10C Firmware Update 3.0 - voice prompt/sound fade-in. Horrible. Can it be turned off?
Been using a 10C for a little less than a year, now. Has been working fine. Firmware was 2.7. Noticed last week that a new firmware was available (3.0) so installed it. Used the headset over the weekend, and whatever the newly implemented sound fade-in it's now using is absolute trash! All sound that comes through the device, say, during navigation - fades in from silent to whatever the volume is set to. So for navigation, I don't hear the first 5 or 6 words and the sound is ramped up from 0. For most navigation, this is tolerable - I can get the gist of what's being said. But when it's just a few words, like "Turn right.", the volume hasn't yet gotten up to where it can be heard. Even better - voice prompts! My biggest disappointment was wanting to use the camera on a ride over the weekend. Well, since "Camera on", "Recording started", and "Recording stopped" are all less than the aforementioned "5 or 6 words", I cannot tell if I've turned the camera on or not, nevermind whether it's started or stopped recording. Am I missing where I can turn this craptastic "fade-in" off? Or do I just have to go back to firmware 2.7?
Thanks. I hope.
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Sorry, I meant to write 2.3 instead of 2.7 above. Anywho, I've reverted back to 2.3. I will reflash 3.0 when someone tells me how to fix the voice fade-in "feature" or fixes it. The fade-in was completely unacceptable.
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I received a 10C Pro as warranty replacement for my 10C. Out of the box, v2.0 had the same sound fade-in as the 10C v3.0, though it didn't have fade-in on the voice prompts - a tolerable step in the right direction. Installed v2.1 yesterday, and no more sound fade-in on the 10C Pro at all!
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yeah, I'm on 3.0.1 and the fade feature is annoying when I'm listening for directions but not playing music. The only workaround I've found is to always be playing some music during directions so it wont fade in and cut off the directions. You could also put on a looping track of silence I guess.
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This is such a horrible design decision!
Whether you're using a GPS (Google Maps or Waze ) or are in an actual conversation with a human, 99% of the time the critical information is in the first 5 seconds, and this is the period of the fade-in. This is how you break a product.
Customer Support... tell your engineers that this is idiotic.0 -
Same thing is true for Sena 10R. Poor design decision. Hopefully this will be fixed in next firmware update across the impacted Sena product line.
At least make this fade-in effect optional in settings.0 -
I have the same problem with my sena sf2...
I've been looking for an option to turn it off but have not found one.
Is this fixed yet? It makes listening to gps directions completely pointless.
I have a modified motorcycle and cannot mount a gps so i bought the sena only fot that purpose!
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