Anyone tired already with the My Link themes

[scott19677]

I am ready for some up dates already . There are only two decent themes that are usable unless you are a 14 year old Japanese gaming addict. And also anyone know how to remove a song tag without reseting the entire system. Every time a Bon Jovi song comes on (I SWEAR IT WAS AN ACCIDENT) I get a prompt to tune or dismiss. it s driving me nuts.

[2016 Sierra Owner]

At least you Chevy guys have a choice. The GMC folks are stuck at only 1. Oh well maybe I need an F150. LOL

[Spurshot]

I've had my truck for 3 days and I don't even know what you are talking about. LoL

[2016 Sierra Owner]

I've had my truck for 3 days and I don't even know what you are talking about. LoL

I'm sure it's in the settings. You can change the look of the icons on the screen. Chevy owners have a choice of 4 of them IIRC.

[MTB]

I've recently started using Velocity. Can't remember which one I was on before. As an HMI designer for process control I can say that these touch screens break a couple of my hard and fast rules, however I don not design for night and day viewing. For touch screens some of the "buttons" are way too small ( I cannot while driving or sitting still get the favorites popup screen to move without twenty attempts). The colors draw the eyes attention way too much. There is nothing important enough in these screens to warrant reds and greens. I'm not a grey scale purist however I do try to implement a lot of the grey scale ideas. Grey scale uses muted color, grey, black white for normal operations and activities, the use of color is reserved for abnormal situations where we want the operators eyes to be drawn to an alarm for instance. Themes are something kinda new to our industry. I would venture to say that three or four is probably all we will ever get. Creating a different dynamo set for each theme is quite a bit of work, eats up considerable amounts of memory.

 

I personally wished that the NAV unit would use Google Maps and Google Database. Looking something up in the GM NAV unit is a PIA... Much easier to use the Onstar app to send address to Nav unit.

[fondupot]

I think the one theme on the GMC is fine. just pick one on your damn Chev's. and be done with it! haha

[iCryWheniGoPoop]

I think the one theme on the GMC is fine. just pick one on your damn Chev's. and be done with it! haha

If they didn't give me any other choices I would have been perfectly happy, but I have to agree with the OP.... what's with the damn SpeedRacer/Anime.

[diannabill]

If they didn't give me any other choices I would have been perfectly happy, but I have to agree with the OP.... what's with the damn SpeedRacer/Anime.

It was probably in anticipated response to folks asking for a SpeedRacer/Anime theme.

[fondupot]

Oh and the way you remove a song tag is when you are on the radio, click menu, then go into "manage song tags"

 

I'll try and remember to make a short video on how to do it later today.

[aggets]

I just got my 2014 Silverado on Monday so I am not sick of the themes yet. I traded a 2012 Ford Edge in the sale and one thing that had was the sat radio channel icons populated the screen so it was a very easy visual cue to see what channel you were on. I would like to see that implemented in a software update.

 

Andy

[scott19677]

Oh and the way you remove a song tag is when you are on the radio, click menu, then go into "manage song tags"

 

I'll try and remember to make a short video on how to do it later today.

Thanks for the info. I will try this today.

[scott19677]

I've recently started using Velocity. Can't remember which one I was on before. As an HMI designer for process control I can say that these touch screens break a couple of my hard and fast rules, however I don not design for night and day viewing. For touch screens some of the "buttons" are way too small ( I cannot while driving or sitting still get the favorites popup screen to move without twenty attempts). The colors draw the eyes attention way too much. There is nothing important enough in these screens to warrant reds and greens. I'm not a grey scale purist however I do try to implement a lot of the grey scale ideas. Grey scale uses muted color, grey, black white for normal operations and activities, the use of color is reserved for abnormal situations where we want the operators eyes to be drawn to an alarm for instance. Themes are something kinda new to our industry. I would venture to say that three or four is probably all we will ever get. Creating a different dynamo set for each theme is quite a bit of work, eats up considerable amounts of memory.

 

I personally wished that the NAV unit would use Google Maps and Google Database. Looking something up in the GM NAV unit is a PIA... Much easier to use the Onstar app to send address to Nav unit.

Someone has had a little too much Red Bull LOL. I will take your word for it. Hey can you help me stop my VCR to stop blinking 12:oo

[iCryWheniGoPoop]

It was probably in anticipated response to folks asking for a SpeedRacer/Anime theme.

Ugh... you are probably right, had they been a little more proactive and kept up with the mainstream children's television, we would all have a Dora/Diego graphics setting that all of us could enjoy.

[chewy22]

I've had my truck for 3 days and I don't even know what you are talking about. LoL

I've had my truck for 8 mnths and honestly can say I have know clue what you guys are talking about. I was just excited I got my phone to link up, haven't looked at anything else.

[scphilli]

I've had my truck for 8 mnths and honestly can say I have know clue what you guys are talking about. I was just excited I got my phone to link up, haven't looked at anything else.

Does that clue you know have a name?