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OBD does not reconnect after lost

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Did a roadtrip over the last 4 days with the veepeak ble+ connected to my 2025 Ioniq 5 sel and iPhone 16 pro max with iOS 26.5. The connection is fairly stable after allowing location “always”. However what happened consistently several times is that while driving and using CarPlay we’d pick up the phone and while ABRP is slowly loading on the phone we’d switch apps and at that point the connection would be lost. Even when switching back to ABRP the connection is dead. The only way to resume it was to go back to vehicle settings in the app and link the obd device again OR to kill the app. After starting the app again it was fine but it’s hugely inconvenient. Also killing the app while a drive is active in CarPlay hung a few times so had to stop the drive first, kill the iOS app, start it, then click drive again. Nice that it remembers the plan at least.

There should be more concern and features from the app if the live connection is stale to let the user tell the app to reconnect and see feedback that the app is trying to connect.

The app should try harder to resume the connection.

The app should resume faster when navigating in the background. The splash screen shows for actual seconds.

Thanks!

Where does this happen?
ABRP version number (found at bottom of settings menu)
Posted by ABRP User #2415998 ·
Status: Awaiting Clarification3 comments

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  • DerWaz

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    Jun 8

    I encounter similar issues with vlinker BM in bmw i3. Once the Connection is lost its realy hard to get it back. I need to kill the app, shut down car, remove obd dongle…and even then its 50:50.

  • Linda ABRP

    Team•

    Jun 2

    Hi

    The Veepeak obd is not an OBD we recommend. You can read here Choosing an OBD device about the ones we recommend.

    • ABRP User #2415998

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      Jun 2

      Thanks I’m aware that you don’t recommend it but I don’t think it’s really the issue here. It works well for extended periods of time generally.

      I’ve written ELDs for the trucking world over Bluetooth with iOS and I’m trying to provide some suggestions if you’ll look in my comments. It’s really not ok that I have to kill the app to get it to reconnect. This is fixable if y’all prioritize that experience - which I think you should since otherwise you can be driving without live data for quite a long time.