Touchscreen, climate & auxiliary controls

[jazzygirl]

Well last week was sure glad of pair of decent sheepskin gloves as had to clear ice off outside windows then hopped into car only to find inside front windscreen was  iced up also.  My car suffers from being parking in a shaded northfacing driveway. There are always dribbles of water (outside the rubber seal) when any door and even boot is opened... how dry is the interior?   Note to self to check weather forecast overnight in future and cover windscreen.

[Downsizer]

While fiddling about with the touchscreen with the help (?) of the manual, I succeeded in changing the screen interface, using the "skin change" option under "system".  However, now I can't find a way to reverse this change.  Any suggestions?

[Ricardo]

By "Screen Interface" do you mean wallpaper/background colour etc? There is an option to import your own wallpaper and use it but I assume that is not what you mean.
I may be stating the obvious here, but if you found a "Skin Change" option under system can't you use this option to change back to what it was?
This is obviously where Honda have buried the options so I don't suppose there will be the same option hidden elsewhere.
Other than that I'd guess that there would be a "Factory Reset" option somewhere which would revert to the original interface as delivered.
Of course, as with Android phones that would be a bit of a "Nuclear" option wiping whatever stuff you have on there already.

[Downsizer]

Thanks Ricardo.  Unfortunately, on the alternative screen interface (see p 266 of the manual) there doesn't seem to be a "system" option, so I haven't found a way of getting back to "skin change".  Neither have I found a factory reset option yet. It all seems a bit like the dreaded Windows 8!

[Downsizer]

Problem solved!  Although the alternative home screen interface does not have side-swipe arrows, it can be side-swiped, and a settings button appears on another page.  It would have been helpful if this had been explained on p 266.......

[trebor1652]

I think you have pointed out how useless 'this is how it works book is'.
It's not at all logical, and 2/3s of it is not relevant.
They could have saved money by making it more car specific.

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[Ricardo]

...and putting it on a searchable CD, like my wife's Fiat 500!
 But I guess the Infotainment system design suggests Honda don't know too much about software.

[Downsizer]

I think the 160 pages dealing with this software should be a separate book.  Also, I suspect it is written by software designers.  Such instructions should be written by a non-specialist from the point of view of a user.