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Okay, so I spoke to the rep. at Pioneer who recommended I try out a different iPod / iPhone with the unit just to see if it was the unit or the iPod software. So, I borrowed my wife's iPhone, plugged it in, the unit cataloged all the songs from her iPhone, and the voice commands were recognized! So, I thought maybe if I connected my own iPhone it would work since the VR catalog got "reset" in a way. Sure enough it worked!! So, I suppose the iPod app was in a bad state or something. Who knows! All I know, is I'm glad I can finally control my songs and calls with voice commands once again.

Well I updated the unit with the latest firmware, and was crossing my fingers, but still same issue. All the commands that are shipped with the unit work, but anything related to my catalog simply won't get recognized in the slightest. It just fails fails fails. I'll try doing a restore on the device, but in the meantime I'm on the phone with support to see if another agent can help out. More later . . . Thanks!

Thanks again for the tips. I did what you said to rebuild the VR catalog and still no dice. All the commands that ship with the unit work fine, but the variable ones (the names of my songs in my iPhone) simply do not get recognized. What a disappointment! So, I called tech support at Pioneer and they suggested I do the same things you recommended, but then they said I should update my firmware to the latest. Not sure if that will do the trick, but I'm going to give it a shot. I just don't know what the deal is. Ever since I got my car back nothing is recognized. You mentioned someth

Thanks for the reply Ron. I appreciate your time. I will give those suggestions a try. When I turn the VR Catalog Mode to OFF, should I turn the car off then on again so the unit reboots?

I'm glad I found this thread. My VR commands were working great before I had to take my care in for some repairs to my bumper. When I received the car from the repair garage, everything works fine EXCEPT for the VR commands--regardless of me pressing the OK button before my iPhone BT connection is made! Is it possible that the repair technicians "reset" my AVIC unit so that it ended up in a state where the VR catalog was destroyed or something? Any suggestions I can try to completely reset my AVIC unit? I should note that when I speak the command "Play Artist" the unit does recognize t