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[quote name="edrock200"]Wow thanks for that write up ducatiboy! I apreciate it. I do utilize the bypass trick and I'm not with verizon, so it looks like I'll be in good shape. I have heard complaints about the echoing and voice quality, but since I don't have a BT module yet I have no experience. I will say though that the mic does a good job of relaying my speech since the HU has never had a problem understanding me. I did mount the mic very close to me though. If the voice quality is really bad with the BT unit I will invest in a noise cancelling mic.[/quote] Well, you are very welco

[quote name="jkawar"]Sorry....I didn't log in last time. I have a chevy trailblazer and stil can't get the bypass to work. It's been 3 days I've been trying!! :-(. Everything is hooked up per manufacturer spec. The truck has daytime running lights, and it doesn't have a convention pul out/push in typre headlight switch. It one that turns and the only way to turn off the lights are to turn the sping loaded knob to the left which automatically returns back to it's original position and turns of the parking and headlamps. Anyone have any ideas why I can't get this to work?[/quote] I'm

[quote name="edrock2000"] [quote name="ducatiboy"] That's weird, cause I used to have a Parrot CK3100 and I think that has way more features than this pioneer. Sounds better too. The motorola one did stink though.[/quote] Just out of curiosity what did it do that the pioneer doesn't? It looks like a neat product, I'm running the Handsfree Solutions PFK unit in one of my cars, it has pretty neat voice recognition and such, but I've never heard of the Parrot unit.[/quote] The Parrot will download your address book automatically over the DUN protocol or over OBEX. Verizon disables you

I have the Z1 installed. I have a torx driver to unscrew it. I even have the 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch ata adapter to put the drive in my desktop (which seems to be always open with stuff dangling out of it). But I have this nagging fear I will mess something up :( if I start to mess with it. How cool would it be that you could just put in the adapter and read it in a standard PC. I should probably rip a couple albums to the drive to see the directory layout. I heard that the Z1 is running Windows for mobiles 5. I haven't confirmed this yet, but it sounds good. If so, I wonder how the

[quote name="spudwh0re"]Make sure your mic is not pointing at a speaker, if that dosent help turn the volume down, if that dosent work then add a layer of grill cloth over the mic. If that dosent work, get drunk and forget about it.[/quote] I have it up on the top of the A pillar, right where my Parrot CK3100 was placed. And that was PERFECT audio. And it uses the front car speakers just like the pioneer bluetooth does. Now the Parrot used a physicaly different microphone. But they were sitting in the same spot, and the front speakers are at the bottom of the doors. So the Parrot

[quote name="htrdlnc"] The only problem with the Alpine Bluetooth is that it does not have any advanced features like the Pioneer. So basically it is like a Parrot or Motorola hands-free kit.[/quote] That's weird, cause I used to have a Parrot CK3100 and I think that has way more features than this pioneer. Sounds better too. The motorola one did stink though.

[quote name="edrock200"]Installers, the pac-tr7 has this long disclaimer about always hooking it's outputs to relays, not to the device, is this just a liability statement or is there real danger in wiring it directly?[/quote] I looked on PAC's web site and I didn't see the specs I was looking for (max amount of current it can supply). Most likely this is a disclaimer of some sorts. If you hook it up to something which draws too much current then you can hurt your TR7. There is no danger like blowing up your radio or car or anything, but at worse case you would render your TR7 inopera

[quote name="infinkc"]pic would be alot cheaper, you can use a pic12c508 or 12c509 that has an internal oscillator, and program it very easily, you would need an transistor for the outputs and a voltage regulator also. total cost would be about $6-8 if that.[/quote] Heck, even the PIC10F200 should be able to do this as well. Not a big deal they are both $0.50. My thoughts are for 12 V in and Ground. Also unhook the illumination wire from the Z1 and plug it into this device. Then one output, the illumination wire to the Z1. You need 1 processor, 1 5V regulator. Maybe a couple

Yah, I have a V710 too. And usually the best you get from Verizon bluetooth is handsfree protocol and the Dial up networking protocol. But the phone can transfer your address book via the DUN protocol. Most things just aren't smart enough to do it. My Parrot CK3100 is. It will transfer the address book automatically from my V710. I have yet to try pushing one address at a time to the Z1.

I emailed Pioneed support about this and this was the reply: The only difference between the CD-IB100 and CD-IB100II is the connector was change to make it more secure with the iPod connection. Thank You, Lori Customer Service Representative

Ok, I got my bluetooth installed Wed night (two nights ago) and have some major problems with it. My first is that the phone book was not accessable while the vehicle is in motion. Well, if you turn the lights on and off while it's booting, we fix that. so it's not that big of a deal. My real problem is there seems to be no audio processing at all. When someone talks and you hear them though the speakers, the Z1 picks up thier voice and re-transmits it back to them. Everyone I have called (and it's about 3) says they hear themselves louder than me and with a really bad echo.

Instead of doing the PAC TR7 and possibly using a diode, I was thinking that you could use a small PIC and have the illumination wire go into that and then one of the outputs would come out of that. Write a page of code that when it comes on the first time, it would (even if your lights were on) have the line to the Z1 be off, then turn it on and off, and then after a few seconds, let the real state of the illumination "come though". Shouldn' t be too hard to set up. We are supposed to have a "personal development goal" to work on at work every now and then. I think I just came up with a c

How is this? [url=http://www.sminnick.com/AviatorRadio/]http://www.sminnick.com/AviatorRadio/[/url] It installed real nice in my 03 Lincoln Aviator. I even used a PAC SWI-PS to save my steering wheel control!