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If you you've got and AppRadio 2 and an iPhone and are interested in how you can integrate a car radar unit into this, check my review on the Escort Smart Radar unit here: 14% 0%

@danhyz - good explanation, your'e right on the money. I've done the 8.30 update and paired my iPhone 5, it works great. If anyone hasn't done it yet and want to see what it looks like, here it is:

On the original question about snow, I get that too, on occasion. It seems to do the snow ( or white noise as it is called ) intermittantly for a few seconds and then goes away for no apparent reason. I have the iPhone 5 connected via an HDMI cable only. The factory 30 pin cable is plugged into the back of the head unit, but it is not connected to anything. By the way, I had this problem with my iPhone 4 and with the 30 pin cable connected too, so the phone or connection doesn't seem to matter. My HDMI adapter for the iPhone 5 was purchased through the Apple Store, so that isn't the problem ei

I did a video to show what the 8.30 firmware with an iPhone 5 looks like, it works great, check it out:

Yes, this combination works great, I'm finally back on board with AppRadio 2 and my iPhone 5 and touchscreen support. Check out how it works:

If you update the AppRadio 2 to the current firmware you won't need to do any of this. Just connect an HDMI cable from the phone to the back of the head unit. Touchscreen now works via Bluetooth rather than through the Pioneer cable. Pioneer now officially supports iPhone 5 connectivity. Yay! Check out this video to see how it works:

The only thing that streams over BT is the phone, everything else goes through the cable. I can't speak to jailbroken phone or head units, that might be a different story, but out of the box, it all goes over the wire.

@Shaul64 - On your first point, the cable you mention seems highly unlikely that an adapter will convert the HDMI to composite. Why would they do that? The APR2 already has an HDMI input on the back, it seems more likely they would create a single Lighting connector at the phone end and the other end would break out into an HDMI and whatever that block connector is called that the iPhone plugs into now. So, all they really need to do is seperate the digital output of the phone and connect it to the HDMI on the back of the head unit. Either way, I hope they do something. On point two, the C

I have Macmini as well and sice it uses an HDMI connector, the Appradio2 would serve as a monitor like any regular monitor. So, using direct connect and, perhaps using your cell phone as a wifi hotspot, if supported on your phone and carrier, you'd be set to go.

@johnricc - yes, if you use the HDMI direct connection, you can use Netflix and Slingbox, I use both myself, it formats to the screen very well. Since, Slingbox now works via 3G/LTE, reception is no problem.

So, do you have an AppRadio 2 in your car and you got an iPhone 5 and found out you now have a $350 AM FM Radio with blue tooth phone, and everything else is gone? Here's a couple of quick videos I did to make the best of a bad situation. The first one shows how to direct connect your iPhone 5 or iPad 4th gen to the head unit and get back the video you lost and still charge your phone without using the 40 pin connector. The second video takes it to the next level by integrating an Apple TV into the car and stream wirelessly to the head unit, nice, but a little more expensive and takes a bit of

Here's how you connect the AppRadio 2 to Apple TV: 100%

Here's my follow on video that shows how to connect your AppRadio2 to the Apple TV and view in the car. Watch the first one above that shows how to direct connect via HDMI cable, then check out this video: 100%

After that 5 seconds, what appears on the head unit and what appears on the iPhone screen? Does the head unit still have an Android symbol in the Apps icon?

I'll be making the AppRadio2 / Apple TV video as soon as my mobile router arrives from Amazon: http://www.cnetusa.com/esp/CQR-980.php Stand by...