SubaruGuy

Ok i've been living with this Avic 6000 nex  problem for months
pioneer told me to ship it back if i want it fixed.. of course it won't be free.

the price to repair is about the same as a new entry/mid 2019 hud.. if i add a couple of hundred bucks i can get a decent 2019 hud or even an used 2018 hud with nav.

if i choose to send it in for repair...ill just keep living with a 2014 high end unit with an outdated map.

now if there is a free solution to have this avic 6000 nex fixed, i am all open to hear that.

the problem i've been experience for months is quite simple.. everything work except the navigation. If i hit the nav menu, it will show a spining circle for a minute and then nothing happen.  Theres a igo error that pop for a split second.. other than that, nothing happen.

i can still use unit and all the other features.. 

now as you know, if the nav doesn't work i can not set the clock because this avic crap use the gps to set the clock... since the nav doesn't work, it will give a random time zone.

right now i have an expensive hud without a working nav and the wrong timezone.. had to buy a mini 20$ clock on amazon and put it on my dash to have a clock..

i tried overwritting the firmware with older and newer US  files i could find. 1.08 , 1.11, 1.15, 1.21  ... none of them restored the unit nav.

I read through the forum for hours and noticed few people experiencing the same problem .cool... but nobody answered their posts?. Damm
 

i know this is not a pioneer technical support forum, but with so many technical people here and many having the igo issue we should be able to make a sticky thread and a solution to this plague.

now for those suggesting me to use naviextra. No that won't work because i can't even access the navigation setup menu within the unit anymore.

i could always try to overwrite the entire unit image, but i can't find a freaking working image file.. and i don't even know you do that without bricking it.

now if someone could really step in and really help us out, it would really be appreciated for all of us who have our igo corrupted on

avic 6000 nex

Otherwise it will remain another ignored post like the others for the exact same issue

If this can not be fixed without sending it to pioneer for expensive repair  i'll stay away from Any pioneer from now on..  

what i need is to silent the unit and to shutdown the screen (while driving) in a quick easy step...  Sometime i really need quietness and to kill the flashing gizmos...

The only way i found was to remove the key pannel (the anti-theft) thing.  but that's not not ez enough especially while im driving.

Silly question but how do heck do you turn off the unit... ?

I miss the rotary buttons on the factory units... 

By pressing Mode, it only  blackout the screen but the unit is till running...  is there an easy 1 step action to turn off completly ?

ya a finaly found the hidden option

you have to activate Number ans Street in both lines.. native and foreign... they are two distinctive features..

I had native activated but i did not activate foreign one.

Now TTS works..

nope

I'm still not getting any street names.

I've set  Names and Numbers to ON

Is this another bad unit ?

Weird...  on this avic nex 6000

I'm not getting any TTS (street name) at all.  i can select it no problem and it prompts my selection fine..

But no matter which tts voice im choosing, it does not tell any street names ...  i tried every TTS voices in the list..  it just tells me to turn left or right..

is this normal ?

it does however mention highway number...

also the map is way outdated.  I know a few streets in my city that has either changed names or direction like 3 years ago.  and this avic map doesn't have that information...

My handhelded Garmin bough last spring (7 months ago) does......

I'm sorry but if this AVIC GPS works at intended. it is the worst i've seen.    Any help would be appreciated

Previously the antena (somekind of squarry magnet with a cord) was directly sitting on the HU itself.  Since the HU casse is in metal, the antena was sticking to it.

I didn't like the idea so i moved the antena (the sqarry magnet thing with the cord)  somewhere close to the HU.. the top facing up ofcourse.  (but is still inside the dash)  i don't want to see the antena on the dash. 

So far the signal is pretty strong.  i'm not getting any lost signal.   I was told that cars like mercedes have a very thick dash therefore you can lose some signal... but on most japanese cars it is ok to leave the antena inside the dash as long the squarry thing is facing up and the magnet part facing down.

It is pretty cold outside right now like 8 Fahrenheit   (-13 celcius)   i'll take some pic when it gets warmer.

ive got a new unit back... 

This replacement unit has the 1.08 firmware.  (but i think the old  one had the 1.08 too)

So far i dont see any difference.  This time im not gona change the background to custom in the menu..  

Also i've moved the GPS antena further away from the HU (in case the antena was over heating the HU).  On the old unit the antena was directly on the HU.. now ive put it somewhere in the dash. 

Hiya

I have an SD card. in this new Nex 6000

This is how i structured the folders is the SD card

Root

/ Music

  //FLAC

   (all flac files are here, no folder)

  //MP3

  ///Folder A  (mp3 files genre A)

  ///Folder B  (mp3 files genre B )

  ///Folder C  (mp3 files genre C)

  ///Folder D  (mp3 files genre D)

/Movie

all movies files are here

Let say i just want the unit to play Folder A  in random order (without shuffling into any other folders)

How do i do that ?

Right now everytime i star the car it begins with the same song or the song playing before i turned of the engine last time. and it shuffle regardless of folder... and i hate that.

I want the unit to go into a specific folder and do a random song in that specific folder everytime i enter the car... how do we do that ?

New unit in the mail.   only cost me for shipping it back..  $40 bucks  (3 days..)

because of holydaycrap...i should receive the new unit sometime next week.

Also got the new firmware file ready on a usb device... im gona update the unit first thing....

I've sent back the radio to the seller.. they said they gona try to reproduce the error.. then they gona resend me another one....

I only had to ship back the radio though.. At first they were asking to ship back everything.. but i told them i couldn't that.. wires being cut to match car's harnress..

Anyhow, it's in the mail now.. cost me around 40 bux to ship this back....

I just hope this won't happen again past the warranty period.. Cuz i lost my trust on those avic..

in the meantime, i put the stock radio back... without closing/clipping the radio-dash back cuz its a pain the remove..

So whomever would like to steal my stock radio please use your finger nails..   

I have unplugged the whole thing, waited a few and still having this issue...

I spoke to Pioneer and emailed them.. both are giving the exact same answer.

They will only repair under warranty if purchased from authorized dealer..  Amazon is not one of them.

Ive contacted the seller and they told me i can ship the radio back without the wires or antena..  because i told them that all wires that came with the unit have been modified/cut to fit the car wires..so i could not remove them that easy.  They agreed to get just the radio back.

I have two options

1- I bring it to a local pioneer repair center.. they fix for a fee..   could cost hundreds of dollars.

2- I ship it back to amazon and they swap it for another one.

nope

They are asking for a prove of purchase.

The repair center is local...about 30 minutes driving from home..

But they will not repair under warranty if they do not get prove of purchase. They will charge me for parts and time.

the pioneer guy said that it is a hardwaire failure.. something internal that may be need to be replaced..  there are several boards inside.. one is the gps board.. that one may need to be replaced.. or the antena board... worst case the maine board... or the entire unit.

Waiting for the next representative...waiting time is 25 minutes..  ouch

I'll try the gift thing but if this doesn't work..then im doomed.

What i want to know is how do they fix this thing ? are they updating the firmware or changing the pcb.. ? is this a fix we can perform ourself ?

What exactly is this bug ??

The unit came from Amazon.  It is 6 AM in the morning right now.. office opens at 9 am...  but apparently they won't honor the warranty since it came from Amazon... is it true ?

if this is true it will be 700 bucks in the garbage + 200 for parts and installation labor

If pioneer won't honor warranty that would be the worst 1 grand investment in my entire life.

omg

This unit is like only 2 days old.  It's been working great until now.

I'm getting this error when i select the navigation

**** Positioning is not possible due to the hardware... ****

I can't do anything.  the navigation screen is sorta frozen with a this popup error.  I can see the unit trying to search satelites on top of the screen but nothing.

The problem is that i bought this unit online thousands of miles from my current location.   The installation had cost me time and money. 

How am i gona deal with this issue ????  I refuse to pay someone to have it uninstall and reinstall the old radio (harness been cut) and remove old radio and reinstall the repaired nex 6000 back...  this is going to cost hundreds of dollars just to swap back and forth.

Guys... any easier solution ? 

Hey

Just got my 6000nex installed today.   Replaced the Subaru 2015 stock 2-din basic radio with this

Got a few questions...sorry if they have been asked already..

First:  How do you disable the Navigation Caution screen when you start the engine (the Caution screen where you have to hit the dam annoying OK button) ????

Second:  Is there an auto-detect day /  night mode for the radio screen ? the dimmer function doesnt seem to do crap... it's kinda way to bright at night.   and too dimmed in daylight/ direct sun. Is there a way to set to autodetect light condition ?

Third:  Is there a bigger speedmeter screen (so i can see my speed)  the speed indication in the navigation mode is written way too small..

Fourth : How do you edit Themes

Fifth: How do you edit /create animated background ?  i only see two available.

One bug  found:

I went to work after selecting the GPS voice (TTS) ..reached my destination... then ive parked the car and turned off the engine.   After work i came back to the car, started the engine and went home but the TTS voice i have selected previously was kinda weird.. the voice was a mix of english/french... All directions were spoken in english and street names were in french.  wtf ?

I had to set the voice back to default to fix the issue.