Infotainment always starts on radio. Can you change?
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Infotainment always starts on radio. Can you change?
I use Bluetooth on the bike everyday while out on the road for music and guidance from Google maps for audio prompts. My bike will not just start playing music again when I turn it back on. I have to go to home, media, and select my phone again. It's a pain but I've gotten used to it. When I use a USB stick it will go straight to that after turning the bike back on. Besides going through these steps to recommend my phone every time the most annoying thing is it just defaults to the radio. I hate that. Especially when I turn the bike back on far from home and just get some loud *** static playing from my radio.
Can you change it to default to nothing or default to the home screen on startup? I cannot find anything in the manual except saying it will try to reconnect to the last source.
Can you change it to default to nothing or default to the home screen on startup? I cannot find anything in the manual except saying it will try to reconnect to the last source.
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What i have found, i haven't updated in a year or so, don't know the number, but about 3 updates ago. I'm using the last update that lets you check your oil pressure with the radio off.
I always turn my radio off (and last device used is an old ipod) before shutting down the bike.
I use an old 6 gig ipod in the juke box, that is what i am on before shutting down the radio. By doing that my radio, after i turn it on will default to the old ipod, because it is wired, no delay, no pairing, turning etc.
When i used Sirius, as the last media device, and the bike was outside so it could get a signal, it would default to Sirius, the last device used.
Blu tooth takes a minute to be recognized pairing etc, so if that was my last device, it is possible, by the programming of the the boom (delay to pair) to default to a radio, Sirius, FM etc.
Naturally, any of the above could be different based on the last 2 or 3 updates that i have purposely not installed.
My suggestion is get a USB stick, or an ipod, not with a rotating disk, they crash, put it in the juke box, use it before shutting down bike/radio and it will probably default to it rather than another device.
I always turn my radio off (and last device used is an old ipod) before shutting down the bike.
I use an old 6 gig ipod in the juke box, that is what i am on before shutting down the radio. By doing that my radio, after i turn it on will default to the old ipod, because it is wired, no delay, no pairing, turning etc.
When i used Sirius, as the last media device, and the bike was outside so it could get a signal, it would default to Sirius, the last device used.
Blu tooth takes a minute to be recognized pairing etc, so if that was my last device, it is possible, by the programming of the the boom (delay to pair) to default to a radio, Sirius, FM etc.
Naturally, any of the above could be different based on the last 2 or 3 updates that i have purposely not installed.
My suggestion is get a USB stick, or an ipod, not with a rotating disk, they crash, put it in the juke box, use it before shutting down bike/radio and it will probably default to it rather than another device.
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I use Bluetooth on the bike everyday while out on the road for music and guidance from Google maps for audio prompts. My bike will not just start playing music again when I turn it back on. I have to go to home, media, and select my phone again. It's a pain but I've gotten used to it. When I use a USB stick it will go straight to that after turning the bike back on. Besides going through these steps to recommend my phone every time the most annoying thing is it just defaults to the radio. I hate that. Especially when I turn the bike back on far from home and just get some loud *** static playing from my radio.
Can you change it to default to nothing or default to the home screen on startup? I cannot find anything in the manual except saying it will try to reconnect to the last source.
Can you change it to default to nothing or default to the home screen on startup? I cannot find anything in the manual except saying it will try to reconnect to the last source.
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If you're using Bluetooth it takes a bit of time to connect once you turn the ignition on, I think maybe that is why it switched to radio because on initial power up it's not finding a Bluetooth device to connect to.
I know mine used to always go to the radio from whatever source I was on, I did a software update and it fixed that if I was on USB but still seems to do it from Bluetooth.
I know mine used to always go to the radio from whatever source I was on, I did a software update and it fixed that if I was on USB but still seems to do it from Bluetooth.
I'm on the newest firmware, and it didn't fix the issue that I have been having pretty much since I got the XM module installed: my bike decides on it's own to change the source to XM despite the fact that I shut the bike off when the MEDIA source was my choice. And it's a thumb drive plugged into the USB port, so I know it's not waiting to connect to Bluetooth so it defaults to something else. The most annoying aspect is that the behavior is totally random. And it is especially irritating when I have the volume at the level that I can hear the USB drive (the files are all "normalized", so I have to use a bit more volume), but XM starts instead: and it is BLARING. Not that I'm averse to loud rock-n-roll, but there are times I don't want to have my eardrums pummeled because the idiot programmers can't or won't put out a product that actually works right.