REBOOTING

I'm afraid I'm in the camp that thinks this is complete nonsense, it's the equivalent of a perpetual motion machine, creating extra mileage out of thin air. I'm looking forward to the results proving you wrong...!

 

Maybe we should add a cold fusion charger in the trunk as well.

Mike

 

Rebooting is not a way of getting a computer to work correctly. Rebooting simply puts the computer into a known state. In the embedded consumer world where things are cheap and poorly programmed, rebooting "fixes" things because the code has gone off into the weeds taking a branch that "was never supposed to happen". For a device with a full operating system that the user can control and modify, like a consumer computer/phone/tablet/whatever, most of the instability does not come from the core code but from all the little add-on packs that consumers insist on installing from hundreds of different disjointed vendors that do not always play nicely together. A reboot in that situation puts everything into a known state again where any ill advised interactions between processes is halted at least temporarily.

An embedded automotive computer shares no resemblance to anything else that you own with a power button. There are also failsafes and watchdogs built in that automatically reset the code and keep track of it if it runs into the weeds with an accompanying error light on the dash saying some bad has happened. What you are doing is not so much resetting the computers, as re initializing the variables.

The 1 and only premise for any argument that can be made is that you somehow continually are able to make the Prius store in its less-volatile memory variables and fudge factors that when combined create erroneous readings of the battery's state of charge. And we call hooey on such a silly assumption especially when backed up with no data. Something that you are continually able to find that nobody else in all the man years of Toyota testing over the decades from 1993 have ever found, you are able to find and reproduce consistently...

 

Bumped, in the hope that Priusmpg has some stats for us. Will PM too.

 

is there a third way for rebooting the computer because these two have not helped.

 

Hey, don't start introducing reality...

 

what problem are you having?

 

I have started a new conversation stating my problem and included your name in the participants. Please see the description there. Thank you.

 

first, check your 12 volt battery. then test the hybrid battery, if it is dead, you need a special charger that only the dealer has. do you have a dealer in your area?

 

I have checked the 12 V battery, it is charged and working fine. We have dealers but they only sell conventional hybrids. Trying to find a local mechanic or electrician who can help me with this.

 

you should start a new thread in the plug in forum. or even the gen III care, maintenance and troubles forum, to hopefully get some experts looking at your problem and asking questions.