Hey Flip2cho,

I read that you had the problem with your iphone being disconnected from time to time. I got my car last week and have been running into that problem two. I play my music through my iphone 3gs and for the most part its ok. It's when I start scrolling into certain sections of a playlist it gives me the "check USB" error.

Do you still have that problem after you went to the dealers to get your radio replaced? I'm also having that HEXIdecimal issue as well too. I'm wondering if it's just the entire radio?

I already spoke to my dealer to inform him. He knew we ran into a similiar issue when I took home the car. Is there anything I should suggest him to check?

Thanks in advance!

 

Hey Flip2cho how about an update. Have you had any issues since the unit was replaced?

 

I am sorry sprintlphie, I didn't see your post till idok posted and sent this tread back up to the top.

I wish I could say that I haven't seen the error message since the new radio but I have. Only once though... I was putting it to the test by playing all of my songs on a shuffle and after about the 70th song or so I hadn't seen any error so I started quickly changing through tracks only letting them play for a second or so and then switching to the next track and at track 132 of 3196 I got the freeze up. I was dissapointed but it is better than before when it would mess up in the lower track count. At least I got to 132 this time (looking on the bright side....) That is the only time I have seen the error message since the new radio though. I can't say it fixed my problem because it did happen once but that was the only time so far... Knock on wood....

 

this has been frustrating me for 2 weeks now. I can play anywhere from 1 to 10-15 songs on my ipod while attached through the USB, but then it will just suddenly show an error. I asked the dealership about and they have no clue.

Is Nissan aware of this issue?

 

It has happened to me twice more now... It takes a long time to get to an error but when playing a large list it does happen.

It is true the manual says that the radio is compatible with the first gen only as far as iPhones go but I think that's a load of crap. How does the second and third gen work well then end up with an error after some time? When the error happens it even quits charging the phone.... I am very dissapointed with Nissans tech department. How impressive... you can't make a 2010 with the "tech" package that works with anything that plays music and uses a USB??? Every computers USB works flawlessly with with any USB music device. You can get a basic computer for $200 off Newegg that will play any song from your USB music player... How is it that that hard?? Its not freaking expensive... It's a bunch of BS! Very dissapointed...

 

i noticed that it happens to only a certain songs when i scroll through it. I know it's really pain in the *** but it doesn't seem like nissan tech will do anything or at least anytime soon.

So i deleted some of the songs that has been causing the problems and it seems to work alot better for now.


Now another problem i have is all that junk scrambled letters I have for the phone book.

Going to the dealer again on tuesday -_-

 

i forgot to mention that i spoke to the dealer service today and they said they have no record of this issue.

I'm not sure they are just lying or is it just happening to few people?

 

As far as the dealership it's self hearing about it, it's hard to say... The problem only affects the people with USB connection ( which was no one in 09 and only certain trims in 2010) and then it only seems to affect the iPod touch or 2nd and third gen iPhones. That brings the affected people ration of 7th gen owners down a lot compaired to actual sold units.

Does anybody use the first gen iPhone with their 2010 USB connection? I am curious if it work flawlessly like the manual states it is fully compatible.
Anybody??

 

hey guys,

I just got my new 2010 max with premium package and premium tech and i am having the same problem with my ipod touch 1 gen. However with that being said i think i might have found the reason this is happening to us. It seems that i am only getting the freeze and problems with songs that have the album artwork on it. Anytime i play one of them they dont work.. but if i play anyone on my ipod without artwork then it works fine 100% of the time. I dont know if this is the real reason but for me it seems to be the case. Plus this would explain why older ipods work no problem were the artwork wasnt aviable at the time.

Let me know what you guys think and test it out

 

Some of my songs with album artwork play no problem but some will seem to be the song it freezes on. The radio is supposed to be able to show the artwork. I will look into this though, see what type of file extention the picture is. Thanks for the post, I'll let you know what I find.

 

I just picked up my 2010 maxima with the premium package on Friday and I am having issues with the handset phonebook. I keep on getting the crazy list of numbers in the phonebook instead of my contacts some of you are referring to. I have my iPod classic attached to the USB port and my iPhone 3GS is connected via Bluetooth. It seems more than usual the handset phone book just wigs out and I have to delete then phone and then resync it but sometimes that doesn't even work. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks again form the help.

 

Sorry, the only solution I've come up with is to use the iPhone's built-in voice-dialing feature to call people, and just answering the phone when someone calls. It's frustrating to no end.

-John

 

I know what you mean by frustrating. I dropped a big nut on this car. Everyhing should work flawlessly but we don't live in that perfect world. I'll keep fiddling with it. I already called the dealer and they told me to bring it back when I can. I'll update when I find out more about it. Great car though. I haven't owned anything over a V4 since 1987. I had a 85 mustang lx and then went to 4 cylinders to stay out of trouble. This car screams give me a ticket.

KC

 

Yup ... while the nav screen, etc. is prettier than my 09 Lincoln MKS was, the Lincoln's tech just WORKED. The nav has rebooted on me for no apparent reason, disconnected my iPod, gives me hexadecimal instead of names for contacts in my iPhone phone book.

 

I'm just glad that I am not the only one having this problem. I can show this to the dealer then.

 

Has anyone on tried to use the 09 cable with iPad yet?

 

I think you've hit on the solution! I've been having the same problem with my 2010 Maxima and 2nd generation iPod touch the others have reported. After I read this post, though, I scrolled through the options and turned OFF the option to allow album artwork to appear. I then did the quick switching through songs on my iPod, and had no problems. I haven't had much time to test it out, but I haven't had the error message in the day or so that I've been trying it out.

 

Hey Guys,

I have been working with a "Dave" in the Nissan Consumer Affairs center and today I got a call from him with the follow information:

1) Engineering has found the problem

2) It is a SOFTWARE issue

3) They are working on writing new code

4) No ETA

I have also been having issues with my 2nd Gen Ipod Mini. It would not even recognize the Ipod at all.

 

That's awsome man! Keep us posted

 

Well I am also having bugs on my iPhone 3Gs so I am glad to hear this. I wonder what this means for the new iPhone with 4.X software? New phone is out in what 4 days?

 

June 24th. A little more than 4 days but its coming soon.

 

I have been following this thread and have the following to offer... I have an iPhone 3GS 16GB on a 2010 Maxima with Tech and Premium. I was having the hexadecimal problem with the phonebook, but one quick uninstall / reinstall of my phone corrected that problem. I wasn't having any problems with my iPod playback through my iPhone until I installed OS 4.0. As soon as I installed OS 4.0, I no longer received the error message asking for airplane mode. Instead, the message indicates complete incompatability and doesn't even acknowledge that an iPod is connected. So, I'd love to hear anyone else that upgraded their iPhone 3GS to OS 4.0 and is having similar issues or if yours works as intended because I have lost the ability to use my iPhone as an iPod using the USB port.

 

In regards to the automatic door lock. The doors lock after you reach a certain speed, generally 15 miles per hour. It does have to be activated through your setttings menu.

 

My iPhone 3GS doesn't have any problems with connectivity or charging after upgrading to iOS4.

In a related note - I turned off "auto download" on the handset phonebook - no more hexadecimal problems!

 

Some times my phone will not work either (old 3.1.2 firmware) and It will display "no song" on the monitor. It happens only once in a while and all I have to do is reboot the phone because that's not a problem with the car. You can try rebooting to see it it works for you.
Here is what you need to do.
With the phone on hold down the sleep/wake button at the same time as he home button. Continue holding down untill your device shuts down completely. (the "slide to power down screen will pop up but just keep holding down and it will shut down by it's self)
After it has shut down, just power back up as normal. ( it will take a long time for the phone to boot back up so don't worry and just be patient.)
After the re-boot it works fine again for me so give it a try and see if it helps you out.

 

So after digging a little bit more on the internet, it appears that OS 4.0 was a widespread problem covering many OEM radios as well as after-market radios. The common theme among advice given was to do a hard re-boot of the phone, as you mentioned. After the hard re-boot, all is well. I did notice though that I am no longer asked about airplane mode. Instead of selecting yes/no like I did before, I now have to dismiss the error message. But, the iPod feature on my iPhone works, my phone book is legible, and the phone charges without incident.

 

i just upgraded to os4 with my 3gs iphone and still have a problem when i plug it into the car. i tried hard rebooting and still doesn't play on my car anyone else find a solution?

 

I have a 2010 Maxima with the premium package/NAV. I was able to connect my 3G iPhone (with the latest software upgrade) via bluetooth, my primary motivation being Pandora Radio. If you connect the iPhone via the 30-pin plug to the USB, you can play podcasts and music, but not "app audio" such as Pandora. Unfortunately, while I got he bluetooth to work, the "skips" in the music were far too frequent and annoying. So I got a stereo mini plug (3.5mm) going to two male RCA jacks, and went from the iPhone headphone jack to the RCA inputs (right next to the USB) -- you can then play Pandora usign AUX, even while the car is moving. But you don't have any control (other than audio) through the NAV screen like you do with podcasts, etc. The inconvenience is this -- I have two cabels now (30-pin to USB, plus the stereo mini/RCAs), and I also understand that the sound quality is less when you use the headphone jack as your source. I hunted around a bit on the web and I found a company that makes specialty and custom cables including one that has a 30 pin (connect to phone), and the other end is a USB and two RCA male plugs. Their tech person told me that it should work for Pandora (to the RCAs) and iPod stuff to the USB). I'll get it this week, and then I'll let you know how it worked. I was able to order a custom length (2.5 feet) as well and the price including shipping was around $45. To me, this experiment is successful only if the podcasts and music play fine through the USB, and app audio (i.e. Pandora) play fine through the RCA (AUX) inputs. If it charges as well, that's a plus, but not a must. If anybody wants the link for this cable, do a post and I'll add it.

 

FOLLOW UP to my last post. I got the special cable today and just tried it out. Note that a 30-pin iPhone plug is the only connection to the iPhone (no 3.5 mm stereo plug into the headphone jack). This does indeed work as I'd hoped (for iPod content AND Pandora Radio), but with just one caveat. If you plug BOTH the USB and RCA jacks in, the system will only look for and play "iPod" content. Even if you switch to AUX on the Maxima Nav, and try to play Pandora, you will get nothing -- UNLESS you unplug the USB, and just leave the RCA plugs in place. Then Pandora plays just fine. So you can get away with just one cable, and I think it's a benefit for it to only plug into the bottom of the phone, since on Premium pkg. Maximas, the connection ports are in the armrest. If you connect into the headphone jack, you have to do a one-eighty with the cable. And like I said, then you have two cables. Here's a link to the product that I got. Amazingly, I ordered it Friday morning and it arrived today (Tuesday) via UPS Ground! I don't think I'm violating any rules here by posting the link.
As I said before, you can specify the cable length you want. I went with 2.5 feet, which seems to have been a good decision:

http://www.ramelectronics.net/produc...emId=312873776

 

RECALL RECALL RECALL!!!!! I called my dealer and made an appointment for the update on Wed!!

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....35#post7646635

 

Got my updates done this morning. And still no solutions to what we have all complained about. Best solution so far still seems to be the shortened playlist recommended.

 

Not good. I really hope you wrong. I m getting mine updated right now. I will let you know if i experience the same

 

Yeah, I was disappointed. It was the 1st thing i tested. I really hope I am wrong too, and probably doing it wrong. Let's know how that goes.

 

I'm at 123 songs out of 2777 played and no problem so far (knock on wood). I pluged in my iPhone half way one time on accident and got the dreaded "CHECK IPOD OR USB MEMORY but it was my fault for not fully pushing in the cable. Unlike all the other times I didn't have to turn the car off. I just pushed the cable in all the way and I was back to playing music. I am going to wait till more songs get played before I say it's fixed but it's looking good so far!!

 

It's called a hard reset - it's holding down the home button and power button until the apple logo appears and you're supposed to release the buttons on the apple logo. Programs that you go into on your phone run in the back and if you use or go into apps it will slow your phone down - just do a hard reset and you're connectivity and other functions should work better and reset themselves.

 

I know what a hard reset is but that wasn't the solution. The problem that most people are discribing here, when you get that error on the screen you could unplug your phone and plug in sombody elses and it still won't work. The car had to be shut down and the drivers door opened before ANY iPhone would play again

 

I'm worried. I have an 09 Maxima Sport (didn't have iPod hookup) that I'm trading for the 2011 Maxima Sport. The dealer has me in a 2010 Maxima Premium right now and when I plug my iPhone into the USB, I get a message on my phone that " This accessory has not been optimized for performance with this phone.... etc." Does anybody know if this has been fixed in the 2011? I will be severely disappointed if it's not - may not even get the car as much as I love the Crimson Black. Please help if you know.

Based on some of the other posts, here are the details of my problem. I have an iPhone 3GS updated to version 4.1 iOS. My bluetooth works well with the car; my iPhone music library is read correctly and displayed on the Info screen of the car just as it is in my iPhone; BUT the problem is that the music is garbled when it is played. The message on the phone when I first hook up states something about cellular data could interfere and cause issues with playback.

 

Everybody gets that message. It's just saying that when you get a call, the cellular signal might interfere with the music being played. No big deal at all.

 

have you taken i to the apple store? They can tell you whats wrong if its a iphone issue

 

The message is normal. Everyone gets it on the max and other accessories.