John Quirk

I had trouble with my Chevy radio not displaying RDS info correctly, and numerous searches led me to this thread. So when I solved my own problem, I decided to post it here so anyone else with the same problem might find my answer. The RDS was working fine yesterday. It was displaying the Program Service information (8 characters at a time on one line) and also the Radio Text (Up to 64 characters on 2 lines under the PS). No problem. Suddenly last night, I noticed the PS info was there (Station call letters, in this case) but the RT info (Artist, Song, Album Title) had disappeared. I suspected that I might have caused the radio to turn off the Text part when I tried giving it voice commands to play the text messages from my phone earlier in the day. I was just guessing what the commands were. All night last night, and all day today, I tried to repeat all the voice commands I could think of in order to solve the problem. Nothing was working. Then suddenly, when I tried "one last time," the radio asked me, "Did you say 'Radio Text On?'" I had not said that, but I knew instantly I had found the answer. I said, "Yes" and the two lines of missing information appeared on the screen. I experimented with saying, "Radio Text On" and "Radio Text Off" and noticed it was doing the opposite of what I said. I goofed around a little bit more and got it straightened out. I eventually discovered that saying just, "Radio Text" would also turn it on or off. I had read everything I could find online, nothing was in the manual, the local Chevy dealer knew nothing, and calling Chevy tech support didn't help, but completely by trial and error the problem was solved. If you were having the same problem, I'm glad your search brought you here and hope this info saves you some time and frustration! (I still can't find a complete list of Chevy MyLink voice commands anywhere. I've found several lists, but none that included the "Radio Text" command.)