ahitchcox
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I just bought a 2016 Civic LS last night. I really love the car so far but I am a little disappointed with the radio. I know the LX is the base model but it kind of seems like they really cheaped out on the radio. The sound is good but the display is very generic.
The radio defaults to just showing the time and frequency. If you want the artist/song name you have to hit Menu, settings, RDS settings, Radio Text. This will display the song information if it is available but as soon as you change the station it goes away, so you have to go into the menu and tell it to display the text every time you change the station. It is pretty easy to change it but it is also very annoying.
If you don't do this the whole screen goes black and just shows the time in the upper right corner. I did see that you can use a USB stick to upload an image to use as the wallpaper, I'm hoping this will make it look a little better. But even still, you have a big 5" screen and all it shows is the time unless you tell it to show the radio text each time. Kind of lame.
Same with using an iPod/iPhone, I was hoping it would be like so many other cars and who the artist/song/image of the CD on the display but it still just shows the time (doesn't matter if you use bluetooth or the usb cable).
I've tried searching to see if I'm just missing something with the settings but so far I haven't found anything specific to the 2016 Civic LX. I've seen that other models and previous years of the Civic had a way that you could change the settings on the radio to have it default to the RDS text all the time, but this doesn't seem to be an option on the LX Civic.
The radio defaults to just showing the time and frequency. If you want the artist/song name you have to hit Menu, settings, RDS settings, Radio Text. This will display the song information if it is available but as soon as you change the station it goes away, so you have to go into the menu and tell it to display the text every time you change the station. It is pretty easy to change it but it is also very annoying.
If you don't do this the whole screen goes black and just shows the time in the upper right corner. I did see that you can use a USB stick to upload an image to use as the wallpaper, I'm hoping this will make it look a little better. But even still, you have a big 5" screen and all it shows is the time unless you tell it to show the radio text each time. Kind of lame.
Same with using an iPod/iPhone, I was hoping it would be like so many other cars and who the artist/song/image of the CD on the display but it still just shows the time (doesn't matter if you use bluetooth or the usb cable).
I've tried searching to see if I'm just missing something with the settings but so far I haven't found anything specific to the 2016 Civic LX. I've seen that other models and previous years of the Civic had a way that you could change the settings on the radio to have it default to the RDS text all the time, but this doesn't seem to be an option on the LX Civic.
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