[General]: 430 Media Center (no-Nav) No Radio MUTE?!?
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430 Media Center (no-Nav) No Radio MUTE?!?
Certainly, I can't be the only Dodge Grand Caravan SXT owner (2019, 430 media center, no-Nav) who's discovered the LACK of a Radio MUTE function?
Take the following scenario... I'm driving down the road and my wife get's a text message. She get's woozy of she's not looking at the road, but she can use the Voice Response on her iPhone to reply to the text.
(MY phone, an Android, is connected to the car via BT)
Anyway, with the Radio playing, she asks if I can mute the sound for a minute so she can use her phone. Otherwise, her iPhone picks up gibberish or the radio if someone is talking.
Uhhh... What Mute?!?
We just bought this vehicle about 3 weeks ago and are still learning its features... or lack of.
Seriously... the Multimedia system in the car has NO MUTE FUNCTION ??
If so, this seems to be a ridiculous oversight!
Take the following scenario... I'm driving down the road and my wife get's a text message. She get's woozy of she's not looking at the road, but she can use the Voice Response on her iPhone to reply to the text.
(MY phone, an Android, is connected to the car via BT)
Anyway, with the Radio playing, she asks if I can mute the sound for a minute so she can use her phone. Otherwise, her iPhone picks up gibberish or the radio if someone is talking.
Uhhh... What Mute?!?
We just bought this vehicle about 3 weeks ago and are still learning its features... or lack of.
Seriously... the Multimedia system in the car has NO MUTE FUNCTION ??
If so, this seems to be a ridiculous oversight!
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Yes there is except it 's called the power button press it and it kill the media center no sound is being emitted your wife can do her called once done press the button again it resume on the same channel or track as previously before at the same volume level.
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Really?? No Kidding!
Well Howdy-S&!T
NO Kidding!! A power button? Really? That's the BEST you have?
Perhaps you missed the point of my post, or I didn't make the intent of my post clear enough.
Vehicle entertainment systems these days are trending towards hand-free operation as much as possible, right?
That's why the most convenient control functions are located right at your fingertips... ON the Steering Wheel.
Now, the moment I have to look over and focus on the power button to turn the unit off, I've taken my eyes OFF THE ROAD!!
The vehicle I traded in that was 10 years older had a MUTE button right on the steering wheel. It seems incredible to me that a vehicle 10 years newer is missing such a basic function.
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NO Kidding!! A power button? Really? That's the BEST you have?
Perhaps you missed the point of my post, or I didn't make the intent of my post clear enough.
Vehicle entertainment systems these days are trending towards hand-free operation as much as possible, right?
That's why the most convenient control functions are located right at your fingertips... ON the Steering Wheel.
Now, the moment I have to look over and focus on the power button to turn the unit off, I've taken my eyes OFF THE ROAD!!
The vehicle I traded in that was 10 years older had a MUTE button right on the steering wheel. It seems incredible to me that a vehicle 10 years newer is missing such a basic function.
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Your other option is use the right hand side steering wheel back buttons to turn the volume down to 0 unfortunately dodge doesn't have a mute button on the steering wheel. Uconnect once paired with the device will mute the entertainment center on incoming calls & txt.
