greg

I have the LUX 2011 model with the 8.4Nav and Voice Recognition and Handsfree uconnect phone system. THe sound is clear from both sides. But I have issues with the USB and SD card readers. THey are very picky as to what types of files and how the files are written to the drives including kb/sec. Pretty ridiculous. I had a 2010 Ford Fusion SEL with the sync system that worked awesome, never had to repeat voice commands, could jump from artist to artist without a problem just by saying it to the car. Dodge needs to take some lessons from them to get this technology working right. I like all the bells and whistles in my car, but if they don't woek right then thats a waste of my money, and frustrating as $%&^.

New bluetooth module and amp installed, seemed to fix problems. Voice Recognition now works for my iphone 4. Still no dice with VR working with my music sources though. Also SD card is picky on when it displays the right music info. My usb drive works fine as long as all files are in the same format. Any thoughts on SD card issues would be appreciated. I had a ford fusion with the sync system and that worked flaulessly regardless of what type of files I had on the drive. Dodge should check into that system and fix these issues soon.

Conan,

There is also a software update that make attribute to the problem. This can be performed at the dealer. I have listed it below.

NUMBER: 08-023-11 REV. A

GROUP: Electrical

DATE: August 12, 2011

SUBJECT:

FLASH: Hands Free Module Software Enhancements

OVERVIEW:

This Bulletin involves performing a USB service flash of the Hands Free Module (HFM).

MODELS:

2011 (JC) Journey

2011 (LD) Charger

2011 (LX) 300

NOTE: This bulletin applies to JC, LD, and LX vehicles built from December 20, 2010

(MDH 1220XX) to **June 10, 2011 (MDH 0610XX)** equipped with UCONNECT

VOICE COMMAND W/BLUETOOTH (sales code RSP, RSQ for international).

NUMBER: 08-023-11 REV. A

GROUP: Electrical

DATE: August 12, 2011

SYMPTOM/CONDITION:

The customer may experience the following:

· **No start, or drained battery due to HFM keeping bus awake.**

· **Using Station names to switch channels will take user to the wrong channel.**

· **Station names added to the Sirius line up after the May 4th are not be

recognized.**

· **HFM does not work and the phone screens cannot be entered into at all**

· If the Emergency and Towing assistance number are modified by the customer after

several ignition cycles they revert back to default number.

· Voice Recognition for Phone book names may not work.

· Voice Recognition may not work at all. Voice Recognition may recover after several

ignition cycles or in some cases Voice Recognition may never recover.

· Phone book download to vehicle system is incomplete. Phone book download may

recover after several ignition cycles

· Once a call is transferred to handset it cannot be transferred back to vehicle Hands

free system. This issue is intermittent.

· Voice Recognition Satellite commands may not work. Voice Recognition Satellite

commands may recover after several ignition cycles or in some cases may never

recover.

· User can not select Brief or Detailed **voice response** mode in settings

· In NAV mode “Call” soft key is not available for Points Of Interest with phone

numbers.

· Hands Free Calls with Audio Muted. Incoming or Outgoing calls are intermittently

muted or muted when making a call via a favorite immediately after ending a call.

· Screen switches to Main Phone screen every time phone connects

· System may call Emergency without waiting for user to say “Yes” when detailed

prompt modes are active.

· Cannot get into phone mode via Phone soft key after editing emergency number.

Just took my 2011 Journey LUX in for the bluetooth issue. While there they told me there are several recalls that they will do as well (all flash). there were some for the instrument cluster, the pcm for the powertrain and some reprogramming ones for some modules.. Any way after about 2 1/2 hrs there they told me that They couldn't perform the Bluetooth update cuase it kept failing on them so they are going to replace the HF module. They also ordered me a new Amplifier as it is one of the recalls. So once those come in I will update if that fixed the issue with the bluetooth. Still having the music(sd card) issue where it displays the artist for some songs. I think that might be more of the sd cards issues cause the usb drives seem to have no problem with it.

When I put the sd card in it plays a few seconds then skips several tracks and will eventually play one but don't know why it skips others. They are all mp3 files. Any ideas?

I have been having the issue with voice command for music as well it just states command not valid or whatever. Also has anyone experienced an issue with the usb playing only a few seconds of a song and then skipping through several others before it plays one through completely?