No Traffic Announcements....

[CuriousIslander]

I have had my MG4 for a couple of weeks and so far am loving it, except.....

On my MG5 I could get traffic announcements - you know - the messages from various BBC local radio stations about traffic issues in the local area, as you travel about the country, but so far I have failed to get these on my MG4. The SatNav "Traffic on " setting is fine, and the Map shows road works, hold ups etc, but the radio settings don't seem to be working.

I have worked through the radio settings and have the following set. I don't know what some of them do...

for DAB
Service Following is ON (What does this mean?)
News, Travel, Radio Info, Warning,Traffic, Alarm are all ON (What is the difference between "Travel" and "Traffic"? What is "Radio Info", What are the "Warning" and "Alarm" mentioned here?)
Weather, Sports, Finance, Special are all OFF

for FM
All settings are ON. (What do DX and RDS Regional mean?)

I am puzzled as to why I am not getting the traffic announcements as I can't see any other settings. Is there a volume setting somewhere that I am missing? The radio works fine, but I just don't get the traffic announcemnets. They would have been useful the other day as my journey from Worcester back home encountered some significant delays which I could easily have avoided had I known about the roadworks.

Any thoughts are welcome, if necessary I will take a trip back to the dealer, but I am not sure that they would be any wiser than me!

TIA
Andrew
PS The manuals don't seem to have any information on this.

 

[NLMGSAN]

I'm planning on disabling it (too loud). So mine works with these settings.
Did you read the separate manual of the infotainment and navi? Check page 55.

 

[CuriousIslander]

I'm planning on disabling it (too loud). So mine works with these settings.
Did you read the separate manual of the infotainment and navi? Check page 55.

Yes I have looked at the manual but I will have another look at page 55 in case I missed something.
Watch this space.

Yes I have looked at the manual but I will have another look at page 55 in case I missed something.
Watch this space.

Ermmmmm What does page 55 look like? I have no indication of pge numbers on the screen, all I can detect is "Navigation" starts at page 38, and after that I have to guess.

However, I would have thought that traffic announcements are not part of the SatNav, but are part of the Radio settings????? The "Traffic On" setting on the SatNav is fine as I mentioned in my first message.

 

[Grriff]

As far as I understand, page 55 is referring to the Navigation system not the warnings on the radio that cut in during programmes.
I would have thought that traffic 'ON' would give you the announcements. Have you swiped down from the top of the Home screen to check all volumes are turned up?

 

[CuriousIslander]

As far as I understand, page 55 is referring to the Navigation system not the warnings on the radio that cut in during programmes.
I would have thought that traffic 'ON' would give you the announcements. Have you swiped down from the top of the Home screen to check all volumes are turned up?

The last setting (Sounds) was right down. I have put this up, and will see if this is what is needed when I go out later today.

 

[CuriousIslander]

The last setting (Sounds) was right down. I have put this up, and will see if this is what is needed when I go out later today.

No difference. I think a trip to the dealer is called for in hte next few days.

 

[tonybridge]

I was going to post about this some days ago, when I travelled back to Berkshire from Wakefield, Yorkshire. My default radio station at home is LBC, which has Traffic News at the quarter past and the quarter to the hour - but not for some odd reason, in the car

 

[CuriousIslander]

Before I venture back to the dealer, I just wondered whether the infotainment software was updated at the PDI. The versions I have are

Entertainment System Version SWI68-29958-130040, and
Telecommunications version SNAKP21E32

Does anyone know if these are the latest versions?
TIA

 

[AndyL61]

Before I venture back to the dealer, I just wondered whether the infotainment software was updated at the PDI. The versions I have are

Entertainment System Version SWI68-29958-130040, and
Telecommunications version SNAKP21E32

Does anyone know if these are the latest versions?
TIA

The infotainment should end in an R## , so is that R40 ?

 

[CuriousIslander]

The infotainment should end in an R## , so is that R40 ?

Whoops, yes. My mistake, a typing error, it does end R40

 

[DixieTGS]

Before I venture back to the dealer, I just wondered whether the infotainment software was updated at the PDI. The versions I have are

Entertainment System Version SWI68-29958-130040, and
Telecommunications version SNAKP21E32

Does anyone know if these are the latest versions?
TIA

There are various threads which mention SNAKP23E32. It may be worth doing a search on that to see if it is worth having.

 

[CuriousIslander]

I have now been back to the dealer and he is as puzzled as I am. We spent about 30 minutes fiddling about with various settings, but ultimately he concluded that I had everything set correctly in the first place. So I still am not getting traffic anouncements. I have one specific question which neither of us could answer. On the DAB radio settings, what is the difference between "Travel" and "Traffic", does any one know?

I shall continue to experiment, but am not holding my breath!

 

[CuriousIslander]

Would a factory reset help the situation do you think? I am reluctant to do it as I am not sure just what it would reset. I assume I would lose the addresses I have stored in the SATNAV and that I would have to retune the radio, (neither of which is a big deal), but what else gets reset? Does anyone know?

 

[siteguru]

With a head unit (Infotainment) reset then that's about it. With a full reset (disconnecting the 12V battery -ve lead) you'd also need to recentre the steering (full left, full right, back to middle) and reset the window controls (full down, full up, repeat for each window).