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[quote name="barrios35"] The secret is to let your IPOD shut down by itself (Auto shut off) before plugging it to the pioneer CD-IB100. YOu will then get the charging signal, then press menyu and voila browse through your IPOD or through your Pioneer stereo. [/quote] This was working great for me - until I upgraded my iPod Video (5G) to the 1.2 software. Now, the charging icon never fills the screen (it only ever shows "Pioneer") and now I can't navigate on the iPod anymore. Anyone else with 1.2 software seeing this issue, or is it just me? Are there workarounds (besides removin

Wow - thanks for the hint on the illumination wire on the shifter - I thought I'd be stuck with an "always bright" screen in my 2003 H2. BTW - I'm using a Post-July 06 unit with the grounded bypass flawlessly in a 2003 H2. -Craig

[quote name="BigFloppy"]OK... need to get larger drive into the cobalt and reformat it.. I'm gonna grab me a 120gb drive this afternoon and go for it Will advise (but will probably be tomorrow before I've got any news Andy[/quote] Also - many utilities for hacking a TiVo would work great for this purpose - do a search for copying drives and expanding the images. dd copies bit for bit, so you can't change partition sizes (it's a file copy utility, and UNIX can treat block devices like hard drives as files). TiVo hacking utilities, however, have been designed exactly for the purpose

[quote name="BigFloppy"]I've got a RaQ3 running Sun Cobalt OS sat here, gonna need instructions on how to use dd... (can only telnet into the b*tch though... it's a headless box)[/quote] Ok wow - super quick dd tutorial. The command is "dd"... It takes two parameters that we care about: "if" - which is Input File, and "of" - which it output file. Devices on UNIX/linux-like systems are the in the /dev directory, and are named as follows: /dev/hdX#, where the X and # are letters (for which device in the chain it is) and numbers (for the partition numbers). (I'm not 100% positive

[quote name="ducatiboy"]ghost is a pain to get an image that will actually boot. I have acronis and casper and will try making images with those as well.[/quote] I don't have experience with either of these, but if anyone is on a mac or a linux box, the available tools are a bit more... atomic. Using dd is probably the best thing out there for imaging an entire drive device to a file, and then you can play with the file itself from then on. Similar to how ghost works, but without any windows api's to go through, you're getting direct drive access to image and restore, bit for bit.

BTW, my results verify ducatiboy's original one: I'm half-way to Florida from Atlanta, and I can change routes, play the DVD, etc, and it's not sending up warnings about the parking brake, and it's been working for a couple hundred miles. One thing - I never used my July 06 model before installing it with this mod today, so I'm wondering: do non-bypassed units give the warning screen saying to click OK "when you're pulled over and the parking break is engaged?" I can just hit the OK button while driving with no problems. Is this the same screen the non-bypassed units see? If so, I ass

I'm putting this bypass onto my July 06 unit Thursday morning (today) and driving from Atlanta, GA to Tampa, FL. I'll let everyone know if it works the whole way down, stopping for gas, etc.

[quote name="ducatiboy"]The March 06 unit comes up with a "hey the parking brake is installed incorrectly" message in about 20 feet of motion. The July 06 unit let me drive around for 15 miles. The VSS wire and internal sensors initialized and put me into 3d hybrid. All the while with Blazing Saddles on the dvd player. [/quote] Just for clarification.... the July 06 unit let you drive "all the while" with Blazing Saddles, right? Not just for the 15 miles at which point it crapped out and stopped playing? (I assume you only tested it for 15 miles, not that you actually tested it for

Some thoughts I had while doing some research on Windows Automotive and Win CE.Net 4.0 (and 4.2.0): First, the process of getting a platform up involves setting up the hardware, and creating a bootloader. This lets you boot on your own hardware for debugging. From purusing the exe's, it looks like the flash storage (where the boot loader partition resides) is accessed via USB. Here's my idea. This thing is running CE.NET binaries for main applications. Someone needs to write a very simple CE.NET application (with all of the libraries linked in so it's a standalone app tha

Something I was thinking about - if the bypass stops every 15 minutes between shorting the parking break and disconnecting the VSS, can you simply do that every 15 minutes? (As in, can a circuit be made to do this?) Or, does the playback pause immediately when you apply the parking break signal?