Does your Infotainment system do this?
Cruiser
Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 150
Likes: 11
From: Independence, MO
Mine has done it since day 1. 4.3 Boom here. I leave my iPod plugged in. It never knows if it will boot to WX Band of iPod. It's just random. Everyone in a while it starts up with the stereo turned off. Very annoying.
Cruiser
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 188
Likes: 2
From: Connecticut
Mine was working fine. Wherever I left it that's where it started from. Downloaded the .4 update last week. Now when I start the bike it reverts to the weather channel. Oh well. I can live with it for now.
Cruiser
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 149
Likes: 32
From: Port Charlotte
Mine does it also, sometimes. Very annoying! Goes in for 1K service tomorrow, will let them know and have heard a new update will come out soon. I hope that will solve the problem...............john
6th Gear
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 13
Likes: 0
From: Fort Lee, VA
Same here. I listen to music from a stick 99% of the time. When I leave it on the jiffy stand and follow the above, it always starts playing from where I turned it off. I also do not shut down the radio when I turn the bike off.
I have heard the bike does not, in this regard, multi-task well. If you hop on and turn to ignition, the bike is "looking" for a key FOB while booting up the radio. Since it can't process the USB stick (8GB) and look for the FOB at the same time, it would revert to the "easiest" input; which in my case is FM.
Cruiser
Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 114
Likes: 1
From: Irmo, SC
Mine did this. Asked dealer about it at the 1k service and they updated the flash on the radio. Seems to have fixed the issue, but at the same time I had XM installed and it now pops up to XM always - but that is what I listen to 99 pct of the time. I'll try my ipod when I get home and see if it still acts goofy.
Seems like the engineers would have had it go to the last station/mode always. Every vehicle I have ever owned with a digital radio did this, so why HD would think it was not important baffles me.
Seems like the engineers would have had it go to the last station/mode always. Every vehicle I have ever owned with a digital radio did this, so why HD would think it was not important baffles me.
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Cruiser
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 174
Likes: 1
From: Miami
If I plug my phone in it starts with that - always, and with the first song (which really isn't the first but ok)
Otherwise it starts up with whatever mode of music I was in. When it decides to start up that is 1 in 20 or so it just hangs and I have to "reboot" it - aka let it sit for a while
Otherwise it starts up with whatever mode of music I was in. When it decides to start up that is 1 in 20 or so it just hangs and I have to "reboot" it - aka let it sit for a while
Road Master
Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 839
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From: Virginia
I've noticed whenever I shut the bike down and then power it back up more than a couple of seconds later that the stereo seems to have a mind of it's own and randomly decides which mode it comes back to life in. I can be listening to music from a thumb drive when I shut down. But when I start it back up it might come up in XM mode sometimes, or FM, or maybe it'll surprise me and come back up in media mode. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to come back up in the mode I had it in last. Is this just the way it is or what? Same thing happens if I was listening to FM radio last or XM. Seems like it would power back up in the last mode used but that just isn't the case.