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Yeah, what he said. I can't find them either.

Yes - works perfectly! Actually -- you'd think they could suspend to FLASH so it wouldn't need to use any battery power. You'd just use battery for a few seconds after engine stop to do the save, then resume when the car is started again. Why cold boot at all?

I know that worked for me. No more nag screen - yay! Now if only the boot time were a little shorter. Or a LOT shorter. I was trying to figure out why once in a while my unit will still show the backup camera half a block from home. Well, if I have it on the map when I shut off the car, I'll get the backup camera image about 10-12 seconds after engine start. After I shift out of reverse, though, it wants to flip to the nav screen -- but of course it can't until Windows finishes booting. Duh. It's really too bad they didn't design the system to suspend/sleep when the engine is s

I'm sure glad I never listened to anyone who told me things weren't possible. I'd never have the job, house, toys or kids I've got now. Obviously it's possible, given enough knowledge about the underlying programs present on the AVIC. The unit mutes and switches various audio sources all the time now, all under program control. So obviously there is a programmatic way to do it, we just haven't figured that way out yet. As I noted in a post in the F hacks forum, reverse engineering Windows EXE files is a little out of my range right now - at least until I've got some time to figu

I'm more of a hardware guy. I can write my own C code and scripts, and develop products using embedded processors with code I write myself. However, ripping apart code compiled for Windows is a little beyond me at the moment. I guess I'll have to wait and watch for some of the software pros to do some further digging - or wait until I've got the time to figure out how to reverse engineer the stuff on the AVIC.

OK, fair enough. Next question: Does anyone know, and have a few minutes to tell me, how switching audio sources is done? Is there a (known) command already on the system to do it, as I suspect, or is it done at a lower level by the programs themselves?

Has anyone documented any of the the WinCE commands used on the AVIC? I'm interested specifically in how to switch audio sources from a script. From what I have read, I think av.exe can do that given the proper incantation. I want to be able to (for example) watch for an event, like a COM port line changing state, and switch to a different audio source. One example of a use for this would be to detect the signal from an external source (ham radio, CB, scanner, radar detector) and automatically switch to an aux audio input. Putting some sort of visual indication on the screen and sending a

Wow... this nailed my problem exactly. I edited my phone contacts and re-downloaded them, now I can dial entries by voice commands. THANKS GUYS!!! That was bugging the hell out of me.

The hardware is not a problem... at least I don't think it would be. I'll have to look and see if my favorite USB solution has drivers for WinCE on ARM... yup, drivers do exist. So... the next question is, is there a documented API or some tribal knowledge regarding how to control the audio functions from Windows? Mute, switch inputs, etc? If I can find that and get a small app doing what I want it to, I'll see about hacking together some hardware. Rather than use the squelch signal, I'll probably just use an audio detector (think VOX) so it could be applied to other audio source

Warning message, p. 185 of the manual. Don't know if it keeps you from using the nav or not, but I'd bet it does. This is my first AVIC and I did the bypass, so I can't tell you for certain.

The unit will function exactly as the manufacturer intended it to. Some features are not available when you're not parked... like finding an address with the nav system, etc. Since there's no DVD player on a 710, that's not an issue, though I believe it will play some video formats (haven't tried yet). Those probably won't work unless parked, either. It's all in that fine operation manual, should you care to slog through it all. There are a lot of people who will just plain go off on people asking about bypassing the unit's reluctance to enable all features while moving. While I pers

I got my X710BT installed -- FINALLY -- in my truck. Took the install kit a while to get here, but I'll have it finished up tonight and start with the Dynamat. There are a couple of things I want to do, though, if it's possible. I don't know how much control WinCE has over the audio hardware, but it seems I should be able to do this stuff. First off, I want to change the "iPOD" designation for the AV1 input to something else. Neither I nor anyone else in the family use one, and I'd just like to change the text to read, for example, "HAM". I want to connect the audio from my ham radio