12-07-2011, 05:41 AM | #1 |
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Radio presets no longer default from steering wheel?
Normally I access my Sat presets through the steering wheel. About a week ago I used the idrive menu to scroll to a different Sat channel. Well, for some reason my steering wheel channel 'scroller thingy' keeps defaulting to the giant 200 channel satellite directory. Through idrive everything works fine and, if I go back through the menu to set 'Presets' the thumb wheel on the steering wheel will scroll through presets. My idrive menu setting is selected as 'presets' when I shut the car off. At start, the thumb wheel goes back to the whole list. Somehow for the prior 8 months my presets were happily accessed through the thumb wheel. Now, it doesn't until I go back to the drive menu and access 'presets' once despite the fact the radio seems to already be in the 'presets' function. What the heck? Anybody else experience this? How do I change it? I scrolled all through the idrive menu and options but saw nothing I could set...
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12-07-2011, 06:42 AM | #2 |
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I posted a similar problem awhile back about this as well. My presets would disappear after switching from my iPod.
The problem went away after i took my X3 on a longer drive - say 45 minutes. After that drive, my presets came back and i didnt have the issue anymore. |
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12-07-2011, 08:15 AM | #3 |
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I think I get something similar where on the steering wheel control, the list starts right at the top alphabetically of all radio stations (DAB which is digital radio in the UK). It's actually playing the correct station but it makes difficult to change because the list is exhaustive rather than just my presets. Never looked into why/how it's happening as I only tend to listen to one station but will check it out
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12-07-2011, 03:59 PM | #4 |
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I looked at this again and mine always stays on presets if that's where it was left (scroll wheel and iDrive). Is everything else being saved to your profile OK?
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12-07-2011, 04:50 PM | #5 |
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All normal user settings stay in place - it's only the thumb wheel. No matter how I leave the car when I turn it off the function of the thumb wheel defaults to an entire list rather than radio presets. Have driven car on multiple long drives during this time too. Used to always stay on presets with the thumb wheel. Very bizarre.
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12-08-2011, 08:49 AM | #7 |
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Just checked mine, thumb wheel shows full listing, even though I have presets set.
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02-11-2012, 10:31 PM | #8 |
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Mine just started doing this after service. Anyone find a solution?
It's not just SAT. If I leave it on an FM station from he preset list (that was selected using from the presets lst using the thumb whel), when imstartbthe car up again it's on the right station, but the thumb wheel lists all FM (same for SAT). If I hit he "radio" button, th thumb wheel list immediately flips to the preset list.
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02-15-2012, 04:18 AM | #9 |
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The problem just went away and it's behaving normally again. I can't for the life of me figure out anything I did that seems to have caused it.
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I don't suppose you ever came to a conclusion about this problem? I just had my X3 serviced and the same thing has happened to me. Very annoying. Hard to believe a computer can be as unpredictable as the iDrive is.
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