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Well TimboZero, you earned a beer. Sure enough the data.zip on the original SD gets modified on install because even modified date was different. I pulled that file, modded it via Winrar and it did the trick. Thanks!

Gotcha, well I'll give that a shot and see if that works. And to think this is supposed to be EASIER than the wire bypass mod.

Yeah I'd say they didn't hook up the Illumination wire. My 09 STI has DRLs and it does not affect the dimmer when the headlights are actually switched on/off.

Haha, well I'll give that a try. FWIW, what I'm currently doing worked perfectly on v2. I'm wondering if v3 is just more strict on it's file checking. I don't know if it's looking for a specific CRC checksum on the file I'm modifying or what but it's getting to be very annoying.

I pulled the data.zip file directly from the Pioneer update SD card. It's the same data.zip file that when modded, it wouldn't even install the update properly until I put the original back.

Well none of that worked. I tried 7zip with no luck. Unzipped and rezipped or editing it directly using 7zip resulted in the same thing. Gets to "system startup in progress" sits for a few seconds and reboots.

Interesting, I didn't have to do that on the 2.0 firmware, but I'll give it a shot. If it works, I don't much care how it happens.

Nobody has any ideas? At worst case, I can just pull the unit and and rewire the damned thing, but I'd really rather not have to do that.

I'm opening it with WinRAR and editing it directly for from there. Then saving and updating the .zip file.

Ok, I've searched and it seems that the softmod should work the same as it did on the previous firmware, however, I'm not able to get it to work. I got my SD cards from Pioneer yesterday and did the upgrade. I thought I'd be smart and mod the data.zip file first before upgrading but the installer detected a change in the file, so I put the original back on and upgraded. Everything went fine. I can now boot into testmode, copy over a new data.zip file with the modified pioneer_config file, but once I reboot the device it gets to the system is starting up screen and just reboots endlessly. I

I got the same message on my Fuze, but I just hit ok. It then proceeded to load everything just fine.