Head unit not remembering settings

[alex-avfc]

Hi,

More head unit related woes!

My recently installed Alpine CDE-9880R won't remember any of my programmed settings or presets.

Before anyone says, I have tried the old trick of swapping the red and yellow wires around. I thought his had sorted it, because when I tried it, turned the ignition off, took the keys out then tried again, it powered on with what I was listening to last.

However, I came back to the car about half an hour or so later and had to power it on manually and all my settings were gone.

This is driving me nuts, have tried red and yellows connected, and red/yellow mixed and neither seem to have the desired effect.

Is there something I'm missing?

Cheers,

Alex.

 

[welshname]

Are the cables the ones with fuses in? Like a little push and twist connection? I'd check both fuses in those as it sounds to me like you don't have a constant live.

 

[Paul182]

can you turn it on without the keys in? if you cant there is no perminant live

 

[welshname]

can you turn it on without the keys in? if you cant there is no perminant live

That's not true. Some won't power on without both ignition and constant live. I've got constant live to mine in the fiesta but it won't power on until ignition, same as my parrot bluetooth.

 

[scotty2hotty81]

Put both ignition feed and permanent live to a permanent live, when you remove the face the stereo will turn off, if it's still the same use another live, if it's still the same faulty head unit.

 

[alex-avfc]

Sorted this guys - the 'red' cable had two female bullet connectors, plugged the yellow male bullet connector into that and it's all good now