Unresponsive touch screen

[jwanderson88]

I've had my R1T for a few weeks. I'm still learning what "normal" behavior is. Today I took my Rivian to the grocery store. The touch screen was on the select ride mode function. I guess the last thing I did when I was using it previously was switch to the normal drive mode. I started down the road and it wouldn't respond to screen touches. About the only thing it would respond to was the volume icon. It would respond to upward swipes and bring up a darkened screen. The screen was very hot to the touch. I thought I would continue on and give the screen time to cool off. After a while it started responding again. The question is, was it waiting for me to do a specific action that wasn't really obvious or was the temperature of the touch screen itself causing it to malfunction. Is it normal for touch screens to stop responding when they are hot?

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[xnuywkr]

Did you do a reset of the screens? A soft one usually does the trick, but you can also do a hard reset and/or let the truck sleep for at least 30 minutes and that can reset the screens.
Both my screens went dark when I first got the truck; it turns out that there was a problem with the cooling of the screens. They bled the system and put in new coolant and all good.

 

[Mike2325]

Mine did that for the first time yesterday, I've had the vehicle since June 2022 and it has 32k miles on it.

It's been through a full summer and it's been way hotter than yesterday.
( I assumed it was the heat, but , we'll see )
It eventually just started to work when the vehicle cooled down, Coincidence? Maybe?

 

[jwanderson88]

I wonder if Rivian has heard of Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong, it will (shudder!). Having liquid-cooled screens seems like it is asking for trouble. Why not some air flow with maybe a fan or two?

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