hello all..i was given an avic f500bt from one of customers..i'm a master auto tech who owns my own shop for 33 years...problem with the avic i was given is the keyboard does not work all that great...so after spending $120.00 us for the cnsd-350fm..which is pioneers latest update ...i found that i'm not able to enter the password from pioneer to install the update..getting frustrated i started playing...guess what? you can connect it to a pc and access all files!! no need to use a sd card..
1) get the testmode file from this forum
2) load test mode to sd card
3) turn unit on