FJ Jammer Alien Communication Device

[Arturus]

As if I don't have enough crap to deal with (between tick bites, yet another break in on the girlfriend's car, post-lift sway bar issue, etc.) - my FJammer is acting really weird.

I pretty much listen to MP3 cds only (used the FM tuner maybe once) - anyhow, the last couple days something strange has been going on - the cd plays fine, I turn off the car, go to work or wherever and when I restart and the cd plays again, the display looks crazy weird - odd characters all over the place and no latin characters to speak of - all boxes, dashes, weird characters that look like something out of the show "V" (remember the aliens that disguised themselves as humans but were reptillian carnivores?) - after turning it off/on a couple times, the display returns to normal and the extra terrestrial looking letters disappear. WTF is that all about? Anybody have this issue or should I be transcribing the weird text for submission to SETI?

[JimmyHoops]

Seems like several owners with stock stereos are having similar problems (based on reading other posts). Call Toyota to file a complaint. Stereo head units should last much longer then a year. Sounds like they have some funky issues going on. Best of luck contacting the Pleiades! But I'm sure that you would rather listen to tunes then let "ET Phone home"!

[ShrtBus]

Mine did that only once - but you do have confirmation!

[KD7NAC_07FJ]

Not that this will help you much but I've read a number of the posts about this and the way everyone describes the "characters" they are seeing sounds like when a computer program displays character place holders for a character the computer does not have the ACSII or font definition for.

Like I said I don't think that will do much but point at the CPU in the head unit as the problem.