Satnav, radio etc freezing

[baxlin]

Car is IS300h Advance, with standard Satnav.

Driving into London last evening, to a part I've not been to before, therefore relying on the Satnav, I somehow caused all the functions available on the display screen to freeze.  I lost the Satnav, couldn't alter the radio volume or change station, etc, none of the knobs or buttons would do anything.

I say I caused it to fail, my passenger took a phone call ( not paired to the car) and in the dark I was trying to silence the Satnav voice, which I wish was easier to do (!), and assume I must have hit two buttons together or something, because it was quite a while after we noticed the Satnav wasn't working, just a static map.

The good news is, when held up by traffic lights, I switched the power off, computer-fix-style, and restarted it, and everything came back.  

Anyone else had this happen, or know what would have actually caused it?

malcolm

[ColinBarber]

With the premium nav. I've had it crash maybe once or twice, normally a feature stops working causing me to reboot the system. You shouldn't have to turn off the vehicle, just press and hold the stereo power button for 5 to 10 seconds and it should reboot.

[baxlin]

Thanks, Colin, hope it won't happen again, though!

[Ian J. Parsley]

Mine hasn't crashed for a while now (like, over a year), but if it does simply do as Colin suggests and it'll soon be back in action.