rodman1919

Hey everyone, I used to use a 2GB usb stick since i got my F900BT back in july, had no problems....and for about a month or two now, ive been using a 4gb usb, and for the first few weeks, everything was running perfectly! (i originally tried using an 8gb usb but my unit couldnt even detect it) so for about a month now, some random songs just freeze up the unit when i select them or if they are played as a proceeding track alphabetically. so i take the usb to my computer, format it completely, run the disk error checking and the standard windows tools, and it finds no errors, and ther

Hey i downloaded most of the well known fast food chain POI's like McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, Subway, etc.... and i put them through AVIC Feeds and they converted fine, i exported them onto my SD card and my unit read them fine, but so how do i transfer them over to my unit so they stay there? Because basically they were there temporarily when i put the SD card in, and when i took them out, well they obviously weren't there. Thanks

Oh alright then yeah i found Avic Feeds to be no help at all. Thanks alot man appreciate it lots

I just checked and yes the restaurant.icon file is there Im trying to find a .kml file or .CSV or something for all the restaurants in Sydney, so i can put it through AVIC feeds and see if i can put it in my unit like that

By the way, does anybody know how to get a TMC Traffic updates shortcut on the GPS interface? i.e. on the maps itself rather than going through the menu? Like just adding a shortcut button?

Hey im an Australian F900BT owner and i was just wondering, is there any way i can get a TMC Traffic button on the GPS interface? i.e. on the map itself rather than going through the menu? Because i know lots of people in this thread have done it but they did it while they were trying to add on something else....can anybody help me out? all i want is that traffic updates button Thanks alot

Ok i just did what you suggested, i delete both the other branding folders and i put in the one uploaded in this thread, and the icons of all the categories did change, and i didnt have any GPS signal loss or anything like that, but it still made no difference in the fact that the entire "Restaurant" category isnt there and there is no way to see any sort of restaurant or eating area without having to type the name of the place into the search option. Do you have any idea why this could be happening? There are several other Australian users in the "Australian Map Update" thread in this for

Alright then well im willing to try it, but i just opened up the APL2/iGo folder on my computer (a backup of what is on my unit flash drive) and there are 3 different branding zip files.. one is just "branding", the other is "branding_EW" and the other is "branding_UC" what should i do? i know in the instructions you wrote, i have to put the new "branding" zip file in there, but what should i do about those other 2 branding zip's? Sorry if its a stupid question Thanks

Hey Vblue, Just wanted to ask, would this Branding file and basically every other suggested change in this thread, work on the Australian F900BT running on version 3? To be honest, i dont know if im using iGo8 or iGo8.3 but in general, would this work for Australian maps? i.e. are these just the icons, and they run off the given maps? Thanks

How can i find out whether im using iGo8 or 8.3? Gosh its alot of work getting those POI's to work for us....well based on what ive read so far viewtopic.php?f=34&t=18428 thats for the US, and this guy asked if they would work for EU and he said they wouldn't, so im guessing it wouldn't work for us either, which is a real shame because the author of that thread made one .zip file with all the POI branding icons, so it would've been so convenient for us to just add. I'll keep looking but perhaps tonight or something.....really need a break from the computer

No worries techgeek88, glad it worked! OK so i just got back from the car, and i copied the V2 POI file over (without deleting the V3 file) and nothing happened, so there were no changes in the POI's list... then i deleted the V3 file and left the V2 there, and there weren't any POI's even available to choose from, i.e. the list of categories wouldn't even come up and no POI's would be found. so i thought i could perhaps rename the V2 file into exactly the filename the V3 had, and i did that, still didn't work, and so yeah i just put everything back to the way it was, and the POI's

Yeah i tried and it didnt come up with anything Tomorrow Ill have a go with what you just suggested and ill post up how it went Cheers

Okay i found them both....the POI file in V3 is just called "Australia.poi" and its 18,429kb. So yeah ill make a backup of this file of course, and so what your suggesting is, to just add the V2 POI file in the unit? Do you think they would work together? Because frankly i was just thinking i could delete the V3 one (after backing up) and replacing it with the V2 file because they practically have all the same POI's, except that one has "Restaurants" in it.

Oh ok then ill try that....but so that second option you said, is there a specific folder where all the POI's are kept? V2 i mean....because i still have all the backup files so ill look through them, and would it just be a copy-over thing? If not, how can i get a hold of the V2 POI's?

Oh Wow how could Pioneer miss out on something like that?! I thought it might have been in "Cafe" aswell or even "leisure" or "night life" but nothing at all. I can honestly say i would use the "restaurants" category more than anything else when i need to use the POI feature...and now its not even there Do you think those POI's could still be there, but they just arent in a category? or pioneer just forgot to make one for them? The wierd thing is, i had "Restaurants" available when i put on the 15dot1 maps on V2 If i was to just change the maps and put on the 15dot1, would V3

To anyone in here that has the Aussie V3 with the new maps installed, can you please check something for me? Last night as i was driving, i needed to find the closest McDonalds and i noticed that unlike V2 how there was a POI category called "Restaurants", in V3 its just not there anymore Can anyone just check and tell me if its just my system that somehow just doesnt have it, or V3 doesnt have it? Because its theres no way to find any sort of restaurants or eating areas anymore....i looked through every single POI category and its not there, even Public Toilets are listed but not re

Oh wow that's pretty ridiculous! I bought my entire system (F900BT, speakers, etc) late June this year, and i stumbled upon the free map upgrade form on the Pioneer site, so i filled it out and sent it as soon as i had everything installed, so that was around about the beginning of July, and i got my map upgrade in the mail last week Jeeezz I hope you don't have to wait until November.....woeful stuff from Pioneer. My dad has an Alpine touch screen in his car and they have really impressive customer service, and i personally would've gone the Alpine way, but at that time they didnt h

Ohh yeah there's my problem, i was trying to upload to AVIC411 sorry, I've never had to upload anything here before. http://rapidshare.com/files/292334921/DATA.ZIP.html There's the link, and there's no password, just download I use just a 2GB SD Card which im happy with, i just expected it to work with big USB sizes too...what a shame

Hey guys, i was trying to upload the data.zip but its 5.57mb and this thing isnt letting me upload more than 2mb, so i tried just uploading the navigatemap_800_480.ui file but it said "The extension ui is not allowed. The upload was rejected because the uploaded file was identified as a possible attack vector." so i don't know how else to upload the data.zip.....any suggestions? because im happy to send it to anyone who needs it. By the way on an unrelated topic, i think it's so dreadful that this unit doesnt accept USB more than 4gb! My mate bought a JVC headunit (low end) which only pla

Ah well it was a nice try it seems they have thought of everything. I'm just impatient and can't wait for them to post my update. So is the software update on one SD card and the maps on another? I guess it's only the maps that need the code to unlock. Oh and please can you post your Aussie data.zip with the mods here. It will save us some hassle because I'm not leaving it stock for too long. That's right yeah, it comes with 2 SD cards. I'm not sure what number 1 actually does, because in the instructions it said to put it inside the unit and turn it on, and then it came up

Yeah i did...after the V3 update it was obviously missing those mods and i missed them so much, i just had to ask somebody and thankfully lacehim pointed me in the right direction and i finally added them on. ill try to upload it for you guys within the next few days because im really busy with uni at the moment, but ill post the data.zip here when ready

Just got back from the car, the hacks work perfectly! Cheers again for all the help

Oh thanks alot that really did help! Just as you said that i thought i would upload it but i came across the already-uploaded data.zip file so i thought there's not much use in me uploading again but thanks for that. I took the laptop down to the car with me (Vista) and that didn't let me make changes from winRAR and just save it straight back into it, it would say what i wrote before...."cannot be saved, make sure path is correct" so i brought it back up to my computer upstairs (good old XP) and it worked and now im about to test it out in the car! And I've downloaded the files fr

Also does anybody know how to save an edited file that i opened from the data.zip? I just followed those 2 links you gave about adding the "delete" and "mute" buttons and it said i had to copy some coding to one of the files inside the data.zip, but now that i have added it and i try to save, it just says it cannot be saved, check the path or filename or whatever. Do i have to extract everything inside the data.zip file, make the changes, and then make a new data.zip or what? please help Thanks

Oh wow can you please tell me where you got the emulator for it and anything else you needed to get it up and running? I would absolutely love to have an emulated version of the HU on the computer, especially considering my car is parked outside and i have to make ALOT of trips to and from the car. Thanks!