Troubleshooting: When Your Car Radio Forgets Saved Settings
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2013
- Here I explain a couple of reasons why your car stereo, aftermarket, might lose its settings every time you get back in your car or truck.
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a 10 year old video just helped me figure out the previous installer messed up his wires, thanks a lot for the information.
Thank you very much I would like to start making more like these
TWO YEARS.. Why did I not know about Demo mode 😂 This video is worth its weight in gold, thank you! Legend.
Thank you very much I am glad it helped
Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence
Godbles you
Sometime quite is violent
@@Cnava1933 quiet*
Cut the exhaust of and make it’ll sound like a race car sell the cat get a new system
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I know that this video is over 5 Years old , i just want to say a big Thanks as this solved an issue that i was having with a Pioneer head unit that i took out of my old car and put into my Sons Ute. even though i bought a harness i still needed to swap over the red and yellow wires to stop the damn thing from resetting. Just glad that the Harness had connectors in the middle of the wires to switch.
Although this is already a 9 year old video, it was a great help to me. Thank you!
I love when youtube videos answerd my problems.. Red on yellow and yellow on red.. Then it worked! Thanks!!!!
Great video. The fix for me was just turning off Demo Mode. Thanks man.
Thank you. Just got my radio to save all the settings! cheers
You deserve more likes for this. Thank you!
I have a 1989 GMC pick up same issue that you just explain can I get my constant from cigirrette lighter?
Saved me a lot of time - Thanks!
I replaced a stock radio in my 2001 sunfire that intermittently lost the clock settings , noticing it at ignition start. I replaced it with a new radio which now has the same problem. It loses settings only sometimes. Never during a ride, always during ignition off. What do I need to look for? I made sure the ground was screwed down tight to the frame. I double checked red and yellow wires. I even replaced the battery ground wire that had some corrosion. Help!
Thank you for your help. I now have a full working radio
I have swapped two, and the radio saves all the settings, but I is on even after I pull my key out. Is this something I would have to live with?
thanks, switched red and yellow wires and it works now.
thanks man I had the yellow wire hooked up to switch power instead of constant yay thank you so much bro
my radio drains my battery. is it okay to disconnect the constant power (yellow) and solve the draining problem
Thanks you very much!! you helped me a lot with this video!!!
Thank you very much on this. Helped me! :)
would adding red and yellow wire together cause the non saving problem because my AU FAIRMONT didnt have the proper wiring so we had to do it another way?
Thanks! You helped me a lot with this Video!
Thanks, now my car radio won't forget things. It worked for me after switching yellow and red cable.
5 minute video in 3 lines
yellow = constant power
red = active power
dont mix them up
Unless you have opel then you gotta mix them up lol
Renault Toyota in audi also
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I have an issues with Skoda Fabia 2007, the have bridged the Red and Yellow wire at the main connection box, which is the only way to get the radio to switch on. However this is stopping the central locking from working. I have switched the yellow and Red wire around which doesn't make any difference. I have checked all fuses which are all working fine. once I disconnect power from the radio my central locking works. what could be the problem?
Toyota 4Runner 98.
I recently installed a stereo Pionner Deh-1450 and the problem I have now is, my automatic doors doesn't work when I turn off the key. Do you have idea what is the connection problem?
I have a FIAT STILO and not long ago I bought a Radio MP5 7018B , but I discovered that the Radio heats up a lot, will the wires be wrongly connected, if so, how should they be connected?
I have the wiring harness but do I just connect the red to yellow and yellow to red
Bouray1, you are an absolute legend! Red-yellow and yellow-red, who woulda thunk it?!
Thank you very much!
I just hooked up my Kenwood cd receiver and I can't get my woofer to play when I play a cd ,ipod ,or my phone
which prong is the illuminations wire and where do I hook it up at ?
thank you so much, let me go try it out i hope it works!
Nice the yellow wire had a faulty connection thanks ! Now I can sit on the 110 with music :)
which prong is the illuminations wire and where do I hook it up at
Hey do you know what wires go together right now if I put all the red and yellow together it stays on won’t turn off without key in it
so my radio will not turn on at all unless both yellow and both red are wired all 4 together.. any idea why? also my radio remembers sound settings like bass and even remembers the background i chose but makes me go through the initial setup like demo mode everytime and doesnt remember time or station presets
HELPPPP
1996 saturn sc2 no power on yellow wire any idea thanks?
My OEM harness is labeled and the yellow says 12 volt memory. The red one says 12 volt accessories. I have it hooked up and the radio will not boot up.
I switched the yellow and red wire and it worked well for me now! Thanks :)
Hello you are very welcome
My one is somtime lost memory.sometime few week or few months will reset my player so is necessary to swap the two wire or any solution.
Im having a problem with my head unit avh-x8650bt, the usb doesnt resume the song which im playing whenever car is restarted and it starts from one song always and I change the color scheme wallpaper etc but whenever car is started again everything is reset . I tried to update firmware and when update was finished I checked firmware no it was same old firmware meaning update didnt get installed... Any help please
My factory yellow is bad so i have to connect it together they told me its just a fuse but idk wich one it is
Hey man thanks.My radio was connected right but I switched yellow and red and now it works and doesn't reset every single time.
On golf 4 need to swich the yellow with red ?
I have pioneer avh8650bt, It used to work fine but now it doesnt remember preset settings or color themes also doesnt turn on back camera when I put car in reverse. It remembers radio stations and time but doesnt remember any other settings... Please Help! What should I do to fix it ?
Great vid! My presets last about 2-3 weeks, then, wen I go to start car, gone. It happened to me wile the car was being driven for the first time, a few days ago. Wat could it b???!😩
Thx👍🏼
Fixed my issue on the new to me 1997 Wrangler.
I’ll go try it again but I recall trying to switch the wires and nothing and the radio was working fine I switched the radio out my car to my truck and the on e in my truck to the car cause I sold the car and I had the same problems in my truck with other radio and it worked fine in the car as well so ima check my ground if not idk what else to do
In my yellow cable always is 12 V but when I switched off always lost the memory, but I measured 12V. Why is the reason?
I have that reset problem with them (switched) as you would say. When I have them wired the proper way, (unswitched) I get no fricken power. Can anyone answer that one? =(
After installing a pioneer hu. It changes the song randomly or turns volume all the way up or down on its own. What could cause this? I need help people
My car radio doesn't turn on unless I touch the red and the yellow together, and than it didn't turn off. So I had to run a wire from the fuse box to make the radio turn off when the car was off. But it still doesn't turn on unless the yellow is touching, (even when the car is on). I need to know why it doesn't turn on with the yellow. Its an 01 Malibu. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My memory is fine because I wired it straight to battery. However my radio still sporadically resets when it wants to, a screen will pop up asking me to accept terms of agreement or something. I do not believe it's the stereo because the unit before this one did the same thing every once in awhile. The other unit I tried before my current Jensen would turn off completely and I would have to disconnect battery and reconnect before unit would come on. Like I said my memory is fine on current unit but is does do resets sporadically when I start vehicle. Could my problem possibly be a bad/ dirty ignition switch?it definitely seems like problem has worsened since I added a remote start.
You ever solved it?
I honestly think it’s the stereo ,probably does it for updates . Either way I give up , so long as it doesn’t reset clock or stations, I’m good.@@trinimike101
I bought a kenworth that had a fairly new stereo, but it was acting funny. I tried to turn it up, but it had dead spot on the valume. I went to my settings, the same thing finally when I set my settings the way I wanted them I shut truck off but when I turned it on everything had clear so I checked the wiring harness found everything ok but the red and yellow were hook together to the red wire to the truck,can that be causing the stereo to act up like that?
i love u! i solved my problem. yellow end red wire were swithed. TOYOTA AYGO
I did it red n yellow n still no save the station radio n i have to turnd the radio manully evetime i use my car n set the radionstation?
Is soundstream double din.
Was the same in my case in my Peugeot 206, just matter of changing the wires. I was worried i would have to cut wires and mess around with the ignition and the battery, like some suggest in some forums. Perhaps that was how you had to do on older models.
I have a 2005 Peugeot 206, and my head unit won't save settings... Was it hard to fix it? I'm pretty useless at wiring and such
@@zaccyboy0206 honestly i dont remember what i did in my case. Other than driving and refueling I dont know much around the car. But I think the information in this video helped my issue. Sorry I cant be more of help
Thanks anyway for taking the time out to reply dude! Thankyou and stay safe!
im having problem draining my battery because of my head unit, i tap the yellow wire to red wire so my head unit will not have constant power and i leave the yellow wire disconnected to any wire, it works but ky problem now everytime i
switch off the ignition my settings are all gone. is it safe to swap the red and yellow wire? pls help me
thanks. that was my issue. it also solved the issue that the radio was always shuting dows on loud music. hi5!
Hy there i connected everything and now i have problem with two wires in my car one is green and the other one is brown and of the radio i connected yellow to yellow and red to red i tried tu put this two together on yellow and on red and separately one to red abd one to yellow and switching sides but with no success everytime when i turn off car radio turns off with key what is normal but then when turning on the key radio is reseted again and again it doesn't saves nothing.. Please someone help where to connect this two wires green and brown i want to turning radio off with key like now but just this to save memory when i turned back on again. Thanks
you absolute legend, god bless you
I have a 2004 grand merc and I have both yellow and red together that's the only way it'll come on but everytime I crank up I have to go through the hold settings again.. so what should I do??
Me too
Thank , will have a look and see if i can fix this annoying issue .
I have a big problem cause when my car is off and my radio is on bluetooth mode , i just start the car and the radio start all over again , so its refresh the bluetooth mode and the music dont keep playing , i need to go in my phone again to connect the bluetooth again it does not connect by itself , what it could be ?
I dont have a yellow wire, what's goin on?
Previus radio worked fine new oneforgets its settings
Thank you brother great video
When I turn my car off and Then later on start it back up only sometimes my radio will be off and reset . What could cause it to do this sometimes not always
wow , just had it fixed , it was a loose wire under the fuse box under the hood , left side fuse box.I spend about 30 hours looking for the problem , Lexus dealer found it in 3hours. all works perfect now.
What if your vehicle has a killswitch installed? I have a 2003 GMC Sierra I bought last summer that had an aftermarket radio in it that would save my settings so I thought I'd swap it out with another aftermarket radio and I still had the same problem. The new radio would not save the settings.
Does the killswitch completely disconnect the battery from the truck?
@@Bouray1 no it goes like this. You turn the key to on wait 2 seconds for the chime then turn again to start. If you turn it like you normally do in your vehicle it starts then immediately shuts off like your fuel is cut off.
Legend thankyou you just saved me £100s
Turning my headlights on macke a my radio turn on and off rapidly and my Brytes turns it off completely and rolling my Windows up dems all my lights
Great video, saved me loads of time. Thank you.
demo mode keeps coming back on for me everytime I turn the car on
Thank you. That really helped me 😊
My JVC remembers preset radio stations and bt devices but the clock never keeps the right time and a cd will always start back at the beginning.
Update it must have been on demo mode because I checked my wiring and the yellow had constant power .Now everything is working as it should clock stays set and cd_usb carries on playing from where it was when I turned the engine off.
So I plugged all my wires up correctly but when I turn the car off or take the keys out the radio won’t turn off. Any advice?
Well usually every radio has a standard wiring color yellow is constant red is for switched power. I am not sure what vehicle you have. If you purchased a special wiring harness and matched everything color for color your radio will or should work that way it is supposed too. If the red and yellow are hooked together power will be applied to both and the radio will stay on forever. If the wires are reversed red to yellow and yellow to red it could stay on that way too.
Wats the problem is it my alternator
Waffle waffle waffle. To the point mate
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Well my stereo only turns on by splicing yellow and red together to the power but I still lose my setting every time I turn off my car please help
I'm having same problem.. did you fix?
Can wiring the stereo wrong cause a drain in the battery?
Yes if the red wire and yellow wire are hooked backwards or hooked together, it could cause the radio to stay on all the time even when the car is off. Unless both wires were hooked to the switched wire in the car harness.
my car stereo start to first song on every start up.(not saving settings as well) .since last three years it was working absolutely fine..it started recently..
Have you figure out the solution?
@@athiam152 what is the problem
I even checked the voltage out of them confirming switched red power and constant 12 volt out yellow yet I Still loose settings memory most of the time but not always. Replaced the player with same model, same problem. Nothing worse than an intermittent problem. No issue with previous radio.
Hmm interesting. Another thing to check is to make sure the constant wire in the vehicle stays constant all the time when it is turned off and been sitting for more than 15 to 30 minutes. Some vehicles may have a wire that stays hot after the vehicle is turned off then shuts down after a length of time. I would say get a multimeter and hook it to your constant car wire put to where you can see it and see if it turns off after a while. If it stays on the whole time and shows a good solid 12ish volts. Then it may be a ground issue
@@Bouray1 The best part of this is the clock stays set. When I pulled yellow it resets otherwise clock stays accurate. I have measured the output of both yellow and red with mulitimeter. Turn key off red drops. Works as accs power should. Yellow is constant 12 volt every time checked so far. Previous JVC had no issues but two Boss units do. Sometimes the memory works over night. Sometimes it resets in a few minutes. I understand electronics just not when the universe screws with me. It acts like something is interrupting the power but it can't be. I may need to hire a witch doctor. Thanks so much for replying!
i got a weird issue please help me. my stereo head resets when parked under hot sun. wiring is correct and head unit i sent for checking returned with no issues note.
Did u find issue
I attached my red and yellow together. Is that why my settings are not saving?
Hello it may not save your settings if the red and yellow, connected together, are hooked to a switched power. The yellow wire needs to have 12 volts all the time. It doesn't draw much current at all. So if you could get a constant 12 volts to the yellow wire you should be golden
@@Bouray1 Thanks so much. So have a wire from the positive to the battery to the yellow? Also where do I put the blue/white wire after that? The radio doesn’t have a blue/white wire , but the car harness does. Will it drain my battery if I put it directly to the yellow. Really appreciate your time. You’re the only one who answered my question. Thanks!!
make sure your black wire on your radio is hooked to ground, if you have 12 volts on the yellow and red wire and you know for sure the radio is grounded, then it should come on.
Nicholas Stancavage blue with white is remote, which is used to send signal to an amp, solid blue is power antenna, probably why u are getting static
Thanks for making this video
My demo mode was on and couldn’t figure out what the hell was goin on lmmfao
I have no red wire, only yellow... the other ones are brown, green and blue
Im trying at home with car cd and losing memory anyone can help me to avoid losing memmory at home
My DVD CD player says no signal
my demo mode keeps turning on every time I get back in my car
Down Shift 183 mine too. Can't figure it out its driving me friggen bonkers
Thank you!!
somebody needs to change the red and yellow wire labels on the instructions...
My stereo only comes on when the headlights are switched on, any ideas ??
The red wire on your stereo connected to the demo wire and its only work when your headlight or barking light is on...
Thanks, this helped. Not sure why so much dislikes.
Thank you very much.
Kenwood Excelon KDC-X597 connect all wires color to color, channels will not save. Switch red with yellow and channels will save. 1993 S10 using new Autozone harness.
Great info
I don't have a yellow in my car harness.
I connected the carradio at home while I put red and yellow together and still the settings disappear
Hello, the yellow wire on a aftermarket radio, is the memory wire. It requires 12 volts all the time. Any time it loses power, even for a second, the settings are reset. I'm not sure how your set up is or the vehicle. Some vehicles have wires that show 12 volts after the vehicle is turned off, but after a while of sitting they will turn off. With the red and yellow wire connected could cause the radio to stay on all the time, maybe causing the battery to drain. If you are unsure which wire in your dash is constant power, you could run a Fused- urn-on wire from the (+) post on the battery straight to your yellow wire.
Fixed thank u sir
OMG get to the fucking point!!!!!
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I set demo off and everything but ever time start the car it's reseting itself