[freeblazer]

I just got mine yesterday. I think that is the power flow screen. Just hit the leaf button, above/below the mode button to get to that screen.

 

[Steverino]

Whatever you do, don't look at you owner's manual.

 

[tan00001]

I just got mine yesterday. I think that is the power flow screen. Just hit the leaf button, above/below the mode button to get to that screen.

Actually I was talking about the dark line across the lower half of the buttons. Thank you.

 

[tan00001]

Whatever you do, don't look at you owner's manual.

Actually I did. I even downloaded pdf versions and searched in them. No luck.

 

[Desert Volt]

Looks okay to me. Different screens have different selections at the top menu bar. The "way it looks now" is the menu bar when on the now playing screen (radio). The "way it looked before" is the menu bar when on the energy screen. Push the leaf button, located near the blue power button and it will take you the the energy screen with this menu. This is all explained in the Entertainment User Guide/Manual.

 

[tan00001]

Looks okay to me. Different screens have different selections at the top menu bar. The "way it looks now" is the menu bar when on the now playing screen (radio). The "way it looked before" is the menu bar when on the energy screen. Push the leaf button, located near the blue power button and it will take you the the energy screen with this menu. This is all explained in the Entertainment User Guide/Manual.

I am not talking about what the buttons do. I am talking about the appearance of the buttons. There is a thick black line in the lower half of the buttons that was not there before. I believe that it is supposed to be a "3D" style. But it does not look "3D" to me at all.

 

[saltsman]

The graphical design of the screens is really poor. Outdated, even for 2011. As you have discovered, there is little consistency between screens.

 

[Mister Dave]

I am not talking about what the buttons do. I am talking about the appearance of the buttons. There is a thick black line in the lower half of the buttons that was not there before. I believe that it is supposed to be a "3D" style. But it does not look "3D" to me at all.

I didn't check the energy screen, but all of my blue buttons have what you describe as a "thick black line", and the green ones don't. The blue buttons on the energy screen may have a different appearance. There is no menu setting for changing button appearance that I'm aware of.

 

[tan00001]

The graphical design of the screens is really poor. Outdated, even for 2011. As you have discovered, there is little consistency between screens.

I am afraid that it is not really a consistency issue. Just to make myself more clear, I changed the first image in my original post. Now you can see that we are comparing the same screen.

 

[tan00001]

Thank you for understanding what I am talking about. However, I am convinced that there is a way to change it, because I changed the screen somehow to display the dark line. It was like the second picture before. There was no dark line. I just cannot remember how I did it.

 

[Mister Dave]

I just cannot remember how I did it.

Let us know when you figure it out. I like version [previous] better.

 

[Desert Volt]

Just got back from a run to the store in the VOlt ... the OP is correct, there is a dark blue line under the text on the blue menu tabs, on my Volt as well. This is new, the top and bottom of the menu tabs were a gradient dark to light shading, with the lighter color in the middle. The bottom shading is now different. My wife agrees, this changed recently (last day or so). I did not change any settings, so my conclusion is the Volt is doing this on its own ... although I don't know why. Good news is the shading on tab does not matter as to how the Volt performs.

 

[volt3939]

Did you by chance change the screen brightness?

 

[tan00001]

...I did not change any settings, so my conclusion is the Volt is doing this on its own ... although I don't know why....

I did not think about the possibility that GM was sending software updates to us on the Q.T. Do we still get a choice in our own cars:-(?

 

[tan00001]

Did you by chance change the screen brightness?

I don't think that is the cause.

 

[ClarksonCote]

Thank you for understanding what I am talking about. However, I am convinced that there is a way to change it, because I changed the screen somehow to display the dark line. It was like the second picture before. There was no dark line. I just cannot remember how I did it.

The second picture in your original post is what the buttons looked like in a Model Year 2011 or 2012 Volt. Once MyLink came along, all the buttons look like the first picture in your original post.

Unless somebody has a pic of the square buttons in the first picture that doesn't have the lines (and not from the MY2011-2012 Volt's rounded buttons), it seems like this may just be a detail that you didn't immediately observe until now.

 

[Mister Dave]

I did not think about the possibility that GM was sending software updates to us on the Q.T. Do we still get a choice in our own cars:-(?

I don't think so, no.