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Well, Soldering & moving those resistors didn't work, pity about that but did notice a slight difference when flashing firmware to EW version 2.00100 as in booting a little quicker & response times a little better too. But still no luck with anything else. Those processors are probably exactly the same, as they're not even made by Pioneer & it's been done to put people off buying loads of cheaper UC versions & converting them to EW versions & making loads of money from the difference. I have first hand with this, I work with some HP printers that have network p

I have just disassembled my US version & have removed the AV Board & right at the top is a table printed showing various models, table goes as follows: EW | UC | J | CN | AU | RE - - | --- | - - | - - | - - | - - | CD | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - |DVD| Funnily enough, as this is an F700bt US version, there is a resistor (or a bridge of some kind) soldered onto the UC/CD section, I wonder if i move this over to EW/CD, the unit will boot as a Euro F700bt? trouble is, this resistor is so f'ing small it's so hard to see what it is. I have checked this with a m

Hey jwq, You don't even have a F-Series device, do you? "However, I have a HD3BT-II (=European version of Z3) myself" What real page numbers on the service manual state any differences? the pages you have stated on another post do not tally ie page 117, page 187 doesn't even exist!!! TMC is only found in 4, yes only 4 different pages in the manual & have no references that any IC's are missing, or do Pioneer spell TMC differently? Have you actually opened one up? No, i didn't think so. All these negative nancys who try & claim they know all about the f-series

Maybe, I am really tempted to open both devices up & having a look inside to compare the boards and see if there is any actual difference as a lot of people assume, speculate & claim (without proof) that either hardware is actually different and that it is not software. I suspect that any differences are all software driven (Just like your mobile phone/DVD player is locked to network/region etc) as it makes sense to keep R&D costs down & is done via a software switch/bootloader/serial number/WinCE Registry Key. There seems to be 4 different versions: UC, EW, RE & AU and

Great job Carver. Looks like you have enabled the RDS text display as well on your US version, goes to show that this problem looks like it's software rather than hardware (ie RDS, TMC etc)! I have both a US & EW version F700bt and would like to experiment to see how i can change the US version to use the European FM/AM radio stepping & hopefully enable TMC too. I have modded my US version 700 with a map display mod/extra buttons & now can see TMC control centre (displayed as center being US language) but doesn't try to tune to a station (generally 100.9mhz over in UK)

Does anyone have any european backups they can upload? My F700 backup has now failed (faulty drive) & am concerned that i've lost all my originals. Any help would be greatly appreciated.