This may be a very simple question but I can't seem to find an answer to it. I'm also not sure if I've always had this issue, if it just started, or if its just the way I burned the last CD (its an mp3 cd with about 100 songs). When I make a call using Hands free it does not pause the CD, so when I'm finished with the call I'm a few songs in.

Anyone had this issue or know how to fix it?

 

Yep, annoying isn't it? It's even more annoying when you're listening to say an audiobook, and you have to rewind to exactly the place in the track where the call came in. Poor software design, in my opinion.

There's no "fix" that I know of. Did Acura changes this in later models?

 

Not sure if there is a work around if someone is calling you, but if your the one making the call I guess you can probably hit stop first and then call the person.

 

IIRC the way to pause a disc is to press the number button corresponding to the disc being played...so while playing a disc in slot 4, you press the 4 button to pause it.

 

Can you do that even after you've accepted or made a hands free call? I'll have to try it out, I'd be happy if that works.

 

Doesn't work. Boo.

 

I have a feeling this is a part of the car where the engineers working on the stereo were not working in parallel with the engineers working on the HFL. I agree. BOOO!!!

 

That's what systems engineers are supposed to be for. Doesn't surprise me though, based on most of the systems engineers I know.

 

yes, very annoying. I think you can also not turn off the audio system (which would pause playback) once a call is coming in. Seems to be a ridiculous oversight when they thought to have the HVAC turn the fan down whenever using voice commands or on the HFL.

 

whats a CD?

 

The geeks that wrote the code for this car cannot drive and they never will until the steering is by a mouse and the switches are by a keyboard.

 

I just found out my brother-in-law was involved in designing our hands free system. I complained to him about the CD not pausing, and he said the radio only had a mute line and no pause line. Like I said before, poor systems engineering (for which I can't blame my BIL). I thought it was also interesting that he said they were designing it back in 2002, and only had Bluetooth 0.7 to work with, which was really only intended for headsets, so they were having to guess at what the later capabilities of Bluetooth would be and tried to influence the standard development. It's easy to forget how long the development cycles are for new vehicles. 2002 is now a decade ago. A lot has changed since then.

 

That's what happens when you want the latest greatest. It is yet to be proved, tried or true.

Add to that you have a Bose system being integrated with a HFL module from another source vendor. Likely the two had no idea their components would be eventually integrated and therefore integration testing for this use case was not part of the design plan. If it was discovered by the engineers, it was likely too far down the pipe to redesign the components from the source vendors to integrate the pause functionality.

Complicated systems introduce complicated issues and often surface unintended results.

But it is one small deficiency in the RLs telematics I can live with.

FYI, when I receive a HFL call, I simply toggle off the CD mode with the steering wheel MODE button. When the call ends, I toggle mode back to CD and resume play....where I left off. In the technology realm....this is known as a 'work around'.

 

Sweet, thanks for the tip, I'll give that a try. I don't think I've ever used the mode button.