2014 Infotainment issues Part 2.
Road Captain
Joined: Jan 2014
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From: Buna Texas
Go buy a honcawazuki. You don't need gps . Pick a direction and go. Forget blue tooth because you can't listen to the road with someone yapping in your ear. If you have to have the latest and greatest get me there by the fastest route while I talk on the phone and charge my laptop and watch a movie technology; Why not just drive the Denali.
Ultimate HDF Member
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Conroe Texas
Fk man jut ride the dam bike, its whining ****** like you guys that make them lock the spell feature on the gps while you are moving, get some ***** or take up golf you douche bags.
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Joined: Feb 2010
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From: New Jersey
I agree, not liking a single system on a bike doesn't make a basher. It's a pragmatic discussion that seems to touch off some folks emotions. Some of you guys sound like my wife. Looking at new cars a couple weeks ago, we test drove several different brands all with their own info system. And none of them come close to being as user friendly as my Garmin or cell phone. I also agree that these info systems will be one of the drawbacks of buying a Harley 10 years from now. The systems just will not be capable of functioning with the change of 10 year old technology. The info system alone will date the bike as almost obsolete. Go drive any car with an integrated info system and it will have the same feelings as dragging your fing nails across the blackboard. I don’t think it would have been hard to design a modular system that could be removed and replaced as technology change. Or even no info system option for us that don’t really care for it. Anybody still use their 10 year old Garmin? That being said, I love everything else about the 14s. By far their most advanced bike and I love my 09 SG. Yes, I want the new front end, saddle bag, the ugly fairing scoop and I even like the WetHead. But I just don’t want the info system. I don’t like in Corvettes and I don’t like them on HarleysNot sure what I will end up doing, but the info system won’t stop me from owning a Harley, I just won’t keep it ten years. Beary
Really, you worry about the radio on your new bike "dating" the bike 10 years from now?
That is a new level of ****.
Tourer
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 355
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From: Georgia
I have a '14 Limited and had a new problem occur in the past two days. I was unable to tune forward or back (via the left thumb switch) in selecting songs on the media flash drive I had installed. Volume up/down with the same switch worked fine. The thumb switch did work in tuning the xm radio selections (forward/back) so the switch itself was OK. Not knowing what else to do I removed the flash drive, re-installed it and it worked again. I was then able to tune forward/back as desired. That is the first time that has happened, don't know why, or what specifically fixed it but it works again.
Does anyone have any idea when HD will release an update to the infotainment center software? I have been told since October that an update was imminent, within a month I was told, and here it is four months later and I am still waiting.
Just wondering...
Does anyone have any idea when HD will release an update to the infotainment center software? I have been told since October that an update was imminent, within a month I was told, and here it is four months later and I am still waiting.
Just wondering...
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Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Tucson AZ
GSHog ,,,,,,'
had the same problem with mine, then one day it just started working again with the USB thumbdrive,,,,,,,,,
I would plug and unplug it a couple of times,,,,,,,,
had the same problem with mine, then one day it just started working again with the USB thumbdrive,,,,,,,,,
I would plug and unplug it a couple of times,,,,,,,,
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From: Highland Perthshire, Scotland
Tourer
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Castle Rock, CO
There may be a breakthrough on the gps front!
Stopped at my Dealer today and was told by the Service Writer they had just upgraded a 4.3 to 6.5 and while setting it up with the Digital Tech, they came across a setting to enable use of an external gps, but he didn't know how an external gps would be connected, or how it would play. So he called Milwaukee for details while I was there.
Part number 69200610, audio jack jumper, will plug into the harness behind the radio, inside the fairing (after "rearranging the CB" - no one's sure what that means). There is no literature available, no bulletin has been issued, a parts # search on the public site yields no matches, so no one is sure what it looks like, how it connects, or how it works - but the resource in Milwaukee believes it will deliver full-interrupt nav directions from a handlebar mounted gps to the 6.5 while allowing the rider to listen to radio, mp3s or phone. It might even work with the 4.3.
My Dealer has put one on order (~$40) because they want to learn/know as badly as I do. An $1,800 upgrade to the 4.3 or a $40 adapter? Hmmmmm.
Stopped at my Dealer today and was told by the Service Writer they had just upgraded a 4.3 to 6.5 and while setting it up with the Digital Tech, they came across a setting to enable use of an external gps, but he didn't know how an external gps would be connected, or how it would play. So he called Milwaukee for details while I was there.
Part number 69200610, audio jack jumper, will plug into the harness behind the radio, inside the fairing (after "rearranging the CB" - no one's sure what that means). There is no literature available, no bulletin has been issued, a parts # search on the public site yields no matches, so no one is sure what it looks like, how it connects, or how it works - but the resource in Milwaukee believes it will deliver full-interrupt nav directions from a handlebar mounted gps to the 6.5 while allowing the rider to listen to radio, mp3s or phone. It might even work with the 4.3.
My Dealer has put one on order (~$40) because they want to learn/know as badly as I do. An $1,800 upgrade to the 4.3 or a $40 adapter? Hmmmmm.
They received the adapter Thursday and called me to come take a look. The adapter has a plug on one end that mates to an empty socket on the backside of the infotainment deck, and a 3.5mm male plug on the other that mates to the audio out cable that is part of the harness of a garmin gps cradle.
On Friday, they pulled the fairing on a Street Glide with the 4.3 system installed, because I was interested to know if it would work with the less expensive radio (why pay for a 6.5 if I wasn't going to use a major feature?). I couldn't be there for their testing, but by all reports, it works and has full interrupt capability! They didn't try it on a 6.5, but we have every reason to believe it will work on those, as well.
Many thanks to all riders who have participated in this thread and the other: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...-pathetic.html I have it on very good authority that Milwaukee has been monitoring these 2 threads (and others) and their $40 adapter is in direct response to all of the sincere feedback.
And special thanks to Nate, Matt, Zach and the team at Rocky Mountain H-D for staying on this issue.
Tourer
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 453
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From: Highland Perthshire, Scotland
Major kudos to the folks at Rocky Mountain H-D for being alert for a potential fix, and for being pro-active to solve!!
They received the adapter Thursday and called me to come take a look. The adapter has a plug on one end that mates to an empty socket on the backside of the infotainment deck, and a 3.5mm male plug on the other that mates to the audio out cable that is part of the harness of a garmin gps cradle.
On Friday, they pulled the fairing on a Street Glide with the 4.3 system installed, because I was interested to know if it would work with the less expensive radio (why pay for a 6.5 if I wasn't going to use a major feature?). I couldn't be there for their testing, but by all reports, it works and has full interrupt capability! They didn't try it on a 6.5, but we have every reason to believe it will work on those, as well.
Many thanks to all riders who have participated in this thread and the other: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...-pathetic.html I have it on very good authority that Milwaukee has been monitoring these 2 threads (and others) and their $40 adapter is in direct response to all of the sincere feedback.
And special thanks to Nate, Matt, Zach and the team at Rocky Mountain H-D for staying on this issue.
They received the adapter Thursday and called me to come take a look. The adapter has a plug on one end that mates to an empty socket on the backside of the infotainment deck, and a 3.5mm male plug on the other that mates to the audio out cable that is part of the harness of a garmin gps cradle.
On Friday, they pulled the fairing on a Street Glide with the 4.3 system installed, because I was interested to know if it would work with the less expensive radio (why pay for a 6.5 if I wasn't going to use a major feature?). I couldn't be there for their testing, but by all reports, it works and has full interrupt capability! They didn't try it on a 6.5, but we have every reason to believe it will work on those, as well.
Many thanks to all riders who have participated in this thread and the other: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...-pathetic.html I have it on very good authority that Milwaukee has been monitoring these 2 threads (and others) and their $40 adapter is in direct response to all of the sincere feedback.
And special thanks to Nate, Matt, Zach and the team at Rocky Mountain H-D for staying on this issue.
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6th Gear
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 12
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From: Miami
Question re Tuner and GPS operation
Two questions:
1.- In the Boom!Box 6.5 is there away (other then mute) to turn OFF the radio and still have the GPG operational ?
2.- Can you SAVE more than one address in the GPS address book and if so how? I am able to SAVE a local address (including HOME) but unable to store out of state address which perhaps has too much data to store?
Thanks in advance for any feedback !
1.- In the Boom!Box 6.5 is there away (other then mute) to turn OFF the radio and still have the GPG operational ?
2.- Can you SAVE more than one address in the GPS address book and if so how? I am able to SAVE a local address (including HOME) but unable to store out of state address which perhaps has too much data to store?
Thanks in advance for any feedback !