2013 Sony Radio Question

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BlueSVT

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That's more than nitpicky stuff... those are bugs that should NOT be present. Basic functionality issues.

Some of the issues I experience:

- Rebooting randomly from time to time (always after locking up, and not responding)

- Bluetooth audio skips songs randomly at times, for no reason

- When using USB or Bluetooth audio source, song/album description will hang up and show the same song... sometimes even the next day when restarting the car, for days at a time sometimes!

- Phone is paired, yet when selecting bluetooth audio as source, says "searching for iPhone to connect" and won't connect

- I'll end a phone call, yet the system still thinks the call is active, and won't play any music or let me do ANYTHING until about 5 minutes later it suddenly ends the call, and music resumes.

- Screen has gone black 3 times, and NOTHING works... not even the volume knob. Literally stuck listening to whatever is on, at the volume it was at, until you pull over and restart the car.

- Navigation will tell me there's no SD Navigation card installed, and that navigation is unavailable (this happens every 2-3 weeks), again have to restart car for it to clear.

- Address entry is so slow, entering an address manually is painful and usually ends up in pushing wrong key, or in the wrong sequence... unless you wait a good 1-2 seconds between letters while entering.

That's just what I can think of right now off the top of my head... so you can see how I'm extra bitter about it, HAHA. Some seem to have less bugs than others, but man I'm so fed up with mine. It's been addressed by the dealer about 5 times, with updates and even component replacements... still blows.

It's so bad, it was due for an update recently, and my service advisor said, "Well just so you know, there's been people that have complained and said it made some of their issues WORSE after this recent update... so it's up to you if you want to hold off until a new update comes out?"

Seriously. They need to figure this shit out.
 

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I can honestly say I've had none of your problems except for the non present SD card for the Nav. That happened to me once. Honestly thought the SD card had burned out... which woulda been great seeing as I was in downtown Detroit at the time. Restarting the truck solved the problem and I never had another issue with the nav all the way home.

Had I been experiencing the issues you have, I wouldn't have referred to them as nit picking.
The issues I experience are minor annoyances at best and often work themselves out given a minute or two.
Is what it is, I guess....
 

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OK boys... tonight, we march!!!

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WE DEMAND SATISFACTION!!!! hahaha
 

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This has happened to me twice already...and I'm only 3.5 weeks into my 2013 ownership. Never happened on my 2011.

The best scam is the screen they put whenever it locks up and has to re-boot... It's the restart screen with a progress bar, and it says "Performing Scheduled System Maintenance"

Really? Scheduled maintenance? In the middle of my drive through downtown San Francisco when I REALLY need this POS to work?!?

Haha. Fail.
 
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