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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: New SR/F and SR/S firmware
« on: August 11, 2022, 02:30:27 PM »
Wrt firmware updates - I consistently got failures when trying to update my SR/S until I drove it to an area where there was guaranteed no bluetooth interference and then the update process completed. Both BMS and MBB.
One thing that was a bit concerning during this process though is that in the first step, the app seemed to indefinitely stay at the "Waiting for bike" stage. This followed the entire update process on the bike including a reboot. The bt indicator in the dashboard was also lit up, indicating that the bike was connected to the app. After waiting for a few minutes in this state, I figured the process had actually completed and that there was a bug in the app.
So I carried on to the next update. The same thing happened there basically except that I waited even longer for the app to get out of the "waiting" stage. Several minutes. At some point, the bike then actually rebooted again and then the app responded. So I'm happy that I did... but it was close.
It's not clear to me what the implications could have been if I had assumed that the process had completed and it was simply that the app was buggy. It would have been pretty bad if I'd bricked the bike of course. But alas, things appear to be fine now. It's just that after years of the app being unreliable, I'm basically assuming bugs rather than things working correctly. The SR/S is my 3rd Zero bike btw and I think the bikes are awesome. But this aspect of it, a differentiator where things should really shine, could be executed better.
One thing that was a bit concerning during this process though is that in the first step, the app seemed to indefinitely stay at the "Waiting for bike" stage. This followed the entire update process on the bike including a reboot. The bt indicator in the dashboard was also lit up, indicating that the bike was connected to the app. After waiting for a few minutes in this state, I figured the process had actually completed and that there was a bug in the app.
So I carried on to the next update. The same thing happened there basically except that I waited even longer for the app to get out of the "waiting" stage. Several minutes. At some point, the bike then actually rebooted again and then the app responded. So I'm happy that I did... but it was close.
It's not clear to me what the implications could have been if I had assumed that the process had completed and it was simply that the app was buggy. It would have been pretty bad if I'd bricked the bike of course. But alas, things appear to be fine now. It's just that after years of the app being unreliable, I'm basically assuming bugs rather than things working correctly. The SR/S is my 3rd Zero bike btw and I think the bikes are awesome. But this aspect of it, a differentiator where things should really shine, could be executed better.
Actually already talked to one that's at least interested in checking out the bike. I think this year was bad timing for a dealer to be stepping out of the game - but I guess I'm a bit biased.
