2015 California T Radio Problem

I would try to disconnect the battery to force the system to reboot. It freezes sometimes.

 

Press the on off button of the multimedia (lower left one) for about half a minute to a minute while the engine is running. It should get back to normal.


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It works on mine. If the on/off procedure does not work you should bring it to your Ferrari dealer and ask for a fix + system update.

 

You popped a code (yes that will turn of the screen), though in some cases you will still hear the sound. If you have the right type of scanning tool you can clear the code.

 

Knowing the infotainment is a Chrisler device costing less than 1.000$ it hurts to pay that much for the Ferrari logo.
There is a post from someone who replace his infotainment by a Chrisler one.
You just need a VIN code that you can buy online for 25$ if I remember well for the car to recognize the radio.
But you will get the Chrilser logo when you start the car...
I am pretty sure you can alter the firmware to inject the Ferrari logo.

When I had troubles with mine, my Ferrari dealer told me they could send my unit back to Ferrari to fix it. It costs less than the device itself.

 

did you ever find fix
mine just started doing that also ???

 

did you ever get it fixed

this sucks mine is doing same thing

 

This helped for me if holding the power button doesnt help:

Make sure your iphone is charged 100%. Close all the apps on iphone one by one. Wait 20 seconds after you start the car, connect the iphone. Click to an app on iphone which is using second display such as waze or spotify, press carplay button on infotainment. This somehow resets it.

 

I hate to say this happened today after I wrote the above. With no reasonable explanation, nothing I tried including above worked.

I noticed sometimes my iphone doesnt start charging when connected when this issue is also happening so I'm thinking maybe that's because keeping the iphone connected all the time with waze and other apps open may be draining to much car battery even though car is moving.

So I unplugged the usb cables. Drove the car for an hour. Then when I stopped the car at a gas station and locked the car for 10 minutes and came back everything started working again.

 

You got lucky
I cant figure it out
I called 3 ferrari service dept and got 3 different responses
One said motherboard shot
One said software
One said radio is toast
I really want to het this fixed
Just put car on charger hope it helps and it will be fully charged
Any help would be appreciated
Frustrating !!!!!!

 

Sorry for the Necropost but the Becker Harman NIT radio head unit on my 2016 Cali T is rebooting every 10-20 seconds. I went through the hard reset procedure. Nada. My (very qualified) dealership tried all their tricks. Power is good. Harness/connectors are fine. When NIT boots up you see (1) Ferrari logo, (2) get a brief connection warning, (3) radio returns to same channel / volume where it was last....for about 5 seconds....and then reboot all over again.

I know these are the same units as in Chryslers. My San Jose based radio/audiophile guys all said "probably a hard drive boot error / etc".

Thoughts on what to try next?

I can likely easily get the replacement hard drive (probably a Samsung since they bought Harman 10 years or so ago). How would one go about porting the boot software from a bad drive to a new one. My audio guys also said to format the hard drive in Fat32 data format as there is an 80% chance that's what it boots on now.

Other ideas? What a complete POS. 3500 miles on the car and it has been garaged / babied it's entire life.

Dealer says $11k for the Chrysler radio. Aftermarket can look a little cheesy.

Other ideas or links? I also checked the FF forums as I think this is the exact same head unit. No detailed threads there but several folks complaining of their radio dying.

The Ferrari part number is 316866. Tried a few salvage guys. No stock there either.

Next thing is to send the radio to an electronics shop that works on these types of things. I suspect they deal with the hard drive booting issue all the time. Hopefully.

Anything else I should try?

Thank you for listening.

 

It might not be the head unit. The Apple car play head units have a separate I-Node ECU, which accepts the video inputs from the cameras etc. When the head unit receives an input from the I-Node ECU, the head unit's screen switches to that input. If there is an issue with the visual input from that ECU, the head unit would show a blank screen. The I-Node ECU is located behind the driver's side floor mat somewhere. You could simply have a loose harness. The USB inputs also go through that I-Node ECU which sends signals to the Head unit. In the pic attached it is the eco on the lower left corner.
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BB2,

Thanks for the input. Really appreciate it.
The dealer had a "same year" head unit they keep in the shop to test for this. When they pulled my head unit and put the test unit in, everything worked fine. Hence their thinking it was/is the head unit. And my current thinking from what I learned on the All-Par and MyGig-Disk sites about the usual "pattern" for what's wrong with these units when they start looping.

Please also note that this is NOT a CarPlay unit. The model number I referenced is for the OEM Becker NIT for North America without CarPlay. I honestly cannot remember if CarPlay was not yet an option on my 2016 or if I just passed on it b/c I am not a big radio / feature user when driving my cars.

Thank you!

Keep those thoughts coming and, if it is interesting to others here, I will keep posting what we find out.

 

If you have cameras, then it could be the non apple car play i-Node ECU that is the problem. I believe that one is in the trunk.

 

The backup camera was not available for my car when it was ordered and therefore is not part of the equation. I will ask the dealer to double check that. Thank you, BB2.

 

What happened..... can't wait. 6 months later. I think applecar play was 2019 maybe.... I have a 2015 no car play. But can't get the volume to go higher when someone calls in.

 

Software upgrade

 

Thanks.