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For those of you still rocking an F90BT and an Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.spadival.podmode

I haven't gone as far as making a cable and getting this going, but it looks promising.

Dude, relax.

The Pioneer iPod cables are rather cheap, I can agree that it's easy for too many strands inside to break, resulting in crappy loss of a channel when temperature variances come up. But more commonly the pins and connectors for the unit itself are more susceptible anyway.

There's not a lot of cable or play, and I personally have issues with both.

I regularly have to open up my dash to wiggle the wires back into a working state. Annoying, for sure... kind of plays with my head and makes me paranoid when I'm on the road - sometimes the left side is louder than the right. And sometimes only the right-rear stock speaker (getting these replaced and amped soon) cut out until I wiggle the wiring harness.

Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to alter wheel characteristics. For instance, on some other Pioneer Premier decks I've owned, the wheel allowed for up/down motions that effectively changed artists (left/right changed tracks). Can we effectively add this sort of functionality to the wheel? At this time up/down motions do nearly nothing, it would seem.

Seems you're hitting all kinds of hosting issues.

Since this is an ongoing project, you can host the files on a Dropbox account. There's a public directory in it that synchronizes from your system to the Dropbox server, which people can access from the Web. Want to give that a shot? It allows you to regularly update it (it syncs, after all). All we have to do is re-download it on occasion.

I guess in the end some poor med student or researcher just lost 122GB of work. : /

They always leave the cables... I had a drive stolen from me before, same thing. 60GB of backups (friends/family pictures, games, movies, etc!).

Even if he didn't buy the drive, someone else would have. Maybe karma will still bite him for supporting the thief, but it's still going to get fenced somewhere by another 'lucky' buyer.

Anyway, that blows about losing the iPod, better luck in future.

Hey all, just wanted to update.

So I didn't have any luck with the suggestion to check the Full SPK range vs Sub W. I did have success with this after updating the firmware to 2.0, however.

Nice unit. A bit slow at times, but all in all, it's pretty spiffy. Gotta start looking at tweaks and more customization, now, including booting alternatives, so I can modify the pioneer.ini file.

I know it's a bit late, but I wanted to let you know that I encountered a similar issue. What it boiled down to was me using the wiring harness for a car that already sends output to a factory amplifier. The amplifier is receiving high-volt input when it should be getting low-volt signal (RCA outs, in effect, or in context of an after-market head unit).

So make some adapters to run your RCA outputs to the harness, and the hissing should go. Sometimes it really isn't grounding, but it's a tricky thing to determine.

Hey, thanks for the reply, I'll give that a shot. I didn't hook a remote wire directly to the amplifier, but I wanted to share this with you folks.

If your car has a factory amp for your speakers and sub, and your wiring harness does not accommodate for this sort of thing, you're going to be using the high-volt lines to the amp, which causes the hissing.

By making adapters and hooking up the RCAs, you should stop the hissing and things will be a lot better. I'll try to get the your tip sorted, thanks!

I also have to update, I can see what some people were complaining about when this beast hit the market. Very nice, quite flawed out of the box.

Admittedly I didn't get a chance to read the manuals much yet. I'm going to take the hint and give them a thorough reading through now before hitting the road again. If it works, I think I owe the community!

Hey all,

I've been struggling with this thing all night already and need to get a bit of rest before getting to work in a couple of hours. Ugh.

Three issues I'm unable to overcome:

- I'm getting this loud hissing sound from my speakers. While the music/radio and such are all at acceptable volume levels, I still get a very audible hiss that I can drown out with the music.

- The factory sub (2008 Honda Accord sedan) in the rear is not functional at all with this deck. I have a feeling I need to find the remote wire for the factory amp under the passenger dash, but I'm not sure what specific wires I can split.

- I might have a bad VSS... I read that it's "a blue wire" on the main factory harness, which I split. No problems, but man, anything I did wrong up until this point can be causing the hissing.

I hope you guys can all help, I have long drives to deal with, and this is really not turning out as well as I was hoping.

Edit:

Some additional details for you.

- Soldered all connections, taped over. Could be a crappy ground, I wiggled it around while I heard the hissing, no change. I wiggled all the cables around. : /

- I re-pinned the mute cable so I can bypass the parking brake lock, and grounded it (same ground as below).

- I did not connect the ground that was on the Metra wiring harness to the deck, I just grounded the deck right to the chassis. Not sure if this matters, but I wanted to mention.

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