SteveInNC

This likely means that it thinks you have a backup camera and that the car's reverse gear is selected. I haven't been on this forum in about a year, so I've forgotten all of the details. Since you don't have a camera connected, you get effectively a blank screen with the warning that the view is reversed (since it would be from a rear-facing camera's perspective). As I recall, the headunit has a wire that would normally be attached to the backup lights circuit in the car. That signal is what it uses to decide that you are in reverse. There may also be some sort of menu option to enable/disable

This one actually sounds like it has selected the backup-camera as a source, and you don't have one (does the 700 support a backup camera?). See if you can get to the Menu and disable the camera input. Also, I seem to recall that there is a wire that normally hooks to the backup lights signal in your car to automatically turn this on. If you left that wire loose when you hooked stuff up, perhaps it has moved around in the dash and come into contact with a 12v source.

I've got a stock F90BT with hardware bypass and no other mods. When I was running 2.x, it was perfectly stable. I bought and applied the official 3.0 upgrade. Like many others, I had at least one failure/continue dialog during the process, but the update did complete. Since then, I've had various stability issues, the main one being that when the unit initially boots, about 1 out of 3 times it will do the splash screen and XM audio begins, but it appears to briefly go to the XM screen (where I left it), then blanks out and appears to do at least a partial restart (once), and the audio keeps pl

No big help, my 1st gen iPhone works fine with my 90BT. Perhaps try tunring on the iPhone Bluetooth after your 900 is up and running. It may not notice if the phone is already there when you have it scan to pair with new devices. I don't remember doing anything special in particular to get mine to pair the first time. Now it just does it whenever I get into the car when it recognises the phone. As I recall, you do have to tell the iPhone to allow the pairing. My 90 is running the Pioneer 3.0 software.

Sirius and XM overlap to a large degree in programming. There are some specific contracts, like some of the sports and Stern, that they don't carry on both. My understanding from reading here is that the XM module gives more information on the display than the Sirius module. I have an XM module for my 90BT. Of note, XM and Sirius use different satellites to send you a signal. Where this matters is that XM uses geostationary satellites, meaning that they always appear in the same relative position in the sky from your location. Sirius uses geosynchronous satellites, which appear to be i

Sorry for bumping this thread late (I haven't been on in awhile). I'll add another data point: With my stock F90BT at 2.x, leaving a USB drive plugged in, the unit would always come up in the last-used source. I typically leave mine in XM. After the (official, paid for) 3.0 update, the unit started exhibiting the described behavior: if the exact same USB drive was plugged in at boot, the unit would switch source to the USB drive (which is a pain in the ass, because like the OP's, it's a large USB drive and takes awhile to index). Other than the initial hardware bypass at installation,

I just updated to 3.0 and see this problem also. It annoys the frack out of me. I have a 32G thumb drive plugged into my AVIC in the glovebox. I usually leave mine on the XM screen. For 2.0, this worked fine - it stayed on whatever audio source that I left it on. Now, it comes up on XM, then switches to the USB drive after it gets to a certain point after boot-up. This would be moderately tolerable if you could switch back to XM, except that the unit ignores user input until it has loaded the directory off of the drive, which can take awhile, meaning that the audio goes silent until you can sw

Kind of... some people workaround this limitation by running in 3D mode, but adjusting the map tilt so that the map is close to vertical. There is a hard limit on the angle, but that can be tweaked in the software by some of the mods described in this forum. As I recall, without a software mod, the map will reset its tilt when you restart the unit, so this is a less than ideal solution for an unmodified unit. It may be a reasonable workaround for a long trip where you would adjust the tilt at the beginning then leave it for the rest of the trip.

It certainly sounds like a loose wire or connector. If you can, I'd pull the unit out of the dash and reseat the connectors. Hopefully, BB used a direct-connect adapter kit rather than vampire taps into the existing wiring. If the later, you might need to try to squeeze/crimp each of the taps to make sure that it fully-seated into the wire. You can consider taking it back to BB too, although I don't know how long they warranty their installation work.

I haven't applied my update yet, maybe later today, but the XM display has always had multiple lines for song info, if you are on the XM screen. It does truncate at a seemingly-low number of characters per line though. I seem to recall reading that they've updated the icons for some of the XM channels that default to the satellite symbol. I guess that when Sirius and XM merged and they moved channels around, some of the icon mappings got screwed up. My biggest complaint has always been that if you click on the channel List button, it always starts at the top of the list, requiring you to s

I think that the differences are that the 90 comes with the iPod cable, longer warranty, and has higher-power pre-outs. Here is a table (bottom of page) from the horse's mouth showing the comparative specs: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/ ... C-F+Series

The GEX-P920XM is the only compatible unit that I'm aware of. It's a pretty simple install, and comes with the necessary cables. The bus cable is a dual cable, with data on part of it and power on the other. You plug it into the back of the F90BT, then feed it to wherever you mounted your XM unit (mine is bolted to a sidewall in my hatchback). At the XM end, you plug into that unit, and attach the supplied grounding wire to some nearby grounding point. Almost any bolt or screw nearby that is screwed into/through metal bodywork will do. Things like seat mount bolts, tie-down bolts, etc. are lik

You said that "lately" you've been having problems, which implies that you weren't before. If that's the case, and you did already try swapping antennas, I'd suspect that something has gone wrong in the HU itself. Multiple antennas may introduce their own problem, something called multipath propagation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_propagation Think of it as causing your receiver to hear echos of the radio signals, which it then has to try to interpret.

Believe it or not, the distinction (and reason for the charge in the first place) is due to general corporate accounting rules. The iPhone has no fee because it is accounted for differently than the iPod Touch. It has something to do with the fact that the iPhone has ongoing subscription fees and the Touch does not.

I don't think so. The unit uses the GPS tracking data to determine that you are exceeding a designated speed (around 10mph) and will complain. See the thread about the software mod here http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=17715. You still have to ground the Pbrake even with the software mod. It simply avoids having to move and ground the Mute wire. I'm not sure what your switch would gain you in any case.

Somebody got ahead of themselves in the Marketing department.

I don't remember the specific connector size, but could you try plugging it into an Audio-In jack on your computer to see if it works at all? This might help isolate the problem to either the mic or the headunit.

FYI, Pioneer is pretty explicit about not cutting the GPS antenna wire. I wonder if they did that to feed it through the windshield gasket then resoldered the connector back on? It's a pretty big connector, so I'm not sure how they could get it through otherwise.

A possible end-run to that it is to pick and choose pieces out of the 3.0 version when it hits. I suspect the part that breaks test mode access is likely related to the OS, not the nav and other software, so it may be possible to update just the upgraded nav and audio against the current version of the OS code. There is obviously no way to tell until the someone gets access to that code.

On the F90, and the F900 should be effectively the same, the light green parking brake wire is on the connector that plugs into the left-most lower connector of the unit when viewed from the rear, what the AVIC manual refers to as the Power Cord. This is the same connector that the speaker wires feed into. Any chance that your installers just cut the wire off, because they didn't think it was needed? This same connector should have the pink speed sensor wire and the violet-white reverse gear wire. The medium green and medium green w/black stripe wires are the + and - feeds for the left rea

I can't speak to the f700, but for the 900/90, if you just ground the parking brake wire, it apparently also checks that your speed is still below XX, unless you do the additional mute pin move/ground. If you search, you'll find that the "software" bypass involves increasing this speed limit by modifying the code, thus raising the limit to some arbitrarily high value. In that case, only the parking wire needs to be grounded.

If it's a separate sub/bass unit, perhaps you are overloading the power capabilities of your wiring, depending on where and how you are tapping into the car systems. This would lead to a voltage drop, which could cause spurious problems with the F90. It is after all, simply a purpose-built computer. While a typical starter battery can supply sufficient power for transients like bass, the wiring itself may not be able to carry that power, causing it to heat up instead. If you are feeding power off of the conventional OEM radio circuit, I would expect the OEM fuse to blow before this would b

Two related questions: does this vehicle use an amplified antenna (many modern Hondas do, among others), and did the installer hook power up to said amplified antenna? If an amplified antenna is unpowered, it would behave like a weak signal, which would sound like static or drop-outs.

1) Although they are the same company (effectively) they had different contracts and licensing deals with Howard Stern, NFL, NASCAR, etc., so the base packages for each original system don't include the "other" side's exclusive content unless you pay extra. They even have different phone numbers to call to activate service. I'm pretty sure that the conventional music channels are now a combination of both sides' content. There was much anguish when they chose one or the other's channel to replace a similar station in the merged environment (e.g. the XM 80's channel over the Sirius 80's channel

For a 09 Honda Fit, in the OEM setup, the stock Honda antenna wiring goes into it's own socket on the OEM headunit, as opposed to being tied into any other harness. My aftermarket Metra adapter connects to this plug instead and yields a blue lead for antenna power and a conventional bannana antenna plug that plugs into the F90BT. I wired the blue lead from the F90BT to the blue lead on the Metra Honda antenna adapter. As I recall, I set the F90BT "settings" to power this when the headunit is powered. You can also set it to power only when the radio source is selected. Note: the true function o