I've searched for anyone else having an issue with the 'new' HU in the Qubo (and presume Doblo too?)
The middle range unit (with 5" touch screen, AM/FM radio/USB etc as distinct from the base spec car and the top spec having sat nav) is a Daiichi.
I got the car on Saturday and the first disappointment (this is all radio related! Car is brill..) is the unbelievable length of boot-up time the radio needs to get to playing a station. I found the same in the 500X I had, frustration level and BP going up...
Secondly, programming it is slow and lengthy but the very worst is, once the channels you want are set into buttons (virtual ones at top of the screen) might as well not be there. In every 1 mile of driving, the radio will drop off the preset at least a dozen times, be interrrupted by inane pop-drivel, sports talk, ANY other station other than the one you chose and it takes a press of the wanted button to get it to go back to topic. Any ideas what's going on here?
Instructions followed as per the book so you use search fwd/rew to get a frequency in the vicinity of where your station is, find it, await the display stating e.g. BBC Radio 4 and press and hold the chosen button for that station. (I'm surprised they're not in by default really)
There are the usual various selectors to enable things like TA, TP, EON, LOC (new one on me) REG and AP (not certain about the last one but it's to allow the radio to select the better signal for the chosen station as you go into another mast area with a slightly different frequency). I tried turning them on or off to see if that does away with the drop out issue but none of that works.
It's not good to be told by the car/radio maker that CDs are now passé and that you don't require a CD player. If that was the case why is there a glove box? That was full of all my CDs in the last Qubo! Since the radio is so dreadful (pending a one-click answer to my predicament) I'd have put a CD on..
You can't even maintain the radio with the ignition off without it having to go all through booting up again should you choose to sit in the car after engine off for whatever reason.
Anyone out there with the solution who cares to post would be thanked for the right answer to this. Maybe I just got a Monday morning/Friday afternoon radio..
R-V-M
The middle range unit (with 5" touch screen, AM/FM radio/USB etc as distinct from the base spec car and the top spec having sat nav) is a Daiichi.
I got the car on Saturday and the first disappointment (this is all radio related! Car is brill..) is the unbelievable length of boot-up time the radio needs to get to playing a station. I found the same in the 500X I had, frustration level and BP going up...
Secondly, programming it is slow and lengthy but the very worst is, once the channels you want are set into buttons (virtual ones at top of the screen) might as well not be there. In every 1 mile of driving, the radio will drop off the preset at least a dozen times, be interrrupted by inane pop-drivel, sports talk, ANY other station other than the one you chose and it takes a press of the wanted button to get it to go back to topic. Any ideas what's going on here?
Instructions followed as per the book so you use search fwd/rew to get a frequency in the vicinity of where your station is, find it, await the display stating e.g. BBC Radio 4 and press and hold the chosen button for that station. (I'm surprised they're not in by default really)
There are the usual various selectors to enable things like TA, TP, EON, LOC (new one on me) REG and AP (not certain about the last one but it's to allow the radio to select the better signal for the chosen station as you go into another mast area with a slightly different frequency). I tried turning them on or off to see if that does away with the drop out issue but none of that works.
It's not good to be told by the car/radio maker that CDs are now passé and that you don't require a CD player.
If that was the case why is there a glove box? That was full of all my CDs in the last Qubo! Since the radio is so dreadful (pending a one-click answer to my predicament) I'd have put a CD on..You can't even maintain the radio with the ignition off without it having to go all through booting up again should you choose to sit in the car after engine off for whatever reason.
Anyone out there with the solution who cares to post would be thanked for the right answer to this. Maybe I just got a Monday morning/Friday afternoon radio..
R-V-M
