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Does anyone know of any way to program the AVICs for truck routes like Garmin? My old streetpilot was great because you could avoid roads and bridges with truck exclusions, but lately I've been running into quite a few and there's little I can do but ignore the direction and wait for a recalculation that hopefully won't run into another one. Yesterday I went way out of my way to follow the AVIC only to find out it was taking me on Storrow Drive near Kenmore square. Not a good place for trucks--too many low bridges. And way too far to work around to where I wanted to go. Any ideas?

Recently I wired up my camera to a switch, in addition to the normal rearview function, and I have to say that I like this way better. Many here hook up their cameras to switched ign 12v+ and their reverse lights to the AVIC input. Thus the camera is always on when the vehicle is running and automatically switches to rear view when it's put in reverse. Also, when selecting rear view from the touch screen you can monitor whatever is going on behind you. What I did was to ground the camera and connect the 12v+ of the camera to the AVIC reverse wire input and tie them both into the reve

Can't tell you why, but can tell you the same thing happened to me. I downloaded 9 songs, put them on a SD card and tried to play it on my F90BT. Caused long hang ups and then crash. Finally tried to put on just one song and play it-worked fine. Added others one at a time. Played good. Finally found that just one song caused crash. Don't know why, but if I put the 8 songs on no problem--put that one on, crash every time. You may want to try adding one song at a time and see what happens. May be a copyright issue or something unseen to us that the Pioneer unit translates as so

Here's my latest response from Pioneer: Sorry for the delayed response. Not even for customers who purchased after May of 09. Thank You, Masumi Customer Service Representative Props to Masumi @ Pioneer for finally acknowleging it.

Very interesting. Good idea to check the batteries too as they're original and the truck is a 2003. In the past I've always gone with Optima Red tops and never had another problem. Even last winter when it was SO cold, I only had to plug in twice to get started. The rest of the time it usually remote started--even though it would take a few tries sometimes. Thanks for the info on the cap. That sounds the easiest to implement should the problem reoccur when the temp drops.

Just wanted to throw this out for comment or observation. I had a problem with my diesel truck causing the clock to go screwy on start up. Since I have to turn the key forward and wait for the glow plugs, my F90BT starts to boot up and then is inturrupted when I crank the engine and it reboots. This makes the clock reset to 12:00 a.m. and then have to get a GPS fix again before it will be accurate, which can take a couple of minutes. It does this every morning. Friday, I chipped the truck with a product from DP-Tuner in hopes of better fuel mileage. One thing I noticed right away was

Let's simplify. Purple/white wire from F90BT. Connect to back up light. This tells the F90BT to go into reverse mode. Red wire from camera. Connect to switched power as Bob told you to. This will power up the camera whenever you turn on the car. What happens?

You really oughta keep this in one post.

I doubt you can screw up the headunit by plugging into the wrong rca jack. And there's nothing wrong with tapping into a tail light wire--many camera manufacturers recommend it--just so long as it's in the reverse light and not a turn, brake, or marker wire. You indicated that you wired the camera inputs to ground and your tap into the back up light. Since the camera works then your reverse wire input should be positive. If you go to the main menu, hit "settings" in the lower right hand corner, then "system settings", and then "back camera" you'll find 2 options. One to turn the camera

You know, it's not like you're downloading pirated music and screwing the label out of royalties. You just modified the software to make it a little more desirable for you personally. It costs a lot of money to bring a suit and I can't imagine a huge corporation like Pioneer going after someone for tweaking their product. The cost would be ridiculous and the negative publicity would be a nightmare. Now if you're selling your mods to other users that would be another story. Besides, don't you think they know all about this forum? They probably have moles in here monitoring and likely

Back up camera input should be brown, not yellow. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Stati ... al0520.pdf See page 16

I live in the U.S and posed the same question just yesterday to Pioneer via email specifically asking if people like myself, who bought from May 2009 onward would get the 3.0 update free of charge. Later in the day I got this response (cut and pasted): We would like to inform you of the availability of a NEW free firmware update (released in July) for your AVIC-F90BT navigation system. This free firmware update (version 2.006) contains important performance improvements to address the following issues: Fixes Automatic Time Correction Updates XM channel icon graphics

Add me to the list. Garmin wants $70 for a map update to my old C330 and since it won't fit in the memory I have to buy a SD card too, so for $60 this is worth it. It remains to be seen if it's as good as advertised and based on Pioneer's claims that could be dubious. But I do like the improved functions and graphics shown on the new units so really, it is like getting the update for free with normal map upgrade fees. I don't have crash and burn problems with my F90BT and I don't ever want to have them so I hope this will be cheap insurance against future aggravation.

I never expected to find out that this could be the cause. One song of the 9 I was putting on the sd card was casusing the crash. I don't know why, but it definitely was. I tried everything I could think of--got a new usb sd writer, put the songs on the one card that worked--and then it failed too, tried to put them on one at a time instead of all at once, reformatted over and over, nothing worked. Finally, I put one song on and tried it--success! Then another, still good...then 3 more, okay, then the rest--crash. So I put them on one at a time and checked until it crashed. Michae

I've searched this forum pretty hard but didn't find a problem quite like the one I'm having. I'm new to the music on sd card thing, but it was a big part of why I chose the f90bt. I usually only listen to 5-10 songs at a time and then get sick of them and go erase them and put on some new ones. The first time I used my sd card player was to test a digital voice recorder. I put a brand new, unformatted 1 gig kodak sd card into the dvr and made a test recording. I took out the sd card and inserted it into the f90bt--played perfect. The dvr put 4 folders on the card depending on your