PASSAT R36 RNS 510 crash and re-boot wyong NSW

[Cletus]

Nah! The car's got tin foil on the roof.

[Autopia]

It couldn't be that SECRET American Intelligence base could it?

American intelligence????????

[rajdarge]

My theory is: it's not a problem with the position, more a problem with the length of the drive. It takes me about an hour to get to wyong from where I live, similarly it takes my brother around the same period of time. So maybe a heat issue or a electrical fault with the main cpu software in the car (as opposed to the RNS510).
Unfortunately the twilight zone and a CIA plot are unlikely suspects as the Americans are still incapable of understanding irony.
My wife thinks that there is a black hole in the central coast that hates volkswagens. I'm not sure I agree, but I left a burnt offering on the side of the road just in case.

My Menu's are blue, not silver. I think I just got a brand new unit.
Meethinks we are all in for a software recall and upgrade.

Now if I could only work out how to get a random playlist from the USB hard-drive I have plugged in to the Media-in socket I had installed.
Does anyone else know how I can get that going?
I can see all the songs, but it only picks a single folder to give me a random mix of music. I have 150gig just not being chosen.
raj

[Cletus]

That fits what happened to my satnav yesterday. However, when the other half rang me today she said the same thing happened after a relatively short trip of ten minutes. From what I can gather the satnav worked well for ten minutes and then shut down. After a restart it worked ok again forabout a minute before the map froze. She restarted it again, entered the destination, it said it was calculating the route and then the screen went blank and the radio went on and off a few times before dying. Got me a little intrigued.

[tryingavw]

Well my other half came home the other day looking a bit upset and said the SATNAV, Radio -the works, screen had packed it in completely .

So I went and checked it out and she didnt know the left hand button as well as being volume is the on/off.

She was very pleased with that fix and so was I !

[Markybhoy]

American intelligence????????

Yes, well it's clear who put the moron into oxymoron

[JustSayCC]

Don't think its the hour long drive issue, as driving up to Coffs and back - the problem only occurred in the Bermuda triangle that seems to encompass Wyong (specifically on the freeway stretch between the two Wyong exits). I also feel it's the mapping Data (my DVD Version is CD_6613, v2) because at one point after it reset it had a big blank patch on the map over Wyong with no roads visible, and me travelling "off road" towards Sydney (at 110 km/h). Maybe Wyong is actually where the survivors of Oceanic 815 have ended up.

As far as the software version of my RNS510 - any way of determining this precisely ?

Any news from VW on the coast - perhaps others have had this issue with recent RNS510 purchases ?

[Red Diablo]

Yesterday I made my first trip south on the F3 freeway and had the same problem going south to Sydney in the morning & north to Newcastle in the afternoon. Both times at pretty much the same place on the Central Coast.

I'm going with the RF interference theory. When going south I hit the central coast after about an hour of driving but when coming north it is about 1.5 hours so I'm rulling out an operating time based problem.

My boss also has an R36 with Sat Nav & makes regular trips to Sydney so I'll be quizzing him as to whether he has had similar problems.

[passatpout]

Yesterday I made my first trip south on the F3 freeway and had the same problem going south to Sydney in the morning & north to Newcastle in the afternoon. Both times at pretty much the same place on the Central Coast.

I'm going with the RF interference theory. When going south I hit the central coast after about an hour of driving but when coming north it is about 1.5 hours so I'm rulling out an operating time based problem.

My boss also has an R36 with Sat Nav & makes regular trips to Sydney so I'll be quizzing him as to whether he has had similar problems.

FWIW both Garmin and Tom-Tom hand-held GPS have no problems around the Central Coast. Whereabouts was it crashing out, and was it roughly the same area both ways (eg Mooney-Mooney, Mt White, etc)?

[tryingavw]

I'm going with the RF interference theory. .

unless the septics have a secret base we dont know about its very unlikely to be interference from RF. sat nav works by a line of sight upwards to the satellites and the main issue is usually inside a building you lose the signal .


I reckon it will turn out the area in question is not well covered by satellites and their orbits. you can check this with a handheld which tells you how many it is picking up but i havent found this function in the rns510. theoretically they need 3 minimum but practically it is 4. GPS recevievers can read up to 12.

OR i reckon it will turn out to be dodgy map dat and programming.