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The F-series is not dual zone so whatever is on the main unit will show on the external monitor if I am not mistaken.

I have the same problem, but I just added some components and a alpine pdx5. From my research it seems like pioneer has bad rca grounds, also I am going to try to move my head unit ground to something a little more robust.

Where did you get this information from? How can I fix it? I get a hissing sound and I had to turn the gain on my amps down to under 3 which is almost down completely. It gets rid of the hissing but I have no volume.

I have had my F90 since Dec 08 and I haven't had the issues you are having with the video or with the Navigation. Quick question... are you trying to watch a video while your parked and if so do you have the parking wire connected correctly or do you have the by-pass setup? You should be able to watch videos, movies without trouble using F90. Also where do you have your antenna installed are you receive a strong signal? Don't get me wrong, the F90 has more than it's fair share of issues but everything you are describing sounds like installation issues and not hardware or software issue, I could be wrong but that is what it sound like to me as far as the Navigation goes. As for the Bluetooth... have you tried re-installing the Bluetooth update again? I have a BlackBerry Curve 8310 and it works perfectly. I used to get long hanging but then I lowered the master volume and for whatever reason it doesn't do that any more. Now when I hang up the phone it plays the music 10-15 seconds later. Hope that helps

That is the same reason I turned my volume down as well. Doesn't interrupt my music as often. Traffic is bad enough without having be told turn right in 2 miles, turn right in 3/4 of a mile, turn right in 1/4 mile, turn right 500 ft, turn right at the next right. I got it... turn right. lol

I get the same issue only because I have my prompt volume turned all the way down. The navigation is still giving turn-by-turn directions and sometime it studders on whatever source I am listening to not just the iPod. You might be experiencing the same thing as me.

Forgive me for not being sure as I'm still a newbie with this unit, but is the SLA the same setting that equalizes the volumes of the different sources? I could see the behavior you descibe as the unit tries to bump up the volume not sensing a signal. I had loud distored noise in general before I turned down the beep volume - what is that set to?

 

That's odd that you would have this problem from day one , again with another AVIC, and yet many people do not have the problem. After reading your post it does seem to point to the head unit.

It's ok I have to look it up in the manual myself. SLA, stand for Source Level Adjustment, which is like a gain of sorts on a amp but this is for your source connected to the headunit. I have on all my source the SLA set to -4 db. Which makes it sound better on my system but you will have to play with yours to get the best possible sound in your car.

I have my factory Bose amp connected to the RCA outputs of the F90BT and do not have any hiss - in order to connect it that way I soldered RCAs on the factory connector wires. The Bose system is a POS but the point is that I do not have an issue even with a low-end amp.

 

Some amps have a swtich for high / low level input as well as a gain control which can mess with the sound if not set properly - what type of amps do you have?

 

My money is that something is wrong with your setup rather than with the AVIC. The only true test would be to put a different head unit in there (not another AVIC) and see if the issue remains.

 

I'm confident with some simple trouble shooting you can get rid of the hiss and enjoy much better sound. Whereas my navi system does not sound as good as my M3 stereo (with all the speakers and amps replaced with aftermarket), it sound A BILLION times better than the factory head unit - and I still have the crappy bose amps and crappy bose speakers...for now

Spta97,

Thanks for your input, I don't know if you read everything I said about this hissing issue I have. But this has done it from day one with the factory setup and without. This is not a amp issue or a bad ground. The head unit hisses no matter what and even more so when or as you change sources... in other words when you are listening to a CD and you select SD it makes a load hiss then quiets down to the level it was hissing before. The only time it does not hiss is when I am in FM and I think that's because Pioneer doesn't allow you adjust the SLA for FM at all. My point is that CD's and DVD's in general are the best sound source and on my F90BT it hisses on that source/s and it shouldn't. Also that fact that it doesn't hiss on FM tells me that it is not the setup rather the head unit. Like I said in the last post adjusting the SLA on each source made difference but it still hisses. Again I want to thank you for your input.

Well I just adjusted the SLA for each source on my F90BT and it did make a little difference but you can still hear the hissing... but I'll take it, it is a lot better than it was. I guess Pioneer uses the SLA as a gain control, although it is not completely useful +- 4db and even turned down all the way to -4db it still hisses.

My F90 makes my elbow hurt, and I know it's the head unit!

it makes my head hurt too. lol

Rears are amplified. In any case, if there is a hiss when connected to amps and not when wired to speakers directly, I'd think that the noise is being picked up somewhere, not that the deck is putting out noise...

That was my first response as well but since it makes a loader hissing noise when you select/switch sources leads me to believe that it is the head unit. The only time it doesn't make the hissing is when it is on FM or HD Radio. CD's and DVD's are usually excellent in not having hissing because of the digital nature but I get hissing from them as well. Not to be confused with wyne when the engine is revved or excelorated

Well, my car had a higher-end sounв system (Personally I would not call Bose anything higher-end, but Audi does) that has separate tweeters, crossovers, the works... There's no hiss from AVIC here...

Fair enough... so does my Element it had separates in the front but the mid cone was paper and the crossover was just a couple of caps on the tweeter to block out the mids frequencies. I think the reason you are not getting the hiss is because you have your AVIC hooked up without using the RCA's just speaker wires to your speakers. Like I said before I went to Al & Eds and put in the new unit and it did the same thing, even worst. The gains on the amps are tuned almost all the way down and I still get the hissing.

Relating to the hissing issues you guys have, that's not unit's fault. Or at least not if it's a working unit. I have no hiss. It's actually dead silent where my OEM stereo was hissing pretty bad and Audi called that normal.

Also, touchscreen works just fine on mine.

 

I'm not denying that the unit doesn't have it's faults but seems like a lot of these are issues that are related to how your system is setup and what aftermarket stuff you are using. Can't blame Pioneer for that.

No it is the head unit... you can hear the hiss more when you select a different source then it quiets down a little. I think because you are listening to the unit un-amplified you can't hear the hiss, also most stock speakers don't have a separate tweeter and crossover for proper sound staging. The very best factory stereo can not compete with after market equipment period. Most manufactures outsource their audio to aftermarket companies like Pioneer, Alpine etc. and what you get is there bottom of the barrel gear. Case in point my Honda Element came with Alpine factory gear but didn't have separates mid's & high's, the cones are made from paper and was grossly under powered and the sub was not tight. Thats one example... I also have 06 SAAB 93 that Pioneer was contracted for the audio and the same issues are found with that setup. Listening to the radio in your car just using the radio to power your sound may not produce the hissing we are getting.

I actually lowered my gains because of the hissing. I used to have a Alpine CDA-9886 and I never got the hissing I get from my F90BT. Each amp is ground separately as well. It is not the AMPs or the speakers its the head unit. I just read the manual again you can adjust the SLA for each source but you are only talking +-4 so I can't see that doing much but I will give it a try. BTW I went this weekend and bought ground isolating filters and still getting the hissing.

2 other issues come to mind now about my 90bt. 1) The sound quality is not that great, there is a constant hiss from the system at low volume or no source. This isn't a grounding issue since the noise doesn't change intensity or pitch when I rev the engine.

I agree with you, I even went to store I bought mine at and swapped it out to test it and the new unit made even more of his. I can hear even more because I have after market amps and you can hear the hiss when when you switch from source to source and when you pause any source CD, iPod, SD etc. the only source it doesn't his is FM & HD radio, I don't have XM so I can't say if it does it on it. Again it is not an grounding issue or power wires crossing the RCAs, it is the head unit it's self. I called Pioneer and they said to send it in. Right then I am stuck without a radio for however long it takes to get it back... no thanks.

Other than that this unit has been ok... I used to get the long pause after a call but I lowered the Master Volume down to 0 and now the unit doesn't pause any more, well if it does it is short pause. Just an FYI when you lower the Master Volume it does not give you turn by turn directions... in other words it doesn't interrupt the music when it need to tell you to turn.

I feel for the money I paid I can't really complain because my F90BT came with everything I wanted it to do outside of Backup Camera and HD Radio. I have noticed that lately the bootup time has become shorter around 20 sec and music plays almost as soon as I turn on the car... maybe 10 sec.

My F90BT works fine with traffic in LA and I am willing to go as far as 90% on the traffic. I have my car parked all day in the parking garage and parked in my garage at night and I never had a problem not getting the info from MSN, although I sometime don't have bars I always get the traffic. The biggest issue is the weather... I sometimes get No Local Weather Available but world wide comes in right away. After about 5-10 min weather comes comes in. Gas prices and movies work pretty much all the time. That's saying a lot because in LA there are mountains all over the place and I still receive coverage.

I have F90BT installed in my 08 Element SC and it for the most part works, does it work great? It depends. For example the boot-up time is can be slow sometime depending on what you left it on meaning if you left on your iPod loaded with 4k+ songs on it, then you are going to wait for the system. Don't get me wrong it starts playing music in about 20 sec but the rest of the system is still loading. Sometimes I put it in reverse and the backup camera doesn't come on until I have already put it into drive, but I stress sometimes. The bluetooth works pretty good with my BB Curve and my iPhone 3G and contacts work pretty good. iPod also works pretty good as well as well as my HD radio. Right now my biggest complaint is I have hissing when playing CD's and my iPod, and yes everything is properly grounded. I even installed ground idolaters and noise filters. Of course I can't hear it when I am driving but when I am parked or at a red light I can hear. You can even hear it more when you select a different source. I took it back to the Al & Eds where I bought it and tried a different one it made more noise so I keeps this one. Other than these issues I think it is a good head unit.

I stand corrected... thnx Boris

I have the Premier 90BT i was wondering if you can change other backrgrounds other than teh splash screen?

Do a search or read the manual. You can change the background via AVIV Feeds.

Can you get me a the current splash screen I can edit it for you.

 

Unfortunately, I can not, that specific splash screen is only avaliable on specific Scion xBs, and I wish I could get it, but I can't.

 

I know its going to be pretty hard to fabricate a loading screen like that one from scratch, but at least you know what I want it to look like?

 

Sorry, i would do it myself, but I don't have any photoshop experience or for that matter, making images (Except in paint )

 

Does this work?

 

WOW, you nailed it so hard that I felt it! THANK YOU!!!

No worries... enjoy!

What you guys think of this?

Can you get me a the current splash screen I can edit it for you.

 

Unfortunately, I can not, that specific splash screen is only avaliable on specific Scion xBs, and I wish I could get it, but I can't.

 

I know its going to be pretty hard to fabricate a loading screen like that one from scratch, but at least you know what I want it to look like?

 

Sorry, i would do it myself, but I don't have any photoshop experience or for that matter, making images (Except in paint )

Does this work?

Can you get me a the current splash screen I can edit it for you.

 

Unfortunately, I can not, that specific splash screen is only avaliable on specific Scion xBs, and I wish I could get it, but I can't.

 

I know its going to be pretty hard to fabricate a loading screen like that one from scratch, but at least you know what I want it to look like?

 

Sorry, i would do it myself, but I don't have any photoshop experience or for that matter, making images (Except in paint )

No worries, can you at least get a clean straight on shot of it? That would help a lot. The Scion logo is not a big deal, its going to be hard matching the font for xB logo. I will have recreate the xB point by point.

Thanks,

So I own a Scion xB RS 5 vehicle, I was wondering if anyone could make me a navigation screen that's the same as the RS 6, but it just says 5, and not in red/orange, but with gold and yellow coloring

 

So basically the exact same thing, except it says 5.0 instead of 6.0, and with gold/yellow coloring and not red/orange

 

Its kinda of a hard request, but hopefully someone can do it!

 

Thanks in advance!

Can you get me a the current splash screen I can edit it for you.

This is what I have on splash screen

I hate to start new topic but I can't find anything on RDS for FM. I did however see on a themes post that it can be done... well it looks like it can be turned on http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic. ... clock+font.

Can anyone tell me how to turn that on?

Thank in advance!!!