ndy4eva

Change the viewing angle and settings.

I set the smart zoom to

- zoomed: 80m 65 degree

- standard: 150m 78 degree

It's in the AV settings. Set it to "Normal" for guidence. The default setting is "ATT" (I think).

I'm interested to test it on mine. Where did you get them?

You might want to try to export phonebook from outlook and import it back.

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=25308

I did it this way since my phone (Treo680) didn't transfer all the contacts to Pioneer. Only transfered some in phone plus contacts in SIM card.

It's little hassle but it gave me chance to re-organize and add only required contacts (not all) to Pioneer phonebook.

I saw few post regarding the Pioneer external mic (included with the nav unit) isn't the best. When I had U310BT, my wife complained about the voice quality. So, when I ordered x710BT, I ordered Garmin external mic as well. I haven't had chance to really test the BT on x710 and F500 with new Garmin mic. I will let you know if this is actually better than Pioneer mic.

I bought mine from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-External-M ... 665&sr=8-1

It works great!!! Thanks!!!!

Thanks, I kinda figured it out. It seems Video playback is quite limited on F500 and x710.

It seems that it's more to do with the viewing angle issue. My F500BT on Mazda6 is located about eye-level (top compartment), and my x710BT on S-Type is located below. I checked x710BT from eye-level and it seems to have better contrast than viewing from the top-down.

Also, I poked around TestMode but couldn't find any settings to adjust the screen other than brightness.

You might want to read this thread in Mazda6Club forum.

http://forum.mazda6club.com/index.php?showtopic=42447

I don't think you will want to hook up ND-G500 speaker out to Bose's amplifier.

I bought my refurbished x710BT from Googol Shop (at Amazon).

Item(s) Subtotal: $448.99 plus Shipping & Handling: $8.94

I downloaded this.... took a quite a while to download. It has NT Q1, Q2 and TA 2009.06. Some other maps for EU countries. Generally 2009.06 TA maps were up-to-date for most of USA (much larger file size for map and poi). But there were some errors in 2009.06 TA Canada map. So, I'm using NT Q2 map for Canada and it looks better at least Vancouver area. Btw, I'm using 2009.06 TA Canada poi (NT poi is just not enough).

I used AuxMod I purchased while ago. It looks like it's not available. You might be able to get one from Buy&Sell area of mazda6club forum.

Basically, AuxMod let you have 3.5mm aux-in using Tape source. I used it to wire speaker out from F500BT cradle (through ground-loop isolator). It works quite well. I used to have in-line amplifier but I removed it as the maximum on F500BT was just sufficent.

http://www.sylfex.com/products/AuxMod/

http://forum.mazda6club.com/index.php?s ... &hl=f500bt

I have f500 and x710. My f500 has much better screen contrast thana x710 I just installed. Is there any way to adjust the screen contrast? During the night-time, it's not so bad. But the color looks washed-out during the daytime.

Thanks,

I had same/similar issue with U310BT when I had it.

http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=30467

Basically, it has static noise after each button press (hard & soft keys). It's hard to hear or notice when driving & playing music. However it's very noticeable when the engine is off.

Any suggestion?

Only thing I didn't follow the installation guide is the grounding the hand-brake wire (hardwire by-pass).

It's quite interesting why F500BT behavies differently compare to other F-series or X-series units. I just installed x710BT for my wife's car and the Korean font stay even with every restarts. I'm trying to reduce the number of resets but sometime it's un-avoidable.

Personally, I gave up on U310BT and purchased X710BT (refurbished) for extra ~$50ish. The POI and GPS features were the main reason. I thought about purchasing additional poi, but it was cheaper to purchase x710bt that will give me much more features and nice big screen. I have f500bt on my car and I couldn't get use to small u310bt's screen and gps features. Also, the routing was really bad in my area.

Now, I have to wait for one more week and drive down to pick it up. But, I think it's worth it at the end.

Refurbished f700bt is even cheaper...

http://cgi.ebay.com/PIONEER-AVIC-F700BT ... 2c52e2785b

US $398.99 (incl. shipping).

I'm debating to return U310BT (still less than 30days from local shop) and get refurbished unit from eBay. Do you think it's good idea?

How's the Pioneer refurbished units?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... efurbished

It's under $448.99 + $8.94 shipping. I will have to drive down to US to pick it up, and might have to pay taxes when i come back. I paid $447(cdn) for U310BT (incl. taxes). Basically I have to pay about $100 extra for x710bt.

Thanks,

I guess it's really up to you..

If you want to run the latest os (wince), I would... I like to run the latest and greatest s/w.... always.

It doesn't happen all the time but it flips to 2D view once destination is set.

Is it possible to mod x710bt to play divx contents from usb/sd? I did a search but i didn't find any information on it.

Thanks!

I'm running EU 3.02 update on my F500BT. I just replaced the apl folder to upgrade av and bt. It works fine. I couldn't find any major changes other than BT layout (during the call). It displays over right side of screen instead of covering overall screen.

I updated to get latest APL (av and bt apps). It looks quite good and works quite well for me. I guess it's really up to you if you want it. There isn't any significant changes that I can tell from v3 (wince & apl) compare to v2.

New BT doesn't display across screen. It's on right side of the screen and doesn't cover up the tracking arrow.

I have all mexico, canada, and us maps (2009.06 TA). Also, I have the Diafia's mod. The flash backup size is 1.78 GB (1,912,508,084 bytes).

Nope.. The noise comes after the button release for about 1-2 seconds.