My2016Civic
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Ok, so the past few days I have noticed a few peculiar things with my Driver Information Interface. You know, the part of the Tachometer / Speedometer display that shows things like the Fuel Range, Turbo Meter, Maintenance Minder, Radio Station, Audio Source, Phone calls, etc.
It suddenly, out of the blues while driving started doing things like randomly and sporadically showing "Hanging up" as if I had just disconnected a phone call, yet I was not actually on a phone call. It also randomly started showing the radio volume flashing it on the screen then off then on again, as if I had adjusted the volume, but I had not touched anything and the sound level didn't actually change. This happened about 3 or 4 times during the course of 8 or so days. Today it happened again and I then realized that when I DID adjust the volume or make a call, neither the volume nor phone call information would show. Changing of radio stations, audio source, etc had also stopped showing. Has anyone run into this yet?
Well, today I decided to reset the audio system in hopes that this would resolve the problem. That did it! No more random phantom displays or lack of displays when they SHOULD be there. So when in doubt, reset the audio system.
If you have found yourself having similar issues, just reset the audio system as follows:
It will take about 30 seconds to a minute to go through the reboot process and come back to normal. There IS a setting that allows the system to reboot itself when idle (overnight, etc), but I have had that enabled since a week after purchasing the vehicle and that didn't help.
What a buggy audio system we have! I sure hope other things like my Honda Sensing don't start acting strange too! Now THAT would be a problem!
It suddenly, out of the blues while driving started doing things like randomly and sporadically showing "Hanging up" as if I had just disconnected a phone call, yet I was not actually on a phone call. It also randomly started showing the radio volume flashing it on the screen then off then on again, as if I had adjusted the volume, but I had not touched anything and the sound level didn't actually change. This happened about 3 or 4 times during the course of 8 or so days. Today it happened again and I then realized that when I DID adjust the volume or make a call, neither the volume nor phone call information would show. Changing of radio stations, audio source, etc had also stopped showing. Has anyone run into this yet?
Well, today I decided to reset the audio system in hopes that this would resolve the problem. That did it! No more random phantom displays or lack of displays when they SHOULD be there. So when in doubt, reset the audio system.
If you have found yourself having similar issues, just reset the audio system as follows:
- Hold down the Audio Power button a few seconds (took mine 5 seconds)
- At the prompt "Do you want to reboot" tap "Yes"
It will take about 30 seconds to a minute to go through the reboot process and come back to normal. There IS a setting that allows the system to reboot itself when idle (overnight, etc), but I have had that enabled since a week after purchasing the vehicle and that didn't help.
What a buggy audio system we have! I sure hope other things like my Honda Sensing don't start acting strange too! Now THAT would be a problem!
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