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2022 Volvo XC60: Version 2.00 (OTA) Fixes Screen Freeze By Eliminating Album Display On Sirius XM!

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by Anura Guruge
on April 6, 2022

Click to ENLARGE. Yes, I had 2.00 installed by 11am yesterday, April 5, 2022.

The Station & Album Cover display screen you used to get on Sirius XM.

No longer there. Or at least I can get it.

Hit the station. Color on Sirius XM menu changes to BLUE (which is new, & much needed). That is it.

I have done a long post with more pictures & even a YouTube video on what was the 2022 XC60 screen freeze problem. So you can see the old screens there. OK?

Click to ENLARGE. From my post from 2 days ago.

So, as you can see from the image directly above Volvo did promise that Version 2.0 will improve radio stability.

As many of us know, to our chagrin & cost, one of the BIGGEST radio issues was the screen freeze.

Well, they have sure fixed that. We (or at least I) don’t get those screens anymore! So they can’t freeze. Amaing.

I just spoke with the amazingly & always HELPFUL Service Manager at my ‘local’ dealership. She has asked me to contact ‘Volvo Care’ & ask them to open a ticket on this. I will do that this afternoon.

I just had an e-mail from a ‘Volvo Forums‘ member saying that album covers are now being displayed for Bluetooth Media. I have NOT tried that. I don’t listen to music via Bluetooth. I am 100% Sirius XM.

2022 Volvo XC60 Android Software Issues — One Obvious Explanation.

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by Anura Guruge
on November 28, 2021

Click to ENLARGE. A photo, today, from my 2022 XC60.
Click to ENLARGE. A photo, today, from my 2022 XC60.

This was the first time I had gone looking for the software versions in my accursed 2022 XC60 — which I detest because of all of its niggling faults.

The top screen absolutely FLOORED me. I have, in nearly 50 years of association with computers, NEVER, EVER, seen a software build number that long, that cumbersome & that non-intuitive. Don’t try to blame it on Google. Here is proof in 2 parts:

  • Click to ENLARGE. Android build number on my Google Pixel 5 phone.
Click to ENLARGE. Google Chrome.

As you can see from above 2 images, Google doesn’t use overly long build numbers — &, moreover, they are intuitive. Take the ‘SP1A.211105.003’ build number on my Android 12 Google Pixel 5. The ‘211105’ is a date: 2021/11 (i.e., November)/5th day. That makes sense. This was the November 2021 security update. Bingo.

With Chrome, Google uses a MASTER version number based scheme — in this case ’96’ being the master version.

The 45 ‘digit’ scheme that Volvo is using is explicable & inexcusable.

Even vehicle VIN numbers are only 17 digits long. The Volvo scheme is 2.6x times longer!

Just shows inexperience & stupidity.

Yes, I have hands on experience managing commercial, software release build numbers — once for IBM & then many years later for Wang. You have to keep the release numbers ‘manageable’, meaningful & easy to identify. The Volvo scheme meets NONE of these requirements.

It is also FASCINATING & scary as to HOW down level the Android software is.

My Google phone has been running Android 12 since October 26, 2021.

This bloody XC60, delivered to I on November 2, 2021, is running Android 10 from 2019! Moreover, it only has an August 2021 security patch. Prior to delivery, the dealership, SUPPOSEDLY, updated the software. That was November 1. I should have had, at a minimum, the September 2021 update.

Well, something to keep an eye on.

One thing is sure. Volvo has a HUGE mountain to climb when it comes to mastering software. In the meantime we, the consumers, who were stupid enough to buy Volvo, will suffer.

2022 Volvo XC60 Screen Freeze (Screen Sticks) With Sirius XM — YouTube Video & Pictures.

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by Anura Guruge
on November 20, 2021

Click image to access the YouTube video … or see below.

The frozen screen sequence this 2nd time. This time it is (& still is) frozen on Sirius XM channel 3, i.e., ‘xL Pandora Now‘. So, as with the first time, it will rotate through 5 other channels … but the screen is frozen. It will go BEYOND those 5 screens, but the screens just rotate. So, this is the new sequence:

This was what happened the 1st time. It froze on channel 17, i.e., ‘The Bridge’.

Click to ENLARGE. It can FREEZE on any channel. Another had it FREEZE on Channel 75.
Click to ENLARGE. The ‘LP cover display’ also goes haywire. Rotates through 4, & only 4!

What I said in the description of the YouTube video.

Please click to ENLARGE & read.
Click to ENLARGE & read. Got this via e-mail. They were responding to a TWEET.

Don’t let Volvo or Volvo dealerships claim that this is a new problem. They have known about it for at least 4 weeks by now, i.e., as of last week in October 2021.

Click to ENLARGE & read. From an online Volvo XC40 Forum.

I don’t have the time or energy to elaborate MORE. Please read what I wrote in the YouTube video description.

I do NOT feel safe in this car. IRONY. Irony of ironies. I bought a Volvo because I wanted a SAFE car in my old age. This car is hazardous to my health! My blood pressure SHOOTS UP as soon as I start driving it. I am SCARED. There is not much that scares I. I don’t mind dying. But, I don’t want to be maimed for life or WORSE STILL cause an accident that harm others. I could NOT live with that. I am scared that this damn, bloody Volvo is going to take off … uncontrolled acceleration … or stop braking … or swerve because the damn software is untested, unproven & garbage. Given my year round tan it is often hard to see, BUT I have white knuckles when I drive this death-trap! I am on edge. Constantly looking around to see what can go wrong. Will it take off? Will I have to slam on the brakes? Will it swerve? Will the brakes work? Is it going to kill me?

2022 Volvos, With Google Android ‘Infotainment’ System Has NO Option For An ‘Always On Display’ ODOMETER!

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by Anura Guruge
on November 17, 2021

Click to ENLARGE. I kid you NOT.
Click to ENLARGE. Only way to check the odometer is to display trip computer on top of map.

I think (I could (as ever) be wrong) that most mature drivers like to see the odometer, every once in awhile, to see where they are in terms of the age of their car.

So, yesterday, during which I spent about 7 hours in the car, I kept on trying to get it to display the odometer alongside the trip meter. I had no luck. As ALWAYS, I thought it was just I being my usual inept self. Never occured to me that the folks at Volvo could be even more inept than I. In the 1970s, at IBM, we were taught: “You can’t make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenuous“. Well, all I can think is that Volvo must have turned that adage on its head & hired a motherlode of …

Appears that (for a pleasant change) it is not my ineptness.

Volvo really does NOT have an option for displaying the odometer — outside of the trip computer.

Smile.

No compass. Sirius XM display freezes. Does this remind you of ‘Windows XP’?

You can just see the Volvo folks telling you: “OK, power off, roll down all the Windows, now wait 3 minutes, roll up all the Windows, sit sideways, stick your finger in the cigarette holder … now recycle power, keeping your finger in the lighter …” Caveat emptor.

2022 Volvos, With Google Android ‘Infotainment’ System — ‘Sirius XM’ Screen FREEZE Problem (Rather Serious).

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by Anura Guruge
on November 17, 2021

I have an update, November 20, 2021, with a SECOND screen freeze. I have a YouTube video for this one. So, you might want to check that too.

Click to ENLARGE. It can FREEZE on any channel. Another had it FREEZE on Channel 75.
Click to ENLARGE. The ‘LP cover display’ also goes haywire. Rotates through 4, & only 4!
Click to ENLARGE. This, for now, is the only way to see what is playing! NOT GOOD.

Yes, it appears that I am NOT the only one that has encountered this infuriating Sirius XM screen FREEZE problem on new 2022 Volvos with the new Google Infotainment system. Remember that Sirius XM support was only added a few weeks ago. So, this software is new.

I drove my XC60 for 230 miles yesterday. Sirius XM worked fine. Favorite ‘selection’ is different to what it was in 2021 BUT it worked & you could live with it. I finished the day with Sirius XM on Channel 17 ‘The Bridge’.

This morning the DISPLAY was STUCK on it.

You can change channels BUT the display is FROZEN.

Clearing the screen, switching to radio, or other APPs, doesn’t clear it.

I also, later in the day (like at 6:30pm), did a hard/soft RESET of the display, i.e., holding the HOME key down for about 2 minutes. You first go through the ‘screen cleaning’ mode & then the display goes black, displays ‘Volvo’ & eventually the whole display (& the center console map) are ‘refreshed’.

In my case, this hard/soft RESET did NOT clear the FREEZE.

I am now told to do it again. I will tomorrow.

I think I am going to need a software update to fix this.

I will keep you posted.