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I found the original write-up that I used to get into the screen, and it is as I wrote above. Open the screen fully, then press and hold both the reset and nav eject buttons. Release the reset button, but hold the nav eject until the screen goes black with the "Please press reset button" message - DON'T! Press the joystick up, right, up, right, down, right, down, right, then center. The password screen will come up for a second and go away, then you will be in the test mode screen. Scroll through until you find what you need to fix or set. When you are done, scroll back to the main screen and

This is what I used for my D2. I'll find the page I used for a guide and repost with a confirmation of how I did it. I haven't had any problem getting to the menu.

I got the unit back from repair yesterday and installed it today - works great. Not a glitch or hint of a problem. This issue seems to be a far worse repair that most that we can do ourselves and will most times need to be sent for repair unless the problem can be tracked to the disk itself. Wish this hadn't dragged out so long, but it's in, running and making me happy.

Got mine repaired - the problem was on the GPS board. No way to fix this yourself unless you happen to have another board to swap in, which is what the repair tech had to do. I'm still waiting to get it back, but it's on the UPS truck now. I'll install it next Saturday and see if it all works again. EDIT: Got it installed and everything works now as it should.

The latest software for the D2 is the CNDV-70MT. There used to be a boatload on eBay but I couldn't find any listed today. Not sure where to tell you to go at this moment, but keep looking - they're out there.

The instructions above are ALMOST correct - open the face and hit the DVD eject and reset at the same time, releasing the eject button as it says. When the screen says Press Reset, use the joystick and press up, RIGHT, up, RIGHT, down, RIGHT, down RIGHT, then center. Your option screen should come up without any problems. I don't have the menu but it's easy to navigate through the screens. The "Back" button referred to in some of the menus is one of the little black buttons on the far right of the screen frame. Push one and see if it works. No harm if you hit the wrong one first...

I'm really not sure what is covered... It's been very frustrating. I've done everything I'm supposed to to register the complaint, but all I get is a generic response from Pioneer telling me to send it in with $200 to their repair facility in Long Beach, California. No other communication has come from them despite numerous attempts calling and e-mailing. So to be as fair as possible to them, they haven't DENIED me a warranty repair, they just won't ANSWER me in any way. After a month of this run-around, I gave up and sent it to this other repair facility - anything to keep Pioneer from gettin

I got a call from the repair facility this afternoon, and the problem was a bad chip on the GPS board. There was no way I was ever going to fix this myself. This problem was preventing the unit from reading the disc, which is why it kept giving me the error message - it had no idea I had inserted a disc at all. The laser is fine, the rest of the unit is fine - just this chip. The whole GPS board had to be replaced. Pioneer is refusing to cover this under warranty, even though it happened within 90 days of me purchasing the unit. Nice. Really gets me pumped up to buy something else from them. S

I used the Pioneer 60mt initially, upgraded to the 70mt, and it was a couple weeks after that this whole mess started. I downgraded back to the 60 which worked for a day or so, but the unit was returned for repair with the Pioneer disc stuck inside. No copies used.

First, you should have the appropriate IBUS connector for the iPod - find it on eBay or wherever you like to shop. The unit is designed for a specific type of iPod connector. I've actually got an extra one in a box I was going to put on eBay if you want to buy it. Anyway, the read error seems to be fairly common and a search will show you several of us that have had it. Some "fixes" out there, but nothing for sure. I finally pulled mine and sent it in for service. If yours is a new unit, I'd start a warranty repair claim for it soon if you don't find anything immediately wrong, like a loose co

Updated post - The unit got to the point where it would not do anything nav-related. Just the white screen with the insert disc error. Wouldn't eject the disc no matter how many times I tried or in what conditions. Many resets and reloads, etc. I tried everything that I could find here and elsewhere on the net to fix it myself. I finally pulled the unit and sent it in for repair. I'll post up the results of that when I hear the damages. What a joke - 3 month old unit...

You're not the only one - I have a thread going right now as well with no real replies... I have not figued the problem out, but have found a repair facility in Hartford, CT called Repair Tech City that sells their services on eBay for $125 to fix this problem. I'm waiting for a reply from them now to see if they can tell me what is involved in this repair. They offer one day turnaround and a one year warranty on repairs. If I send mine off, I'll post up my experience and satisfaction with the service.

Guess I'm the only one with this problem here, even though I see there's a guy on eBay that advertizes this particular fix for $120-ish dollars. I reinstalled an older disc and reinstalled the new disc - the only thing I see as a correlation in any of this is the temperature of the unit itself. When it's over 85-90 degrees, it will shut down or refuse to restart if the car is shut off. Not so good in Texas... If it sits overnight and cools off, it will restart and work like nothing has happened. Of course, I'm 7 days out of warranty. I officially hate this unit and am officially looking for so

Wow - no one has an answer? Or maybe we're all on vacation this weekend? So it worked OK after a half dozen resets and car restarts (full power off for over a minute). Halfway on my trip back from Kansas City to Dallas I noticed the screen showed me driving in solid blue - nothing else. Zooming out to the 1 mile view got me back to seeing roads againl but I could see a square of blue hovering on the far left side of the screen. Zooming back in put me back into the solid blue state again. At that point I was not using the nav system. When I asked it to find my way back home, it told me it c

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