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I'm looking at upgrading my phone to the new Sprint EVO. Has anyone tried pairing one with an F series yet? If so let us know if you had any troubles.

I canceled mine a long time ago because it never really worked well. I just realized that it is now working! I'd wait before renewing to see if it actually stops working.

Sometimes MSN Direct detects traffic ahead and recalculates the route, quite often with the same route found.

MSN Direct sucks and is not worth the money for me. I just got off the phone and canceled my service. I live in Central NJ and rarely receive a signal. When I do the information is mostly useless. The weather will simply give the current conditions (i.e. raining) for a location 80 miles away (typically Atlantic City). I can get better weather sticking my head out the window. The gas station price info is handy, when its working. I was in Manhattan a few weeks ago and had no signal. Either something is wrong with my system or their coverage just sucks.

Could it just be that you at some point touched your screen. This freezes the display and places a red marker at the place you touched. This is normal behavior, its not random. The map switches to 2D when you have a set distance to the next turn. It will switch back to 3D when you reach the set distance. (This is settable in the gps settings, I think the default is 2 miles). I had thought this was a bug as well until I understood why it was switching. This happens with my system as well. It got better with 2.0, but still occasionally happens. Having the hack where you can can

Your fingernails need trimming?

The 'dot' is your actual location, the arrow is automatically 'snapped' to follow the road. The only time I see this is is when the road has been relocated due to construction. The map thinks the road is somewhere else. You can turn off the snap to road feature if you want. See http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20445 How is your gps signal strength?

Have you hacked your software? Have you upgraded the software and the voices? If so did you follow the correct procedure to upgrade the voices? See Pioneer update guide

That has been proposed several times already. It won't work with most cars. The starter on almost all cars pulls the battery voltage down low enough that a reboot will happen when you start the car. I ran a temporary line directly to the battery and that is what happened to mine. You could try a second battery and and a battery isolator, but the cost isn't worth it. The best solution so far is a remote starter.

Or you can use gimp. Gimp is free and has most of the photo editing functions you could ever use. Download at http://www.gimp.org/ There are lots of great open source products out there that are free. Another great free software suite is Open Office. I only consider stealing software and robbing banks as a last resort when I'm really desperate.

I just installed your latest scripts. So far I like it, although it could use some cosmetic fixes. I didn't quite understand the detour screen. I figured out that it presents saved searches, but the text that tells you to select distances for something was not readable. By your above statement are you saying that all files that were not part of your scripts.zip file can be deleted (i.e. the scripts.zip could be renamed data.zip and could completely replace the data.zip file?). I just used your scripts to update a copy of my data.zip. I see what you mean by the duplicate files, there are qu

F-series model: 900BT Phone make/model: Samsung M1 Ease of connection: very easy Phone book transfer: easy, unit can pull addresses from my phone, I don't think I can send from phone though Sound quality: very good Comments: I really wish we could edit the phone book, or even just delete contacts. I had trouble figuring out how to upload the phone book. But I don't even recall what I was doing wrong. Its seems simple now. I haven't played around with voice dialing yet, but I have low expectations.

The accuracy is mostly dependent upon the GPS signal you are receiving. What accuracy level does your gps status screen show (see pages 123-124 or your manual)? You may need to reconsider the placement of your gps antenna.

If you can't follow simple directions perhaps you shouldn't do the mod. What state do you live/drive in? If you are anywhere near NJ then please don't do the mod, the roads here are bad enough. The mod is only for people smart enough to drive and chew gum at the same time.

You don't want to do the software mod. It requires you to hack into the software for the unit, you would risk damaging your unit and it would become useless. You should only do the software mod if you are 100% comfortable with your skill level and the directions given. As has been said before, follow the directions and pictures at http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17013. The directions and pictures are very good. No one can help you unless you are more specific with your problem.