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Dewatte

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  1. Thanks Chris, I’ll see if I can find so this on my headset, which seems to be the same as Jenny’s
  2. Jenny. My unit is the same as yours. I’ve tried the google translate camera as suggested by SupaDave. It doesn’t translate very well, there’s a vast amount to translate, and if you do eventually figure out how to do something you’ll have to remember is all for repeat operations. I’m going to try again tho cos I’m a glutton for punishment. On Rojie’s comment about the radio, I live in Glasgow. Once I’ve found the FM stations reception is about the same as it was in my previous vehicle, but once you head out into Argyll the reception is very poor whatever you’re driving. I’ve even found I can get local Glasgow stations, but as I’ve said before finding anything is tedious because the scanning process on my and Jenny’s unit is fiddly using the tiny up and down buttons at top left, and as yet I haven’t found how to use the preset.
  3. Thank you all. The head unit is so high function compared with anything I’ve ever had in a vehicle it’s a pity it seems it can’t seem to be converted to work properly in the UK. You’ll never get anything like full function unless you speak Japanese and in any case the gps won’t work here. I read somewhere that although the Japanese FM radio band is narrower than in UK the radio will find local stations not in that bandwidth. This seems to be the case. I can get BBC radio 2, 3 and 4, which is above 90, and Smooth which is about 105. But it’s fiddly scanning to find the stations and I can’t get the presets to work. The firm that imported and converted my van never warned me about this, not that it would have stopped me buying it. I met a fellow Alpharder who had his unit changed by his (different) supplier for £1000 as part of the conversion. Unfortunately I’m one of those sad people who hate to have stuff that doesn’t work properly. I know I could get a DAB radio adaptor for about £100 and use my mobile phone to navigate, and listen to music on CDs and the hard drive until that fills up (about 30 GB I think), but it niggles. I don’t want consider changing the unit until I’m sure I won’t lose the reversing camera and steering wheel controls. Maybe I have to spend the £1000 to get it done right. Thanks again. I’m sure the changing heads story will run and run. dewatte
  4. Hi I, new to the forum. I have a 2007 Alphard with a multi AV Station head unit including GPS and reversing camera (photo attached). Everything is in Japanese including the lady who keeps talking to me when it’s switched on. if I keep the unit I need to manage it esp a) turn off the Japanese lady, and b) delete unwanted tracks from the music hard drive. It records every CD played. i have found that the radio will find the UK stations eg Radio 4 if you scan but it will show the wrong wavelength when tuned in. However FM reception is poor esp when out of the city (Glasgow). Another option is to replace the unit, but there seems to be several different head units and I can’t find anything specific to mine. I’ve been quoted £1000 which seems exorbitant. advice gratefully received please
  5. When I put a new cd in it is added to the hard drive. I don’t know what happens if the hard drive is full
  6. Hello. I’m new to this forum. Recently obtained an imported 2007 Alphard and had it converted to a Campervan. The CD drive automatically records the contents of a CD to its hard drive and I’m trying to find out how to delete the tracks I don’t want to hear. I thought I’d cracked it when I found detailed instructions on the Eight Seater blog http://eightseaters.blogspot.com/2009/10/delete-playlists-or-tracks-from-hdd.html Unfortunately my Multi AV system is not quite the same model and I can’t see how to get into the HD. Nor can I see the word ‘delete’ anywhere inspite of scanning all the pages with Google Translate. On my unit the music is managed by a system called ‘Music Stylist’. I’ve attached a couple of photos of the unit. Can anyone help please?
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