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By pure Android, @DuploCar may be referring to AOSP (or something similar, maybe Lineage or /e/OS without Gapps) which will be Android with no customizations, no third party apps or mods, no Google Apps, and no Google Play. Google hasn't really sold a stock Android device since the Nexus, but...

Check to see if your 12V battery is pining for the fjords. If it's over 3 years old, it probably is. Worn out low voltage battery can cause a British boatload of seemingly random error codes to get thrown or even leave you stranded at the worst time.

I could deal without having yet another solved problem -- in this case refueling a vehicle -- re-solved by adding an "app" to the equation. I don't know if there's an "I don't want your app t-shirt" but I know I'm gonna get one. Unless I need an app . . .

Ya, looks like GooglePlay is a requirement for BimmerCode, maybe they do their payment thing that way . . .who knows. They could handle the error a little more gracefully, though. Since I don't play google, I thought I'd see if their Windows version worked under Wine. Haven't tried yet because...

The car logs the incident, too -- at least mine does. My service rep gave me some ribbing about being "naughty" trying to get out with the car running in drive.

You don't even need to be that tall in cold weather when the struts don't lift the hatch all the way up . . . Blindly turn around and POW! I've gotten bruises that when asked I just said "You shoulda seen the other guy."

The convenience factor when carrying stuff too big or heavy to lift over one's head would be the bigger selling point for me vs. the time saved.

We lost that battle a long time ago . . .

Correct. The app polls the appropriate BMW server (China, North America, or Rest of World depending on your location) which caches the latest stats from the car, so the only available data in the case of the remaining fuel, mileage, state of charge, electric range, fuel range, etc., etc. is the...

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That definitely makes it sound like the Rex thing, though a problem, is not the problem that's keeping your car from going. I've found my local dealer is pretty good about getting the car in and diagnosed when I report "drivability issues". That might spur your local dealer into action as well...

I didn't read in the OP's message that the high voltage battery was low . . . I reread it, but I'm still missing that part. I am -- as the kids say -- confuse.

If your car won't hardly go, check the "power bars". When you look at the display over the steering column, do you see the usual number of bars or are there fewer than normal? For example, here's mine on a coldish day, there's 4 bars on the right (ePOWER) side -- way fewer than normal, that's...

". . . PLEASE PREPAY BEFORE PUMPING" . . . nice . . .

If I ever heard someone using the phrase "board computer" in English -- which I haven't -- but if I did, I'd guess maybe it was one of those little rotating paper disc calculator thingies, in this case made specifically for carpentry . . . or maybe a device to calculate the cost of a meal plan...

They are definitely words . . . I mean, my wife suggested that it dispensed Birth Control. So why not?

On my US model at least, that button is labeled "BC" and I've never found an explanation for that that didn't involve Lucasian amounts of handwaving and Midichlorians. It's possibly "Be Confused," since you can touch it unknowingly and wonder later why your display changed. The manual isn't...

It alarms the kids that I spend enough time in my home office that I can tell that the approaching delivery vehicle is UPS, FedEx or Amazon by sound before it passes the window. But ya, there are far more obnoxious vehicle sounds that the wibble-wobble of the EV warning. (Lookin' at you...

I'm reminded of another quirk in the BMW preconditioning: IIRC, the precondition target temp is ~72F/22C. This is regardless of the thermostat temp you previously selected on the dashboard control. So you can get the possibly unexpected result of warmer or colder air coming out of the vents once...

That is the color scheme -- as viewed from behind -- of the Fluid Black i3. Hmmm, I just checked the interwebs for info on car colors and accident rates, and most of the top hits are . . . Personal Injury Attorneys' websites?!? I thought I might learn something, but that wasn't the something...