Maverickster

I disagree with the the statement that you do not need to do the software bypass-at least on the F500, if you just ground the parking break wire, unless you change the "parking_break_speed=16.0" speed to a greater value, you might as well not even bother grounding the parking break wire as those functions that the bypass enables won't be available over 10 mph. One other thing to mention. The parking break speed in "parking_break_speed=16.0" is in Kilometers per hour. If you set it to 128, the functions that the bypass enables will be blacked out at 80 mph. I changed mine to 256 as while I don'

Well, no...as I understand it, this, or some variation of this, has been the way to bypass Pioneer decks for quite some time. Presumably, the first guy to "discover" it would be able to tell you how he figured it out (which would tell you why it works), but at this point it's sort of collective historical fact, I think.

There is some speculation here: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=19689&start=90#p159041 There are also a couple of explanations floating out there on the interwebs that suggest that you could just as easily use a new, blank wire in that location and get the same effect, but people suggest using the rarely-used mute wire for convenience. Why, exactly, you need a wire plugged into this slot in the harness (whether it be the relocated mute wire or some other wire), I don't know. But, Google is your friend. Nevertheless, I'll take a quick peek and report back if I find anything. --Mav

Glad you guys got it figured out. The "iPod Cover Art Problem" is, frankly, something I never considered since my wife doesn't own one and the AVIC is in her car, but it has come up a few times in this thread. If you go back through this thread, others have found varying solutions to it, but it's always good to see people solve the same problem different ways. Best of luck! --Mav

Press "FM" in the bottom right, then use the Preset arrows (that's a joke; although it does work). What you've probably seen are mods that take certain functionality and does it in a mildly different (and probably better) way. That's easily possible because that functionality was already integrated into the nav software by Pioneer in the first place; the mod just tweaks the way it's done. What you're asking for is functionality in the nav software (and, specifically, in the way it interacts with the a/v software) that just doesn't exist in the stock firmware (i.e. to my knowledge, t

I believe steering wheel control falls more into the wire harness department than the software mod department. As for changing the behavior of pressing left/right on the knob (i.e. from "next channel" to "next preset"), that may be doable, but I'm pretty sure that's "outside" the nav software. That being the case, it will likely be substantially harder to actually mod. You'll note that very, VERY few of the mods on this board deal with anything outside of the nav software itself. There's a reason for that. --Mav

For the record, I'm not having these problems either. I monitor that thread from time to time and the only one of those three bugs that has been reported before is "generally sluggish", but I haven't really experienced that either. You're the first (of probably lots of folks by this point) to experience the other two (to my knowledge anyway), so I'm guessing there's something else going on there. --Mav

Should be fairly simple, you probably need to move the current find address button to somewhere that doesn't cover other things (as it's current location is the same as the mute/unmute button) and then remove the visiblemodel clause so it always shows whether a route is active or not. It won't be quite as simple as that because the "mute/unmute button" is not a separate button that covers up the "find address button" when a route is active. Rather, it's toggled -- when there's a route, the button is "mute/unmute"; when there's not, the button is "find address". So, if he just moves it,

It should work that way, yes.

It's the current version used by me. I don't use an iPod, so it doesn't incorporate any mods to accommodate the iPod cover art (as others have done elsewhere in this thread and on this forum). --Mav

...and here's the thread on how to do that: http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0 If you have a lot of contacts, this is a much quicker way of getting from point a to point b. --Mav

I used Notepad (for the editing) and PS Elements (for the couple of custom buttons I made). No specialized software required. --Mav

Photoshop Elements worked for the buttons in my mods. --Mav

Indeed. Looks like Frum Roll has already taken care of this. You'll just need to start with my Data.zip, then incorporate the changes noted in Frum Roll's thread (well done, btw). --Mav

Check your PM ...ahem...hmmmm...pm...me would likey too. Thanks Boris! --Mav