jeffricks2051

http://www.7-zip.org/ 

Download the extractor.  It's PC only (I believe)

4.01 is also on pirate_bay.  Not sure what format.

Ever since the update on my f90bt everyone I call says they can barely hear me, like I'm talking 7 feet away from an empty room.

anything I can do? I wish I could remember where the folder the bluetooth files are kept in. I'd try to replace it with the last version. I'd like to know if I sound do the bluetooth update from the pioneer web page on this image, and maybe how to tell which version is in there now.

can anyone help, or simply give good links? I'm striking out.

If I go in to testmode and delete the old software (from the flashdisk) so that it is empty, can I run this update and get a 'fresh clean install'? Or does the old software have to be in place?

(I could try it by tedius trial and error, but it's easier to ask)

EDIT: N/M. I learned that the flash is wiped as one does the wince upgrade.

question is mute, n/a

http://www.4shared.com/file/127636555/f ... b.html?s=1

(above is the direct link)

Thanks! I was wanting a usb version, but didn't see it around and mostly assumed it didn't exist.

Here it is! I finally found out how to get this thing to work on 3.0

It would be nice if this were posted in the first post. It'd be nice if a 3.0 version zip was in the first post. It would be nice if the original poster clarified that you do not unzip the zip to the root of an sd card: you copy contents of the folder with stuff in it to the root of the SD card (the stuff buried two folders in). A working link to testmode 2.3 would be nice too (if a complete version 3.0 zip isn't made).

"Green Acres is the place to be.."

 

I haven't done the new firmware yet, but I think it is actually fairly easy to get it to work.

 

Go back to the first page of this thread, and read the instructions for the LeetLoader install again.

 

One thing I messed up was the directions say to extract the .zip into the root of your SD card. That doesn't exactly work, you need to extract the .zip, then copy all the folders from the 3.0 folder into the root of the SD card. You can extract to the SD card and then move the folders from the 3.0 folder into the root of the SD, but that is slower.

 

After you do that read this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=18522&p=174774&hilit=firmware+3.0#p174774

 

You need to change your TESTMODE files because you have 3.0

 

Getting it to boot is pretty easy if you do the above correctly. Turn the unit on w/o the SD card in. Put the SD card in, it needs to have at least one MP3 file. The pioneer willl then start playing the MP3 file when you insert the card. Once this happens, hold down your power button on the F500BT until the unit powers off. Leave the card in the slot, and hold down the power button until it comes back on. It will now boot to Leet, it will continue to boot to Leet each time you turn it on and off until you either crash it by messing around, or you remove the SD card and power up, or remove it while powered up (it doesn't like that)

 

Report back on how you like it, I am thinking about doing the 3.0 firmware upgrade, but haven't figured out the down side yet.

 

What I really want is GPS and music control while I am using the phone over bluetooth. Leet lets you do that, but it doesn't let you control the ipod, and I'm not totally sold on the coreplayer either.

I don't know why he'd want a ball-n-chain-of-a keyboard in his car either, but that response did not answer his question.

 

I don't know what's the matter with a bunch of people on this board. Also, those who respond with "USE THE SEARCH!" stfu. You are just padding the threads even more making it harder for those trying

to use the search to find their answer. Ironic, huh? Perhaps if a question was answered more than once in the history of time somebody could find the answer by themselves using search?

Quoted for hypocrisy.

Wow, youre a real winner. Can everyone feel his power radiating? Good luck intellectu8ally cornering me in your tiny tiny world. Too much irony on this board. Wiretap has perhaps been the only person on this board benificial to me, save the persons who have made the hacks and posted them. So I guess I'm supposed to let his tiny abuse slide because of that? Another is I encourage questions, but just saw a guy asking guy asking a question. Someone responded saying it was covered in the first post of the thread, and it was. I was going to answer his question, but the best answer was in the first thread.

There's something wrong with this board.

next loser will say: "then why don't you just leave"

I don't know why he'd want a ball-n-chain-of-a keyboard in his car either, but that response did not answer his question.

I don't know what's the matter with a bunch of people on this board. Also, those who respond with "USE THE SEARCH!" stfu. You are just padding the threads even more making it harder for those trying

to use the search to find their answer. Ironic, huh? Perhaps if a question was answered more than once in the history of time somebody could find the answer by themselves using search?

I plan to put use one of my steering wheel buttons as a mute button. If I move the mute wire to do the hardware bypass will I forfeit my steering wheel button? If so, can I just leave my mute wire alone and get a wire from an unused harness?

I just updated my F900BT to 3.0.

 

I copied the MiTACAP and Testmode folders along with the data.zip file to an SD card so I could update the parking brake speed settings.

 

When I insert the SD card and turn on the ignition it does not boot in Windows CE mode. It just turns on the unit normally.

 

Is there a new method to boot in CE with 3.0?

 

Thanks.

I never got my software bypass to work. What is the MiTACAP folder? I'm I missing something?

I was using these and liked them, but my f90bt seemed to run much slower because of them. So I removed them, and it seems to have sped up again (I miss the icons). Then I removed all the state maps, and pois, and just added the NAVTEC version of the California map and poi. Now my f90bt is even even faster. I also removed the buildings, and turned off the elevation in settings long ago.

Now I'm wondering if I should put the massive poi icons back on and see if it's fast enough.

Is it true you should do either the hardware bypass or the software bypass BUT NOT BOTH? Somewhere in this thread someone wrote IF YOU DO BOTH IT WILL SCREW UP YOUR STEREO. Is this true? I've been afraid ever since I read that.

The DATA file I got from this thread (the one where the NOOB retells how to do the procedure) doesn't seem to work (I do have the handbrake grounded). Can anyone give me a link to a working DATA file (or the file)?

does the newest itouch work with the f series' ipod cable? I'm not talking about the wifi side. I'm talking about the standard operation. I believe better iphone/itouch/ipod compatibility is one of the few HARDWARE changes in newer X series. If the new itouches work with the F series I could use it normally and use the wifi hack. That would be worth it for me.

Anyone know?

Does it matter if its a microsd card inside of an adapter to regular sd?

I'm wondering this too. Just bought a 1 TB hard drive from Newegg and it's coming with a free 4 GB microsd card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820134794). I already have a microsd -> SD card adapter, and I'm kinda curious as to whether or not it'll work. It would be awesome if it did

Yes it will work. In fact I steer clear of sd cards and get micro-sd cards and adapters nearly exclusively. The reason is I can move an micro to my phone, or a few small mp3 players I have, whatever. I can move the micro in my phone to the car stereo. I can move the micro (with sd adapter) from my sd-sloted camera to my phone ect. You can make an micro fit anything with an adapter, but you cant fit an sd card in to a micro slot. ..my handheld gps has a micro with an adapter.

I have a 3 or 4 adapter cards that are sd/usb combo adapters. They can be used as an sd card if plugged in one side, and usb if plugged in the other.. the micro fits into it. wish the were all that way. If I ever see em in bulk for cheap I'll buy a bunch.

bla bla bla

thanks you so much

a portable app is a program that doesn't have to first be installed. You just double click it and it runs. Apparently they run not needing any DDLs or registry changes (or I suppose some might add them when launching the program). You probably knew all of that.

It would be nice to find a site that offered portable apps for wince, because registry entries disappear at reboot, and such issues.

.....

I hope I can continue to ask you a stream of close-ended questions that largely typically have short yes/no responses so I can get up to speed and tinker more fruitfully. Here I go.

Has anyone yet tried to make a wireless activesync connection?

what version was wince before the wince upgrade (the one I did before installing the 3.0 software), and what version after?

If I send you a USB to SD adapter (lets you slide in a sd card and connect to a usb port), would you test to see if WIFI works when plugged in through the usb cable?

has anyone tried to create an activesync connection to an avic?

If someone (sucessfully) installs a cab that changes the registry, does the avic store the registry changes, or fortget them on reboot?

Is there that specializes in 'portable' wince programs like there are for portable windows programs? I spent about a half hour searching but came up empty handed.

Do I have to edit the DATA file myself (does my file have some kind of unique number (doubt it )) or can I use one that anyone prepared?

the 'noob' a few pages ago whom put the the install procedure (with his footnotes) included a DATA file in his procedure. I used that DATA file.

It says 128.0 inside it, but maybe he did it wrong.

My symptoms are: complains about brake wire not being installed correctly after a certain speed, and disabling video, and gps text input.

I have the brake wire grounded. I have the file in place (but it might be an improperly edited one).

what about the handbrake wire part of my question?

If I have the handbrake wire comming from the stereo's side grounded to the car's frame, and the speed hack DATA file in place, is there anything else I need to do?

I did the software bypass, and grounded my parking brake wire to the frame of the car where there is contact, but my stereo complains that the parking brake wire isn't installed correctly (or something to that effect).

What am I doing wrong, and does it have something to do with the softmod, or is it an independent problem?

Also, I used the data file that someone else made. It puts the value at "256.0" I was surprised to see the ".0" at the end. Is this correct?

btw, if this is a binary thing, 255 would be a much better choice because 256 takes two bytes. 255 is the biggest number that fits in one byte, so if there is only 1 byte allocated for the number, it could exceed the limit and change a byte somewhere else in the program.

*note: I don't know if this number even has to be binary-friendly in the first place.

Woo hoo!

I got my F90BT REFURB last night and it was installed, with all the updates by 3 PM today.

*installed stereo (mute wire, and speed wire were ignored, but grounded handbrake to body frame)

*Freshly Booted up the Stereo and Immediately COPIED MY Flash Disk to an SD Card so I have *MY* Original <<---smart

*did WINCE update

*did 3.0 update

*did DATA file copyover (speed hack)

*did the 3.0101 pioneer update

*COPIED the Flash Disk to an SD Card AFTER ALL OF THE INSTALLS <<---smart

*Archived all the files used today on an 8 gig sd card <<---smart

Everything is mostly good. I do get a 'handbrake wire is installed improperly' message. My only understanding is the handbrake is to be grounded.

I grounded the negetive stereo wire, and the handbrake wire both to to the car's frame. I just left the black wire on the car side of the harness attached to nothing. Is this right? I guess I'll go back and read for hour(s) but I'm thinking I'll find I did it right so I'm perplexed.

I finally have an F-Series!!!

Also, somewhere in my readings it said the speed wire helped the gps unit stay accurate, is this correct?

Also,

In a review at amazon.com someone wrote:

Great System (Once it is installed properly), December 14, 2008

By J. Huften (Pasadena, MD United States) - See all my reviews

I purchased this for our 2005 Honda Odyssey. Crutchfield did not have the

mounting kit so I ordered it from another company. I also purchased the

PAC SWI-PS for the steering wheel buttons. When I tried installing it myself

I had an annoying hiss coming from the speakers. Also, the computer voice

was very scratchy. I called Crutchfield and they sent me a noise filter. I

wasn't sure that was the problem so I checked some forums, avic411.com,

and found that someone else had the same problem and they installed a

PAC OEM-2. The problem stemmed from my factory amp putting off too

much voltage and this PAC OEM-2 allows you to lower the amount of volts

that go into the speakers (or something like that). I ordered one from

Crutchfield. I then paid someone to install it. He did an excellent job. He is

in Baltimore (12 Voltz is the name of his company) and is very reasonably priced. Crutchfield is definitely

a top notch company. They helped me as much as they could through my

first atept at installing this stereo. I literally called them about 15 times.

For the price, this stereo has everything that you want. The sound is

excellent and the navigation works great. So if you have a factory amp and

you are having a hiss (soft shushing noise) from your speakers definitely

order the PAC OEM-2 with this stereo.

product says:

The PAC OEM-2 is a universal sound system interface and controller which can be used for a variety of purposes:

connecting an aftermarket radio to a common-ground speaker system;

converting a factory radio's speaker-level outputs to preamp-level signal that can be connected to aftermarket amplifiers;

adding aftermarket amplifiers to factory premium systems (Bose, JBL, etc.);

connecting an aftermarket radio to a factory amplifier.

The unit has independent level controls for each of its 4 channels, so you can adjust output for any amplifier. It also features remote turn-on outputs for amps and power antennas.

Details:

4-channel input and output wiring

power, switched power, illumination, remote turn-on, and ground connections

input power range: 2 to 60 watts RMS

frequency response 20-20,000 Hz

1-year warranty

I'll figure out this later.I plan to put in the steering wheel adapter.

(note: part of the reason i'm posting this is so I can refer to it later and know where it is)

notable old thread:

https://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12167

so how is the ps3 linked to the f900bt giving it internet?

Edit: n/m you must mean through a av cable. That's not cheating, that's fraud!

Someone please verify this is correct:

to do the softmod I have to still ground the brake wire, but not the mute wire. I do not have to run the brake wire to the emergency break, I just ground it behind the stereo.

Is this correct? Please validate. I came to this conclusion after pages and pages of reading.

I just ordered the scion xb harness after I made the post.

(I'm not using amp for now, or the corisponding rca cables) Where are the wires that power the speakers directly* when doing a standard installation? Are these wires located on the power harness included in the f90bt box?

*through the scion harness of course

Yo, I just caved and ordered a refurb f90bt for $492 complete. That's as far as I could take my Ferengi magic on this one, not far.

I've been trying to figure out what is in the box. The pictures usually show the unit, the gps module, and sometimes the speed wire, handbrake wire, and/or rca type harness.

So.. I plan to hook this thing up without an amp for now. It would be correct to buy a harness on ebay for the standard installation, yeah? The standard installation harness is not in the box, right? or does the one in the box with rca outs also have the other wiring?

A quick answer would help me order fast if needed so I don't wait again when it gets here.

thanks, i hope