2011 Bose+NoNav+iSimple = Shortened XM Titles?

Augustus

Hey guys. A quick question...

I've just had my 2011 Z Touring for a few weeks. Last week, I bought & installed the PAC iSimple Gateway for my iPod/iPhone. Followed Spartan's amazing DIY (DIY: Bose Touring Stereo (NON NAV) iPod Interface Upgrade: iSimple Media Gateway). Went well.

All seems fine, but a couple of days ago I noticed something strange. As I was driving home from work one day, while listening to XM, I noticed that all of the display text was being cut-off after 8 characters. Song titles, artists, channel names, etc. I just get the first 8 characters on the display when it's displaying text info. Hitting "DISP" changes what is displayed, but still just 8 characters. "SCRL" does nothing. There doesn't appear to be anything physically wrong with the display; I get the channel number on the far right, and I get full-text descriptions when browsing my iPod. The screen itself is working.

The next day, the XM display was back to normal - full descriptions going all the way across the screen. Later that day, back to just 8. And again this morning, just 8 characters.

Before I installed the iSimple, I don't recall ever seeing just 8 characters. AFAIK, it was always the full text. I have to believe that the iSimple is messing up the Satellite text somehow. But I'd only owned the car a week before I put the iSimple in, so I don't know for sure.

Anyone else experienced this? I was going to email the iSimple people but I wanted to hear from the experts here first. I'm thinking I may dig into the dash and check the connections or even uninstall the iSimple tonight to see if it fixes it, but of course, that requires taking the whole dash apart... again.