Sirius Sportster Display light operates intermitently, more often off than on.

If you don't pay your bill, you'll need to buy a new radio, since they'll lock it out of the network. You *might* be able to have it activated online, so try that out before giving up. If that won't work, then just sell it for parts on eBay, if it's a functional (but banned) radio, you'll probably get $20-$40. Make sure you mention it's banned.

Hello there !

I suggest you fix it don't through it yet ,I want you to change this chip .

sound IC( Amplifier ) it could be damaged or something is loose inside .


good luck

Remove the batteries from the boombox. If there is no batteries in the boombox, and it still does this, then the boombox itself is no longer any good.

Cliff, If you mean a schematic then u are going to have a tough time finding that. It is manufactured by Directed Electronics, so you might try to contact them, but they might not be willing to divulge that info.

Good luck!

I work for sirius so I know about all of these different issues and the most common one is the connections. It is imperative that the radios be connected to power with the cig lighter adapter. This adapter had circuitry in it that lowers the cars 12 volts to 5 volts which the sirius unit ooerates on. The old units were 12 volt and could hard wired into the vehicles fuse block, but all of the new radios operate on 5 volts. If this is not the issue with either of you then you have defective units. Being that all warranty replacement are with remanufactured units, your chance of getting a problematic unit increases after the initial return of your new unit.

Let me save you $30.00. A new antenna will not help, nor will cleaning the contacts. I just did both of those and it did not help. I have mine in the freezer right now cooling it down. Sirius told me that I should not leave it in the car because it gets to hot. They told me to buy another unit....

Sure, you can do this if you have great soldering skills. The contacts are very small and requiring precision soldering, but a successful soldering job would make for a successful repair. There is nothing specific about the displays so any display from a sportster 4 would work on any other. Have a great day!

Go into the menu and reset to factory default

I had the same issue. This is what Sirius calls a "Frozen Unit". There is no bypass, unfortunately, and it must be returned.

 

I had mine for 3 days and it froze on the Sirius Logo screen when booting up. If you bought the unit from Sirius, you must contact their E-Commerce department. If bought from a retailer, take it back to the store.

 

Sorry, mate.

Unfortunately this is a fairly common problem in the Sportster, caused by worn contacts in the tuner. Sometimes you can temporarily resolve the problem by wedging a thin piece of cardboard behind the tuner in the cradle, to create a better contact; but eventually it will just wear out again.