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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: X30XE on 08 July 2014, 00:35:59
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How do I get rid of the message on the colour info display telling me onstar services are not available every 30 seconds? It's destroying my soul :/
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How do I get rid of the message on the colour info display telling me onstar services are not available every 30 seconds? It's destroying my soul :/
Subscribe to it :-\
https://www.onstar.com/web/portal/planspricing?g=1
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Its a USA thing, so no worky over here, go it to settings somewhere, you or someone must have changed it at some point.
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I presumed the Op was a Catera driver... Onstar very much alive and kicking over there... Not sure how a European head unit would have Onstar able to be activated :-\ the Cadillac head units are totally different...
That said, in this day and age, why wouldn't Onstar work outside of North America? Basic subscription would silence the message if nowt else...
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I presumed the Op was a Catera driver... Onstar very much alive and kicking over there... Not sure how a European head unit would have Onstar able to be activated :-\ the Cadillac head units are totally different...
That said, in this day and age, why wouldn't Onstar work outside of North America? Basic subscription would silence the message if nowt else...
Well, I took him as UK based on username (X30XE not available over the pond) and the fact he mentions a Colour screen which was not an option on the Catera AFAIK.
Mine jsut states 'No Onstar Service Available' when I select it', it' doesn't flash up every thirty seconds or so :-\
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In my old Signum that had the NCDC 2015, colour screen and telematics to stop it flashing up it needed a sim card in the slot.
Wasn't actually a working sim just an old out of date PAYG one.
As you need the telematics to connect to OnStar then assuming the Omega one works the same as the Signum did it should solve the problem
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In my old Signum that had the NCDC 2015, colour screen and telematics to stop it flashing up it needed a sim card in the slot.
Wasn't actually a working sim just an old out of date PAYG one.
As you need the telematics to connect to OnStar then assuming the Omega one works the same as the Signum did it should solve the problem
Yeh that rings a bell :y
Obviously this is only a feature that's enabled when a Telematics unit is detected on the CAN Bus, which is why 2013's don't show the screen.
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I presumed the Op was a Catera driver... Onstar very much alive and kicking over there... Not sure how a European head unit would have Onstar able to be activated :-\ the Cadillac head units are totally different...
That said, in this day and age, why wouldn't Onstar work outside of North America? Basic subscription would silence the message if nowt else...
Well, I took him as UK based on username (X30XE not available over the pond) and the fact he mentions a Colour screen which was not an option on the Catera AFAIK.
Mine jsut states 'No Onstar Service Available' when I select it', it' doesn't flash up every thirty seconds or so :-\
Yep assumed the same, assuming it is a NCDC (CID) and not an Amber Colour Screen, wondering if the glove box is full of crap and pushing the SOS button in on the Telematics?
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Ah... Missed the colour screen bit :-[
One day I might own an Omega with a factory radio ::)
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I think without a SIM card, the telematics constantly interrupts.
Shove in a 900Mhz SIM (O2 or Voda (or MVNOs based on them - Tesco, NiffNaff etc))
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I think without a SIM card, the telematics constantly interrupts.
Yep. Very very annoying. It has a button on the head unit marked "on star" which does sod all. Why can't it just have an "OFF" switch dammit? :(
Guess I'll have to track down a sim the size of a playing card... although god knows who still sells those now it's not 1806BC :-\
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Tescos should :y
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Cool. I'll have a look :y
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Guess I'll have to track down a sim the size of a playing card... although god knows who still sells those now it's not 1806BC :-\
Everyone?
Well Vodafone, Giff Gaff and O2 certainly send you one when you register for a free sim online.
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Guess I'll have to track down a sim the size of a playing card... although god knows who still sells those now it's not 1806BC :-\
Everyone?
Well Vodafone, Giff Gaff and O2 certainly send you one when you register for a free sim online.
As do Tesco and TMobile/EE /Orange :y
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Guess I'll have to track down a sim the size of a playing card... although god knows who still sells those now it's not 1806BC :-\
Everyone?
Well Vodafone, Giff Gaff and O2 certainly send you one when you register for a free sim online.
As do Tesco and TMobile/EE /Orange :y
Yep thought so :y
If the OP wants to occasionally use the Telematics only a 900Mhz network will work though.
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The credit card sized sim card is purely the holder that the SIM card is manufactured in. The customer then presses it out to fit in the phone. Or, in this case, slots the whole thing complete into the telematics.
In fact, if you can get hold of an old holder of any sort from any provider, you can press your SIM card back into it and apply tape to the back to hold it in. Works perfectly well. :)
Although I'm not sure where it stands with the new micro sims...?
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Micro sims are the same principle :y
Card size with regular sim stamped in, then micro sim outline stamped with that :y
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(Provided "your SIM card" is O2 or Voda of course )
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GiffGaff will certainly send you a SIM FOC, which should stop the message (even without activating the SIM). Obviously if you want to use it, you need an activated 900Mhz (thus one based on an O2 or Voda network) SIM, with credit.