[tom66]

In a lot of EVs and PHEVs, the purpose of the startup jingle is two-fold:

- To provide indication of the start procedure which takes a second or two, primarily due to precharge
- And it hides the sound of the pre-charge and pack contactors engaging, which produces a potentially alarming "clunk" sound

Therefore you probably won't find an option to remove this because then people would be taking their cars into the dealer complaining that their new car "clunks when they start"... not a defect, it's by design.

 

[Dave Emory]

I'm still gritting my teeth. Again, since my C-Max had no such "feature, not a bug", and needed no "clunks hidden", I fail to see how critical this is to the consumer. Five days in, it's no less annoying. Girlfriend's first response was, "oh no" after our first ride the other day. (This was without any prompting from me.) Ah well.

On the plus side, sort of, the "lane assist" provides pseudo-autonymous freeway driving and is pleasantly creepy. More time to be totally distracted by text messages.

 

[phproxy]

Today I paid attention to what my Golf GTE does on start up, can't say I notice it usually..

Edit:
30 seconds in:

 

[Tim Ostler]

I've always noticed the eGolf sound, and like it.

Of course Fully Charged itself also has a bong..

 

[David M]

My Leaf has the option to turn off the bongs and bings..and they are turned off.

 

[Richard Gledhill]

Of course Fully Charged itself also has a bong..

Not any more - they seem to have decided to rebrand with some boring animation with no cool bong

 

[Tim Ostler]

Not any more - they seem to have decided to rebrand with some boring animation with no cool bong

I was just going to say the same...! Rather sadly, FC is now huge - like Top Gear for EV drivers. Although Jonny is an excellent presenter, I think I preferred it when it was just an amateur effort with Robert on his own.. He was pretty much single-handily responsible for my becoming aware of and buying an EV.

Odd that if I hadn't become an early fan of Red Dwarf I might never have owned an eGolf...!

 

[Orrery]

Odd that if I hadn't become an early fan of Red Dwarf I might never have owned an eGolf...!

Indeed, same here. I help organise our local Skeptics in the Pub group in Bedford:
Skeptics in the Pub, Bedford (there are local groups all over the place)
and we had Bobby Llewellyn over with his Leaf to tell us about EVs.

 

[78124]

Hello,

to say this right ahead:

I did not try any of this myself, I just found this way/idea in a german electric car forum and wanted to point you to this information. But you surely have to take a closer look into this yourself, and after all, this might be a bit risky to the software,warranty etc. I dont own a Niro yet, but I am planning on getting one. The jingle topic might bother me too, so I made some research.

So there might be a solution for the jingle on startup/shutdown annoyance. As I found in a german electric car forum, there is a "hack" of the multimedia/infotainment system. I did not try any of this myself, i just read about it and thought it might be usefull for others. So i created this account and want to share it with you.

The hack seems to work on KIAs and Hyundai vehicles since their system is apparently the same. Basically it goes like this: The mediasystem is based on Android and as you might know, android offers developer options. As on the phone, this menue is hidden and needs to be activated. Once activated you can also install third party android apps. But this doesnt seem to be necessary to get rid of the jingle. To deactivate the jingle, one user reported this: note: this was tried on a Hyundai Ioniq, so i dont know if or how it works on a KIA Niro.

I will try to translate his post. The original post can be found here:
"Begrüßungsmelodie" abschalten? - Seite 3 - IONIQ - Infotainment • Hyundai IONIQ Elektro - Elektroauto Forum

The post has pretty much the following information:

You first have to go to the android level of the system.
1. Select [Setup] in the menu
2. Select setting for the screensaver
3. On the lower side of the screen quickly touch
-left,middle,right,middle,left,middle,right
4. A pin pad appears. the pin is the current time displayed above. Enter and press send.
5. select [Android settings]

A Youtube video makes the process of entering the engineering mode more clear: From Minute: 02:00

Please note: From my resaerch so far, the way how to get into the developer menu can differ from model, build year etc.

When you are in the Android Settings, scroll down to the Build Number and tab on it several times (about 7-10 times). This activates the developer settings menue, just like on your phone.

Then go back and enter the developer settings. There, disable the "Animations". As on your android phone, fancy animations now disappear AND apparently also the starting jingle.
//End of post. So for this you should not need to install any third party application at all. The guy in the video above is doing much more and I would be careful with that.

However I tought, there might be animations you dont want to have deactivated. By deactivating the animations, the system also becomes a little quicker to operate. I tried this on my android phone and deactivated the animations to see what happens.

Other users reported that this works, others report that it does not work. Some also disabled the "animation scale" (?) option.

Also: As you can install third party apps, it is thinkable that you install a file explorer, search and browse to the jingle file and just replace the jingle with a sound you like. But thats just theorie.

I hope some of you find this usefull.
Please report back if you tried this, and if it really works.

Thank you!


Edit: Antoher way of accessing the menu: edit2: this seems to be a whole other hidden menu, not the one that is described above.

 

[Grant_H]

If you can use this to replace the VESS sound with a Jetsonsesc space car I'm in

 

[donald]

...just to to the freakin' thing off would be great!

 

[RobertENiro]

Who is planning to do this as soon as they get their Niro???

Is anyone with a Niro PHEV able to check this works?

 

[Woodulike]

Who is planning to do this as soon as they get their Niro???

Is anyone with a Niro PHEV able to check this works?

I wouldn't want to be the guinea pig to check if it screws anything else up, it's not that bad.
It would be good if they turned everything else off before playing their jingle, it clashed with my music. If it didn't do that I'd hardly have noticed it.

 

[dougconran]

You first have to go to the android level of the system.
1. Select [Setup] in the menu
2. Select setting for the screensaver
3. On the lower side of the screen quickly touch
-left,middle,right,middle,left,middle,right
4. A pin pad appears. the pin is the current time displayed above. Enter and press send.
5. select [Android settings]

A Youtube video makes this process more clear:

I can confirm that this method works to get into the engineering mode. (Note to Donald's - I didn't change anything!)

 

[Woodulike]

(Note to Donald's - I didn't change anything!)

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[Grant_H]

Excellent.
Now I just need to find a way to add an aux port back in

Sent using Tapatalk (I'm on my phone so sorry for any auto correct screwups)

 

[Paul M]

I'm always relieved when someone else takes the plunge to explore the engineering menus... because I myself have an innate tendency to succumb to temptation and try it myself and be the first to have to learn what can go wrong!!

 

[78124]

Thanks for the info!

I played a little bit around with the engineering mode on my android phone and did not broke anything. Okay...a phone is not a car, but i think you actually cannot do so much damage to it. This is just android and just the engineering mode. This is not a very deep level actually. If you remember how the settings where before you touch it, you should always be able to go back. But I understand this is easily said when its not your own car.

 

[Woodulike]

Finding the menu doesn't concern me, adding things downloaded from a random YouTuber does

 

[78124]

Finding the menu doesn't concern me, adding things downloaded from a random YouTuber does

If you only want to deactivate the jingle you should not have to download anything, like I explained in my post above. Only disable these "animations". (thats the theory)
I wouldnt install anything from the source "youtube" either. You can however, download original .apk files (apps) from the developers websites. Just like on your phone.