spookysoldier

Hi bladesrx, If you look on page 101 of the D3 manual, it says that you are supposed to balance the volume between both your phone and the BTB100 (D3), so I did so by upping the volume on my phone and the mic came through great. Positioning is critical, make sure it's facing you and no more than about 2.5 feet away. It's really directional, so make sure it's facing you. About the cell service and battery indicator--that's not displayed on your D3, only the bluetooth device numbers can be viewed from the D3 (like "Katana" on mine). So, you'll have to check your phone for both of thos

Got the D3 installed yesterday. Test drove the system for several hours last night trying everything under the sun to make sure the install and accessories (BTB100, XM, iPOD) worked out. All 3 work great. Bluetooth is pretty impressive. I tap the voice icon on the screen, it operates my phone and I say the name of the person memorized on the phone...it dials. I can punch in numbers on the screen...it dials. I transferred my address book...it remembers and dials. I can call from my phone, and transfer by tapping the phone icon on the D3....it dials. Not sure what you've heard. I think

Puddle Pirate-- From page 66 (right column, top) of the manual: Pictures up to a maximum of 2 048×1 536 pixels can be used. We cannot guarantee proper operation for a picture bigger than this size. I used one that was 635kb, then one that was 1.7mb...both worked just fine. The larger one did get cropped a bit by the software in the D3. Use standard microsoft office picture (under accessories on your XP Office) to downsize if you don't have fancy photo programs on your computer. As stated in several threads now, you have to "close-out" the CD-R or RW if you want the D3 to reco

Silkjones-- I think your plant in the photos needs watering.

XMX250-- Although the radio comes with a tuner for standard AM/FM, the XM is really nice to have. My only complaint about the XM is that it takes a bit for each screen shot of the list of stations to load when "paging down" using a different mode than the "list" view of stations (enables you to page by genre rather than by numbered stations in increasing numbers). I think the reason for this is that it loads a thumbnail of each station's ID which takes about 2-3 seconds to load if the genre has a lot of stations under it (like "rock" or "classical"). But, it was totally worth it. The X

Sportsfan21-- I was worried about the installation angle as well...thought about the Eclipse system or a more expensive pioneer a million times before going for the new D3. In the end, it worked out just fine. Not only can I see just fine, but the angle keeps the screen out of sight from others outside the vehicle (works well when my wife wants to watch her iPOD video and we don't want to get pulled over), and since it's LCD...the viewing angle instructions are listed below from the Instruction Manual: Due to its construction, the view angle of the LCD screen is limited. The viewing

Just installed the D3, bluetooth, XM, and iPOD cord in my '01 Pathfinder. Put a couple of photos here for you to see if you'd like. A few notes: Bought radio and parts online, got a better deal than in a 4-hour drive from where I live. I also got a really good deal installing the D3 from HappyEar in Watertown NY (I'm not advertising, they just did a good job). They even installed a lockout switch for the bypass without me even asking. Great job. The Bluetooth (BTB100) works fine. I had to adjust the volume on my phone a bit, but the location (see photo) in the dash is actually p