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My blackberry Q10 gave up the ghost so it was time to upgrade my device. Due to my employers inability to adequately support anything but iPhones I went to the dark side and settled for an iPhone6. At first I thought it might be cool to make use of the "integration" between my AVIC and iPhone rather than the limited Bluetooth streaming supported via my BB. Well, here is how my first three attempts to use CarPlay went: Attempt #1) I updated the AVIC firmware to 1.08 as required and plugged my iPhone into USB1 with the apple supplied lightning cable. About 10 secs later the AVIC crashed

I solved the problem so I will post the answer for others who may stub their toe on this detail. When using the file extraction utility in Windows 7, it does not preserve file paths by default. Make sure the "Use folder names" checkbox is checked when extracting the files from the update zip file. This detail is not mentioned in the firmware update instructions.

I'm resurrecting this thread because I have spent half the day trying to get this firmware update to work. I have tried copying the AVIC5000NEX folder to two different micro sd cards and three different usb drives. I've tried copying the files to the root (i.e. w/o the AVIC5000NEX folder. I've made sure there are no Bluetooth devices attempting connections to the unit and made sure that all other source connections are disconnected. I can see that the unit is trying to read from the sd card (and thumb drive). If I connect the thumb drive to USB2 it reports that "no device is connected