2014 Stereo/Head unit problems thread
Road Captain
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From: O'Fallon, MO
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Behind you
Oh, I see. Someone commenting on a 2014 problem thread that doesn't own a 2014. I almost forgot what forum I was on.
Road Captain
Joined: Nov 2012
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From: Lakeland FL
well I went to Harley and downloaded the new software to my desk top then unzipped the file and uploaded it to a stick with a FAT23 format and tried to upload it to the bike and no go.
all it says is no playable files, I accepted that and left the stick in for at least 5min and it never did anything else.
any other help would be good or I will just have Harley do it at the 1k service
as a side note I am not having any problems just figured I would install the latest software.
all it says is no playable files, I accepted that and left the stick in for at least 5min and it never did anything else.
any other help would be good or I will just have Harley do it at the 1k service
as a side note I am not having any problems just figured I would install the latest software.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,443
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From: Behind you
well I went to Harley and downloaded the new software to my desk top then unzipped the file and uploaded it to a stick with a FAT23 format and tried to upload it to the bike and no go.
all it says is no playable files, I accepted that and left the stick in for at least 5min and it never did anything else.
any other help would be good or I will just have Harley do it at the 1k service
as a side note I am not having any problems just figured I would install the latest software.
all it says is no playable files, I accepted that and left the stick in for at least 5min and it never did anything else.
any other help would be good or I will just have Harley do it at the 1k service
as a side note I am not having any problems just figured I would install the latest software.
Intermediate
Joined: Aug 2013
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From: Cary NC
Don't even get me started about reading an aircraft engine monitor, or uploading database updates to an aircraft GPS.....that makes the Harley process look modern and trivial.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Behind you
Once the file has been unzipped did you unzip the newly created swdl_boombox65gt.iso file? you should have a bunch of files unzipped.
Road Master
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From: USA
- I used my PC instead of my MAC
- I made sure the USB was completely blank and I re-formated it to FAT 32 as suggested by another user in this thread
- I downloaded it to my desktop than I right clicked on it and Extracted All Files to my USB
- Turned on the bike, plugged it in and accepted the upload
Thanks for your help!
The only glitch I had was the Navigation wouldnt Avoid Highways when I told it to. I still breaking it in so I was trying to take side streets home. I restarted the navigation and radio and it worked.
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Intermediate
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From: Cary NC
The .iso file actually is an image of a CD/DVD, and contains a bunch of files. There are tools to "mount" a .iso file, and Windows 8 does it natively. But there should be no need to do this, as I know, for a fact, that I updated my 'bike with just the .iso file on the stick.