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Hey abb.....thanks for all of the info and help that you gave me. Sorry I was unaware about the need for FW 3.0, I could have saved us both some time and effort lol. But at least I have you to thank for pointing me in the right direction. I finally got the links to work on the page you referenced me to for the firmware update once I schooled myself in torrents, however they are the update files from the pioneer cnsd-100fm update that is only for other f-series avics. The avic I have is the F500bt and it seems that I need the cnsd-150fm update made just for my model. Would you happen

None of the links on the page you referenced me to work. Do you know where else to get it without having to pay, I really have the moolah for that right now? Can you make me a copy since you have it? Do I absolutely have to have 3.0 to run your nav mod v1.65? Is that what my problem is?

When I hit the map button on startup mode, it switches to the nav warning screen with the startup message covering the ok button. There is no error message, but the unit seems to freeze then, cannot go back or get off the screen. As far as my firmware, uhh I have not done any kind of upgrading myself since I got it on that. I do know that when I got it, I went to the pioneer website and was going to get the latest upgrade that they supply, but the version that was in my unit was already a later version than theirs that was available. I dont think it was 3.0 though, maybe 2.06, is that a co

Ok, I re-downloaded all 3 files - the nav mod v1.65, the gfx folder, and the schemes folder. I use winrar to extract them all. Using the same installation method as I used above, I replaced all of the same existing files that were on there with the newly downloaded and extracted ones. No change....still have the startup message, no nav, and no button sound. When I install the schemes to the unit, I am supposed to copy JUST the theme zips to the myflashdisk/APL2/igo/content/scheme folder correct? Or am I supposed to copy the entire folder with the zips inside to the schemes folder?

Ok, I downloaded winrar, re-downloaded you nav mod 1.65, extracted the data.zip, put it on clear sd card, booted into testmode, deleted old data.zip and pasted new, deleted contents of save folder, shut down, removed sd, restarted, and...........still have the startup message on the menu.........won't go away. What next??

Ok thanks Abb.....I am going to do that now. On the winrar, which version do I use, the 32bit or 64bit? My system is a 64bit windows 7 Enterprise so do I use the 64bit?

Oh hell, no I did not. That was not in the instructions that I found. Could you please tell me how to do that?

Hello Abb. I have been a big fan of your posts and info for a long time. I recently got an F500bt and was disappointed with it's appearance, until I came across your postings and saw your chrome mods. They are awesome!! But.....I am having some trouble with the Nav Mod. I installed the ChromeImage V1.2 with no problem, and I even changed a few things on it, only some bmps, nothing major. When I went to install the Chrome Nav Mod V1.65, your GFX Folder, and Schemes.......my main screen gets frozen with the "system startup in progress. please wait" message, and it will not go away af