Can you leave your ipod connected?

[wahoo]

I am trying to learn if leaving your ipod connected to the Hyundai Ipod cable which is connected to the USB/Ipod ports will cause a drain on the battery when the car is turned off. I could not find this described in any of the manuals. Does anyone know if this can cause a battery drain or not?

 

[ASHDUMP]

I leave my external hard drive connected all the time..... sometimes my car sits for a couple days with no one driving it. Battery has never drained.

 

[Sayantsi]

Power is shut off when the car is off.

 

[dataguy]

Should be fine as long as your key fob is not left in the car. THAT will drain the battery.

 

[TimeOut]

Car battery won't be drained but, the iPod battery will be drained, at least with the DIS unit that comes with the Tech package.

 

[somethingwicked]

I don't think it drains the iPod battery either. I leave it connected all the time, only disconnecting it when I want to update my music. Every time I check the iPod always has a full charge.

 

[TimeOut]

I don't think it drains the iPod battery either. I leave it connected all the time, only disconnecting it when I want to update my music. Every time I check the iPod always has a full charge.

That was the main reason I removed my iPod G5 30Gb from this car and gave it to my kid.
Every morning when I turned on the car, the iPod rebooted and started playing the first song of the first playlist because the iPod battery was drained overnight. It was driving me nuts to listen to the same song every morning.

I'm now using an 8Gb USB Flash Drive that costed me just 20 bucks. It works much better than any iPod, even though it doesn't support playlists. But, you can make the DIS play random songs which, by the way, cannot be done with the iPod. And if you really want the playlist feature, you can have a set of USB Flash Drives, one for each of your playlists.

 

[nearwater]

I'm now using an 8Gb USB Flash Drive that costed me just 20 bucks. It works much better than any iPod, even though it doesn't support playlists. But, you can make the DIS play random songs which, by the way, cannot be done with the iPod. And if you really want the playlist feature, you can have a set of USB Flash Drives, one for each of your playlists.

Wouldn't creating a folder for each album do the same thing?

Dan

 

[Aquineas]

Should be fine as long as your key fob is not left in the car. THAT will drain the battery.

Hmmm I always leave my iPod plugged in and have left my key in my car (in my garage) overnight. The battery didn't seem to be affected. 2010 4.6 with tech.

 

[Martuni]

That was the main reason I removed my iPod G5 30Gb from this car and gave it to my kid.
Every morning when I turned on the car, the iPod rebooted and started playing the first song of the first playlist because the iPod battery was drained overnight. It was driving me nuts to listen to the same song every morning.

I'm now using an 8Gb USB Flash Drive that costed me just 20 bucks. It works much better than any iPod, even though it doesn't support playlists. But, you can make the DIS play random songs which, by the way, cannot be done with the iPod. And if you really want the playlist feature, you can have a set of USB Flash Drives, one for each of your playlists.

Would you, please, describe how to randomize playback from a flash drive. I'll start loading mine up right now. Thanks for the tip.

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[jkohn]

Would you, please, describe how to randomize playback from a flash drive. I'll start loading mine up right now. Thanks for the tip.

As far as I can tell, it can only play random from the current folder, not the whole drive. So unless you dump everything in one folder you can't. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

 

[JDC]

you can make the DIS play random songs which

Please, how do u do that?

 

[OBCT]

There seems to be some confusion with regards to the Genesis DIS "random" feature for USB-connected devices.

[Note: I'm talking about what I know to be true on my 2009 Tech Package; I do not know if other trims or the 2010 M.Y. is different.]

To make the audio tracks (mp3 or wma format) loaded onto a USB-connected device play in your Genesis, load up the AUX display screen (press the CD | AUX button). It will automatically begin to play the first song on the device (in the alphabetically first, and "top" folder -- if there are folders/sub-folders). Highlight the current track in the track list on the right, and 'shove' the main controller knob to the right. This will bring up a list of options. Scroll down (spin the knob clockwise) to the "Play Random" option, and depress ('click') the knob. This will immediately activate the DIS to begin playing songs off your USB device randomly.

But there are caveats.

1) It only plays the entire device randomly. There are no options to play only a folder, an artist, a genre, a playlist, et cetera, on random.

2) I do not know what the limit is, but there is a limit to the number of tracks that it can actively play on random at one time. For example, if you load up a 16 GB drive with mp3s (1000+ of them), connect it to your Genesis, set it to play on random and go on a roadtrip, it won't be long until it repeats a song. In fact, I pretty much guarantee that it will repeat a song within 4 hours (I've tried it enough times to know) -- which is quite a long time to go on random, sure, but not very long at all when compared to the total length of tracks you can cram onto a small drive these days.

One other point should be made. After restarting the vehicle (ignition off-ignition on), the DIS will automatically continue the last audio track where it left off (assuming you were listening to audio on a USB drive or audio disc when powering down). This is good. The problem is that it will not automatically continue playing the tracks randomly in this case. If you wish to listen to a USB-connected device randomly, you will be forced to select that option every time you restart the car.

 

[cet1911]

I leave my Ipod connected and the key fob in the vehicle all the time. I never had any problem with the battery draining FYI.

 

[MrB0462]

Hmmm I always leave my iPod plugged in and have left my key in my car (in my garage) overnight. The battery didn't seem to be affected. 2010 4.6 with tech.

I agree never any issue with the IPod battery. Perhaps the 2010 has some different features.

 

[tombea]

In my 09 I leave the ipod connected and it doesn't rum down the battery of the car or the internal battery of the ipod. When I turn on the system it resumes playing where it left off.