COMAND - A New User's View

[Alfie]

NTG 2.5 with HK in a W203

To all those with facelifted W203's yes it is possible to have NTG 2.5 retrofitted. Done a few of them now, MarkJay's included.

I am in the process of doing this same upgrade to my C55. Comand unit is in, HK amp installed and ipod video kit in and working. Just having a few 'issues' with the new HK amp! Once thats resolved i'll then add reversing camera.

Will post some pictures when its all done.

 

[ex brid youth]

Absolutely Bizarre

Alfie,

Absolutely bizarre. Went to the dealers. We agreed I must have the latest firmwware because I had the AUX Boost volume opton (which did fix the AUX low sound problem) so work was done.

Before I went to the dealers I had tried a 1GB Kingston CF Card which worked great (but far too small).

With the confidence that I had the right firmware I purchased a 16GB Inov8 CF Card today and put my full collection of MP3's on it.

Tried 16GB the card in the slot, and got a message "no playable files"

The bizarre bit is that I am now getting the same message with the 1GB caard which was working before I went to the dealers - this I reallly can't understand ?

Any furter advice will be really appreciated -

 

[ex brid youth]

1gb was 32 bit

Just to confirm the 1GB file was working at both 16 & 32 bit ( I had formatted borth ways to test)

 

[Alfie]

I havnt don any testing of this myself. but I have heard from customers that Sandisk types work best of all.

I would perhaps pop along to the dealer armed with the 1GB stick and tell him the unit has packed up and can they check for another update

 

[ex brid youth]

Got it Working - Great

Thanks to those of you who have provided advice via this forum.

Talked to one of my IT guys at work, and it turned out I had inadvertanly bent one of the pins in the adapter.

Got a new PCMCIA CF Adapter at Lindy (who happen to be just over the road from where I live) and the 16GB CF Card (which is INOV8) that I purchased from Camera Mart (£49 but they were prepared to offer a full refund if hadn't worked) appears to be working great so far - its early days but well chuffed I think