tuner4life Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Whats the trick? Installation was simple, the unit works. Kind of... It does play music off of a usb stick and sounds good, but it is infuriating trying to skip through songs. It will let you skip a few, and seems to work ok, but will inevitably get stuck, or lost. When it does this, none of the skip/rewind, etc.. buttons function and the only way to gain control again is to turn it off and back on. On occasion it will show an "error" message on the radio display. And it only seems to want to play a small number of songs out of the hundreds I have on my USB stick. I've read the manual a dozen times and searched Google and come up with nothing useful. I've tried rearranging the music on the USB stick to be in folders, out of folders, etc... Nothing really works. Am I just missing something stupid? What am I doing wrong? I've heard so many good reviews on this thing, but I am far from happy with it. And their customer service is by email only, and it's been days and I've heard nothing back from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuner4life Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 It also wont play over track # 99... Finally got an email back from Grom. I described my problems and they basically just said that the older radios are finicky and they will look into it in the next few days to see if there is anything they can do with it. Yay... I'm about to yank this pile out and send it back and just get a real radio like Ghost Shadow recommended in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burn-E Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 FYI, the Blitzsafe works just fine with my C70's SC901. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuner4life Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 FYI, the Blitzsafe works just fine with my C70's SC901. Do you happen to know what model you have? I looked on their site and none of them say that they work with a USB stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdimag Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 i can't offer a whole lot of help, as i have this with an s60 radio... I've had issues with the provided USB stick (it's failing -- freezing while playing, hard to skip tracks), but the exact same file structure on something else would be fine... and directories with more than 99 songs would play, but it would drop the 1 (so, 1, 2, 3...98, 99, 1, 2, 3..) I only ever get CD ERROR when it's too cold to function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuner4life Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 thanks, but I've tried this with 2 different sticks and it has been in the heated garage the whole time I've been testing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phonsa Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Have you tried the latest firmware (# 33 on the dropdown box) ? http://gromaudio.com/software-usb2.html This is timely as i saw the review on IPD and am really keen (well not so much after your review). Hope you get this resolved soon. I have an 98 C70 as well but is the SC-900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Shadow Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 DISCLAIMER!! Ya'll should know i'd chime in LOL By all means, this is not any sort of hostile comment directed at anyone. i am sincerely scratching my head on this one, why oh why for the love of car stereo would you want to keep a 12+ year old headunit. I dont understand why the facination with OEM radios. freaking Grom unit < >Volvo 94-00 USB Android iPod iPhone…Volvo 94-00 USB Android iPod iPhone Bluetooth AUX adapter$134.99Item number: VOL94U2PItem price: $134.99Options: car make: volvo s70 199…car make: volvo s70 1998, choice: Quantity: 1AUX-IN 3.5mm audio and 5V USB Charg…AUX-IN 3.5mm audio and 5V USB Charging cable , 5FT$14.99Item number: 35USBItem price: $14.99 Quantity: 1Add iPod cable for charge and contr…Add iPod cable for charge and control$24.99Item number: ISIPDItem price: $24.99 Quantity: 1Add Grom Bluetooth DongleAdd Grom Bluetooth Dongle$49.99Item number: USBBTDItem price: $49.99 Quantity: 12GB USB stick (free)2GB USB stick (free) Item number: USB2GBF Item price: $0.00 Quantity: 1 Total $224.96 + 12 shipping = 236.96 vs DDX470 is only a few dollars more, PM me for pricing as they are in stock now. Just so you can have what? the factory look? SMH OMG WTF BBQ New kenwood DDX790 New Kenwood DDX470 Kenwoods in my cars P2 01-07 S60/V70, mine 05 V70R P80 Chassis aka 98-00S/V70 and 98-04 C70 BTW- My 05 V70R will be getting last years DNX6990HD yanked out as soon as i get the new 2013 DNN990HD Wifi unit in and my S70 or C70 will be getting the DNX890HD thats for the love of car stereo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuner4life Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 You have another PM full of my dumb questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdimag Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 all i know is i got it for Bluetooth audio, which is inherently shitty, so why bother... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Shadow Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 think about this, even though you dont want nav right now. kenwood makes it so that if you do, buy a cable, buy the app from garmin and you golden!! navi on your radio thru your iphone! you can have that bitch siri do everything for you with siri eyes free, there's app mode for you apple lovers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdimag Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 you're not appealing to this guy with your apple nonsense and I have nav... turn-by-turn navigation on the droid w/ the audio going over the speakers. for the record $186.98 shipped (obviously no ipod connection) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prasamin Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 OH MY GAWD THAT DNN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Shadow Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 you're not appealing to this guy with your apple nonsense and I have nav... turn-by-turn navigation on the droid w/ the audio going over the speakers. for the record $186.98 shipped (obviously no ipod connection) brian, me and apple have philosophical differences...i only reference apple for the iSheep. its a huge selling point. About your droid, turn by turn is great until you get no signal or a phone call comes in.pras, DNN is android based...kenwoods own overlay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prasamin Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 brian, me and apple have philosophical differences...i only reference apple for the iSheep. its a huge selling point. About your droid, turn by turn is great until you get no signal or a phone call comes in. pras, DNN is android based...kenwoods own overlay i read that....so awesome, but sooo expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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