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Old Apr 3, 2018 | 09:27 AM
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Comand system acting up

Symptoms: music cuts out and back in every 10-15 min saying reactivating bluetooth., the knob works occasionally and wont accept changes to seats/music/etc unless i restart the car/system, CDs wont work at all except a second or two, navigation says needs update

Dealer charged me $300 to diagnose it... said its a bad hard drive. So I cloned the drive and installed a new SSD and still same issues occur. Removed bluetooth adapter, same thing occurs..
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Old Apr 3, 2018 | 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by princemarko
Symptoms: music cuts out and back in every 10-15 min saying reactivating bluetooth., the knob works occasionally and wont accept changes to seats/music/etc unless i restart the car/system, CDs wont work at all except a second or two, navigation says needs update

Dealer charged me $300 to diagnose it... said its a bad hard drive. So I cloned the drive and installed a new SSD and still same issues occur. Removed bluetooth adapter, same thing occurs..
The navigation part sounds like a bad hard drive. The SSD you installed might not be working with the system. What did you use (brands/adapters etc.) to switch to SSD?

The rest of they symptoms are not related to hard drive issues. The unit works fine without a hard drive at all, except for the navigation part, which will say "activating nav" and eventually "insert disc to update nav".

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Old May 21, 2018 | 09:22 AM
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It was the voice control module that solved all the issues except the navigation. That was the hard drive.

Originally Posted by megacrazy
The navigation part sounds like a bad hard drive. The SSD you installed might not be working with the system. What did you use (brands/adapters etc.) to switch to SSD?

The rest of they symptoms are not related to hard drive issues. The unit works fine without a hard drive at all, except for the navigation part, which will say "activating nav" and eventually "insert disc to update nav".
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