Moabite
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I had a bizarre issue last night that apparently led to the Jeep checking in with The Mothership overnight. When I tried to make a phone call, I got a peristent message on the screen that it was "Initializing Voice Recognition." I had just made a call an hour earlier and had received several text messages through the center 8.4" display in the interim. When I pressed the phone icon, it said "Initializing Bluetooth." Nothing ever initialized. My tablet and phone both said "incorrect password" when trying to connect to the Wi-Fi Hotspot. Navigation refused to navigate.
While messing around with the screen, I inadvertently hit the SOS button. It gave no option to cancel, as it should. I drove the 26 miles home with a bright red bar across the top of the screen reading "Making Emergency Call." The overhead console also indicated it was making an SOS call. It apparently was lying. When I parked and turned off the vehicle, the screen stayed on. I pulled the negative cable from the battery. Screen stayed on. I pulled the positive cable. Screen stayed on...I'm sure because of the auxiliary ESS battery that is buried under the main battery. So I consulted the manual and ended up removing and re-inserting the F97 fuse. Voila...the screen went out.
When I re-started the vehicle, I had phone and Wi-Fi Hotspot connectivity again...along with Navigation. But I had no SiriusXM, forward or reverse camera, off-road pages, or upgraded climate controls and the apps screen was blank. I re-started the Jeep several times over the next hour. No change. I read in other threads that those things might magically re-appear. When I went out this morning, all was back to normal. So there apparently is a Mothership hovering over our Gladiators.
It is a bit disconcerting that you can't re-boot the vehicle by easily removing a battery cable. One morning in the backcountry in my '13 JK, the dash lit up like a Christmas tree (all warning lights on) and the windshield wipers would not turn off. I pulled the negative cable from the battery, waited a minute, and re-installed it. All was back to normal and it never happened again. I guess we can't do that with our new-fangled, dual-battery Gladiators. There is a cryptic label attached to the battery cable. It has something to do with the dual batteries. Has anyone been able to de-code that label?
While messing around with the screen, I inadvertently hit the SOS button. It gave no option to cancel, as it should. I drove the 26 miles home with a bright red bar across the top of the screen reading "Making Emergency Call." The overhead console also indicated it was making an SOS call. It apparently was lying. When I parked and turned off the vehicle, the screen stayed on. I pulled the negative cable from the battery. Screen stayed on. I pulled the positive cable. Screen stayed on...I'm sure because of the auxiliary ESS battery that is buried under the main battery. So I consulted the manual and ended up removing and re-inserting the F97 fuse. Voila...the screen went out.
When I re-started the vehicle, I had phone and Wi-Fi Hotspot connectivity again...along with Navigation. But I had no SiriusXM, forward or reverse camera, off-road pages, or upgraded climate controls and the apps screen was blank. I re-started the Jeep several times over the next hour. No change. I read in other threads that those things might magically re-appear. When I went out this morning, all was back to normal. So there apparently is a Mothership hovering over our Gladiators.
It is a bit disconcerting that you can't re-boot the vehicle by easily removing a battery cable. One morning in the backcountry in my '13 JK, the dash lit up like a Christmas tree (all warning lights on) and the windshield wipers would not turn off. I pulled the negative cable from the battery, waited a minute, and re-installed it. All was back to normal and it never happened again. I guess we can't do that with our new-fangled, dual-battery Gladiators. There is a cryptic label attached to the battery cable. It has something to do with the dual batteries. Has anyone been able to de-code that label?
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