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Ok, so I had a little progress... After holding in the reset button for a few seconds while driving, then letting it boot up and go black, and waiting a while and pressing the eject and map buttons (no particular sequence), I got the screen to come back on again. This time I dug around in the settings, and I noticed that the "Backup Camera" was not set to yes or no. I don't have a camera installed, so I selected No. That seemed to solve the main issue with the screen going black. It wasn't until sometime later, after restarting the car several times to make sure it was really workin

So I pulled the unit out and sent it back to Pioneer in early June when this originally happened. They flashed the memory and sent it back to me in 1 week. I reinstalled and everything was fine... for a few months. Then, last weekend while I was on another road trip, the screen went black again!!! While my wife and I were making the 600 mile drive back home, we had no GPS or radio. Then, all of a sudden, I got a call on my cell phone and it was ringing through the head unit. The screen was still black, but when I answered from the phone, the call came through on the speakers just l

Update: I found the wiki and the information on how to enter test mode. When I boot with my test mode SD card in, I see the Windows CE come on after the splash screen. I has a "copying files" progress bar, but the unit always goes black before the files are finished copying. I've let it sit for several minutes and tried restarting it several times with the same result...

Where can I find info on testmode? All of my searches in this forum only find references to it. Where do I find info & instructions to try to boot into test mode? Thanks!

I am having a similar issue to many here on the forums, but with slightly different symptoms. I did quite a bit of searching in these forums before deciding to post a new topic. My self-installed AVIC-F700BT ran fine for over 3 months now. I do not have a backup camera, but I did do the wiring harness trick so I can use the GPS while driving. Yesterday evening, as I was leaving my neighborhood, I noticed the screen was black. I pulled over and restarted my car. The splash screen came up, but after the standard 20 seconds, the unit went black. The screen, the buttons... everythin