astromanluca

Well damn. I've tried pretty much everything. Just tried my original testmode folder (the one that I got with the 3.0 firmware update) on a different SD card, freshly formatted, with nothing else on it, and it still does the reboot loop. But only when I try going into testmode. The GPS still works otherwise, but as usual it's not remembering my settings and earlier today it forgot my GPS favorites as well (but it still remembers my radio presets). At this point I'm pretty sure it has to be a problem with the unit, because I've tried everything and nothing has changed. Is there anything

Well, I figured out my first problem - my testmode folder was inside another testmode folder! I must have extracted it wrong at first. Even after I fixed that, though, I had problems. I went through something like three different testmode folders downloaded from various links on this site. I tried reformatting my SD card too. But no matter what I do, I can't get my stereo to boot into testmode again. What happens is it shows me the splash screen, and then the screen turns off and back on again. Repeat forever until I remove my key or pull the SD card. Is there a fix for this? I can't t

Thanks. I will try using that testmode file even if it says that one file is broken. Should have done that yesterday when I had the chance; now I'm at work and I'll have to wait until this evening to try it out!

Thanks for the upload but when I go to extract, it says the file "cecmd.exe" in /testmode/Utils is broken.

I'm also having trouble with testmode. I did read the FAQ, but it doesn't help that it's out of date and points to a file that is a year old and probably meant for units running the 2.0 firmware (I have 3.01). Anyway, I downloaded the file that SkunkApe linked to and put it in the root directory of a freshly-formatted SD card, but my F700BT does not boot into testmode. The strange thing is I had no trouble accessing testmode in order to update my firmware to 3.0, then to update it to 3.01, and finally to back up and then update my maps to the 2009.6 versions. It's just that ever since I up

I think it works once you have the 3.0 update installed. I did the update last night and played some AVI videos without any problems. Before the update, it really didn't work with anything. I don't know how those videos were encoded exactly, but they do work now. Only thing is the player is pretty spotty. It can be choppy when the playback controls are visible, and the controls are very limited. Not really practical, but it's a fun little feature to show off to your friends (especially if you have a software bypass so you can play movies while driving).

Anyone know what the 3.01 update does? Is it mostly under-the-hood, stability stuff?