Bowhunter4Life

Thanks for the info.

I think I'm just going to scrap the whole idea. I like being able to control my Nano through the D3 and if I want to play a movie, which wouldn't be very often, I'll just take out the Nav CD.

Like I said in the title of this topic, I'm not tryin to beat a dead horse but not even on the Apple Store does it say that this is a Gen 5 IPOD, just that its a "previous generation" IPOD.

Is this the IPOD that will play videos through the D3?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB147LL/A

Has anybody ever tried this camera? It sounds like it would be ok.

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Question for you guys. I'm using the Audiovox license plate frame camera and within a 2 month period both of them have died on me. I hooked it up exactly as the directions stated and both of them started with the same symptoms before finally crapping out altogether.

Is it just that the Audiovox is a POS or do I possibly have something going on with the head unit itself that's frying them?

Installed the D3, back-up camera and bluetooth about 2 months ago, everything has been working fine until now. The camera I'm using is an Audiovox license plate frame camera. All I can say is that the camera was working fine and now it's not working at all. Last night I tore my dash apart and checked all of the connections and the fuse for the camera and everything appeared to be ok.

The camera started acting funny though almost from the beginning but got worse right up until the end. Every once in a while when the camera was activated, the screen on the head unit would be all kinds of weird colors or the camera picture would be there but it was frozen. By that I mean it's like the camera actually took a still picture and that's what I would see on the screen. I could back up but I wasn't seeing real-time video, just the frozen picture. If I shut the truck off then started it back up it would start working again.

HELP PLEASE!!!!

Earlier this week was it's final performance. I was going to work one morning and when I was backing into my parking place the screen lit up with bright pink, green and yellow lines. There was no picture at all, just a screen filled with the colors I mentioned previously. The colored lines were horizontal on the screen and they bounced around.

After that little performance, the screen is now black, NOTHING AT ALL and it's really pissing me off. I bought a new camera last night to see if that was the problem but Audiovox decided at some point to change the connection method so I couldn't just simply unplug the old camera and plug the new one in. After I get off of work today I'm going to see if I can find the same style camera that I originally bought. Both camers have the same exact model number but they changed the wiring.

Has anyone ever experienced anything even close to this? One way or another I'm going to switch the camera to see if that's the problem but I'm also wondering if something inside the head unit possibly went south.

If you don't mind me asking how did you get it to work. I have the VX8350 also and everytime I try to connect my phone says "device out of range or powered off." Any help would be great.

I just followed the directions in the bluetooth adapter manual. Make sure you turn the bluetooth mode on on your phone first. When you go to the bluetooth menu on your phone hit the "Options" button in the lower right corner. Once you're there, then hit "Discovery Mode". At this point you need to go to the head unit and try to connect to the phone.

Just follow the directions, it worked for me.

I may be able to shed a little light on your questions:

1.) By rear view input the manual is referring to rear seat video in the cab of your vehicle. Used if you had a flip-down monitor or headrest monitors. At least that's what a customer service rep from Pioneer told me when I called them.

2.) I had the same question because the camera I am using has audio as well. Pioneer rep told me no, just like HiFi said.

3.) When you make the connection with the purple wire to the reverse/on signal wire then obviously the camera comes on when you put the vehicle in reverse. The camera that I am using (Audiovox license plate frame) has a wire in the harness that hooks up to a switched 12v source as well. This allows me to go to the "Map" button and select "Rear View" while the vehicle is in forward motion. The only thing that I've found that this is good for is if you are towing something and want to periodically check what is going on behind you.

By the way, this Audiovox camera works great!

I'm using the LG VX8350 with my system and it works great. Auto-connect and disconnect work perfectly. The only thing that sucked is I had to add my phonebook entries one at a time. Other than that, so far, so good.