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Tell them to do this:

http://www.sminntech.com/z1flash.html#newbypass

Ok I got the 2 wire done correctly, and it was double checked and verified by 2 local shops. The software has been burned as an image with the ISO burning program that was on another post on here. I have also tried it with Nero. The bypass update still does not work. The firmware update does not work either. I do not get a yes or no to run the update. Instead I get this. If I install the disc the bypass works for a short time then goes back to the regular settings.

 

From this picture, I would say you already have that update. That screen means that you have a valid update disk but the update has already been applied. Then if you reset the unit, little recessed button to the right of eject, you should be fine.

 

If you are not fine then you have one of problems (or both), you have the entirely wrong update disk or the 2 wire ground isn't done right.

 

you have the entirely wrong update disk:

This is if you have an Avic Z2 and you are trying to load the Avic Z1 bluetooth update disk or something like that. If you have an older Z2, then you need the image from method 2 of

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8783

If you have a Z2 and that's the disk you are using.... or if you have a Z1 and you are using the bluetooth update disk or the random lock up update disk, then you have a problem with...

 

the 2 wire ground isn't done right:

This is by far the most problematic issue, I would say.

http://www.sminntech.com/z1flash.html#newbypass

Make sure the shops checked the problem parts of this. What is happening?

 

Snip from my web site:

I did what you say to above and when I start driving around I get a pop up message about my parking brake not being connected properly and I get locked out again.

 

I get this a lot. You are not alone. What happened is that you didn't do "wire #2" correctly. In the instructions above, wire #1 is the parking brake wire. Grounding that will bypass the unit while you are not moving. Grounding wire #2 will keep the unit unlocked when you start moving. If wire #2 is not grounded properly then when you start moving it will lock you back out again and put up that pop up message. I know you think that you grounded that wire correctly, and most likely you did. Where most people have problems is in the connector itself. Either the terminal is not oriented correctly or it's not inserted all the way or something. But check and double check that connector. That's where every single problem I have seen has been. Trust me this procedure works and it works well. If it's not working then double check what you did. If you are still getting the pop up message, the only way to get rid of it is to press the recessed button to the right of the eject button (the button the opens the face of the Avic-Z1). This will lose your AM/FM radio presets but not much else.

Ground the light green parking brake sense wire from the Z1. If the light green parking brake sense wire is already connected to your vehicles parking brake switch wire, then disconnect it from the vehicles wiring and then ground it. Do not permanently ground the vehicles parking brake switch wire, just the light green sense wire from the Z1.

 

Alright please correct me if i am wrong. According to this statement, i can ground the light green wire permanently but not the green wire ?

 

Well what is this green wire you speak of? Is this "green" wire you are talking about a permanent wire that is original to the vehicle's wiring? This is what the quote you had above was talking about. There is a wire in your vehicle which is grounded when you pull (or step on) your vehicles parking brake, it was there from the factory. Normally the install calls for the Avic's light green wire to connect to that wire, so that when the car's wire is grounded so will the light green Avic's sense wire.

 

You want the avic's parking brake sense wire grounded all the time but you don't want to mess with your vehicle's original parking brake wire like this, disconnect the light green parking brake sense wire from the car's wiring, and ground the light green wire permanently. But leave the original car's wiring for the parking brake alone.

 

 

I have a AVIC-Z2, if i just ground the light green wire permanently and not do the second wire then what happens ?

 

Your system will be bypass for 1 - 100 miles. Then it will pop up a message saying your parking brake is not connected properly. And every time you start the car, you will get this parking brake pop up, and you must hit OK to get rid of it. Then the system will auto unlock itself when you go slower than 5mph, faster than that, it locks it self again.

 

Thanks for help guys, and can some one please post the picture of the light green wire, just want to make sure.

 

Don't have one but it's page 13 and 14 of the installation manual. The light green parking brake sense wire is in the main "power" block connector with power, ground and the speaker wires. There are green speaker wires in there too, don't ground those.

Is this a fairly long process? I drove 30 minutes to work today with a DVD going and I'm still good. I'll check back at lunch.

 

Could be as much as 100 miles or so.

The last person we want to ban around here is BigFloppyDonkeyBalls. We will need a little more time to test than 24 hours. I'm going to try to test this as well. But I won't have the image till later tonight at the earliest. And some of us do have lives you know. I might not be able to test it tonight.

Just a thought, but when you go back in to verify the pin connection in the #2 harness, add a spot of crazy glue on the back side of the harness to hold that pin in position...that's what saved my a**!

 

 

ahhhh.... I don't know if I would do that. Glue is not needed for this connector. There are 30 other wires on those harnesses and those are all reliable, if you needed glue you buggered up the terminal before you re-inserted it. If removed correctly and inserted correctly, there is no need for glue. The other problem is that if you glue it in and don't get it correctly, you won't be able to change anything.

 

You might need to take the little "tang" which holds the terminal in and pry it out with a pin, it should be at about a 35 - 40 deg angle.

I got the CD in the mail and it worked...But it was an OLD version so my unit wasnt able to update. Then recently after a week of my bypass working fine I just got that parking brake error again.

 

DO you know why the parking brake message came back?

 

Yes, that's working as I would expect.

 

The "old" version means that the CD you have was already installed and not needed.

 

The week of working and then not, sounds to me, like you reset the unit and wire #2 is not connected correctly.

http://www.sminntech.com/z1flash.html#newbypass

 

Or wire #2 is intermittent and is wiggling loose. It doesn't take much of a screw up in the connector to make it intermittent.

 

If the CD you got in the mail won't install cause it's "old" then the software is up to date, now you need to work on the hardware. If you reset the unit and it works for a while, wire #1 is ok. Wire #2 has a problem. Fix it, reset the unit and you will be good to go.

They are BMP files not JPGs. You make JPGs for the CD, it changes them to BMPs for the hard drive and stores your most recent selection as a BMP on the hard drive.


If you search your hard drive for them you will find them. I can't remember off hand. It's pretty obvious when you find them, in a DEFAULT folder or something.

Also you can't just add a dozen files (at least without removing the stock ones). There is something in the Z1 software (don't know if they carried this to the Z2) where it will only show you 12 backgrounds and it comes with 8 or something so if you put in more than 4 extra ones it will only show you the 8 originals and 4 you put in and the others will just seem like you didn't copy them.

Thanks. Nothing is official yet, but it's looking very very promising.

Damn you get severence at least?

 

I'm assuming you might be asking me... and yes.

 

Also new development, I think one of my co-workers found another company that needed a new site of engineers who has agreed to lease the building we were in and hire all of us as a group. So it looks as if we all might have found new employment.

How about a hi-tech site working on medical electronics? Anyone want to sign on in NJ?

Well, today was my last day of real work. My parent company in their infinite wisdom decided they did not want our location anymore and due to budget reasons they decided to close our facility.

 

So I'm out of a job.

 

I started with an OEM medical manufacturing device company, we were bought by another company and a few years ago we were bought out again my St Jude Medical (CRMD Division). But St Jude decided they didn't want us anymore so they are closing my site down.

 

It's pretty sad, I've been working for the same facility since 1991 and made it through both buy outs. That was basically my first job out of college. Guess it's time to go out and hunt down some new employment.

 

Maybe the Z3 will need a circuit!

Yah, I really need to copy the same thing on to a specific Z2 screen.

no i can play a copied dvd, but i want to take tv shows or porn or whatever and re rip it to dvd then play it.... any special reccomended program for that?

 

I really like TMPGENC

http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/index.html

To convert

 

And I use TMPGENC DVD author

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda3.html

For authoring dvd's.

 

There are TONS of these out there. Nero does it, I have used Ulead. Check video help and see what the reviews are for each program.

 

hottwhyrd's recommendation is VERY highly rated but I have never used it

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ConvertXtoDVD

I will have to try it some time. It's even higher than TMPGENC

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/TMPGEnc_DVD_Author

 

hottwhyrd, thanks for the tip.

I seem to remember hearing that they changed the video out on the latest release of video units. I just got an ipod touch and I heard that the old way of outputting video doesn't work (don't have a cable and didn't try it) and the new cable has a computer chip in it to do the video out. So this cable might not work if your video is too new, don't know about the iphone, being close to the ipod touch, it might not.

... the darn unit won't voice-recognize my city, which happens to be the capital of California... Maybe I need to figure a different way to pronounce it...

 

You need to pronounce it very correctly:

 

Suck - Rah - Men - tow

 

BUMP

 

Just waiting for rage2 to publish his document on how to create the playlist files.

Can you play any copied DVD's? I never tried playing the media center created DVD's. I play copied DVD's in there all the time. It should play DVD's on recordable media. So it's either the media itself, or the way the DVD was authored (by the media center).

 

So make a copy of one of your DVDs on the same brand media, play that. Does that work? If not it's the media. If it plays it might be how media center authors the video. You could take the video files right out of the storage directory and reencode it with TMPGENC and author it with TMPG Author. I really like those for authoring videos. Tutorials for this stuff is here: http://www.videohelp.com/

Thanks, looks like i'll have to rip it out again and check the connections.

 

Cheers

Adam

 

No I think that 6 orange sats is good. I think gray is no connection to the sats. Red is ok connection. I don't think you need to rip it out to check.

 

Are you having trouble with your nav tracking your position.

No, orange is good. I think that might be the best signal. I don't think they go green.

Also if pioneer sent the disk, call them as well... yell at them that this is happening.

Did you put the update disk into your computer and look at the files on it? How many files are on the disk?

just look @ what i drive a Mazda

 

EXACTLY! Come on.... couldn't you afford a Buick or something cool?

Even if they aren't mp3 format, I thought only legal CD's were able to be copied to the HDD. So a plus to find out I can put some muzac on there.

 

You can use any audio cd, but it will only name the tracks for you automatically IF they are legit/legal CD's and IF its in the database. But it will rip any audio cd you stick in there.

TTT (was that too obscure?)