Last night, while driving home, I was able to cycle through a series of events that would duplicate this 100% of the time. I'm kicking myself now, though, because I'm trying it now and I can't remember what I did!

I do remember that involved doing a certain sequence of actions and presses right after reboot. I know one of the actions was the hold on the bottom button to try to switch from info to visual.

I'm certain that wouldn't have been the only way to trigger this bug, as people sometimes get bit after the player's been going for days. I did think it might be helpful, though.