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Usb-C ports in front
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Assuming you are talking about the new center console, they are in the compartment with the sliding door. They are in the rear of the compartment. You probably have to lean forward to see them. There is also a usb a port in the glove box meant for the dashcam flash drive.
Stick you phone down in the front center console compartment with the camera facing the cup holders and snap a picture. That is how I verified that they are indeed there
Keith
iamnid
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They are no longer toward the front of the console (front of the car). They are now on the back of the console.
Stick you phone down in the front center console compartment with the camera facing the cup holders and snap a picture. That is how I verified that they are indeed there
Keith
Thanks Keith! I had looked and looked. The Phone Camera is better than my eyes.
iamnid
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Here. You can see I have stuff plugged into both ports.
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angus[Y]oung
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Weirdly, my OnePlus phone will not charge from either of the in-console USB-C ports (refreshed console)--it keeps connecting and disconnecting about once per second. Interestingly however, it charges just fine in either of the ports for the back seat, and my partner's older Samsung phone charges fine using the front ports. It's not a big deal, I can just snake the cable to the back seat ports in the rare situation that I need it (my phone also does not have wireless charging sadly).
The front ports are data transfer as well as charging, your phone is probably requesting you to give permission to link up as a USB device and kicking out of charging, then trying again and again over and over.
Keith
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@Fourdoor that's possible. I'll try again at some point. I thought I had the USB setting in the phone set for charging only actually but possible I changed it "temporarily" for something and forgot to set it back
Another dumb question.
When I plug my USB-a drives (with a USB-c adapter) into these front console ports to listen to my music (Just music, nothing else), it all shows up on the screen, but I get 'Error Loading' when I play any song.
Today I plugged them into a Model S (USB-a) and they worked perfectly.
Also tried plugging them into the USB-a Sentry Port in the glove box with the same 'Error Loading'.
What am I doing wrong? Does anyone use a USB Drive for music in the '21 Model Y, and what kind are you using?
When I plug my USB-a drives (with a USB-c adapter) into these front console ports to listen to my music (Just music, nothing else), it all shows up on the screen, but I get 'Error Loading' when I play any song.
Today I plugged them into a Model S (USB-a) and they worked perfectly.
Also tried plugging them into the USB-a Sentry Port in the glove box with the same 'Error Loading'.
What am I doing wrong? Does anyone use a USB Drive for music in the '21 Model Y, and what kind are you using?
Does the Model S allow different formatting of the drive perhaps? I don't know myself, just throwing out a possibility.
Keith
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If you look at my photo, you'll see that one of the ports has a USB C to A adapter and then a tiny Samsung USB thumb drive attached for music. I just formatted it in windows to whatever is the default format before putting my music on it
You need the format the drive to exFat or Fat32. ext4 works fine too since the OS running inside the Tesla is Linux. The default file format windows uses is NTFS, you’ll need to use another tool to format your drive (people who use windows can help you such tool).
Weird, it looks like this flash drive is USB 2.0. You will not be able to use this drive for sentry mode, but you should be able to use it for music. The last thing I would try is a different USB-C to USB A adapter.
iamnid
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plug the drive into your car. Somewhere in the car's menu is the option to format the drive.
Car settings under “Security” > “Format USB device”.
Format it in the car. Unplug it and then put it into your computer. Delete the teslacam folder and add your music. See if that works.
Car settings under “Security” > “Format USB device”.
Format it in the car. Unplug it and then put it into your computer. Delete the teslacam folder and add your music. See if that works.
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Same result - 'Loading Error'
In the Safety & Security section you can reformat the USB in the glove box port. So I did.
Brought it back in the house and plugged it into the PC, where I erased the Tesla Cam files. Then reloaded some music. Same result.
I do appreciate the ideas - Thanks.
In the Safety & Security section you can reformat the USB in the glove box port. So I did.
Brought it back in the house and plugged it into the PC, where I erased the Tesla Cam files. Then reloaded some music. Same result.
I do appreciate the ideas - Thanks.
If it matters (?) I can plug the USB into the Sentry port in the glove box (No Adapter) and still get the same results.
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