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I think the constant powering on and off and switching power adapters was the cause of all my problems Other than the problems i'm having with my unit now before all the problems the unit had functioned perfectly. Right now it's only good for listening to XM live and as an MP3 player, can't record any live XM or set any favorites. It's a good deal for someone that just listens to it either in the house or in the car but not both. It's the cheapest portable XM radio out there, but there's a reason it's so cheap. I'd had mine for just over a year when it decided to go nuts, locking up and constantly having to reset the radio. The interface is very user friendly and the sound quality is very good.
What is worse is if you have any songs saved and you have to reset it, well, kiss those goodbye. but good luck guessing when that will happen.Do yourself a favor; avoid the SkyFi3, get the SkyFi2 or look for another receiver. In addition to the above, it will sometimes just erase all of your pre-sets. The features are great, such as the backlight auto turn off, the recording time, the ablilty to record songs for later. You can reset the unit, and it will still do the same thing.
the first two where great, the SkyFI3 is an unreliable piece of junk. Each time you have to reset it which will cause you to have to reconfigure it. They will show up still, but they won't play. What is really strange, is after a while, it will save the presets. I own the SkyFi, SkyFi2 and the SkyFi3.
BUT, since I have owned it (about 1 1/2 years), I have had it lock up countless times. What is really bad, is when the pre-sets get erased, then the unit will not save new ones you try to set.
I have to unhook it every night and bring it in the house so that I can have music the next morning. It is great except it freezes up.literally, I cannot leave it in the car when it is cold out because it won't work the next morning. Only down side to the thing.
I tried to update the firmware and it would not do that either. It was worse with the home kit. It then stays on (frozen) until the battery runs out. Then it froze on a song recorded at home. This must be a bad unit. It freezes in the car when I turn the car off. No sound on XM, just on recorded songs.
The remedy was to remove my regular FM antenna and then this unit worked fine on the frequency I selected.The display area is nice and large, the buttons well-placed and the ability to access pre-set channels is convenient. The unit has good features for the price. I was initially baffled by signal strength-related issues until I researched that earlier generations of satellite radio modulators (including units I'd purchased in 2004) far exceeded FCC legal output power. I also like the capability to record songs and then play them back, using the unit as a portable mp3 player.
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