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You'd think so but I reformatted those drives a few times each. I even wiped every partition on them and created a new FAT32 (and FAT16 just for grins) partition from scratch--and it was the only partition on the drive. Just a quick update to that... I went back and used one of the SanDisks for the 1.14 update and it worked. So I really have no idea. Got the Bluetooth updated too thanks Spec... So now I'm all up-to-date and working... and have a whole bunch of flash drives laying around with Pioneer firmware on them lol. Thanks guys.

Yeah I saw that post... that's where I was playing around with folder names thinking maybe that was the problem. But guess what? And I have no explanation for this... I went over to Target and picked up a Lexar USB drive... 8 GB. Formatted as FAT32 using Partition Manager (deleting what was on it completely and adding a brand new partition). Copied the files directly to the USB drive using 7zip as to not have to move/copy anything after the extraction was done. Went into my car, expecting it to not work to be totally honest... and then it worked! Plugged into what my installer labe

Thanks guys. Duke, I've done exactly what you've said... at first I screwed up by copying the files out of the (in my case) AVIC5000NEX folder into the root of the USB drive. I learned quickly that you actually have to copy the AVIC5000NEX folder itself onto the root and leave the files inside it alone. I've been trying things that way ever since. I have tried both USB ports with no joy. SpecTrax, thanks a lot you had me pretty enthusiastic that an older firmware might work. I tried 1.11. I even then downloaded WinRAR (though I had started to use 7zip as an alternative to the built in

Yeah I've been using what I assumed was USB1 because my installer labeled the cable that way. Just in case, since I hadn't tried it, I just tried plugging in the USB drive to what was labeled as "2" just in case the installer accidentally swapped them... still no luck.

I'm surprised I only see just a couple of posts "sort of" close to the issue I'm having and the ones that are there seem to have some really strange resolutions... I'm an intelligent person and this one just escapes me. Has anyone been successful in updating an AVIC-8000NEX running 1.01 FW to the latest 1.14? Or even making a jump from 1.01 to the version just before 1.14? I cannot get my unit to recognize that I have a FW update on my USB stick or SD card. It recognizes the actual devices and I've tried three different USB drives (4 GB, 8 GB, and 32 GB) and one SD card (8 GB). So here'