How do you manually reboot Cascadia infotainment system?

Frequently, this thing will fail to recognize that a phone is plugged in, and will not launch Apple CarPlay.

A system reboot fixes this, but I have not found a way to do it manually. You just have to turn the ignition off for 20+ minutes. Pressing/holding the power button on the screen just turns the screen off. Holding the mute button on the steering wheel and pressing "system off" just turns the screen off. Turning the main battery kill switch by the driver seat just turns the screen off.

Any tips?

 

Still having issues with this. Mainly Carplay will fail to launch (phone plugged in but not detected) or audio won't work. System reboot fixes the problem, but cannot reboot manually, have to turn the ignition off and wait.

This happens on all of our trucks so I'm sure others have experienced the problem.

On the off chance that anyone from Freightliner is reading this and you want to reproduce the problem: Simply unplug your phone while the screen says "Starting Apple Carplay" and that will totally brick the system until the next full reboot. Carplay still fails randomly on occasion which is my main problem, this is just a way to force it to fail.

 

No the infotainment is the screen to the right of the steering wheel that I circled in the picture I posted. It doesn't do anything critical to the functionality of the truck. It's just a settings menu, radio, and Carplay screen. And unfortunately when the radio/Carplay bugs out or doesn't play sound, all the audible truck nannies still work just fine... So then I'm just driving along in silence while being spammed with beeps and buzzes from the lane departure picking up tar lines and the collision alert picking up reflections from highway signs. At that point I just put my earbuds in.

There are some people out there who still take pride in their work and like to read what people are saying about the stuff they work on.

 

For sure. I understood what you said originally. I understand that Freightliner as a whole doesn't care. I just think that there are rank and file staff engineers out there who read forums like this. I would.