Glassweaver

This tutorial will get you the FX3.1 firmware and Q32011 TeleAtlas map updates working on your F500BT. An added bonus is that if you installed your unit wrong from the start (Improper parking break connection) that nag screen will disappear, and the address entry lockout when in motion becomes disabled. Anyway, I've been driving around all day with my newly updated F500, and the maps/poi work great, as does the voice over. Phone syncs up with BT as well. What I have not tested is the speech recognition or the ipod/music player interface. It looks like they will work, but I have not tested it!

So I tried hardwiring my unit into my car a few days ago, but I haven't been able to get it to turn on soley from the cable that connects to the cradle yet. I have attached the yellow battery + wire to an ad a circuit with a 5 volt fuse stuck in it and tried grounding the green pbrake wire several different places. Up until about a half an hour ago I thought this was the only circut needed and that it would entirely provide power to the unit, God I can be stupid sometimes. Now I just realized that the big main fat cable also has a DC 5 volt connection branching off it as well, designed to

So I just found the product documentation on cruchfield realized it looks like the thing I thought was a 3.8 mm audio jack is really a 5 volt connection on the large cable for integrating the 500 into the car. Does this mean that hooking up the yellow wire and grounding the green one isn't the actual circuit that gives it power? Do I need to strip that other cable open and attach its positive to another add a circuit and ground the negative in it as well? Thanks!

Well after trying the search function, a few hours of Google, and a few more of tinkering, I think I just need to ask someone about this one. So I tried buying the add a circuit, stuck a 5 volt fuse in it, and then swapped it for the fuse that powers one of the power sockets in my car, and then attaching the battery + wire from the 500s cable to it. Then I attached the parking break wire to a bolt that goes through my car's frame, and starting the car up. The 500 didn't recognize that it should have been plugged in, and I know that socket in my fuse box is live, so then I tried a