2011 Bose+NoNav+iSimple = Shortened XM Titles?

Augustus

Wanted to update my thread...

I spent some more time tinkering with this. I found multiple threads on other Nissan forums where they were discussing problems just like this, though not on other Z's and without mention of iPod interfaces. So I do think there's some kind of Nissan-specific funkyness with XM characters going on. Curious that there's no mention of it here, though.

The shutdown-mode doesn't seem to have any affect for me. There seems to be no way to fix it while the car is running or in ACC, as a power-cycle on just the HU has no effect. HOWEVER, I have noticed that after a full ignition cycle, the display works as normal. So I go for a drive, shut down the car, count to 10, start it back up, and the display works. 100% of the time. But if I leave it shut off for several hours or overnight, then it reverts back to 8-characters on the next start-up.

This morning, I tapped the ignition to ACC for 5 seconds before I started the car (8 characters), then clutched & tapped start to fire it up completely. This worked, and I've got the full character display on XM.

I need to remove the iSimple gateway this weekend and see if it reverts back to normal. Will update if I do.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else someday.