F900BT (Aussie) Backup and Info

[gertsy]

Hello,

My Aussie F900BT did the reboot dance last weekend. I haven't done any mods on it but what I did do in the days befor it sh*t itself was change the light colour a few times. I since found out this writes to the Flash disk.. Hmmm suspicious. Anyway end result is corrupt flash disk unit and no backup.

 

Since then I've done a bit of investigating and discovered 4 things.

 

1. My 12 months warranty expired 2 months ago

2. My Flash Disk now shows as 881MB in Storage Manager (testmode). i think it should be 2GB.

3. Of course I don't have a backup as Pioneer don't tell you you need one, or how to do one, or give you the tools.

4. This seems to be a common problem but when you look on the pioneer web site you don't see jack about it.

So at this point I am waiting on Pioneer to see if they will honor their warranty for what seems to me to be a well known issue.

 

In the meantime I would like to know if any aussies out there have a V2 backup.

How big is it (If its not a personal question) ?

Can I grab it off you. Pretty please. ?

 

Pioneer won't come to the party even though I am licensed to have the software. I'm not gonna press them on this until I find out about the warranty

I would just like to test out that there is nothing else wrong. So any helpers out there??? I don't even know if a V2 Aussie backup will fit on 880MB of flash disk. So if you could tell me I'm dreaming, or lucky, i'd apreciate it.

 

Sad Gertsy.

[gertsy]

Okay I'm back up an running now. Thanks to a fellow aussie.

All good.

I now have a full backup of my running V2 unit as is my legal right.

PM if you want further info.

 

BTW: I also found out that Aussie F900BTs have 1GB of Flash (Around 890MB formatted)

And I will still follow up with pioneer. I want the software I originally paid for. (even if I don't use it)

 

Cheers