nitronick Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 I'm a total Noob here and decided to give the 3.0 firmware update a shot On my F700bt. I followed the instructions as listed in the thread.Everything went fine until the step 11 "press and hold down restart and eject for five seconds" I've tried and retried this step and nothing I just get the windows blue "desktop" screen. I tried to re-do the whole install and when I install the SD card and select "update CE" It tells me it is updated and to restart my unit. maybe I'm misunderstanding the restart process. please help! Thanks Nick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vic805 Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Try taking out the sd card. It will take you to testmode if you leave it in. Eject the sd card see if that helps. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitronick Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Thanks Vic, I tried a variation of resetting...with and without the card it just gives me the boot screen (pioneer logo screen) then seems to try to reboot every 5 minutes. I think I figured out what I did....I followed the directions right...except for one little detail lol... instead of updating wince (winCE) I selected "More tools" and did the update in the only selection that had CE in it. I hope some of you guys can get a good laugh out of this blunder! I just don't know how to fix this...it replaced everything from that section with the 3.0 files.When I tried to install the 3.O in the wince update selection....it shows it "reading files" in pink near the bottom. after it hits 100% it says updated please restart your unit. Is there anyway to install a back up file or some sort of a restore to get back to before I butchered this easy update? Any help would be much appreciated Quote Link to post Share on other sites
charliecharlie Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Restart AND eject? Restart only, surely? If you sort this, next time copy your 'my flash disk' before you do any updates or mods! If you cant resolve it follow these instruction for a full install. I used it when I stuffed my f900bt so I know it works Chris. http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/30773-f900bt-full-ew-backup/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitronick Posted April 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Restart AND eject? Restart only, surely? If you sort this, next time copy your 'my flash disk' before you do any updates or mods! If you cant resolve it follow these instruction for a full install. I used it when I stuffed my f900bt so I know it works Chris. http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/30773-f900bt-full-ew-backup/ Thanks Chris, This is what should do the trick...only problem is I have a US model. Is there a download for the US files available? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
charliecharlie Posted April 28, 2011 Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Hold back a sec & download this; http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/30224-diaftias-hybrid-mods-v36-updated-041911-now-with-auto-installer/page__hl__maps This is a mod which includes US maps. Copy the maps from this mod into the download I gave you the other day and install it as per the walkthrough instructions. Then install the mod as per instructions. This will make your avic more useable and customiseable. The guy who wrote the mod, Diaftia, is very knowledgeable and is happy to answer questions. And he lives in California lol. Good luck Chris. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitronick Posted April 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2011 Hold back a sec & download this; http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/30224-diaftias-hybrid-mods-v36-updated-041911-now-with-auto-installer/page__hl__maps This is a mod which includes US maps. Copy the maps from this mod into the download I gave you the other day and install it as per the walkthrough instructions. Then install the mod as per instructions. This will make your avic more useable and customiseable. The guy who wrote the mod, Diaftia, is very knowledgeable and is happy to answer questions. And he lives in California lol. Good luck Chris. Thanks a Million Chrisand all of you guys for putting this stuff out there! Can you or someone please give me step by step instructions on copying the US maps to the EW backup files? I've already mucked this thing up already! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitronick Posted April 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Thanks a Million Chrisand all of you guys for putting this stuff out there! Can you or someone please give me step by step instructions on copying the US maps to the EW backup files? I've already mucked this thing up already! I downloaded Diaftia's mod and can't locate any maps. What am I missing? I only see speedcam.spdb,Speedcam Update and sys.txt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dcu1976 Posted April 29, 2011 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 Diaftia's mod doesn't include maps. If it did it would be a 2+gb download. There are maps posted all over this forum. Just grab the ones you want and copy them to the appropriate directory. If that's too hard, try Rettel's 3.1FW update, then Diaftia's 3.6 hybrid mod, that's what I did for my f900bt and my unit works great! Good luck! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
charliecharlie Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/29707-teleatlas-201006-north-america/page__st__30__p__228510__hl__maps__fromsearch__1#entry228510 Chris and dont forget you cant put Diaftia's mod on before you get version 3.xx firmware installed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
charliecharlie Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Diaftia's mod doesn't include maps. If it did it would be a 2+gb download. There are maps posted all over this forum. Just grab the ones you want and copy them to the appropriate directory. If that's too hard, try Rettel's 3.1FW update, then Diaftia's 3.6 hybrid mod, that's what I did for my f900bt and my unit works great! Good luck! Oops! my bad! Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitronick Posted May 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Thanks again guys, Before I try and do this let me make sure I understand everything. I downloaded the EW backup files but to use them on my US f700bt I just need to replace the maps with the US ones suplied in the above link right? If so do I unrar the individual maps and replace them? Also is the backup file 3.0? Any tips would be great! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
charliecharlie Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Yep, you got it. Do it all on the pc before you put it onto the sd card. You will only need 1x2gb sd card. Put the maps in the same folder you remove the uk maps from, you're just swapping like for like. Use winrar to uzip the maps. The backup file is version3 so when you've done all that add Diaftia's mod (its an easy upgrade straight from sd card and it auto installs.) Let us know how you get on. Chris. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitronick Posted May 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Yep, you got it. Do it all on the pc before you put it onto the sd card. You will only need 1x2gb sd card. Put the maps in the same folder you remove the uk maps from, you're just swapping like for like. Use winrar to uzip the maps. The backup file is version3 so when you've done all that add Diaftia's mod (its an easy upgrade straight from sd card and it auto installs.) Let us know how you get on. Chris. I'm getting there! I'm still DLing the US maps but in the mean time I've been searching the backup files for the EW maps folder, The only thing I have found that look like maps were the following files... LPUE080APL.HTM LPUE080DATA.HTM LPUE080DATA.VER LPUE080APL.VER The VER files won't open but the APL's will but start to extract when dbl clicked... I have basic Computer skills here and could use a bit for help with the map switching. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
charliecharlie Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 You're not going to harm anything just by looking through folders. I think the maps are in APL2 if my memory is correct. Chris. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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