Symphony II+ clock bug! [pics no56k]

[minameismud]

I was driving home last night after a show and the clock rolled through midnight. I had the radio off, so it only showed the time. This is what I saw:


yeah, blurry and taken with my phone. i turned the radio on and let it go to screensaver, and the bug continued:


after finding a parking lot to pull into, i checked the car's computer to see if i accidentally set it to 24-hour:


i didn't, and turning on 24-hour didn't change the deck at all. i changed the clock to be 1:06 AM and the deck responded properly, then back to 12:06 AM and it again showed 00:06 AM. has anybody else seen this?

if this is my deck, i'll see if i can wrangle the dealer out of a new one under warranty. if it's the whole line, then that's just sloppy. <rant> i'm a programmer, and i've had experience with assembly code (closest to binary you should resonably get) to memory-managed languages like C# and java. string manipulation to show a damn clock isn't hard. shit, digital clocks have been around for DECADES, and my $35k car can't get it right? </rant>

[a4dc89]

lol take demshitz to tha stealership!

[drexplode]

[QUOTE=minameismud;2759873]
yeah, blurry and taken with my phone. i turned the radio on and let it go to screensaver, and the bug continued:

QUOTE]

Maybe your car possessed, and the spirit was trying to contact you. Did you have a Ouija board in the car by chance?

--->stealership!

[ImitationOfLife]

Help me?

Yeah, take it to the dealer. I've never seen anything like that.

[CardNation]

Did it really say "Help me"?

That's insane!

[shortyepic]

both my friend and I have the same issue after midnight (both b7's)

[AudiWxGuy]

Looks like it's on a 24 hour clock.

[supamannn99]

thats freaking creepy. if i were driving home at 3am in the morning and i got that, i'd be scared

[Quattro]

^^you are scared regardless

[minameismud]

ok, haha, "Help Me" was the name of the song. jeez. no, the next titles weren't "i'm trapped in" and "the octane studio".

shortyepic, you get this too? AudiWxGuy, that's what I thought too, but (a) I don't know of a way to set the deck to 24-hour (setting it on the DIS doesn't change the deck) and (b) it still shows AM/PM, and the PM hours are 12 to 11, not 12 to 23.

[feza4]

Dude. Same issue here. Noticed it months ago, interesting. Only does it 12 at night. In the afternoon it says 12. And its not on 24-hr time. Crazy stuffs. I laugh whenever I see it now.
My drunk friend had a blast with that Zero o-clock thing.

[Vito Roma]

ur car is talking to u!!

[cmb5286]

ok, haha, "Help Me" was the name of the song. jeez. no, the next titles weren't "i'm trapped in" and "the octane studio".

shortyepic, you get this too? AudiWxGuy, that's what I thought too, but (a) I don't know of a way to set the deck to 24-hour (setting it on the DIS doesn't change the deck) and (b) it still shows AM/PM, and the PM hours are 12 to 11, not 12 to 23.

HAHA that hilarious

[Sanjman]

The Symphony II+ was developed by Blaupunkt, I believe. As easy as the clock is developing... all it takes really is for the programmer to not think of all possible scenarios and all of a sudden the clock goes into an unknown state and craps out... maybe you can pull the battery to reset the system. re-setting the clock won't fix it... it's gotta "reboot" to go back into a correct state... you should familiar with state machines... give it a try.

[A4 JooN 2.0T]

whoa

[80sGuy]

My clock's been like that ever since new, I'm pretty much guessing that this is normal. It is not military time or such and the 'day' actually starts at 00...German-designed I guess.

[UrKurt]

Indeed! I say embrace this lifestyle change. Just like the european DD/MM/YYYY format, it just makes more sense.

[B7A4WD]

hahahah this happens to me a lot... i see the time different on the radio screen but on the dash its regular...

[q-car]

http://www.spacearchive.info/military.htm

[minameismud]

http://www.spacearchive.info/military.htm

yes, military time is understandable...if it didn't show am/pm and after noon it counted to 13:00, then 14:00, but it goes to 1:00 pm, then 2:00 pm, and shows AM in the morning hours, as displayed in the pictures.

[slingblade]

Indeed! I say embrace this lifestyle change. Just like the european DD/MM/YYYY format, it just makes more sense.

... and I suppose you want us to switch to that newfangled "metric" system

[Tom Sawyer]

Stupid question... but how do you get the II+ to display the time? I've coded it to have the Clock display possible (though setup) but never found the setting to make it display.

[a4audi4fun]

Stupid question... but how do you get the II+ to display the time? I've coded it to have the Clock display possible (though setup) but never found the setting to make it display.

I think you need to change it on both the radio menu and via VCDS in the radio module. From memory you can show the clock or the speed. I had tried both at some point in time and have now got it set for speed but turned off from the radio menu.