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  1. u got a Honda right? wat kind? if you have one of the newer ones that has steering wheel controls....do you have the module where it will make it work? if you do, does it work ok? i have an 06 Si and just got the f90bt installed in. i loved my steering wheel control and wanted to see if it worked ok with yours or anyones Honda 06 and above. I have a '06 Civic and I have the PAC-SWIPS steering control installed. It works, sort of. It is VERY quirky and doesn't work 100% of the time. On other forums they talk about making sure you install it with the engine running, and I didn't do that
  2. I have the F900BT and I need to get an Ipod classic - are you saying that the new ones will not be fully functional with the unit? I really want the voice control to work. If I'm going to get an iPod - should I choose from the Pioneer supported ones or is there some specific iPods that work best? Earlier question regarding steering wheel controls - I went with the Pac Audio SWI-CAN/SWI-PS (Mercedes C class) - works great with the unit - track up/down, mute, volume up & down. I would like to see if I can program the voice prompt so that I do not have to touch the unit. One other
  3. That's why I should never listen to the guy at the store... He led me to believe that the 4v outputs were going into my stock speakers and would give me a cleaner sound.
  4. nope. maybe the output voltage doesn't matter. I'm not a techie. I do know that it sounds significantly better than my factory stereo whatever the reason -- with no changes to the rest of my system. (I was pretty much tapped out just buying the radio - first things first.) Sorry for the confusion.
  5. HiFiSi, I hear so many people say that. I agree that it's a terrible idea to be typing in addresses or searching POI's while moving. However, pretty much everyone here bypassed their system to be able to do just that. Who REALLY pulls over and stops EVERY time they need to do a search for the nearest In-N-Out? I think its naive to believe that people will really do that. Heck, people are already violating California's law to use hands-free headsets with their cell phones (which has been shown to only marginally reduce the risk of distracted driving anyway). And what about the time
  6. IMHO, You pretty much have to answer a lot of these yourself. I was very pissed at first, but after messing with my F90BT, I am starting to get used to it and really like it. - Yes, it should be able to drive all of your speakers in your Wolf. And, yes, my factory Honda Civic speakers sound much better with the 4V outputs. - XM radio works well and sounds great. - CD's and DVD's will play no problem. - The iPod interface is fine -- as long as you don't have an iPhone or an iTouch (and then you won't get video). With my iPod Classic, I do have to re-connect it every once in
  7. I've had that happen a few times. It's usually when I have tried to zoom out. Did this happen to you after you tried to manually zoom out a couple of notches? What I 'think' was happening in my case is that I was being impatient and/or holding the multi-switch down a bit too long and it just locked up in the zoom-out mode. Also happened once when I was trying to mute but had some down pressure on the knob. It's annoying but usually (like you said) corrects itself in a couple of seconds or two.
  8. Sorry for a redundant post. But do any of the gurus here think that there's any hope that Pioneer will coordinate with Apple to get video from iPhone / iTouch devices? It seems a tragedy to NOT develop the programming to ensure compatibility.
  9. Thanks for the workaround. It's good that there's people in this world a lot smarter than I am. Except I'm too lazy and mechanically declined to install all that!! I'm wondering if any of the people who seem to be better connected to Pioneer, either as distributors or installers or whatever, know whether Pioneer eventually aims to shoot for compatibility with the iTouch / iPhone without some cockamamie workaround (no offense to leadfoot). Is it worth starting a new thread to gauge interest and see if we can at least "influence" Pioneer to talk to Apple and try to get the systems comp
  10. To be honest, I don't completely mind it. I would prefer the option though. Some folks -- my wife included -- don't read maps that well. She can't maintain her orientation unless the map's pointed in the direction she's going. It's a nightmare when we're travelling w/o a GPS, because she can't tell right from left unless we're going NORTH!!
  11. Yep. Only in 3-D mode will the vehicle's heading be to the top of the display. As near as everyone can figure from the manual and from poking around, Pioneer didn't think you'd want that option in 2-D. Unless that's in the list of requests for the firmware update , you're always going to be oriented North-Up in the 2-D map. It is very annoying. Great point about the zoom levels, too. The "auto-zoom" feature is very finicky when compared to previous nav units I had. The best you can do is select 3-D, touch the map, and use the rotate map icon to rotate the map to as close to vert
  12. The F-series will ONLY do North up in 2-D mode. Don't know why. Stupid. Hopefully it will be one of the fixes in the alleged upcoming firmware fix. The only way to get your cars' heading at the top is in 3-D.
  13. Just spoke to the support team in Long Beach as well... They basically said: "For transparency, Pioneer is acknowledging all the problems with this unit and the Engineering Team in Japan is working on a firmware fix. It includes BT quality, boot time, Touchscreen responsiveness, iPod integration, Automatic time accuracy"... To the question: Should I expect Firmware only or will I have to send the unit back, he replied :"... Absolutely firmware only..." No ETA, he just recommended to register my unit to the pioneer website and check "Receive e-mail updates"... FWIW... I gues
  14. How do you change it to the voice that gives you text to speech? "Samantha"? The one that says "one comma 2 miles"?
  15. Anybody have success with getting video to play from an iPod Touch. Jason, I know you said you got it from your iPhone, right? It's essentially the same minus the phone... Anyone have any bright ideas? It indexes my songs and the voice playback works. Also, it indexes the songs pretty fast (I only have 275 or so, though).
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