Another HD-GPS road test
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 2,199
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From: Long Island NY
Some of the problems or inconsistencies:
1. We always use "scenic" setting on the bike. "Twisty" got us into dirt roads. We also found that sometimes "scenic" would route us off the i-state and onto a side road for some kinda interesting or notable road or landmark. Have to ignore the directions to pull off the i-state if we are looking to make quick time.
2. Using 20 or 30 waypoints means that the voice prompt is always cutting into the music to yak about the next waypoint. Gets annoying!
3. Yes, you can turn down the voice prompt to mute, but it will still cut out the music; just with silence while the prompt still tries to do its thing.
4. Yes, you can turn off the voice prompt. Its buried within the menu and not a quick or easy thing to get to.
5. if you don't zoom WAY the f&uck in while adding waypoints, rideplanner is liable to drop the waypoint 100 yards off the road and then try to force you down some bullsh!t turn to get to the waypoint. You gotta zoom way in and make sure the waypoint drops at the right place.
6. If you need to bypass a waypoint (because of item 5 above or another reason), at least the GPS lets you do it with a few button pushes. The Garmin would make a modest attempt to route you back to the waypoint and if you ignored the "recalculated" advice, it was smart enough to realize it and move on to the next waypoint. That is how it should work!!!
9. I always get the "unpaved "roads" warning every time I start a route. Requires me to touch the screen to accept. Every time!! I'm not riding dirt roads, but I think it is a default setting, cause I have over 20 waypoints, which causes a warning to pop up in rideplanner when I add them.
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Now to talk about the Audio/phone portion of the boombox; Have mixed feeling about this p[art also. Great concept; just poor and inconsistent performance. I'm currently on version 1.9.1; soon to be 1.9.2
1. Sometimes my usb stick just wont get recognized. Restarting off bike usually fixes that.
2. USB is slow to get recognized when bike is started
3. Upon a restart, almost NEVER goes back to music source that was playing before. Either defaults to weatherband or FM; usually FM
4. Upon restart, about 75% of the time, the bluetooth will not reestablish. Have to go to the com menu and reselect the bluetooth icon to get it to initialize and start again. That's bullsh!t!
5. Randomly, all the favorites I have set up will disappear and get replaced by weatherband ones. This doesn't happen very often but has happened a few times.
6. Sometimes the voice activation will not respond and I have to restart bike to get it working again.
1. We always use "scenic" setting on the bike. "Twisty" got us into dirt roads. We also found that sometimes "scenic" would route us off the i-state and onto a side road for some kinda interesting or notable road or landmark. Have to ignore the directions to pull off the i-state if we are looking to make quick time.
2. Using 20 or 30 waypoints means that the voice prompt is always cutting into the music to yak about the next waypoint. Gets annoying!
3. Yes, you can turn down the voice prompt to mute, but it will still cut out the music; just with silence while the prompt still tries to do its thing.
4. Yes, you can turn off the voice prompt. Its buried within the menu and not a quick or easy thing to get to.
5. if you don't zoom WAY the f&uck in while adding waypoints, rideplanner is liable to drop the waypoint 100 yards off the road and then try to force you down some bullsh!t turn to get to the waypoint. You gotta zoom way in and make sure the waypoint drops at the right place.
6. If you need to bypass a waypoint (because of item 5 above or another reason), at least the GPS lets you do it with a few button pushes. The Garmin would make a modest attempt to route you back to the waypoint and if you ignored the "recalculated" advice, it was smart enough to realize it and move on to the next waypoint. That is how it should work!!!
9. I always get the "unpaved "roads" warning every time I start a route. Requires me to touch the screen to accept. Every time!! I'm not riding dirt roads, but I think it is a default setting, cause I have over 20 waypoints, which causes a warning to pop up in rideplanner when I add them.
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Now to talk about the Audio/phone portion of the boombox; Have mixed feeling about this p[art also. Great concept; just poor and inconsistent performance. I'm currently on version 1.9.1; soon to be 1.9.2
1. Sometimes my usb stick just wont get recognized. Restarting off bike usually fixes that.
2. USB is slow to get recognized when bike is started
3. Upon a restart, almost NEVER goes back to music source that was playing before. Either defaults to weatherband or FM; usually FM
4. Upon restart, about 75% of the time, the bluetooth will not reestablish. Have to go to the com menu and reselect the bluetooth icon to get it to initialize and start again. That's bullsh!t!
5. Randomly, all the favorites I have set up will disappear and get replaced by weatherband ones. This doesn't happen very often but has happened a few times.
6. Sometimes the voice activation will not respond and I have to restart bike to get it working again.
1. I'm pretty sure I read on here that you should keep the Boom setting on "Fastest" when you're following a route. Don't know why, hopefully someone will chime in on that one.
2. Agree but not sure if there's another option.
3.&4. I think both the voice prompts and the music are 2 different settings. I've turned the music down to mute and still have the nav prompts. And rather then dig to turn down the nav prompts just use the volume joystick while the lady is talking. Or use the repeat tab to get her talking again and then lower the volume while she's gabbing away.
5. I've noticed if I place a waypoint off in a field, on the water or someplace inaccessible the system lets me go right past it and continue on. But if I place that waypoint up on a road a couple of hundred feet it wants me to turn up that road to hit the waypoint. But it will in advance tell me to turn up the road AND THEN turn around, if I'm quick enough I can get to the "skip next waypoint" tab and skip that W/P BEFORE it starts nagging me, it kinda gives you advance notice that it wants you to turn and it's gonna bust 'em if you don't.
6. Agree, it would be nice if the system was a little more intuitive.
9. Happens to me occasionally too and a lot of times the warnings are bogus, no unpaved road on the route.
Now to your second section...
1.&2. I noticed the USB does take a long time to get recognized, I wonder if the system has to read all the songs on it before it will boot up. Most of the time it's faster just to go to Media and click USB.
3. The 9.2 should fix that, it did on mine when I updated to the 9.2, it would MOST of the time go back to where I left off. I had other issues with the 9.2 and have gone back to the 9.1, hopefully the 9.3 will fix all the problems.
6. I've had no luck at all with voice activation, don't even bother anymore. Only thing it will let me do is cancel an ongoing route.
Good luck, hope this helps a little...
Last edited by IUOE ROB; May 13, 2016 at 03:25 PM.
Road Captain
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 713
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From: Castle Rock, Colorado
Nah no Honda, his "buddy" has a Yamaha with a Garmin, I believe that's what he's hoping for. Obvious he will never be happy, he'll have to live with it or sell it, b itching about it will accomplish nothing here. Maybe he would get more sympathy by post his concerns on a Yamaha website.
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 23,003
Likes: 11,441
So many people are never happy. Don't know what they got into, low information riders. They are generally like that in the life.
Last night I met up with wife a some family out of town for dinner. After it was late and raining. Of course I was on the bike. Wife joking said enjoy the wet ride home.
I knew where I was and a route home, but was there a faster way? Turned on the darn GPS hit home. She had a few minutes head start.
I was on my second cup of coffee when she pulled in. Last week, had a truck delivering to a job sight, different than ship address. Not hard address to give him. I ran over on the bike, pulled up the grid and a local gas station and gave it to him worked fine. Not going to navigate my entire life on a GPS of any brand but it is a tool .
Used the darn thing more in the last three weeks than sense I bought the bike. Learn to use it not let it run you.
Last night I met up with wife a some family out of town for dinner. After it was late and raining. Of course I was on the bike. Wife joking said enjoy the wet ride home.
I knew where I was and a route home, but was there a faster way? Turned on the darn GPS hit home. She had a few minutes head start.
I was on my second cup of coffee when she pulled in. Last week, had a truck delivering to a job sight, different than ship address. Not hard address to give him. I ran over on the bike, pulled up the grid and a local gas station and gave it to him worked fine. Not going to navigate my entire life on a GPS of any brand but it is a tool .
Used the darn thing more in the last three weeks than sense I bought the bike. Learn to use it not let it run you.
Road Warrior
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,422
Likes: 278
From: USA
Learning the Boom GPS and stop comparing it to a Garmin will make your day a little easier and less frustrating.
It's like going from a Windows computer to a Mac.
People should read the book "Who Moved My Cheese"
Be more like Haw and less like Hem. (Learn to change) or better yet, Sniff and Scurry who always adapt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F
Also have the current Boom! manual not the one that came with the bike. It changes with updates.
Current one can be found here under Radios: http://www.harley-davidson.com/conte...nt/radios.html
And there is a online reference guide: http://boombox.harley-davidson.com/premium.html
Mine worked well since I got it while the HD / hk updates fixed my radio issues. I went to nav tech site to update gps and it's got a lot better / way more accurate. Currently everything is working as it should and I am totally impressed with it.
I can't see how people keep on ranting " what a piece of crap boom audio is " especially when they own a 2016xxxx. They knew people have been ripping it apart since 14 but they still decide to get one. Who's fault is that now ?
Yes every so often it takes me a route that is a little different than I would of taken but it still gets me there with no issues in a timely fashion. Honestly even if it took me a way that is longer I don't care. I got the bike to ride it so I look at it as more saddle time. It's much better than stopping and looking at maps or having some big phone and or aftermarket gps stuck to dash or hanging off my apes....
Of course anyone can find a fault with something but the real mission is to figure out a way to fix or get around those faults. This is what we got now let's make the best of it. Hey it's much better than my Walkman [yes a tape] in jacket pocket with headphones on like I used to do 15 years ago.
Just be happy we now have something to help guide us along our route. I never put 100 percent faith in gps's anyways. I always like to know my route before I go so if gps gets lost stolen or broke I am not assed out.
I can't see how people keep on ranting " what a piece of crap boom audio is " especially when they own a 2016xxxx. They knew people have been ripping it apart since 14 but they still decide to get one. Who's fault is that now ?
Yes every so often it takes me a route that is a little different than I would of taken but it still gets me there with no issues in a timely fashion. Honestly even if it took me a way that is longer I don't care. I got the bike to ride it so I look at it as more saddle time. It's much better than stopping and looking at maps or having some big phone and or aftermarket gps stuck to dash or hanging off my apes....
Of course anyone can find a fault with something but the real mission is to figure out a way to fix or get around those faults. This is what we got now let's make the best of it. Hey it's much better than my Walkman [yes a tape] in jacket pocket with headphones on like I used to do 15 years ago.
Just be happy we now have something to help guide us along our route. I never put 100 percent faith in gps's anyways. I always like to know my route before I go so if gps gets lost stolen or broke I am not assed out.
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Tourer
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 310
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From: Chesapeake
Mine worked well since I got it while the HD / hk updates fixed my radio issues. I went to nav tech site to update gps and it's got a lot better / way more accurate. Currently everything is working as it should and I am totally impressed with it.
I can't see how people keep on ranting " what a piece of crap boom audio is " especially when they own a 2016xxxx. They knew people have been ripping it apart since 14 but they still decide to get one. Who's fault is that now ?
Yes every so often it takes me a route that is a little different than I would of taken but it still gets me there with no issues in a timely fashion. Honestly even if it took me a way that is longer I don't care. I got the bike to ride it so I look at it as more saddle time. It's much better than stopping and looking at maps or having some big phone and or aftermarket gps stuck to dash or hanging off my apes....
Of course anyone can find a fault with something but the real mission is to figure out a way to fix or get around those faults. This is what we got now let's make the best of it. Hey it's much better than my Walkman [yes a tape] in jacket pocket with headphones on like I used to do 15 years ago.
Just be happy we now have something to help guide us along our route. I never put 100 percent faith in gps's anyways. I always like to know my route before I go so if gps gets lost stolen or broke I am not assed out.
I can't see how people keep on ranting " what a piece of crap boom audio is " especially when they own a 2016xxxx. They knew people have been ripping it apart since 14 but they still decide to get one. Who's fault is that now ?
Yes every so often it takes me a route that is a little different than I would of taken but it still gets me there with no issues in a timely fashion. Honestly even if it took me a way that is longer I don't care. I got the bike to ride it so I look at it as more saddle time. It's much better than stopping and looking at maps or having some big phone and or aftermarket gps stuck to dash or hanging off my apes....
Of course anyone can find a fault with something but the real mission is to figure out a way to fix or get around those faults. This is what we got now let's make the best of it. Hey it's much better than my Walkman [yes a tape] in jacket pocket with headphones on like I used to do 15 years ago.
Just be happy we now have something to help guide us along our route. I never put 100 percent faith in gps's anyways. I always like to know my route before I go so if gps gets lost stolen or broke I am not assed out.
Again, you people need to learn how to read. I never bitched about the Boom Box, or my bike. My rant is about the da... GPS system that let me down several times when I needed it. Period. It's amazing how many people can't understand that.
Cruiser
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 231
Likes: 1
From: London Ont
Just want to get my 2 cents in. The GPS works just like it was supposed to work. A low end unit in a high end bike. It's not bad but for a little more money up front it could have been great. That is the shame of it all.
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Tourer
Joined: Jun 2013
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From: Chesapeake
At least one more person who has an open mind.
