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Its alright I've done it now. I'm quite "knowledgeable" after all Wachanim. 

No need for all the drama ladies.

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Well said Wachanim! And what's funny is his issue is so easily fixed and I would have directed him in the right path if it weren't for the temper tantrum.

no you wouldn't, because you're a wind up merchant and didn't help me before. 

I'm not an expert here by any means but I do know that the iPhone 5s does work when set up properly and I'm pretty sure that you do have to have HDMI plugged in and the adapter from HDMI to lightning. However, I am not posting any ideas or solutions here because it is a waste of time for everyone here. I got email notifications about you asking questions and I thought I would log in and see if I could help. Then I see this crap response by someone new to the forums. We can't sit with you in your car and tell you every single little mistake you are making but you are obviously making a few mistakes because this does work and the advice you have been given is correct. Don't get mad at people here because they can't magically tell the newb, lame mistakes that you are making. It is apparent that you are not very knowledgeable and you know what, that is ok as long as you are nice and patient about it. But when you come in here asking people to help you because you don't know what you're doing it is not ok for you to start throwing around insults to people taking time out of their day to help you. Go somewhere else for help or maybe educate yourself but stop wasting people's time here. People here know what they're doing.

thanks

Well that's complete and utter bullshit then as ive just spent 3 hours adding a hdmi lead to the back of the stereo and now bought an apple hdmi lightning adapter for £40 and its not even showing the songs now. Yep, good advice people.

Its not that difficult to access or remove a head unit from your vehicle. I suggest a Google search on how to accomplish this task with your vehicle.

you clearly haven't got any idea of how hard it is for a 350z. It takes hours and you have to take the whole gear stick cover/ front dashboard out….

It most assuradly will work once you have the required adapters.

I am sure it will, but I don't have access to the back of the stereo to add a HDMI lead which can then go into the Lightning AV Adapter.  

yeh, just looked at the pioneer diagram of the App radio and it looks like I have USB to USB. So will need to buy the Apple Lighning Digital AV Adapter.

Apologies, I hadn't seen that diagram before, so hopefully this will work once I buy the adapter.

edit- actually, I have just noticed that as I cannot access the back of the stereo I am screwed. I already have the lightning to USB lead which goes into my phone so the Apple Lightning AV Adapter is useless unless I have an HDMI lead plugged into it.

Have you read the connection requirements for i5 devices? It's plastered all over Pioneer's site as well as on this site.

I have yes, but I am not sure if they will work as I cannot change what comes out of the App radio as I have a nissan 350z and to take it all out you need an expert to do it, and the wiring is all beneath the flooring.  So I am stuck with having a HDMI lead coming from the AppRadio with a USB Female end.  So I can only plug a USB lead into the female USB connector.

I'd try clearing out the Bluetooth phones from your radio memory and start over. Pair the 5S first and see if that works. It does take a while to make a connection. When I used an appradio 2 with my iphone 6 it would take a while before the connection established itself.

hello there, bit late again! I have successfully paired the bluetooth to my iPhone 5s and it charges, it recognises my songs, it plays them, it plays my spotify but with no sound!

Also, I have waited 5, 10 mins to get a connection to the app radio but nothing. How long did you wait?

I note above where  VBLUE42 says about the leads but I am not sure if buying any of them will work.  My App radio is connected with a HDMI Cable to USB, and I am then using a APPLE USB to lightning to go into my iPhone 5s. 

Any help? Is there any other lead I could use? If I bought a USB to HDMI Converter, then bought an Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter would that possibly work?

There are hidden files that the Appradio will detect when you format the USB drive on a Mac. If you have access to a windows PC, reformat the USB stick to FAT32 and then copy the update files. It should work after that. 

Cheers Rockthebeef I did just that today and it worked and i installed version 8.30.  Sorry I only just saw this today!

Now that I have done that, I plugged my iPhone 5S in and it recognises the phone, shows the yellow music sign and will PLAy the music but no sound will come out!  Also, when I try and use WAZE or anything it says "Appradio wants to connect with your phone, allow etc" and I then say yes but it does not connect.  I have waited minutes but nothing happens.  When I use the iPhone4s again everything works.  Is there a reason for this why the iPhone 5S still does not work?

Hi everyone newbies here.

I was wondering if you could all help me with my Appradio 2 Pioneer SPH da100.  I have had it a few years and am trying to work my iPhone 5 with it and update the 8.30 firmware but to no avail.  I have downloaded the firmware update onto my USB from both my iMac and my windows laptop but when I plug the USB in to my car stereo it says the following:

"The update file can't be read

Please save only one update file to USB memory

Press BACK to return and retry update"

Now this message appears even when I plug in a blank USB.  Am I doing anything wrong? Am I downloading the update wrong?!

Any help would be much appreciated. 

Thanks

Chris