PDR auto activation??
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Instructor
Joined: Jul 2005
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From: Redding CA
PDR auto activation??
For all the crazys and weird things that happen, It would be great to have your PDR on at all times. The current design makes you manually turn it on after starting the engine; eg press HOME, press PDR, press ACTIVATE. It would be great to start the engine and have the PDR automatically start. Does anybody have a fix? Thanks
Instructor
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From: Fairfield Ohio
PDR activation
Ive had a hard time finding a sd card that works with it . I know it has to be formatted fat32 and that seems to be my problem. I bought one and tried to format it myself but the programs I found that were free at the end wanted to charge you another $60 besides the sd card cost. Any help
Jerry
Jerry
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From: Charleston SC
Ive had a hard time finding a sd card that works with it . I know it has to be formatted fat32 and that seems to be my problem. I bought one and tried to format it myself but the programs I found that were free at the end wanted to charge you another $60 besides the sd card cost. Any help
Jerry
Jerry
Racer
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From: Mt. Juliet TN
Ive had a hard time finding a sd card that works with it . I know it has to be formatted fat32 and that seems to be my problem. I bought one and tried to format it myself but the programs I found that were free at the end wanted to charge you another $60 besides the sd card cost. Any help
Jerry
Jerry
Clean
Create part pri
Select part 1
Format fs=fat32 quick
Should be good to go!
Melting Slicks
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From: Granbury, Pecan Plantation TX
Ive had a hard time finding a sd card that works with it . I know it has to be formatted fat32 and that seems to be my problem. I bought one and tried to format it myself but the programs I found that were free at the end wanted to charge you another $60 besides the sd card cost. Any help
Jerry
Jerry
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From: Charleston SC
Early 2015's had it come on automatically if you wanted. Than a few lawsuits (one in the PRK that I can recall) caused them to default it to off and manually turn on.
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How did you manage to create a favorite to start the PDR? On my 15 the favorites all disappear when I go into the PDR menus
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The "favorite" does not auto start. You always have to hit the disclaimer and then the start button. All they are doing is getting the button on the main screen and the mini menu bar so they can get to it quickly from almost any screen.
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From: Mt. Juliet TN
Go to the home screen and click the little up arrow to display the favorites. Hold down a favorite button and it will tell you to click the item you want to add. Press the PDR icon.
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Things like this are why it would be nice if someone came up with BCM "tuning" software (or perhaps an aftermarket modules). If Chevrolet doesn't want people digging into this then they should be open on providing updates to existing customers. There is no reason they couldn't provide an instant on feature that didn't record the cabin conversations. Then there would be no privacy issues.
Burning Brakes
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Things like this are why it would be nice if someone came up with BCM "tuning" software (or perhaps an aftermarket modules). If Chevrolet doesn't want people digging into this then they should be open on providing updates to existing customers. There is no reason they couldn't provide an instant on feature that didn't record the cabin conversations. Then there would be no privacy issues.