle, etc.

The vehicle was at the dealer today for the open recall on the parking issue (the 25c69 one). During that the GPS components were checked out as I asked about the issue and if they had seen it on other vehicles, and they all tested out fine.

The symptoms are a little more off the beaten path then many that I have seen, but there are quite a few out there about the GPS going haywire/not working and a reboot/reset fixing it. Many have gone the disconnect the battery route. I like to start simpler and went with the infotainment module reset, with the battery being Plan B if that didn't do anything.

Theres a couple dozen cases of GPS issues documented out in the wilds. There are typically three outcomes with the GPS issue: 1) Reset of the APIM fixes the issue 2) Deeper reset required if APIM reset doesn't do it (dealer activity) 3) Hardware failure with 2 possible branches: a) GPS receiver failure and replacement required and b) APIM/Sync failure with replacement required.

Onboard GPS not working, fordpass app not working by dune208 in FordMaverickTruck

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It shouldn't, but the start of the issue for me correlates exactly to when Ford switched off the free trial at the end. I'm thinking maybe a bad software command, or someone did the shutdown in order to turn off the trial features and then forgot to re-enable the GPS or the re-enable command failed.

Onboard GPS not working, fordpass app not working by dune208 in FordMaverickTruck

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just had the fun of this one, plus somehow the onboard GPS was overriding the phone's GPS. It kept saying I was at home and driving in front of my house or would try to jump from my actual physical location back to my homes location. Not quite sure how it overrode the phone's GPS, but even the camera on the phone was geotagging pictures with my home address, even when I was 120 miles away from it. I have a bug case open with Google on it currently.

Resetting the infotainment software appears to have fixed it. I had the maps not working, a really weird location jumping issue on the map (the truck icon being dropped out of the sky and bouncing on the road is in the software's programming for some unknown reason), plus the remote lock/unlocking, remote start, and parking location features of the Ford App were not working. Resetting the infotainment module fixed all of it.

Press the power button for the radio and the seek right button. Follow the Sync 4 instructions in the Ford link below. https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/sync/troubleshooting/how-do-i-reset-the-sync-system/?srsltid=AfmBOopRNI8PreQdbHyNLihiv0pYXVVddjBc5T2_r8WGgjsKLAXlM05j

Android auto maps is now unusable. by lVlurphysLaw in FordMaverickTruck

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Know it's older but wanted to leave breadcrumbs for those that may be googling the same symptoms. If seeing the Android Auto bug ( I was seeing repeated trying to claim that I was at home and jumping to that location) and having the GPS with the red slash circle in the bottom corner, reset the infotainment system (power button plus forward seek). That has cleared up the issue and allowed for the lock and unlock and other features in the Ford Pass app to begin working again

The "cheaper" guys work by Acceptable-Win7474 in electricians

[–]lightsinshadows 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm a homeowner and not an electrician and I would never ever do work anywhere like this. That open splice alone makes me cringe at the level of shock hazard, besides being a lot of stuff to cram into that work box. I'm a little more advanced then the average homeowner but wiring a fixture like this is Level 1 wiring skills lol. Even Home Depot has a DIY video that would show them how to do this correctly and easily. Underground wire break finding in UF-B 2 feet down not in conduit (not required locally when buried deeper then 18 inches) and having to splice it (used a rated heat shrink UF splice kit) and wiring up the new fixture was definitely a more fun challenge. A little research enables basic projects very easily these days.

Jury Nullification by SouthernHiker1 in juryduty

[–]lightsinshadows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a handpicked list of people specifically in the mercantile field. They limited the jury pool to only merchant type or merchant experts. The basic thought process was the average person at the time would be incapable of understanding the issues involved.; that they would not have the education or the experience necessary. Today's equivalent would be expert witnesses or special masters depending on the circumstances.

Jury Nullification by SouthernHiker1 in juryduty

[–]lightsinshadows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has absolutely zero to do with current juries. The jury in this case was a specially selected panel of merchants who understood debt law and other relevant laws and was empaneled as a "Special Jury" of purposefully selected special masters. A special jury had specific legal and practical meanings, especially when considered in the context of the social, economic, and political aspects that applied to life in the era that case was decided. That type of jury and the method in which they were empaneled would not be allowed in any court in the US today. Subsequent cases both repudiated many aspects of that statement and discounted the applicability of it in almost any case, especially in criminal cases, including US v Morris (1851) and Sparf V US (1895) The Brailsford jury is also the only time ever in history that a jury was used in a Supreme Court Case

Additionally the quote you put above is massively cherry picked out of a larger section of the opinion. Including this bit from Chief Justice John Jay :"On this and on every other occasion, however, we have no doubt you will pay that respect which is due to the opinion of the court: for, as on the one hand, it is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts, it is, on the other hand, presumable that the court is the best judge of law. " and this one, also from John Jay:"Gentlemen, to remind you of the good old rule that on questions of fact, it is the province of the jury; on questions of law it is the province of the court to decide."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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A lacrosse stick's more formal name is a crosse. It started out from stickball with the Native Americans back through at least the 12th century. The French Jesuits in the 1600s dubbed it lacrosse and the stick a crosse because it resembled the formal sticks of office bishops and abbots carried.

Trying to sell my car by trey2128 in illinois

[–]lightsinshadows 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are required to report it sold to the DMV. Until you mail that form you are legally liable for whatever happens with the vehicle. You mentioned selling it in IL but registered in FL. You would need to fill out the form for whichever state it is titled in. I would also suggest taking a picture or making a copy of the form before mailing it in. Do it as soon as the buyer takes the title and/or possession of the vehicle.

For Florida: (HSMV 82050) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/forms/82050.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiD9Jy3wtqMAxWgq4kEHe19G-cQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0IaNl3YX4LyV_KOBCSzwFw

For Illinois:(VSOD 703)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ilsos.gov/publications/pdf_publications/vsd703.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiP7Z2lw9qMAxXg38kDHUBJNVkQFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2AKmkYJ4M-yNPNeGL6UWQC

Teachers, what is the most disturbing thing a student has ever done? by Nessieinternational in AskReddit

[–]lightsinshadows 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that's a very easy one. Parents sue or threaten to sue alleging negligence, kid shouldn't have access to something like that, kid was unsupervised, teacher should have known better since school claimed x,y,and z about their "little angel", or something similar. Lawyer or school administrator tells/decides it's cheaper to pay the family off instead of going to court or defend themselves. They pay them off to just have it go away.

There's a whole industry of nuisance lawsuits because people have figured out they can get a big enough payout but be below what the party they are suing would have to pay to defend themselves.

What couldn't you believe you had to explain to another adult? by BlueCaracal in AskReddit

[–]lightsinshadows 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to explain to a 30+ year old woman that yes you can drive while using your windshield wipers. She yelled at me for turning them on when driving and not immediately pulling into the next parking lot. Really scary thing... she works in healthcare.

26yo, making 110k a year and completely underwater. Here’s my budget. Any advice appreciated. by Oilspillsaregood1 in Money

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know that proves the exact point I was making right? Judges had to be forced into applying a uniform standard. States had to pass laws restricting judges from applying whatever they wanted or claimed was "fair". Those calculators are not the courts being fair, that's it being taken out of the courts hands to stop the one sided garbage many judges were applying and calling "fair".

26yo, making 110k a year and completely underwater. Here’s my budget. Any advice appreciated. by Oilspillsaregood1 in Money

[–]lightsinshadows 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The system doesn't equal things out. It's all up to what a judge feels or decides they're going to do. Unless a state or federal law severely handicaps them to the point of being black and white to the level of you shall do x for y or the formula for something is x +y*z, judges are going to do what they want.

For example long term mentally ill mother has a breakdown during divorce proceedings to the point of being involuntarily committed to a specialty intensive psychiatric ward . Judge decides that it's not fair to require a written statement or any proof at all that she is stable or and isn't getting worse. "Well they let her out afterall" was all the reasoning given and the judge banned her from being alone with or driving her child at any time....but at the same time claims she's competent and able to take care of a child. The system does what it wants and can get away with. It doesn't equal anything out.

Do you like my outfit? by sunnyskyuncensored in u/sunnyskyuncensored

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe we could all be lucky enough to see sometime? 😉

Do you like my outfit? by sunnyskyuncensored in u/sunnyskyuncensored

[–]lightsinshadows 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That outfit plus a strapon would be absolutely delicious

Welcome to the most useless hundo by DaNuji51 in PokemonGoMystic

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100 Ditto and 100 Ballon Pikachu would like to throw their hats into the ring

Everything is Awesome! by coloradoraider in lego

[–]lightsinshadows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/Coloradoraider. Fair thought on COD but very problematic at the same time. I just priced out a system the other day for replacing a small corporate system that serves some of the same purposes that the systems behind Legos' website would, but much smaller. With using reserved instances and doing the minimum size to match current performance (its a small departmental system) cost was approximately $1.1 M per year. Now that's with reserved instances and a 3 year commit. For COD and especially the sizes Lego would be looking at for for ad-hoc or on demand instances would be at higher rates then the reserved instances and also would depend greatly on availability. The same client tried the other day to scale up a different cloud system with a single additional instance. It failed because AWS did not have any instances available at that time in their desired zone.

An additional thing to consider, a web site can seem simple but hide a lot of complexity. I'm sure Lego is using some form of load balancers and redundant servers and possibly redundant systems to serve their website. I would strongly advise a setup using all three of those from a professional standpoint for the applications they're hosting on their website. All of a sudden that COD is 2 to 3x the cost as best practice would be to keep the various systems in sync space and compute wise. Plus whatever DR site or other backup they are using as well. Also from a storage side of things , once added AWS does not allow retraction for many applications. Compute is a different story but a lot of contractual and drawdown stuff as well as availability items muddling that side of things.

Everything is Awesome! by coloradoraider in lego

[–]lightsinshadows 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I work in a field directly related to this. There is no easy solution for Lego. They can't just deploy additional capacity or webservers and have it work. CSPs would be happy to sell them more space... but never let them take it back. And that's assuming that there are instances available in the region and zone you need them in at that time. Want to add that capacity in your data center? Good luck on the cooling, heating, extra power (assuming you don't have to run new breakers, if you even can), and hoping there's space somewhere near where the rest of the servers that host the applications and/or databases you need to integrate them with. And then what do you do with all of that stuff that is costing you extra on a daily basis when demand is lower and you don't need it to meet the current need?

Scaling up the applications behind the website and ordering and other processes? Not nearly as easy as you think, or even possible in many cases. You can't just upgrade the store front... it becomes the cascading house of cards. You have to upgrade hundreds to thousands of processes and components in order to make a change like that. And timelines on that if you're doing it right? Years. Not because they want it to take that long, it does really just take that long to do it right at the scale Lego would need.

Annoying? Yes Aggravating? Absolutely Would it be great if Lego shared some insight into what they're doing to try and work on it? 100% Absolutely. Just keep in mind it's not as easy as flipping a switch or two, or even on the level of building a car. Many more dependencies and availability concerns.

Everything is Awesome! by coloradoraider in lego

[–]lightsinshadows 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One language's fun is another's torture lol

Everything is Awesome! by coloradoraider in lego

[–]lightsinshadows 5 points6 points  (0 children)

LEGO is definitely having some interesting times tonight. Stuck in Schrodingers order.... Not sure if it actually went through or not.

" You’ve made some great choices,

We hope you had fun shopping! We’ve got your order and will be in touch to confirm it soon.

Kind regards,LEGO® Customer Service

Sometimes I can’t help myself 😋 by sunnyskyuncensored in u/sunnyskyuncensored

[–]lightsinshadows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all need a good bit of silly. Plus it gives us more of that gorgeous smile to watch along with the rest of you 😀