demise14

What is the current status on cracking the new Z series units? Has anyone accomplished anything substantial? The modding community for the F series was pretty successful, I'm surprised nothing has been going on with this series. It's sad that Pioneer releases these units with such blatant user interface design flaws. Such as having to change to map mode, press OK, and wait for the VR dictionary to update before being able to use voice recognition, every time the unit reboots. That takes a full minute of your time and attention and completely defeats the purpose of VR on short drives.

Thanks, but unfortunately I don't have an IPOD so that couldn't be the cause. I've tried starting it up with no media connected, same issue. I shipped the headunit to Pioneer's repair center last week. They called me yesterday saying the screen was cracked during shipping. And me being retarded, I did not get shipping insurance from USPS. So for what should have been a free repair, I now have to pay $200. Here's the email they sent before I shipped it out:

Well, I got it from viewtopic.php?f=34&t=24888. I reloaded the entire software and it has the same exact problem. I'm determined that it is a hardware problem now (because it took a lot of luck for it to even get into testmode - I had to wait about 45 minutes for it to finally boot into it). I'll be contacting Pioneer tomorrow...

F900bt - no mods. The system started rebooting out of nowhere. It now constantly loads the splash screen without ever going into the menu. I tried reloading the 2.0 firmware, but it's doing the exact same thing. I did not backup my IGo folder however... Does anyone have the virgin f900bt my flash disk files available for download somewhere? I'd really appreciate it (because the way I installed this HU - it is NOT coming out). Thanks in advance.