arite, i know this was briefly addressed but im a little worried. i briefly disconnected my negative battery, and reconnected it, and now my radio displays "TEL." when i press "power" nothing happens. basically the head unit doesnt work. NONE OF THE BUTTONS WORK!! blahhh, HELP. anyone have ANY ideas? i disconnected my battery and hopefully it will be better tomorrow but yeah..anyone have a clue as to what this means??? thanks

 

"tel" means you better tell someone who can fix this! j/k bro - i've never seen or heard of this happening to the stock hu- but good luck!

 

haha.. take it to the dealership and ask them to check it out.. cuz i never heard of such thing.

 

all is better now, i left it unplugged overnight and the radio no longer says TEL. problem now is, because i unplugged my battery overnight, i failed my emissions inspection because a bunch of things were "not ready."

 

I know what it was... It said TEL but the bulbs inside the raido were gone so It ireally said DON'T TEL " or you won't pass emmissions.....j/k

 

If you look in the 2002 FSM, there is a provision for a BUILT IN TELEPHONE PASS THRU !! I think you somehow got into that function. I have yet to see a Maxima with a wired in phone thru Bose unit, but according to the FSM it is possible and looks like it would come from the factory like that.

Maybe you got one of those cars. Or maybe FMS was written before the final options were set and phone feature never made it to the actual car.

 

But his car is a 2000. But it's fine now, so oh well.

 

OK, would anyone know anything about this? I have a 2K with stock HU and TEL message comes up quite often now and takes over the unit and then I can't do anything with it, no radio, CD, nothing... Any ideas?

 

if it come on often i would say you might want to change it unless you can get the stealership to change it for you if you still under warranty.

 

Warranty is long gone... Any ideas on what the actual problem is?

 

def sounds like that is some type of short within the system itself. i mean i never had this problem before i've been changed out my bose headunit a while ago. sorry couldnt be more helpful.

 

I am just concerned if it is something outside the HU and that if I replace it that I will get the same prob again. Anyone that had this problem and replaced the HU - did the problem go away??

Here is what I found in FSM on the phone system: "Telephone" whatever(?) seems to be connected to the main harness at the M16 location of the harness at the driver's side under the dash (A3 quadrant):

 

so can we get one of those wired phones like they have in MB and BMWs into our maximas???????? lol

 

Hehe, something like that

Anyone else have any clue about this??

 

Anyone seen this recently? I had another occurrence of it this evening

 

OK, found some info: some '99 and '00 cars were made with optional phone system and some circuitry was built into HU. This option was $600+ so not many were sold with it but most have the capability that is not enabled. In my case, under extreme cold (which we had when message came on) something triggers it to enable and "receive calls". It is warmer now, in 20s, and it is not receiving calls from the local weather station

 

Throw your cell phone out the window.

 

LOL