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I did just that, 90BT to the 940 and love how much faster it is. I miss customizing it as it isn't as open as the 90 was/is. You lose voice command and 3D but will be happy with the faster boot times for sure. Lots of support folks will tell you that you cannot use your old harness but I did. Couple of changes in the wiring but super easy to work around so the upgrade is real easy. Sold my old unit on ebay and recouped some of that cost. Go for it

I just upgraded from the f90bt to the x940bt and though the RCA harness is completely different, you can use the connector from the f90bt with a little effort. It will save a lot of effort from trying to swap them from the minor differences especially of if you soldered and heat shrunk all the speaker wires like i did. So what are the differences: 1) There is only one blue/white wire that will connect to both to the antenna relay AND any remote power switch controllers (like an amp). On the F90 these were separate, one on the RCA connector and the other on the Power so you will lose on

Great mod, install was super simple and up and running in minutes. BOOT TIME has been greatly reduced. I was running your older version (about a year old) and is seemed to boot longer and longer over time. This one is super fast about what i remember when I loaded the older version. How do I keep it booting that fast? Or, what maintenance do I have to do to keep it in top shape? Thanks for all the great work.

Thanks for the Mod, just loaded it and it is unbelievable. Haven't learned all the neat things about it yet but what I have found so far are awesome. I think my unit (that has v 3.0 firmware) even boots faster with your mod, really. Great work

I have the old model that doesn't have BT features and I am not sure what they are or if they are implemented different then the other buttons. But, as far as programming the buttons in the car, you can program it to do what ever you want it to do but you do have to follow the programming sequence in the install manual. You just skip the features you don't want or that your radio doesn't support. For example, I skipped the mode (fm, am, cd) select feature when I was programming and used the mode button on my steering wheel as a mute button (ATT for the AVIC F90). The SWI has its featu

sorry it took so long, got pounded by the weather. I cant seem to find which brand I purchased but I am 99 percent sure it was a metra piece. Not perfect but good enough for now.

I put mine (f90bt) in my car not in my home theater. When I am listening to the radio/dvd/or music I have no idea what side the music is supposed to come from. If I reversed the left and right I don't think most people would ever know. I think it sounds great and never got the the volume up over about 35 so it prolly has plenty of power for most people. If you are an audiophile I think you aren't even looking at this line to begin with.

Give me a day or two. I will get some pics of my install of the F90 in my 09 Si. I ordered the factory dash piece because the reviews of the Metra or Schoche parts seemed to have some color matching issues. The Factory part matches perfect (the install was a lot more time consuming with the factory amp, radio wires, etc as my last install was just a simple CD radio in a 97 car.) Anyway, I will try to take some pics and find the part i ordered. It isn't perfect but I can live with the result. I will give you the info and you can decide for yourself. All, ok most, aftermarket stereos/nav

Boot time and mods, it is a tough choice for me and in the end I think the pros outweigh the boot time issue. We can mod the crap out of this unit. Custom screens, backgrounds, colors, screen layouts and what info is displayed and the grand king of them all, the software over-ride, at least for me. It is worth the extra few seconds, you can get rolling and do what you need in a block because you aren't locked out of the unit like other systems (or oems). Yeah my OEM camry nav is on like instantly but I also have to sit and wait in the garage or driveway to program the destination becaus

I have a F90BT (I know this is a D-seires thread) but I have wondered the same thing about my civic antenna. If I could use the civic antenna instead of the pioneer one I could go from their what 8ft cable to the civic 12 inch cable. That is getting rid of a lot of wire that I don't have to stuff somewhere. Talking to some custom install shops (not best buy) they won't touch the gps wire because they are so fine and are worried they will just ruin the wire. I have thought about buying an extra pioneer wire and just throwing caution to the wind and trying it. The shops also said the wires

I have my speed wire hooked up and if I remember correctly it was the hardest wire of all to splice in because it is in the dash. Parking brake wire took a while too but that is because I wired a 3 position switch in with it so I can choose between connected (legal way), grounded (so I can use the software bypass), and the third position is not connected to anything. Back to the speed wire, my position is great and keeps track while in tunnels just fine. My old personal nav device just guesstimated the position when it lost satellites but this seems to keep it right on.

I have a 30 g ipod w/video model and it takes FOREVER! I don't buy music too often and really only update a few podcasts on it each week so it pretty much stays in the car all the time. So, I only turn on the VR update when I have added new songs (rarely) and leave it off at all other times. I thought the VR feature is neat and I showed it to my friends once but otherwise I just don't use it. I definitely don't use it enough to put myself through that pain. (Oh, I have about just under 20 gig of music on it just in case you were wondering about the time to update and the amount of music,

I am having the same issue. I get a picture when I go into reverse from the camera on the screen just fine, but when I select rearview on the AV source all I get is the black screen with the normal text warning at the top (the same that is there when I am in reverse). Anyone know what the issue with the black screen is?

The update should cancel the software bypass. I am not going for the update as my maps are current (including the new construction) and I am not willing to give up the custom icons, custom map graphics, and on map route cancel and guidance mute.

I purchased the F90 because there are so many mods (backrounds, different icons, etc) and mine is customized to match my phone/car/and taste w/the great help of cmh928. So if I can't get the custom icons, over-ride, cnx nav or mute nav instructions and such back with the 3.0 update (i.e. no test mode) then count me out of buying it.