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  1. There's a couple of instruction manuals for v3 on Pioneer's UK site - Here http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/products/25 ... media.html under "manuals" They show what changes have been made in the new version of iGo, and say you need a password to run the upgrade (though it doesn't say how you get it!). The user manual is actually in English, not Spanish!!
  2. Yes - you can't change any settings unless the handbrake cable is grounded or you bypass the unit. You'll need a CANBus wiring adaptor for your car to generate a switched live signal, then the unit will switch on and off with the key
  3. Yup - I use +r dl and it works fine. I think the only reason the manual only mentions -R is because Pioneer invented the format (in competition with +R), so refuse to acknowledge the existence of anything else!
  4. I've scoped my F900 Using a 1KHz 0db test tone, flat EQ, SLA on 0 and no bass boost, the unit doesn't clip at volume 62. BUT as soon as you add any boost to the EQ (or change bass boost or SLA settings), it does start to clip. Personally I would use 60 as max volume, to give yourself a little bit of leeway. When I measured it, volume 62 gave the full 2v output, and 58 gave around 1v, which is normal line level IIRC - volume 46 will be very low in comparison. I suspect the 3sixty will cope with input voltages from about 1-5v, which covers almost all head units out there. I'm planning t
  5. As long as the mp4 is 640*480, and the video doesn't contain any black bars it should fill the screen
  6. mp4s will only fill the screen if they're exactly 640x480. If that 640*480 includes black bars, the video will appear not to fill the screen. The problem is that 640*480 is a 4:3 aspect ratio. However, the F900 is widescreen (16:9). I've managed to get mp4s to fill the screen by resizing them before I encode (i.e. stretch a 16:9 video to 4:3). When the F plays them back it stretches the video widthways, thus making it 16:9 again. Simple eh?
  7. I can't remember the settings offhand, but if you look in the back of the manual it tells you what settings you need for mp4 video. It's something like 640x480 resolution, a certain bitrate, h264 codec etc. IIRC an "mp4" file is just a container, the actual codecs used for the video can vary. Personally I wouldn't bother with mp4 video on SD though - I've never got it to play smoothly, despite playing around with codecs and bitrates for some time. As for DVD-R, just burn files to a disc as normal - my F900 is quite happy with + or -R discs in ISO format, and I think it'll handle UDF as wel
  8. I haven't tested extensively, but the last time I received a phone call, I'm pretty sure it didn't swtich to the map screen. However, I've only had one phone call since I've updated it...
  9. No, you can't save EQ settings to SD/USB, but there's so few settings anyway it's not necessary. Go through each option on the AV Sound menu and write down the values in each one. The EQ settings are easy - there are lots of sliders when you look at the EQ screen, but there are only 3 seperate EQ "bands"; just write down the frequency and wide/narrow setting for each band (low, mid and high) and that's it - job done. I'd note down the HPF, loudness etc settings (and subwoofer settings if you have one) as well, and that should be about it
  10. I haven't applied the update yet, but looking at the contents of their zip files, the only difference between 1.9 and 2.0 is that iGo has gone from version 0.45 to 0.46. Wow
  11. I have a UK spec Golf, but I assume yours will be similar, in which case you'll need an antenna adaptor (the VW plug is usually called a "Fakra" type) and a wiring adaptor, which goes in between the VW radio connector and your F900. To make life easier, I'd recommend buying a CAN bus interface - they're not cheap, but should give you an easy way to connect the switched live, reverse and VSS wires to the F900 (otherwise you have to go digging behind the dash), and mine connects the steering wheel buttons to the F900 too (if you have them).
  12. My first F900 did this - it was wired correctly, but asked for the password on every bootup, so I gave up with it! I haven't tried the password on the replacement unit, so I don't know if that's any better.
  13. 1. Nope - no manual. I'm on my second F900 - the first didn't even come with the install manual, so consider yourself lucky 2. Can't help, I'm resisting becoming an isheep 3. Radio reception isn't great IMO. I can get most local stations, but they're noisier than my old Clarion HU, and the auto seek tends to miss them. There's a few local stations I can only listen to if I manually seek to the correct frequency, but you only need to do that once and then save them as a preset
  14. They're probably encoded with the wrong codec. Make sure they're .mp4 files, with (IIRC) h.264 video and mp3 sound - check the specs in the back of the manual to be sure.
  15. I've installed it! I haven't tested it much, but I've noticed a couple of things so far - - USB resume still doesn't work - SD cards still resume from the start of the track that was last playing, not the exact point where it left off - Starting playback from USB/SD no longer sets the "master volume" to max - they've actually fixed something!
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