matt23

thanks again to everyone who put this together; I was 2 years overdue and finally did the upgrade today. only took 100 years for me to find my 2.5" IDE adapter buried in my garage. and now that I've upgraded to 2010 I see it's been a year since Garrett posted this thread for 2010. so is 2011 in the pipeline? thanks again! edit: d'oh nevermind I see there's a thread already in 'General' re: 2011. I'll wait it out. I see that in 2009 or 2010 ? they expanded the high-resolution map coverage a bit. I live in San Francisco and part of it was hi-res and of course I lived in the

it is definitely -slower- on the Z3 at least in my experience. How much longer? I never timed it exactly but it's easily 10 seconds longer maybe(?)

I know some guy who isn't me and he seeded that thing for nearly 500GB uploaded and had to take a break. Plus 9GB eats a lot of disk space. hang in there, you'll get the file.

check out the ZAGG site and their invisibleSHIELD products. Theirs are a bit thicker than most but i use it for my ipod and phone, too.

check earlier posts, essentially the $5 route means to unlock your HDD, the drive will be wiped clean in the process. so any music, address info, map configs, images, etc etc will be gone. To keep your data you need to go the more expensive route. (note the same company makes both applications...Capitalism, baby!) But yeah if that data isn't important to you, go for the cheaper unlock!

interesting, i wonder if the Z* units do some sort of low-grade DRM. Like, just a simple hash against the unit's serial number or some other value. Then all the files will only play on that unit. (?) I think I'll poke around too for fun

I downloaded the ginormous Z3 image via BitTorrent and did the procedures as listed here in this thread and in the Z3 drive image thread. Now my Z2 is a Z3! the only downside I see is that it appears to take a bit longer to boot up once you start the car. But hey not that big a deal considering what I paid for the upgrade. many thanks to Hyperite, AFMagnum, garrettoomey, and everyone else who's contributed to all the R&D! I'll keep seeding the image for as long as I can, I think I can probably hold onto it through July. -Matt

and not only that, you can't choose between 12/24 hour time format, and the time contains a leading zero. e.g.: "04:12" which can be 4 in the morning, or 4 in the afternoon. Sure you can look out the window and make a pretty good guess. Either ditch the leading zero, or make it switchable. Just one of the many annoyances of the Z series

incredibly lame, Pioneer.

paper1 ... i like! thanks!

YOU LIE! GARMIN ARE TEH WIZZARDS!!!1

this sounds like a pretty good idea..please post your results! thanks!

take a close look at antenna placement. you could be getting some bad multipath situation going if the antenna is at a bad angle or is nestled down around too much metal.

true, it's more the 'this antenna needs power' than actually requiring an amp. but then, by powering the antenna, the weak signal is amplified so it can be sort of a semantics thing. my car has an in-glass diversity antenna and while I can't make use of the diversity system anymore, I did need an antenna adapter with an in-line 12v power connection.

sorry, as of the 2007 MY this data must be taken from the CAN-BUS. There is no discrete wire with analog signalling for VSS. There are interfaces out there that can talk to the CAN-BUS and output a VSS signal. Check out my DIY at vwvortex: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3275461