* button not working sometimes
03-11-2019, 05:02 AM
#1
Audiworld Rookie
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* button not working sometimes
Hi,
2018 S5 SB here. On 3 occasions, I noticed the * button on the steering wheel doesn't work properly. It's set to "Audi drive select" and normally works as expected, re: cycling between the different drive modes.
But on 3 occasions, it does nothing when pressed. And it wasn't a case of it working but the mmi not showing the changes -- it truly was not changing the drive mode.
I did notice on this last occasion that when I held it down for 5 seconds it brought up the screen to configure what it should be set to. It was set to drive select as expected. I changed it to something else and then back to drive select, and it started working properly.
Given that this is the 3rd time it's happened, something must be wrong. And I don't think it's a physical problem with the button itself, give what I described above. Sounds like a software bug of some kind. Anyone else have the same problem?
2018 S5 SB here. On 3 occasions, I noticed the * button on the steering wheel doesn't work properly. It's set to "Audi drive select" and normally works as expected, re: cycling between the different drive modes.
But on 3 occasions, it does nothing when pressed. And it wasn't a case of it working but the mmi not showing the changes -- it truly was not changing the drive mode.
I did notice on this last occasion that when I held it down for 5 seconds it brought up the screen to configure what it should be set to. It was set to drive select as expected. I changed it to something else and then back to drive select, and it started working properly.
Given that this is the 3rd time it's happened, something must be wrong. And I don't think it's a physical problem with the button itself, give what I described above. Sounds like a software bug of some kind. Anyone else have the same problem?
03-11-2019, 06:40 AM
#2
AudiWorld Super User
Did you try to use the button right after the car just started? sometimes it takes a while for the program to load. Electronic glitches and German cars are no strangers to each other.
03-11-2019, 07:03 AM
#3
Audiworld Rookie
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03-11-2019, 08:57 AM
#4
AudiWorld Member
I've had this happen to me once. Same situation as you, had it set to drive select and it wouldn't change modes. Switched it to a different function and then back, and it worked again.
03-11-2019, 10:32 AM
#5
Hi,
2018 S5 SB here. On 3 occasions, I noticed the * button on the steering wheel doesn't work properly. It's set to "Audi drive select" and normally works as expected, re: cycling between the different drive modes.
But on 3 occasions, it does nothing when pressed. And it wasn't a case of it working but the mmi not showing the changes -- it truly was not changing the drive mode.
I did notice on this last occasion that when I held it down for 5 seconds it brought up the screen to configure what it should be set to. It was set to drive select as expected. I changed it to something else and then back to drive select, and it started working properly.
Given that this is the 3rd time it's happened, something must be wrong. And I don't think it's a physical problem with the button itself, give what I described above. Sounds like a software bug of some kind. Anyone else have the same problem?
2018 S5 SB here. On 3 occasions, I noticed the * button on the steering wheel doesn't work properly. It's set to "Audi drive select" and normally works as expected, re: cycling between the different drive modes.
But on 3 occasions, it does nothing when pressed. And it wasn't a case of it working but the mmi not showing the changes -- it truly was not changing the drive mode.
I did notice on this last occasion that when I held it down for 5 seconds it brought up the screen to configure what it should be set to. It was set to drive select as expected. I changed it to something else and then back to drive select, and it started working properly.
Given that this is the 3rd time it's happened, something must be wrong. And I don't think it's a physical problem with the button itself, give what I described above. Sounds like a software bug of some kind. Anyone else have the same problem?
03-12-2019, 02:37 AM
#7
Club AutoUnion
I had that happen last weekend. After a mile of seeing the warnings and a rear view I couldn’t clear on the center screen, I pulled off the road, shut down the ignition, waited 10 seconds and re-started the car to clear it. That worked and everything was fine.
Random gremlin I guess.
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03-12-2019, 05:18 AM
#8
AudiWorld Super User
We all must really love our German car to put up with all these electronic glitch 
The Germans and the Japanese should get together and build a car where the German design the mechanicals and the Japanese design the electronics.
The Germans and the Japanese should get together and build a car where the German design the mechanicals and the Japanese design the electronics.
03-12-2019, 07:38 AM
#9
New model's will always have teething issues. Comes with the territory, but you'd think they'd have better coding and think some of this stuff out being German and all.
03-12-2019, 08:06 AM
#10
AudiWorld Super User
Not new. This occasional glitch with the star button has been present since Audi first introduced the function a couple of generations back. My A7 was worse, have only had this happen once on the B9 S5 SB in 2 years.