The radio in my Octavia (Amundsen 2) was fine yesterday, but today it just refused to work.  Satnav etc fine, media fine-ish, reluctantly playing from SD2 slot, but no radio beit DAB,FM or AM.  Not only would it not play, but it wouldn’t change station.

 

However, I came back to the car after two or three hours, and everything fine again.  Discuss.

 

(FWIW the 2 or 3 hours were spent at the wonderful Waddesdon Manor, at the Christmas fair, also a light show on the manor itself, and a brilliant ‘light trail’ through the grounds.  If you are in the Aylesbury/Bicester area it’s well worth a visit.  Booking essential)

Edited 29 November, 20232 yr by Baxlin

Might have been a case of the long press on the on/off switch to cause a reboot would have fixed it. Leaving it off for that long would have dropped power so it gave you a reboot itself. There is a 20 minute power count down after you close the door when the system is still live. Getting a reboot in, in that period is your reboot. Over 20 minutes it naturally does it.

 

The infotainment systems programming isnt that brilliant so they wander into areas of memory in the unit they aren't suppose to be in so misbehave. The reboot is the restart like a long press on your Windows power button when all else fails.

 

I've had the case of the navigation image moving 1/2" to one side after loading POIs, a reboot fixed that. Swapping map cards a reboot is handy on a mib2 standard. Often fixes the issue after swapping map cards. The one I mainly do to get it to re read the card else it doesnt know if you are swapping between cards in that 20 minute window. Map updates plus the TMC fix. Only once has it crashed / done weird things like yours.