S.F.W.

I don't think the 7200 RPM drive will work.

wow, two people who's caps lock is broken..must be a trend.

a nice simple bypass, makes life easier.

I use partition magic 12 to change partition sizes. Works very well.

also keep in mind, Flash drives and mobile hard drives connect differently. So you would need to first find a way to connect the flash drive as the primary drive. Finding a way to change the bios on the Z1/Z2..good luck.

Agreed, because of this forum and the support, and the instructions on how to bypass, and how to update, I am more likely to purchase another Pioneer unit in the future.

hopefully you are all set.

you think having the sharkfind tipped them off that you had a nav system in the car?

the only thing for question 1, is as you change tracks, on the bottom of the screen it will display(briefly) the song title and artist.

hopefully some people will decide they don't want to install the back up cameras, and I can pick one up on the cheap

good info, I can safely update my unit now.

they just ripped everything out, hard way.

I investigated creating a keygen, but lost patience, and ended up swapping the hard drive.

creating a key gen is very challenging. You need several confirmed working codes, then you create a program to ind the commonalities, and eventually find the pattern.

If you can pull out the Hard Drive and scan it for bad sectors. Could be a bad hard drive.

I heard the same thing about programming it with the engine on. I have SWI-Ps on order to Replace my Swi-X, which is giving me fits.

I wonder if the unit itself is dead, or just the Hard Drive...

it does, you can change boot screen, background for the different menus as well.

either the unit is bad or not programmed correctly. Call pioneer tech support.

I would like to know the answer as well. It would be nice if it would read out every street.

as long as you set a route, the unit will learn your preferred route

I assume that a Z1 can be upgraded to Z2 with newer mapping and POI on the NAV?

yes you can either order an upgrade DVD, or reimage the hard drive yourself.

the challenge I find is some of the regional roads that are almost highways but not quite.

Is it updating your ETA as you are en route?

hope the install goes well. Post up some pics after.

there isn't a maximum size for the music as I can tell.