Kinematic9

I'd say its not connected fully, maybe didn't snap in and fell out when you hit a bump. Check the sirius wire (not antenna but the main one in the back of the unit)

Discovered another (easier) workaround for my SD card issue!!

 

Changing the voice on the navigation forces a "program restart" (you confirm "yes") which reboots the unit in some sort of more significant way. Afterwards, SD card played fine, and all my settings and favorites were still there! I left the voice changed (trying TTS), but i think it's a safe assumption that its the reset not the new voice that fixed it (haha).

Awesome, that's a good idea if it happens again. With the reset all that stayed was the learned GPS information, but I had to re set everything up again (I didn't change too many default settings, so it didn't seem like much other than some volume stuff).

I don't know, I figured it takes into account the speed of the vehicle/turning by gforces or whatnot and saves it in the unit to make it more accurate over time. I just can't figure out what the speed pulse number is that starts at 0 and goes up here and there. I'm showing up to 4 but I don't know what that really does (since I don't have any of the wires hooked up, its just going off of the antenna'

Sorry, I didn't say it as clear as I meant to.. they know about the firmware, and it only is to add specific iphone 5 functionality.. but they don't know of a release timeframe for it yet. I don't use an iphone but I figured I'd pass along the info since I've noticed that as an issue.

The reset really only forced me to repair my phone, and re-set my SiriusXM favorites which only took a minute.. minor things here and there which wasn't too bad. The GPS learning in simple hybrid mode seemed to stay which was nice.. but yes, if this has to be a bi weekly thing, I will be very annoyed.

I don't have this set up... but do you have to do some sort of gesture on the HTC phones for that? I think its a 3 finger swipe up or down on the screen to go into media link mode.

Out of curiosity, have you tried a new card altogether with different files?  I'm curious to see if the files that were played were cached in somehow or if the entire SD card playback is now NG.  I have an X950BH but have only used the card twice to play music and videos and so far it's worked each time.  How long before you noticed this problem?  Between that and the whole app radio firmware delay, I'm wondering if I made a mistake in getting this unit.

 

Also, has anyone called Pioneer tech support to alert them about this (which would probably take forever on hold of course)?

Okay so I called Tech Support, problem was fixed with a settings->factory reset. It actually kept my GPS learned information so far, but wiped out everything else. (Not a huge deal, favorites and settings are easy to redo). They said it was either a 'glitch' that had to be reset, or a problem with the SD reader. I am leaning towards the first reason so far. I will keep testing and let everyone know what happens.

The other thing I found out was that since I purchased it through Amazon, that I have no warranty at all on it.. which is nice hah.

If anyone else calls, be prepared it took about an hour. Asked about the firmware update coming out for you iphone 5 folks, and I got a 'we don't know.'

No dice on a totally different SD card. Both formatted Fat32/default allocation size, I put a 'Music' and a 'video' directory on the card, and then a few mp3 files in music, and one freshly encoded mp4 into the video. Same error. I am assuming the only other thing to try is to fully reset the head unit, but I am not quite sure how to do that..and kind of don't want to either to lose all of the GPS learning/settings.. unless you guys don't think that's a big deal.

I am going to try and use another SD card today.. which is a bummer if that is the issue since I purchased a nice new 32gb one from amazon.. I may email pioneer also if that doesn't work. Hopefully we can get this figured out. I found your other thread before I posted this Oldracer, and tried the handbrake reencoding etc, no dice.

It's really weird though because it wasn't like I took out the SD card, loaded something new into it, and then it didnt work. I turned off my car, ran in to get something, came back out and got the errors. literally NOTHING changed.

Hi all,

I am a new Avic x850bt owner, and I am trying to figure out a few minor bugs. I have a Sandisk SDHC 32GB card, formatted in Fat32 that I plan on using for music/video. I set up a music folder, and dropped MP3 files in there, and then a video folder, and dropped the properly encoded mp4 files.

For a few days, everything was fine. SD card would play music, I could browse through the directories and play them no problem. Video worked fine as well. I even loaded in a custom splash screen.

Last night I turned on the SD function, and it gave me the 'Will skip any unplayable media formats' or something like that. I hooked up the SD card to my computer, everything was still intact. I even formatted it again, reloaded the same files I had previously used, and the unit will not recognize anything anymore.

Also unrelated, utilizing the 'bluetooth audio' function and running SUBSONIC on my Galaxy Note II works fine, but some times it shows no info on the Pioneer (Just pause and stop), and some times it shows the song/artist no problem. All very random, not sure why.

Thanks ahead of time if anyone has any suggestions.

Hey.. I just installed my 850BT, and I was using Subsonic through the Bluetooth audio connection today, and I noticed it was showing Artist/Song/Album on the screen. I also have the Note II, and this did not happen every time. I launched the media player that is built in, and then went back to subsonic, and it was there.

Try that and see if it works.

I just installed an x850bt, and I can't get it to play .avi or .mp4 files from my SD card at all.

Easiest way seems to be putting a jpg on an SD card, and in the headunit's options there is a 'splash screen' option. You can browse the SD card for the file you put on. I'd say keep it to the resoultion of the screen 800x480 I believe.

The more I use it, the better it seems to get. I reset my GPS settings and now it seems not as accurate, but its still moving. I am having issues with my XM antenna under the dash, I am reading that you are going to want to move them as far up towards the windshield as you can

I literally just installed my 850bt yesterday, have the GPS antenna under the dash as well. It's probably not as strong as a connection as it would be outside, but it still picks up 5+ satellites. Takes a few minutes longer the first time you hook it up, I think.

Did you mount it on the little metal sticker plate they sent? I have read that helps.