JohnnyDepp

You left out a significant feature in your hack!!!

Specifically, you need to give the unit the ability to automatically call the nearest hospital to recover the bodies of everyone in the car who dies in the massive, flaming car wreck that will result from one looking at photos, streaming video from an Android phone, playing Angry Birds, and typing in new station names to create in Pandora.

Of course, the unit might not even work after the wreck unless you give the AVIC a hardened, aviation-grade black box structure that can survive 150g decelerations and temperatures typical of a massive gasoline fire. Are you a also a mechanical and structural engineer? If not, I can recommend one to help....

The best way is with a long piece of yarn.

They left out a significant feature.

Specifically, these new AVICs should also be given the ability to automatically call the nearest hospital to recover the bodies of everyone in the car who died in the massive, flaming car wreck that resulted from one looking at photos, streaming video from an iPod, playing Angry Birds, and typing in new station names to create in Pandora.

Of course, the unit might not even work after the wreck unless the AVIC is given a hardened, aviation-grade black box structure that can survive 150g decelerations and temperatures typical of a massive gasoline fire.

Really surprised there isn't a massive JasonH-led thread on all the new Pioneer stuff. He was ALL OVER this stuff at the last CES with Pioneer. Where are the hundreds of new insights? The massive new discussion threads? The personal inside-info he gets from Pioneer?

Hello??? JasonH? Hello??

You can use adhesive aluminum tape wrapped around any small, square-shaped piece of plastic or something. About 3 cm on a side should make a good ground plane that's roughly correct for the GPS or SiriusXM frequencies (L-band).

One can stream Pandora or whatever you want from an Android phone to the Pioneer units pretty easily, assuming the Bluetooth versions are compatible. Just use the Bluetooth Audio device as the AV source on the Pioneer...don't get the nice Pandora controls other than pause, play, and in some cases, skip....also don't get the "station" art. But it generally works pretty well.

But alas my last two avics are gone now (stolen ) and I now have a brand new slightly used demo of a x920bt, cost $400 at bestbuy as an open box...

Sounds like you live in a bad part of town. Also, didn't realize Best Buy was still selling any Pioneer models of this...thought they stopped a couple of years ago. Hmm....interesting. Sure it was an "open" box and not a "stolen" box?

The 2011 map update for the X920BT did NOT update the XM logos. Sorry. Oh well. Ask Pioneer why...see if they answer you.

OK, almost everyone in this thread is talking about CURRENT (i.e., amperes, or amps) as if it's the same as CAPACITY (i.e., Watt-hrs or Amp-hours depending on the way you think of it). None of this thread makes any sense. You guys have to multiply the typical power drawn by the unit in the mode you would be using it in (in WATTS) and multiply by time...then do the necessary conversions.

Yeah, I have a similar problem with my Z130 and.my EVO 4G.

I can get connected fine, but my contacts no longer will dowload/transfer.

Make sure you delete any duplicate contacts from your phone book, and link/pair any contacts that are different numbers for the same person. Also remove any special characters or extra spaces from the names of any contact. Those cause problems.

If you have an Android device and don't want to merge/delete duplicate contacts by hand, you can convert all your phone contacts to Google contacts, then synch your contacts with gmail. Then delete them all from the phone. Then use the gmail "remove/merge" duplicates function on the gmail website. Then resynch your phone with Google to reload the contacts into the phone.

...thus continuing Pioneer's tradition of not consulting with a single human interface or GUI design expert before releasing software updates.

In this case, any undergraduate human factors engineering major in college would've told them not to waste screen real estate (and add confusion) by putting up a button that 99% of the users of the product will NEVER touch. The same college student would've told them not to change the icon for the iPod source button to THE CONNECTOR for the iPod instead of the actual iPod icon itself that used to be there. Just idiotic. What's next....changing the icons for the AM and FM radio sources to a little image of, say, a capacitor?

Okay...my buddy upgraded his X920BT to the new "2011" (haha) map software and firmware upgrade.

Pioneer changed the icon in the AV source selection screen for the iPod to a picture of an iPod connector on the end of the cable instead of an actual iPod itself.

Umm...WTF? Seriously....WTF? Do Pioneer's engineers think for users will be familiar with a picture of the CONNECTOR than an actual iPod???

I'm constantly at a loss to understand the head-scratchingly bizarre decisions Pioneer continually makes. I know this is a very trivial example, but it stands out as one of the less explicable choices....

Maybe this will work with the app mode or application mode?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVNqtM8cMk4

 

According to this youtube video, any app that supports video output will display. Has anyone tried it with slingbox?

I'd LOVE to stream some video to the blonde chick at the start of that video...mmm. I'd TOTALLY stream some video at her...

Uh yeah...the D3 came with a plastic stylus in the box to do resets....

There is really no reason to remove a paired phone.

Sure there is....sometimes the Bluetooth stack gets corrupted and one needs to start from scratch to repair the Bluetooth stack for that connection and re-pair the phone. Pioneer blew it on this one...should be a way to delete registered pairings on the Pioneer side of the equation. Fail.

Where the @(*#&^%$%#@ hell are the OFFICIAL XM logo updates?? WTF? WHAT THE BLOODY F?

Also...September? For a current year update? Seriously, Pioneer? @*#&%%

Interesting that Tom Tom (a Pioneer competitor in car GPS navigation) bought Tele Atlas (Pioneer's source for map data). Not that Pioneer does all that great a job, but should be interesting to see who Pioneer gets their map data from the in future.

It's almost July. WTF are the traffic data updates? WTF is the OFFICIAL XM logo update?

Here are the updated logo image packs for May 2011. If you wish to make a donation for this effort my paypal is vandal@racinginc.com. This is not a requirement as I will never charge money for these logo updates nor make conditions regarding their use.

 

Changes/Improvements/Issues:

 

- Image table update for all May 2011 XM lineup changes including new channels and channel name/number changes.

 

- Update of all images from the latest channel guide.

 

- Sports channels still alternate between "Sports XXX", "NBA XXX" etc. and "Sports Play-By-Play". The logo will only appear if the channel name uses the name with the number in it, i.e. "Sports 190" or "NBA 218", etc. There is no way to avoid this and at this time I still don't know which naming scheme is ideal to associate with the logo.

 

- There are no category logo updates in this release as all the major categories are covered. I have no source for category images as XM does not provide them.

 

Installing:

 

- You will need to know how to modify the media for your particular AVIC series. See the stickied posts in the hacks/mod forum related to your unit for details.

 

- Locate the folder containing the XMCAT, XMDAT, XMLPS, and XMDPS directory. On the Z series this the AV subdirectory of the SDAT volume. On the F series this was reported to be MyFlashDisk/DATA/XM. On the D/N series these folders are in the root directory of the 2 map DVDs.

 

- As always when doing such updates on the Z and F series be sure to make backups of your XMCAT, XMDAT, XMLPS, and XMDPS directories.

 

- Simply copy the files in the pack over any existing files for each directory (XMCAT, XMDAT, XMLPS, and XMDPS). Do not delete any files.

 

 

Attached here is Zx series. These have been fully tested on a Z3. This is NOT for the new Zxxx series.

 

 

OK, but will this nuke the *existing* category logos and replace them with blank images? Or will the existing category logos remain unchanged if someone uses this??

Here's an amusing post from the Pioneer Facebook team about if/when THEY would ever provide a channel logo update....not to mention map updates. Pretty disappointing...

"Unfortunately, there is no easy answer for your question.

Channel line-up changes are at the discretion of Sirius-XM. In order to ensure that our GEX-P920XM is backwards compatible with practically any Pioneer "P-bus" radio, our products feature channel artwork that is stored in local memory (as opposed to being received via the same satellite data connection as the audio and text). As a result, although you should be receiving the new channel related text, the artwork for any revised channels is the default universal channel icon.

In the past, we have been able to update channel icon artwork in conjunction with a map software upgrade, however we have not been able to confirm with engineering at this time if it will be possible to include in the 2011 map upgrade (coming this summer) due to the late timing of the channel line-up changes from Sirius-XM.

Please stay tuned for more news regarding the 2011 map software upgrade! Thanks.

These guys are ok out of the gate, but their product support is horrible.

 

There are no category logo updates in this release as all the major categories are covered. I have no source for category images as XM does not provide them.

 

OK, but will this nuke the *existing* category logos and replace them with blank images? Or will the existing category logos remain unchanged if someone uses this??

yup, pio sux for getting accurate maps out on time, nothing new there. i have problem putting in addresses that have not moved in over a decade.

 

its pretty sad that i actually have to use google maps to find places when i have such an expensive radio

THIS is what I'm saying. Every time Pioneer's map fails to find something, one of us pulls out our smartphone and Googles the damn place...sigh.

Good grief. No need to get a stick up your ass. Sure the navi has its problems. Guess Pioneer has better things to do right now.

Actually, I couldn't find a stick to put up my ass even if I wanted to, given that the local Home Depot and Lowe's locations that sell wooden dowels don't show up in my buddy's outdated Pioneer map data....nor do the many local and state parks which contain natural sticks.

Addendum: Even the "2010" data that came with his unit was really 2007.5 vintage or so, given the time it takes Pioneer to actually PRODUCE their formatted data after purchasing the original data from TeleAtlas or NavTeq.

Concur with other posters who state we can't possibly help unless you tell us exactly how you connected to your car radio antenna, what splitters/adapters you used (if any), what make/model/year of car you have, etc.

Also, what choices did you setup in the AVIC local/bsm/signal strength menu options, etc.?

Data dude...we need data. We're gods (true), but we can't make bricks without clay.

All:

Okay, my buddy and I were in his Audi this week and four out of ten Starbucks listed by his AVIC with 2010 data (it's a X920 I think...) as being in our town moved or went out of business over a year ago.

There's one major road interchange between Interstate 66 and a major state highway that FINISHED 16 months ago and is still totally wrong in the AVIC database.

WTF? It's April 2011....where the living @*# are the @*&@^# map updates, Pioneer? WTF? Seriously...WTF?

Cheers,

JD