gates59

The batteries of that unit are garbage. If it works pluged in you are good. No point of buying a new battery. Same thing will happen again.

Can you share them please.

Must be the same as I have. THNX

Are you telling me that you have the 2010 canada maps. It does not show up on the pioneer site.

2010 is almost over and still no 2010 maps. Whats up with that. I guess buying a f500 was a bad idea. I should have kept my hand held Garmin.

Thanks for the reply. I just changed the map to ta instead and all is good.

You can't plan a route with that. It does not have a map you can see. I would like to add way points and follow it to my destination.

Is there such a thing as software to plan my route on the computer before my trip. I liked my old garmin portable gps for that. I do not like the route it is planning for me. I tried all the different settings like fast and econo. There must be an after market software that I can just load onto my sd card. Please let me know. THNX Gates

Why should Pioneer fix for free what you messed up. It is your fault. Should have read more before playing around with your system. Everywhere you read it talks about BACKUP first.

I guess you tried to restore you gps with disk-rw. You messed things up. Wince can not be downgraded. If you tried to restore your gps with the old firmware and wince with disk-rw you realy messed things up. I can't help you. You will need to send to pioneer for repair.

I don't mean to do it now but did you do it before trying to upgrade your firmware. Also you would not happen to be from ontario canada. Would be easyer for me to fix your gps if I had it.

Now before you installed files on your gps did you install the free update from pioneer.

Ok so what you are saying is that you did not do a full backup before you copied files to your gps. If so you should at least try to get your licence. Without that you have problems. Let me know. Well will go from there.

First wince is not updated using testmode. Might want to read a little more. Also what folders did you copy over the first time you played around with your gps. I need to know exactly what you did to your gps after you got it.

Did you install your licence and the generic licence.