NAV display won't go into Night Mode

I'll suggest that your dashboard dimmer knob/wheel is cranked fully upwards. Dial it back a bit (dim the dashboard) and the day/night mode will work fine.

 

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After you crank down that dimmer wheel (which is located near your left knee low on the dash) you can then go into Screen Setting and adjust the brightness, contrast, and color to your heart’s content . . . and you can do it for both day and night modes. Headlights off to adjust day mode. Headlights on to adjust night mode.

Enjoy!

 

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I wish there was some sort of light sensor. I keep messing with the dimmer because the lights need to be on when the dimmer/MFD still need to be in day mode.

 

I am wondering if this car has a daylight sensor. When I was looking through the gallery, I noticed a car that had a hole cut in the dash mat for the sensor...

 

Not in the US. Canada has it for its full auto DRL headlights. There are two potential sensors on the dash. One is the radiant heat sensor for the A/C, the other is for the Auto-DRL.

I posted this on PriusOnline. The day mode button on the screen only shows up if the dash is not in day mode, either by the dimmer in detent, or the taillights off. The LCD backlight will change intensity following the dash lights, even if the screen is set to day mode.

 

Ah, right. I forgot about the DRL requirement in Canada.

Any ideas if this sensor can be adapted to give us an auto on/off fetaure for our headlights?

 

Not likely. I asked Rick if DRL shows up as an option in the scanner, he says it dowsn't. The auto is integral with DRL. If the programming is indeed already in the body ECU, as we found the alarm is in any package, we could get the sensor, wire DRL relay output to the fogs, add the Auto switch and light sensor and be home free.

Then again, the function that really enables autoDRL may be an undocumented option like the alarm was.

 

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The dimmer knob has an indent (or soft click) just off of full up. When full up the MFD will be in day mode even with the lights on. Move it down past the indent and the MFD will go into night mode. Further movement dims the dash but does nothing more to the MFD.

 

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Glad to help.

 

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The dimmer knob has an indent (or soft click) just off of full up. When full up the MFD will be in day mode even with the lights on. Move it down past the indent and the MFD will go into night mode. Further movement dims the dash but does nothing more to the MFD.[/b][/quote]

Very odd feature, that. It makes the day/night mode button disappear from the MFD--not just grayed out, but gone. Turns out that the very last paragraph in the manual mentions this.

What I'd really like is for the day/night mode to key off the mirror dimmer, rather than off the headlights. My state laws require my headlights to be on when it's raining, and my future home in Canada requires that headlights be on any time the car is moving. In both these cases, night mode can be hard to read.

 

You can go back to day mode with the taillights on by setting the dimmer wheel all the way up into detent.