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Cruiser
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| Has anyone else had problems with thier ipod freezing up while riding. Mine is fine for 15 minutes or so and then stops. It is an Ipod with a hard drive and not the Ipod Nano which is just flash memory. Do you think the vibration is too much for the hard drive? Any thoughts out there? |
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Cruiser
Posts: 76
| The third generation iPods don't play well with the Vision's interface. |
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Visionary
Posts: 8144
New Bohemia, VA | This may be of help to you.
http://www.vision-riders.com/bb/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=515&post... |
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Tourer
Posts: 550
Tacoma, WA | Try to isolate the iPod with a shop rag, and bubblewrap. I have had good success with that method on my 80 Gig-----Metalguy |
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Visionary
Posts: 2027
Brighton, TN | Yes, the vibration in the little compartment is fairly excessive at speed. If you no believe open that box while cruising with a bare hand and you can easily feel the vibrations. Even on my cheapy RCA brand 5 gig hard drive mp3. I have to do like metalguy and keep it in the arm band and let it try to freely hang out, otherwise it will hang also. Still does it I just have to advance to next song and it goes away for the moment, but it comes back. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 256
Florida | Simply stated, any hard drive device can be adversely affected by vibrations. The easiest solution is to purchase the previous version iPod Nano. The can be found "refurbished" at apple.com. I have two of them (both refurbs) both loaded with various playlists and I've had no adverse issues. They are small enough where both easily fit into the left glove box and take little room. While other players will work to some degree, the Vision was designed to operate with the older Nano and for the time being, you're gambling trying other devices as the extensive vibration "could" void the warranties on various hard-drive players. I'm sure at some point, Victory will have adapters for other players, but for now, I'm happy to have this solution. I find that when cruising, I use the iPod as a source for music more than the XM radio.
The only problem I had was a few days ago, I removed the Garmin 2820 and used the AC adapter to bring it inside to program some detailed routes. When I put it back on the Vision, I noticed that the Garmin's built in XM Tuner (which I don't use) was over ridding my sound system and playing the XM demo channels. Hmm. The fix was simple: Go to the XM area on the Garmin and change the source. It's working fine now. I can only assume that when I connected it to the AC adapter, for some reason, it over-rode the settings. |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 18
Stacy,Mn | Has anyone tried a iPod touch on there Vision, if so how did it work? |
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Cruiser
Posts: 59
| Well everyone, I bought an ipod nano for the vision and all is woring well. I guess I'll just use my ipod classic in the car.
Thanks everyone for the feedback! |
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ipod connection intermittent