Third gen radio issue. Help??

I have a 2017 TRD sport. A couple months ago my factory radio unit would start shutting down and rebooting constantly. The dealership ended up replacing my head unit under warranty, but the problem still occurs. Anyone else have this problem? Or better yet, a solution? Pic for attention

 

Did they verify that it had the latest firmware?
I had some weird stuff like that and the dealer updated it and it seems to have stopped.
I'm not sure what's current now.

The only problem I have now is if I leave my old ipod 80gb classic connected it crashes the ipod when the truck is off for a while.

 

Never heard of that. Might be from not rinsing the soap off your truck.

 

Thanks for the reply. Yes they did update it. In fact, I feel like the issue started after they did an update in December. I noticed the problem shortly after getting it back from a service. I did ask them to disable my seatbelt chime, not sure if something happened while they were poking around trying to figure out how to do that?

 

I'm surprised the dealer would disable that, seems like something that would be considered illegal...especially here in the democratic people republic of calif!

 

i would never have even thought of it, but I read about people getting their seatbelt and door chime disabled at the dealership right on this very forum, so I figured it didn’t hurt to ask. They kind of got the seatbelt one dealt with but said they couldn’t figure out how to do the door chime. They also tinted my windows which is definitely illegal where I’m at.

 

Haha ok, you’re right. Revised photo post soap! Still have the radio issue though lol

 

Hmmm, really? Looks so good though. I’d think the radio would be happy now.

 

I had this problem. There are several threads here and in other forums - basically any forum where the vehicle had an Entune system.
I read through quite a number of threads looking for an answer. The exact cause is not really known. Apple will point the finger at Toyota and Toyota will point the finger at Apple.

This is what I did and have had no issues since.

In the Entune settings, I Deleted All my Personal Data - which reset my head unit back to like the day I got it. I did not install any of the Slacker or I Heart Radio apps. I also did not load the Entune App onto my phone. ( I previously did have these things installed)

I then did the following step by step.

1. Forget the Tacoma from my phones Bluetooth settings
2. Removed/unpaired ALL connected phones from the head unit
3. Removed the Entune app from iPhone
4. Reset my Network Settings on my iPhone
5. Signed out of the iTunes account on my phone
6. Restarted my phone
7. Signed back into iTunes account
8. Turn Bluetooth back on and re-pair iPhone with the head unit like normal
9. Re-Sync contacts and enable "Show message notifications" in Bluetooth settings (tap on the blue i (with a circle around it) next to the Tacoma connection)

After doing all that stuff - no more reboots, everything worked like normal - even WITH the Contacts Synced up.

Let me know if this works for you...

 

Wow, that’s crazy! I did try and do a quick search for this issue but didn’t find a lot. Thank you for the detailed response, I will try this out and cross my fingers

 

I do find it odd that everything was working fine for the last year and a half until the service I had done in December. I wonder if it’s related to any of the updates or something? I’m perplexed

 

well, my head unit died this morning, so at least you have something a little better than mine

 

I added a contact to my phone just prior to having this problem. Others are saying it has to do with an iPhone update, but then I've also read that some Android phones have the same problem

 

My 2019 started doing this right after latest iPhone update. I went to Bluetooth on iPhone and took off loading favorites and contact list and the head unit stopped rebooting over and over.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve tried this as a place to start and it seems to be working so far in the short amount of time I’ve driven since

 

I don’t think it’s technically illegal for them to change this setting- it’s even in the manual as an option/setting. I think most (that say no) use that as a bs cop out and hide behind safety liabilities. My dealer had no issues doing it though but you can always do it yourself if they don’t.

I asked them about the door chime too and there just isn’t a setting for that on our tacos. Unfortunately

 

No I wasn’t talking about tint- yes that is restricted by law. I was talking about turning off the seatbelt chime

 

Oh, my mistake. I missed the connection to the other commenter mentioning the possible legalities of removing the chime

 

My fault

 

Turn off the text message integration, stopped all my issues.