FF 9150 miles, audio dead

Whew. Your FF hasn't stood still very much. No wonder something wanted a breather.

But this is the first I have heard of a battery reset to cure a downed audio system. That is new, I think.

 

Maybe you shouldn't listen to all those Boys Bands. The audio system just said one day: "I can't take it anymore!"

Glad you're putting miles on that thing. That's what it was made for!

 

Mine did the same thing yesterday (19,000 kms). No need to disconnect the battery. Turn off the car, wait 6 minutes and it resets itself....

 

Yeah I was having Bluetooth silliness with my iPhone on a drive home from work a few weeks ago and the audio unit "crashed" while I was trying to re-pair my phone to it. The screen stayed on but the audio stopped and I couldn't get the head unit to respond to any button presses.

When I got home and turned the car off the radio stayed on which worried me because I thought it would run the battery down. But when I went down to the garage a short while later to check on the car, the head unit had turned off. When I started up the car it was as if nothing went wrong and the audio system worked fine and hasn't glitched again since.

My FF is around 4,500 miles.

 

the Infotainment systems in the FF (and 458) are several discrete systems (Audio/SAT, Nav, Bluetooth) linked to a few of the cars systems and wrapped under the interface and some other systems (eg. voice recognition).

At times, a simple power on/off, or a delayed re-power up, will clear errors and glitches in the system. What you are experiencing often are classic (software) driver conflicts or transient data corruptions of sorts.

Sometimes you need to do a (hard) system reset. A 12V source on/off (battery reset) will accomplish that, though doing that has other effects on the cars systems. I will look and see if there is a hard reset option within the unit. (of course, if there was documentation we would know as it would be called out...).

Often there is a key sequence that can accomplish that (eg. hold button A, push button C, then button B and hold to initiate reset). I might have to find a Chrysler Minivan manual online and see if they have documentation (it's the same platform, albeit with different interface and buttons).

The "it's frozen on" has happened a few times in the BMWs....

 

Just one other point: the problems started with the (awful iPhone 5). Ferrari have upgraded the system and while it now works, it does have these quirks.... This evening, impossible to get any sound from my music library on the iphone 5, when connected via cable. Worked fine when connected via Bluetooth..... Go figure.....