timhunold

So, I bit the bullet and ordered the map upgrades etc, and followed the instructions to the letter and the tuner is crashing every 2-5 seconds "system restart due to tuner error, contact your service provider" or to that effect. When the 'tuner' part came up, it was easy to assume it is the fm/am or even the xm, but the msn never made sense. topic answered

How about the number of times it tells me to get off the freeway, turn right, make a legal u-turn and turn righ back on to the freeway. On a route I take daily.

http://astore.amazon.com/cnsd-110fm-20 I built that little page, maybe it is of use for those that do not want to pay the $200 retail price at Pioneer. RUMOR has it you lose the iPod wheel interface??????

The Audi nav without any touch screen is actually a kenwood????

I love XM on mine, paid $77 for a year of service, made a cross country journey pleasurable.

I have not had any issues with it. I used to commute everyday Pasadena to Costa Mesa and back.

The unit has been in the car since December of last year. It is a BMW 7-series, yes there where mounting depth issues but the unit has been run continuously for close to 20 hours a few timesback to back on a cross country trip. The first time it happened this week I was 20 minutes in to my commute, the second almost half an hour, third time about 5 minutes on a lunch run. Everytime it was in the morning.

So three times this week, early in to my commute, the unit's screen has frozen. First time I could hold down the one button and get the screen color settings, and see the volume control appear on the screen, but the screen was showing FM, but I was on iPod. Second, third, times when the screen locked up, all the steering wheel function buttons like skip, volume and source work, but the screen remained unresponsive, the iPod stopped working and the XM station tuning was lagging. Press the button, 3-4 seconds later, the station changed. This sounds to me like software, not hardware. Ster

I get that too, I have a phone book that showed up in its entirety when I got the phone. Phone broke, I replaced it, I authorized to the H/U again and it only displayes about 17 of the 200 entries now.

Even though Pioneer does not make a kit, these will work fine: http://www.sonicelectronix.com/cat_i68_tv-tuners.html

I am thinking I'd rather pay $1500 for a new Alpine, Kenwood or someone else than to put more money in to this buggy headunit. That is just how I roll.

sweet, that would make life easier for me. I like the hotspot functionality of the phone, because I am already streaming pandora to the car via Sprint's 4g.

Feeds, no, I am curious about bluetooth, using phone-based contacts, etc... I am no fan of Feeds.

At the end of the week, the new Evo 4g comes out, and I was cusrious if the Droid O/S works like that of the iPhone, ie: contacts coming up, one touch dialing from a stored POI...

This is what I am doing: I have the Sprint 3g/4g Overdrive mobile hotspot in the car, I stream Pandora, etc to the touch in my car and it works nicely. I was on a drive CA>TX>LA>GA>TX>CA and believe me, this thing was great, in addition to the XM radio. There are a few things that it does not do, like contacts or addresses stored on the touch showing up in the HU as an option as with the iPhone.

Ok folks, I have a 64gb Touch and I rip using Handbrake and Slysoft's "AnyDVD" product. It allows me to rip from the DVD to the iPod format, BUT it is not playing widescreen. I just took another roadtrip and wanted to watch the Pink Panther movies, but the left and right were cut off. I clicked the widescreen mode option on and off a few times in the setup on the headunit, but no luck. Anyone else transcoding for the iPods using Handbrake?

Thanks for the info. I unfortunately don't have 3 weeks right now to go without a stereo in this car, but when the new Porsche arrives, I'll send it in. thanks for the help guys.

Thanks man, if I have that issue, I'll make note of this thread/link

Yeah, this has been discussed a lot here. The FM/AM signals are pretty poor in this unit. There is the option of an antenna booster for like $25 online that is inline and will allow you to regain a lot of the signal strength. I drive a huge German luxury barge 7 series BMW and it is very well insulated, so it was pretty bad, but to be honest, after XM and the iPod, I never use the FM band anymore and I don't really miss it. If you get this unit and don't opt for XM/Sirius on top of the iPod, it is a bit of a waste.

This has happened to me a few times, and I have no solution, just wanted to bump to let you know you are not alone.

It did it to me again this week, luckily I was only 10 miles from my office at the time, so I tolerated it for that little while. I will be contacting my vendor, they are going to put in headrest monitors for me as well, so maybe they have some suggestions. I am also going to have to find out about my rebate...

and again lastnight? WTF!

yet again it crashed. this time 10 minutes in to my 60 minute commute

After a 5500 mile trip from CA>TX>LA>GA>TX>CA the unit has started locking up on the map screen. I can change volume, and *sometimes* change source, but never skip tracks, or stations. I only see a frozen map screen, and that is it. In order to get ot back to work. I shut off the car for 30 seconds, and turn it back on. This sucks when you get in the car for a morning commute and while in gridlock, the unit crashes.

i get this too