Infotainment Broken after battery replacement
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From: Jax, FL
Jewcano - Could the technician or sales guy explain what caused it to happen? Did the sales guy that had the same problem as you replace his battery like you did?
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I'm glad its not too expensive for replacement. It seems like this will slowly become more and more common if all that is happening is changing out the battery causing for the dead GPS. Sometimes the battery dies out catastrophically out of random chance (happened to my dad once where one of the plates in the battery just separated so battery just one day gave out 0V) and there's nothing you can do to maintain battery when dropping new one in. Also I know many car shops that would leave battery disconnected while working on something in the car like electrical or anything. Like if you had to swap out an ECU or anything in the car with multiple connections I wouldn't want to keep power flowing into it while disconnecting it one by one removing power from it unevenly.
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From: Jax, FL
It does....fingers were crossed, and when I saw the hdd logo on the screen that it was booting up, I was happy . And no kidding. I was surprised they were selling it so cheap. Everyone else was asking either $350+ with warranty, or $190 without warranty. And he had it for $225 with warranty. Not to mention its 1.75 years younger than her old unit and was more updated too! So newer intro screen and such was different.
Actually, interesting that you mentioned that. We disconnected the battery to install this unit and worked out fine. I'm not sure what happened to be honest. Maybe some novice at pepboys screwed it up. No idea. We checked the dashcam but unfortunately it overwrote that part so we couldn't see a before and after .
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Actually, interesting that you mentioned that. We disconnected the battery to install this unit and worked out fine. I'm not sure what happened to be honest. Maybe some novice at pepboys screwed it up. No idea. We checked the dashcam but unfortunately it overwrote that part so we couldn't see a before and after .
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Apparently disconnecting his battery, same thing you would do in replacing the battery, did not fry his head unit again. I've actually removed the head unit without disconnecting the battery and never had a problem, none of those plugs are receiving any power when the car is off.
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But what about ItzFilyO radio dying without ever replacing the battery and only being 8 months old. These units seem like a ticking time bomb to me.
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