RDS only displays Station Name
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Originally Posted by Bobkare' post='249084' date='Mar 3 2006, 12:53 AM
If the customer does not wish to see these confusing RDS tags, then turn RDS off.
HAHAHAH I had to laugh on this one...
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Originally Posted by hinckley' post='249130' date='Mar 3 2006, 05:53 AM
Nice fix BMW.
I love my car, but BMW's inability to get some of these basic technology issues right is truely mind-blowing. GM figured out RDS on its least expensive cars years ago. But on my $65K E60, I've had to take BMW's advice and just turn RDS off. It's really unforgivable.
I love my car, but BMW's inability to get some of these basic technology issues right is truely mind-blowing. GM figured out RDS on its least expensive cars years ago. But on my $65K E60, I've had to take BMW's advice and just turn RDS off. It's really unforgivable.
This sort of "fix one thing, break another" is quite common in systems that can be programmed to support many many features. We see it all the time with routers/switches, etc... features get added or fixed, and others that worked before get broken. Some ex-Cisco coders (they worked on the 7200 series - the platform that new featuresets were added to first) started a new company a while back with the intention of making a hardware and software platform that would address these sorts of things at the deepest levels. This topic is fresh in my mind because we just met with them two days ago - they claim that adding code and altering pieces of code routinely breaks other components - as we're all pretty used to experiencing by now. Having to add more new components due to the chassis they dealt with made them painfully aware of the shortcomings of the approach in use then (and in use today as well for the most part). Only by devising a modular software architecture can we hope to cure this - the systems in our cars weren't developed when coders were enlightened enough to realize this.
The good news is, this new thinking is spreading. Perhaps the next gen of systems will improve if we're lucky...
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where do you turn on/off the RDS? I have an Euro spec car and have the RDS function eversince.... But I never came across the RDS ON/OFF funciton????
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Originally Posted by Peter530i' post='257222' date='Mar 19 2006, 09:53 AM
where do you turn on/off the RDS? I have an Euro spec car and have the RDS function eversince.... But I never came across the RDS ON/OFF funciton????
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Originally Posted by uwsc11' post='257328' date='Mar 19 2006, 03:41 PM
For me it is in the entertainment section. If you listen to your radio stations you select the "Set" menu where you can "store", "repeat" etc. and I have "RDS" in there, which I can select or de-select.
Maybe the RDS ON/OFF is only US thing. RDS is basic and standart in Europe for ages.
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Originally Posted by UUronL' post='257221' date='Mar 19 2006, 12:44 PM
This sort of "fix one thing, break another" is quite common in systems that can be programmed to support many many features. We see it all the time with routers/switches, etc... features get added or fixed, and others that worked before get broken. Some ex-Cisco coders (they worked on the 7200 series - the platform that new featuresets were added to first) started a new company a while back with the intention of making a hardware and software platform that would address these sorts of things at the deepest levels. This topic is fresh in my mind because we just met with them two days ago - they claim that adding code and altering pieces of code routinely breaks other components - as we're all pretty used to experiencing by now. Having to add more new components due to the chassis they dealt with made them painfully aware of the shortcomings of the approach in use then (and in use today as well for the most part). Only by devising a modular software architecture can we hope to cure this - the systems in our cars weren't developed when coders were enlightened enough to realize this.
The good news is, this new thinking is spreading. Perhaps the next gen of systems will improve if we're lucky...
The good news is, this new thinking is spreading. Perhaps the next gen of systems will improve if we're lucky...
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