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Can't resolve this so its back to Pioneer. I suspect after the stellar performance of this unit (sudden brain (flash disk) damage) that I might be looking real serious at the competitors products in future car audio purchases. Apparently Pioneer is not the juggernaut it once was in this market segment. Oh well.....looking forward to the 3.0 upgrade to see if they have addressed even more of the shortcomings of this unit. I will check in and let you know how this all turns out after I get the unit back from Pioneer. A special slice of raisin pie to "Another GSXR 1K" for his diligence and

I suspect you have a problem that I had and many others too. Something in your flash memory in the unit has gotten corrupted and the unit is now having issues. you have some options: 1) Send the unit back to Pioneer and let them deal with the POS. 2) Find the Testmode software elsewhere in these pages. This will give you a nice little (literally) Windows desktop that will then allow you to access the contents of your "My Flash Disk" storage device internal to the unit. You will also need to find (if you didn't make one your self - and it doesn't sound like you did) an unmolested copy

If you cannot get satisfaction....I would go straight to the State Attorney Generals office with a complaint (California - if you sent it to that facility). They are usually pretty good about getting involved in such things and often all it takes is an inquiry by those folks to a business and suddenly they become much more cooperative. I live in Washington and had an experience like yours with a company in New Jersey. One email and a week or two later and suddenly the supplier was much more cooperative. There is always the lawyer approach.....but that costs money. There out to be some sor

OK.....so I went out and started with a virgin copy of the "My Flash Disk" contents. I modified evey instance I could find (e.g SYS.TXT and other .txt files) to point to my SD Card (Storage Card in AVIC parlance). Moved these files to the top director of a freshly formatted SD card. Plugged the card in the HU and gave it a whirl. Not happening. The unit puts up the splash screen (in my case the blue pool of water with ripples) about maybe 10 -15 seconds later the unit turns off. If I put the Testmode stuff at the top level of the directory, the sequence is similar accept that after the sp

So I managed to brick my unit. The toolkit will start to load after power on, but only makes it part way through before the unit turns itself off. This is the unfortunate situation after having deleted a flash drive folder to replace it with a virgin one from another unit via the SD drive. My fault really, the truck power turned off part way through the delete/replacement process. Duh...... Any ideas how I might get it up into a window I can use to restore my flash drive (given the toolkit doesn't seem to want to come up anymore).??? Maybe a trip to the Pioneer service center is in thi

OK so here is my present predicament. "Another GSXR 1K" made available the image of a virgin flash drive on a free storage site on the web. I downloaded those files, so far so good. I booted the toolkit and when I attempted to copy the virgin files to replace my broken files I got a system error message regarding insufficient flash disk space. Well I got the idea of deleting each folder and manually copying the virgin version from my SD back to the flash drive in the AVIC. SO far so good......except I apparently had the ignition off and the power off delay in the truck timed out somewhere

OK....I give.... What is the "Hardware bypass" you speak of? Was your unit running normally right after the 2.0 update? If so I believe what I want is what you said was on your SD card (the post 2.0 backup of the flash disk). This feels like something in the SW has gone south. At some point my iPod works, radio works, CD works it just doesn't work for long and reboot occurs. The SD does not seem to recognize MP3 nor does it recognize the 2.0 update files. It does however recognize the toolkit files and poking around the Won CE files I found a GPS program that looks like the GPS is working

When your unit comes up on the first page (the one with the nav, contacts and music icons) does it continue to display the "System is booting. Please Wait" (or whatever the exact words are) banner? Mine does that until it reboots which might be in as little as 3 minutes or so. Driving to work this morning (about a 45 minute drive) it was rebooting over and over again. I times one of them at around 3 minutes, but it kind of looks like it varies. I really think the HW is not the issue here. This smells like something in the OS got corrupted. In my case I believe it also maybe that I ha

The microphone is nothing special. It looks to be one of the cheapest things Pioneer could get away with. The real issue is the size. A really nice mic might produce wonderful sound but you would n't want to be bungy cording a full sized microphone to your car/trucks visor.

OK I lied. ....turns out after a period of time (longer than when it is running with the normal application SW) it will eventually reset its way out of the Test Mode (Windows CE desktop). Crap. I tried directly copying the APL folders from the update to the FLASH in the head unit. It didn't seem to make any difference. Interesting tidbit. There is a very cool piece of software in one of the APL directories that I believe is called GPSView and it gives you a constantly updated display of the satellites the receiver sees, their relative signal strengths and so forth. I have been think

OK.....went through the insanity thing. You know the one where you do the same thing several times and keep getting the same outcome but try again homing for something different...... Reformatted the SD card to FAT 32 Re-downloaded the 2.0 update files direct from Pioneer Decompressed them and arranged them on the SD as prescribed on the Pioneer site. Popped it in the head and no good. Head refuses to recognize the SD card. Boots to spach screen and eventually to top menu. Navi is DOA. Can't get past the disclaimer screen. Radio works. However I noticed it is having issue recal

OK that didn't go so well. I loaded up the 2.0 update onto the SD making sure to observe the exact order of folders and files as described on the Pioneer website. I brought it out to the head unit and it refuses to autoboot from it. The unit comes up normally as if it doesn't see the SD card at all. I took a peek in the head units menu system and it sees the SD card. When I try to open it, it behaves as if it thinks it might have some content on it like MP3s but nothing is displayed. Any ideas as to why my unit wont boot from the 2.0 update? For those following along, Pioneer cl

I loaded up the Testmode SW and made a copy of My Flash Disk to the SD card. I took it back to my computer and looked around. One thing I noticed was that the size of the My Flash Disk is only 85.6MB. From some of the other posts I got the impression it should be much larger (>1.5GB). IS this because of the map files? I suspect my maps may be missing. I am going to try a reinstall of the 2.0 update first and see what that does. I'll let you know what I find.

AN update. I have been fooling with this for a little while this evening. Here are some things I have noticed: 1) The system will not boot the update files on the SD card from power up, or under any other circumstances for that matter. The SD icon is greyed out unless you place the SD car in the machine with a media file (e.g. MP3) on the card. Even then it will not list the media files on the card nor play them. 2) The wait for system to come p message on the banner page never goes away. 3) If you try to go to the Navigation menu from the start page you get the big disclaimer w

I installed this system last year. Updated it in October and haven't given it a second thought until now. Has this design turned out to be one of those problem prone things that the manufacturer is in denial about?