ducatiboy

What is the best way to calibrate it?

Time, just drive around (not in a circle, just put miles on the vehicle).

You could need a cap, but I doubt it. If you are just adding a time delay for the remote turn on (I wouldn't do an RC with out knowing the R), I have never seen any amp that needed that, but I'm sure they exist. Just never ran it to those myself. I think they are pretty rare.

Or you might need a regulator or something too.

http://www.sminntech.com/ampinterface.html

Make or buy, doesn't matter. But it depends on your car and what is in there from the factory.

You should be able to use Toast and change the settings for the cd. Just sellect iso 9660 and 8+3 file name if possible and make sure the pictures don't have any weird characters in them (in the name not the image itself).

When you hit:

Menu - settings - hardware - connection status

What does the GPS section look like? Do you have sat signals?

My guess knowing that what you should have done following the instructions and that it is not supposed to mess with anything---

My guess is that you unplugged the sat antenna wire in the back when you performed the 2 wire ground and you forgot to plug it back in when you reinserted the Avic.

Look at the connection status screen. If you have Sat activity, then I'm wrong and it's a much bigger problem. If they are all gray (or not acquired) chances are you just unplugged the sat antenna wire.

Yah, as long as your kids want the DVD and you don't want "aux" with video input, you can do this without the avic bypassed.... it is what it was meant to do.

I don't think it's vista, I had the same problem with my Z1 on XP. I didn't figure out how to fix it though.

It looks like it does (at least reports say so):

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ight=pearl

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ight=pearl

Most of the blackberrys work. I have the 8800 and it works great. No phonebook transfer, at least I never tried doing it.

No, I don't know what type of car you have or what kind of ANC box you might have in your possession but the Avic will not take that as an input and do anything with it. As far as I'm aware, no after market radio will interface with something like that and actually do anything productive with it. There might be after market radios with ANC but they would have it built in, not as an interface with a factory box.

Oh yah? I'm going to do this in LOGO!

Did I just date myself? I'm not really that old..... Actually I never used punch cards (other than playing my own version of 52 pickup to someone on the night of a due date.... JK).

You can eject the update CD and reburn the disk with a slower speed and try again. When I got into that loop, that's what I did and changing disk brand and burning at a slower speed from the exact same ISO file did the trick. It's worth a try.

Yah, I don't think it's the image file itself.... but how it was burned. Disk burn speed and brand of disk seem to make a difference. Sometimes just reburning it worked. Not sure what caused the read problems.

This kind of thing happened when burning the bluetooth update. I think this was a problem reading a file. I would try either burning the disk at a much slower speed, or try a different brand of disk.

First off, thanks a lot for the quick post, you guys are awesome.

Yes we are, aren't we?

Secondly a few more questions from a beginner.How do I know if my parking brake wire is grounded?

Hit:

Menu - Settings - Hardware - Connection status

And look at the parking brake line. If it's "on" all the time it's a good indication.

What color is it and where is it located

Well, there is a parking brake "sense" wire. This is light green and comes out of the back of the Avic. Your vehicle has a parking brake wire as well. That tells the dash to put on the "parking brake" light in your dash (if you have one). I don't know where that one is. Normally the light green parking brake sense wire that comes from your Avic should be tapped into the car's wire... so the avic also knows when you apply the parking brake. Generally when people try to bypass the lockouts, instead of hooking the avic's parking brake "sense" wire to the car's actual parking brake wire, they INSTEAD, ground it right behind the avic.

When I got the unit installed my installer said he didn't know how to bypass the unit but I almost remember him saying that he would ground that wire to see what effect it has on the system.

Not quite the right way to do it, but oh well.

Sometimes when I start the car I get the "improper connection" message. Does this mean that it is ground or that it isn't hooked up at all.

"sometimes"? It should happen every time. Once you get that message it should come up every time and keep coming up till you hit the recessed reset button to the right of eject.

If you do that and it comes back, then the parking brake wire is grounded but the second wire in connector 2 is not.

I am going to attempt the grounding technique that you suggested.

That's the way to do it.

Currently when I drive and play a movie, it plays for a little bit them flashes to a blank pioneer AUX screen and back to the movie. I would assume that that is the problem everyone else is having.

Not really, sounds like a loose wire actually. But it could be th internal gyros just on the verge of syncing in or something. Doesn't sound typical.

Hopefully my next post is another success story because of the help from the AVIC411 crew. Thanks again.

Sure, do the 2 wire ground correctly and let us know.

You PMed me the exact same question. So I will answer you in both places as well:

On "your harness" are there any missing wires? There are 2 harnesses. One for "connector 1" which is full and has wires in every location. The other is for "connector 2" (these are labeled on the avic itself) which has 4 holes open. If you look at your connector and there is not only a wire in the location I point to, but not a single open hole in the connector... that's connector 1. You want the harness for connector 2.

cgcmgr, you don't need to post that twice in the same section.

http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10014

IS THIS CORRECT?

I believe that you are.... except for this line:

Since the files to create the Z2 image are already bypassed I shouldn't need to anything else.

Technically the files aren't bypassed but they are updated so that grounding those two wires will result in a bypassed Z2.

I think what you are thinking is correct, but that line was worded a little weird. But I think you have the right idea in all that.

The hard part is documenting it. I wouldn't say that I'm "that great" of a programmer, but if you have accurate documentation I don't think it would be that hard to do it. I might take a whack at it. And heck, screw .Net! I'm thinking Fortran COMMAND LINE! Not really, I haven't touched fortran in almost 20 years...

Sorry Roxio is what I used.

Then I would make sure there are not any extended characters in the names. Make sure they are 8+3 file format. And tell roxio (I don't use it so I don't know how, but I think it can do it) to use ISO 9660 format and mode 1 and things like that. Get down to the most absolute compatible cd format. It should work if you have the jpgs in the PICTURES directory (or whatever the manual says they should be in).

Wow, that's one hell of a kit! Pretty cool!

WOW Thanks alot...I dont get the parking brake warning and all my functions are fully available for use..Thanks really appreciate this...

Well, you are very welcome alot!

One question I was trying to dl new background images on the unit and the upload from cd wont pop up to be clicked...the pictures I downloaded were JPG. I put in a seperate folder called pictures and then I did a dummy folder with .xls, .pdf, .word, and even some main folders...did the disk not read because of these main folders that I threw in there to take up the 100mb needed? or did I do something else wrong?

 

 

Frank

It sounds like the files you put on the disk were ok, but what did you use to make the disk. You can't use windows built in burning program. You need nero or some other 3rd party software. They say in the instructions not to use the built in windows software and you post had lots of stuff but not what you used to burn.

What you have there will give you all the audio features. What you need for nav functions is

http://parts.pioneerelectronics.com/par ... um=CXC4864

But the other 2 are not necessary. They are just extension cables. A long wire with a plug on it. If you can splice and run wire, you don't need those second 2.

You should check the installation manual, it's posted in a sticky in the hacks/mods section and you can download it for free. But you might need these:

http://parts.pioneerelectronics.com/par ... um=CDE8084

http://parts.pioneerelectronics.com/par ... um=CDP1045

Those hook into the white receptacles on the back of the avic. You will need that first one if you want to bypass the lockouts.

But looking at your dash, that looks like an impossible installation. I don't know anything about RX8 installs, but it looks like more trouble than it's worth.

I think we all might be confused when you say "Pioneer steering wheel control". What exactly do you have?

While pioneer doesn't make a steering wheel ADAPTER, they do make steering wheel controls.... like these:

http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Cdsr100-S ... B00009QOWW

So I guess the question is..... Do you have something like this? Or do you have factory steering wheel controls and they were connected to the Z2?

If you have the little pioneer thing here? I have never seen this type of thing with this. If you have factory steering wheel controls and they were connected to the Avic, then you probably have a PAC-SWI-PS, and something is wrong with it.

The ipod and xm device are not a problem.

That's usually a screw up with the PAC SWI-PS device which on power up will send the "next media source" signal to the Avic Z2. The Avic Z2 will not do this on it's own. Powering on and off doesn't cause this. So it's something to do with an external device which can tell it to do that.

I don't know what you have hooked up but you can try unplugging any input into the steering wheel input in the back and see if it stops it.

also if these guys replace my hard drive, I take it that I will have to reinstall the bypass files, correct?

Generally when they replaced the hard drives, they loaded the latest software (on installed a hard drive with the latest software) if you wanted it or not. So if they keep doing what they did in the past, chances are good that your new unit (if they replaced the drive) would have the update already. But there is no guarantee.

Those both look cool. I would give it a shot, they just need to be converted to BMPs of the correct resolution and that should work. I think it would look very cool.