Thank you, I will try that!! I don't remember seeing a preset button on the screen when I am on a SiriusXM channel. I do see like a check mark so I've clicked that. Today I'll start her up and look for all these things I've been told about!!There is a program pamphlet that came with my truck listing all the channels but you may be able to get it from their website as well.
In either case, I didn't bother reading much of it and just used voice commands, to find the genre I was in the mood for and once a station was found that I wanted to keep, press and hold the preset button on the screen.
Same for over the air channels. Just tell the lady that lives in the dash, to tune to ##.# fm and you're golden.
Other setting a preset, I never bother messing with the screen. Other than setting things up how you want them, on anything really, Just hit the button on the steering wheel and tell it what you want.
Probably no need to look … someone posted about this earlier … tune to a station you like then save as a preset - I’m sure is super easy on the 2025s right? like it was on the ‘21-‘24s
Yes, hopefully! I just need to see how to preset. I saw like a check mark on the channel screen so I'm wondering if that is what I push to preset that channel.
The 3 years for 2.99 a month is the best deal going these days. Like you said, the best part is is doesn’t auto renew. This gives you the leverage at the end of the cycle.Sirius really hates you lifetime subscribers. As you see, they kept raising the price over the years and at one point they limited it to just 3 radio transfers and I think someone sued them and they got rid of that policy, but added the activation charge. Which is stupid, because all that happens is a different radio ID goes on the backend. You could do it yourself through a web page.
I had the issue described above with using the trial and then having the built-in navigation options deactivate. I was able to re-subscribe on a promo and then spend almost 2 hours on the phone to get the promised 5 year traffic trial restored (just to a total of 4 years though). Honestly, I hate that company so, so much. But they are a monopoly now that they bought out XM and Pandora. Nothing else works wherever you go. I've seen many people say that right now, if you let the subscriptions lapse, you can get a rate of just $3 for 36 months on Music and Entertainment package. I have 1-2 months left on my sub and then see if I can land that. The $3 is an OK rate IMO, but the real gem is not having to call them for a song and dance routine for 36 freakin' months!!
I also have an old Starlink receiver that's "permanently on". See, once upon a time, the radios got activated and then when a sub ended, they would broadcast a "kill" signal for that receiver. There are a lot of units in the database so they only broadcast the kill signal for a unit ID for a while. If your radio is off in a drawer (like mine was) it never got a signal to shutdown. I guess in theory they could spend a lot of dough to broadcast another kill for those old IDs but someone would have to crawl through a list of unit IDS that may not exist anymore. Not worth their time. Nowadays, they swapped the tech around. So radios automatically go off unless they get an activation signal monthly. You can find a bunch of them on evilBay that are sold as "activated" or "Lifetime" (even if they aren't really) but they command a high price. I tried using mine in the Bronco, but I found the local FM band to be really polluted since the FCC started squeezing all the radio and TV bands down. It works, but it isn't pleasant to use because of the occasional cross-over.
Mine doesn't have sync4 so I can't say much about the exact rebound issue you have. My best idea would be to try loading the app on your phone. Get it logged in and use the phone app for channel selecting instead of using the built in unit. I think you can even do that wirelessly on sync4? The Sirius tuner is also really slow and laggy on the sync3. If I spin the tuner know (isn't it great to have a real knob for that!?) The screen freezes, then stations fly across the screen, and eventually the radio tunes something that may or may not be what's shown. Maybe the sync4 also likes a slower scroller.
Because I use a wireless adapter, I’m always using my phone interface as I have the Waze app running full screen. However, I could use either the Sattelite version or the app version even with the screen set full size for the navigation app. You’ll figure it out as to which way is the best set up for you.
Yes! Just turned 64 and these new electronics do kinda boggle my mine!! Lol
it is a navigation app that will tell you if there is an issue up ahead like an accident or police hidden. It is crowd sourced so people can say where the accident is. It will also prompt to reroute you if there is an issue with traffic. I don’t use the navigation portion much on any of the navigation apps but I like having the map up and knowing if there are road hazards ahead.
Okay, thanks!! I was wondering how different it is compared to the Android Auto Google map?
They are similar and getting more so. Google is now using the data from Waze to indicate hazards. Alphabet owns both of them.
You also have to take the police locations or lack of locations with a grain of salt. Not everyone is good about notifying the app. It will ask you if the hazard is still there but plenty of times I see them not there by the time I get to that point.
Oh okay, interesting, thanks for showing me this!You also have to take the police locations or lack of locations with a grain of salt. Not everyone is good about notifying the app. It will ask you if the hazard is still there but plenty of times I see them not there by the time I get to that point.
Here is an idea of what it looks like showing the locations of the police.
