jimmy303 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 We've had 2 of the Z1's in our vehicles locking up on boot lately, has anyone else had any issues with this? One is in a Ford F-350 dually deisel, the other in a GMC Sierra 2500 4x4 Duramax. Both are installed with Ducatiboy's bypass, all proper modules and harnesses were used, they have been in for about 7-8 months and worked flawlessly until recently. They do seem to freak out more often after having recorded a new disc to the hard drive, and we originally thought it might be heat, seeing as we live in sunny South Florida and it was 90+ degrees out until about 2 weeks ago (eat it, Northerners--- just kidding)because the first time it happened, it straightened out after driving with the A/C on for a half hour. Help!!!!! These are demo vehicles, and customers don't like to hear, "But yours won't do this..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ducatiboy Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 If these are just demo vehicles, try a level 4 reset. Turn on when you see the boot screen, press and hold the map button. Then reset to factory defaults. Then see if it will boot again. If it's a demo vehicle, then it doesn't matter too much about the stored info (I would guess). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Well, these are our personal vehicles, we just bring customers out to demo the Z1 in them. This reset will empty the music database? I have a lot of music in there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ducatiboy Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Well, level 3 will not delete the music. Do the same thing: boot, see boot screen, hold map. But hit reset instead of restore to factory. It won't kill your saved songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Thanx, I'll give it a shot. Have you heard of this happening to anyone else? It seems like the hard drive is getting stuck on boot, the Pioneer splash screen comes up and stays there. For an hour. Or more. Sucks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
navyute Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I also have a Chev Duramax and have experienced the same problem. I believe it is heat related. Just my opinion. The first time it happened was on a hot afternoon after the vehicle sat in the sun all day. The only thing insulating the unit from the heat of the sun through the windshield is the thin plastic dashboard. I have since been making it a habit to install a windshield shade. The second time was after a long road trip, roughly 4 hours, stopped to get fuel and the damn thing wouldn't boot. The screen felt very warm. Next morning it booted without any problems. I have not tried the level 3 and 4 resets, but if it happens again I will give it try. I would like to purchase a fan, maybe some sort of PC fan, and place it behind the unit in the dash and see if that will help. Does anyone have any suggestions on what type of fan? Or even if that is a good Idea? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ducatiboy Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Yes, I think I have, but I don't remember whom it happened to and what the result was. I think a level 4 reset cleared it up. But I don't remember. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mxholden Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Mine started to freeze up on the boot screen and it got the point I could not even preform a reset. I ended up sending it to pioneer for repair. I doubt it was heat related in my case, because it has been very cold in Northern California lately. I should get it back from pioneer today, hopefully they will indicate what the problem was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted December 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Sounds like the same issue I am having. These Z1's came from the first batch we recieved here, and we've installed about 50 or so since, seems like the problem is isolated to the first 3 we got. Keep me posted on this, mx, k? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mxholden Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 Mine was a June 06 unit, I got it back from Pioneer on Fri. and everything seems to be fine. Unfortunately they did not include a work order or anything so I don't know exactly what the problem was... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted December 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2006 Damn. Damn, damn, damn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 We swapped the unit, new one worked fine for about 15 minutes, then the buttons around the screen stopped responding. Can't get the disc out, can't change av/nav screens, volume or track from the face, just the remote and steering controls. Does anyone know if maybe the Z1 is susceptible to viruses carried in cell phones or mp3 files? It seemed fine until we paired a Nextel bt phone and recorded a couple tracks into the library, then backed up, the camera came on, and, no more control. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted January 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Anyone know about this? Ducatiboy? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ducatiboy Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Anyone know about this? Ducatiboy? What viruses? I highly doubt it. It's not like this is an "open" system. Someone would have to know some real low level info on the operation of this machine and I don't know if you can transfer viruses just by pairing a phone anyway... you would need to be able to receive files from the phone over bluetooth and I don't think the Z1 can do that. Sounds like a defective Z1 to me. Sucks that it was one you swapped out for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmy303 Posted January 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 OK, I can rule that out. I have installed about 40 Z1's so far, and have only sent back 2 for defects. (By the way, be careful how hard you press on the screen when holding the unit up to mount it. Whoops.) Now I have two in the same vehicle, one locks up completely, the other forgets it has buttons around the screen. Wierd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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