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At least one of them is on vacation... Permanent or temporary?

Who provided the hacked EZRider for 2.0 (I can't remember)?

Samantha IS a Nuance voice: http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/SpeechE ... tml#Nuance

Are you talking about the back light color of the buttons themselves? If so, we don't have any idea how to change that. Our ability to modify the system is really limited to the navigation section, with a few other changes related to other components (like the images used in the AV component for example).

I'm having that same problem regardless of whether my car is running or not (and I measured my battery's output, that's not the problem). I'll have to pull the deck out and install it on my bench hooked up to a power supply, hopefully that will fix the problem.

You need to update your VR catalog, the content on your iPod has changed and it's messing up the VR. That will fix your problem.

Why would you want to do that? If you just want navigation, get a PND, or sell your IDA-x100 and get an IVA-W205 w/ NVE-P1.

No, there is no way to display AudioBooks directly on the F-Series, which is a huge pain when on road trips.

The person you spoke with is correct, they are identical, the 7010 was just designed for installation by dealers.

You must turn off the A/V source that is playing before you can change the mute setting (I have no idea why, that's just how Pioneer designed it).

You need the Pioneer GEX-P10XMT, or if you have an iPhone, you can use the XM/Sirius app to get it without adding any new hardware.

None of the F-Series units support the A2DP profile, so no, they won't stream music from your iPhone. The newly announced (but unavailable) X-Series will I believe, but that may be significantly more than you're looking to spend. IMHO, either get a Garmin or TomTom, or go with a double DIN replacement (like the F700, F900, Kenwood DNX, Alpine IVA, etc.) and skip the F500.

Obviously this is much better than anything Pioneer has previously produced, but I'm still appalled by the glaring oversights in the UI. They had a chance to do everything over again and they still made the same mistakes? I just don't get it. Come on Jason, you had them right there, forced to listen to you, and you didn't ask any of the obvious questions?

Settings -> AV Settings

Did you connect the RCAs to the preouts (and not the audio inputs)? Is the HP crossover turned on under settings?

That is (or was) how you entered the menu on Audi's radios. It's specific to their cars.

The spacing for radio tuning is different and the EU firmware does not support voice recognition. I'm not aware of anyone that has swapped firmware from EU to US or vice versa, so as of right now we don't know if it's possible, or what it would take.

Most older systems are resistance based, each button push changes the resistance on that one control wire by a certain measurable amount. Newer vehicles almost all use CAN Bus for steering wheel controls, so the button pushes are interpreted by the control module which sends a signal out on the Bus that is received by the appropriate device.

When did you purchase your units, and have you updated them to version 2.0 of the firmware? That fixed this problem for most people.

Thanks for the post, I'm going to move it to the correct forum. Welcome to the site!

Yes you can connect it to steering wheel controls, if you have the correct adapter from the aftermarket interface manufacturer of your choice (usually PAC).

Hey Andy, which shop is doing the install? I can't remember who the Pioneer dealer is in Bend now-a-days, is it AudioWerks still?

Just in case someone else runs across this thread with the same question, the version of the software running on your F-Series has no impact on it's hackability. Download the correct files from the FAQ thread to access Windows CE and have at it.

He means that you should look at something besides the JVC and Pioneer. Check out Kenwood's new AVN headunits, you won't be disappointed.

I have a 700, which doesn't have a VSS connection, so any information I offer won't be very valuable to you. That is one of the advantages of dead-reckoning (the process by which the navigation system calculates your current position based on your last known position and the direction and speed you are currently traveling). But there are lots of things about the F-Series that are counter intuitive, so while I agree that Pioneer should have set it up to make use of that information when it doesn't have a GPS connection, unless someone from the inside tells us, there's no way to know t