iSmart App

The dealership have now told me that their branch no longer carry out diagnostic work (the diagnostic work has been centralised at their other branch). I should now either contact a local MG dealership or contact their alternative branch to ask for a warranty repair to investigate how to get the communication re-established to the iSMART app. This appears to be another example of the culture of “washing their hands of the product” as soon as it is sold.
 
On the failed iSMART communication. I took the car to my local MG dealership for the warranty repair. It turns out that the blanked "Telecommunication version" was the key indicator. The T-Box had crashed and required a reset. I was told this is not a user action and the glovebox had to be removed to access the T-Box to reset it.

As soon as they reset it, everything came back. The "Telecommunication version" now reads as it did before 1.04.001.z02 instead of -.

I had tried:
1. Factory reset
2. Removal of the battery negative and re-connection
3. removal of the user in iSMART
etc, nothing brought the Telecommunication version software back except the visit to the dealership service centre.

Thankfully all covered under the warranty.
 
Interestingly I have the same issue. All communication with the iSmart services and cloud seem to have stopped. My display still shows "4G" and full signal strength, but the display (RHD, so RH screen) shows "the network is not available, please check the network". It looks like the SIM card (eSIM?) in the vehicle has beed disabled.

Dealer says "MG stopped the server - sorry".
 
My experience of MG dealers (although limited to just 2 dealers) is that their technicians have very limited training. The first dealership I was working with (where I bought the vehicle) have stopped doing diagnostics at that branch, which led me to changing to a more local dealer. The more recent dealer technician was much more confidence inspiring and solved the problem within hours of my leaving the car (including getting authority for the warranty repair).

If your dealer is correct and that MG stopped the server, we would all be experiencing the same symptoms. I am not currently near my car, so I cannot confirm if I am experiencing the same. I can however confirm that iSMART has access to the car now (10:45 8th September). Maybe someone else here can confirm that their connectivity experience in their car is normal.

If everyone else’s is normal, it appears that your T-box may have a fault (this was the case with mine, my symptoms were slightly different in that everything appears to work except there were no responses to iSMART).

It is possible your dealership may have misdiagnosed the fault.

First thing though, have you tried a factory reset from Right screen, Settings, System.

Next try the unbind and rebind. It is possible that the activations may have become deactivated.
 
Mine appears to be working okay ( at the moment ).
I have just noticed that when running the “Health Check” from the tab, the S5 only reports 4 items.
The old App on the ZS EV was about 11 I think 💭.
There is no 12 volt battery status report anymore 😢.
 
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