JohnnyDepp

By the way, I never got around to mentioning this, but wasn't Pioneer's claim that this was by design sort of counter-intuitive?? I mean...if people didn't press "OK" to acknowledge the warning about driving while using this thing, Pioneer rewarded them by making VR work WORSE...thereby guaranteeing that they'd have to fiddle with the unit MORE while driving??? LOL...."by design" my ass.

Also, if it's working, what's the issue?? I'm certain I've seen that selection screen before...get a recent Crutchfield catalog and look at the photos to figure out what mainstream unit they copied to manufacture this....if you really need to know, I guess.

Splicing microphone wires is ALWAYS a bad idea. It adds all kinds of noise and pop to the signal. Unless you know how to make audio connectors and audio signal splices in a professional way (including professional connector splicing onto signal cable/wires), it's probably a bad idea. For example, the clown installer who put in my old Pioneer actually cut the AVIC microphone wire and spliced it into my car's existing microphone cable...it didn't work at all. More noise and pop than voice. I had to order a new Pioneer microphone and run it down the A-pillar myself to fix what the idiot d

Dude, you're sort of contradicting yourself. On the one hand, you say the Pioneers are hands-down superior in-dash GPS systems. Yet, you ended up spending thousands of dollars upgrading to unit after unit over a relatively short period of time...like, one new unit per year! And your own list points out the flaws in each Pioneer unit you went through...LOL. Allow me to posit that the reason you had to do this is because Pioneer has a habit of making their own units more affordable by making them underpowered or obsolete in ways that can't be fixed with firmware or software updates as e

Wait a second. I'm confused. Are you saying the "fix" was simply them changing the warning message to warn users ABOUT the problem???? I thought they actually FIXED the problem....what's going on here? Am I misinterpreting your post??? If someone's phone connects before they press OK, even with the updated wording of the message, will the problem still occur?? That can't be right...if you're correct, it sounds like there WAS NO fix...they just changed the warning message for legal, cover-their-ass purposes... I guess I'll go read all the posts about the update now...this see

LOL...WTF is that? Looks like it might be a generic knock-off of one of the slightly older Kenwood models? The AV source display looks familiar...just can't remember where I've seen it. If you leaf through the entire Crutchfield paper catalog, you may find the AV selection screen that resembles this one. Options are... Kenwood? JVC? Eclipse? Jensen? Rosen? Pioneer? I'm still leaning towards this being a cheap Chinese knock off of an older Kenwood.

The Pioneer CD-BTB200 Bluetooth unit is NOT compatible with the Bluetooth phone profiles on the HTC Hero (e.g., Hands-Free Profile, Headset Profile (HFP, HSP)). That's because Pioneer made some errors programming the Bluetooth in the unit and/or used an older Bluetooth standard....and it's NOT fixable. You cannot get it to work...in fact, the AVIC D3 and BTB200 combination will usually refuse to connect with the HTC Hero for telephony at all, saying "Invalid Device" name. However, the CD-BTB200 works fine with the Bluetooth audio streaming profiles on the HTC Hero (e.g., A2DP, AVRCP

Kind of surprising, actually. Some other HTC smartphones do NOT work correctly with the old D3/CD-BTB200 combo...and since the CD-BTB200 firmware/software can NEVER be updated, people who own the CD-BTB200 will have to live with the older Bluetooth standards compliance (or lack thereof, since Pioneer made some Bluetooth stack errors when they programmed it). Are you indeed using the CD-BTB200 Bluetooth add-on for the D3? Also, which functions work? Contacts transfer? Auto-connect? Audio streaming? Perhaps you should gather some more details about which functions work and whi

Dude...put up a photo or something. Otherwise, this post is purely ridiculous.

That was an easy one.

Hey Everybody: I just successfully upgraded a buddy's D3 to the X920BT. I wanted to let you know you all missed ANOTHER important difference in the harnesses. Specifically, there is a blue/white wire on the D3's white RCA harness for "system control terminal of the power amp." There is ALSO a different pure blue wire on the D3's black power harness for "antenna relay control." They are different, and the D3's install instructions specifically say to keep them separate. However, on the X920BT, both of these appear to have been combined on a single blue/white wire on the X92

UPDATE: I successfully upgraded the AVIC-D3 in a 2008 Audi A4 to the AVIC-X920BT. To answer your question, the Fakra twin-diversity radio antenna adapter we got worked.... ....However, we had to carefully remove ONE of the RF connectors from within its green rectangular housing (see photo at either link below). That's because the off-white connector on the Audi's antenna wire had the AM & FM connections RIGHT next to each other, like two circles touching. It couldn't accommodate both the green boxes on the adapter's side. Here's basically the one we used http://cgi.ebay.com/..

Everybody: I notice a LOT of heartbreak and pain surrounding all this cutting-out-and-moving of mute wires for the AVIC harness bypassing. Has anybody simply tried buying some pre-crimped, 22-gauge electronics wire with female sockets already placed on the ends and just inserted them into the connector(s) for the various X- and F-series mute-wire moving you're all doing??? Why all this cutting-and-moving of mute wires? I think they sell pre-crimped wires with exactly the types of pins/sockets you're looking for that can be inserted into this type and size of harness...for like $10

Whoops...duplicate topic. Please go to the other topic...admins feel free to delete this topic in favor of the other one I posted here. http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/29752-why-not-just-add-a-wire-for-bypass/

Edit: For Android phones, I suppose one can at least launch Pandora on the phone and then use Bluetooth AVCRP or A2DP streaming to the AVIC. Pioneer would probably have to make an AVIC-to-Android cable to get a Pandora Link version for Android phones. I'm not sure there's a way to do it via Bluetooth connection and have the AVIC touch screen work for Pandora.

Wow. This question has come up a LOT in the past on these forums...not sure what happened to all the old posts, but you need something like one of these: http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/22824-pioneer-avic-antenna-connections/page__p__166190__hl__%2Bpioneer+%2Bavic+%2Bantenna+%2Bconnections__fromsearch__1#entry166190 http://www.carsystemshop.nl/product_info.php?cPath=55&products_id=2511&osCsid=509fc2fb189f08b98b088d7d065a54d3 http://enfigcarstereo.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/40_EU55.html http://www.rondevries.nl/index.php?page=producten_bekijken/detail.php&produc

I'm trying to help a buddy upgrade the D3 in his 2008 Audi to an X920BT. I'll let you know when it's done. Might get around to it next week... EDIT: Ok, I successfully upgraded the AVIC-D3 in a 2008 Audi A4 to the AVIC-X920BT. To answer your question, the Fakra twin-diversity radio antenna adapter we got worked.... ....However, we had to carefully remove ONE of the RF connectors from within its green rectangular housing (see photo at either link below). That's because the off-white connector on the Audi's antenna wire had the AM & FM connections RIGHT next to each other, like t

I had a D3 in a 2008 Audi A4. Here's what I remember using: - AVIC D3 & its OEM GPS Antenna - CD-BTB200 Bluetooth & its OEM Microphone - Metra Double-Din kit for A4 (stripped out the center divider) - CAN45PIO harness adaptor - Soundgate CANPULSE4 to get the speed pulse off the CAN bus into the AVIC and do some steering wheel control inputs - Needed a Fakra antenna adaptor of some kind (Audi AM/FM antenna inputs often don't conform to factory and don't do the correct "Y" split for the Pioneer) the forums have a ton of posts about this in an Audi - Copies of the 2008, 2

Hope it works out...not sure what other harnesses or wiring adaptors you would need other than the CANPIO45. By the way, here's a post on a different forum about an AVIC D3 Audi install from a couple of years back...might have some useful info to add to what's already on this forum: http://www.audiforum.ca/general-d-i-y-do-yourself/1107-audi-d-i-y-a4-pioneer.html Also, be aware the radio antenna can sometimes be tricky in the Audi (no seperate connector for AM/FM, etc.). There are one or two threads on this forum that tell you which antenna adapter to buy if you have problems gett

Do you have the MSN tuner? If so, what will you do when you lose traffic and live POI and searching in Jan 2011? Will you be pressing Pioneer for an FM-TDS accessory for all the F- and X-series units to replace MSN? Will you fork over another $1000 for the X999 or whatever they tell JasonH about at CES? Just curious about your thoughts on that...

Do you have the latest software update installed? 2.XXX or whatever?

Does your installer mean he's having trouble finding the right CANPULSE adapter to install with the unit, or is he saying he can't find the right electronics bus in your car to plug into? Two different questions... If he means the former, then tell him the Soundgate CANPULSE4 worked fine with an AVIC D3 in my 2008 Audi A4. According to one version of the 2008 Soundgate compatibility guide (attached for you), it should work for a 2006 Audi. Below are some links to help...and I attached an old fit guide from Soundgate. Better hurry...they are discontinuing the Soundgate product line

LOL...just what I expected from the unapologetic fanboys on this site. Pioneer can do no wrong, according to you guys. I notice you didn't have much of a defense for the MSN-only live data, live-POI, and traffic information issue that's going to render nearly the entire Pioneer F-, X-, and Z-series obsolete in a year....lol. To which Pioneer's answer to everyone has been "Oh well...at least your stuff will work until Jan 2011...nope, we don't plan any particular replacement capability for our existing units...good luck, customers!"

why, Every single brand i have ever used or sold has periodically changes their harnesses, not just a pioneer thing Hmm...not to be rude, but just because a few other companies change their products enough to make a simple plug-and-play upgrade impossible doesn't make it right...in fact, it's plain dumb business...especially since Pioneer forces their customer base to buy entirely new units to fix the mistakes of their past ones. Any marketing person worth his pay will tell you that it's ALWAYS better to make it easy for customers to replace an old unit with a new one. So the old "but mom

P.S. Anybody know if there's any sort of GPS antenna plug adapter out there to switch the D3-compatible GPS antenna plug to fit the X-series models?? People would really rather not have to re-install their GPS antenna and re-run the wire...especially if it's in a hidden, under-the-dash location. And unnecessary splicing is ALWAYS bad...always introduces noise, and often makes the antenna (or a microphone) unusable. Friggin' Pioneer...sometimes, I REALLY hate those guys...