cravatts Posted July 17, 2017 Report Share Posted July 17, 2017 Did you turn on your Pioneer DVD AVH-XXXX unit only to be greeted by a "Enter Password" page, along with a "Password Hint" page? That's exactly what happened to us after installing a unit that my best friend inherited from a deceased friend. Unfortunately, she's passed and the hint that she gave wasn't good enough for my friend to guess. Now what, I said!!! Some hits seemed to suggest that one needs to bring the unit to Pioneer Service. Even the manual suggests doing so. First, I tried hitting the "reset button" located along the front face plate, towards the bottom right. This didn't work. This would have been too easy, and even the manual states that it doesn't clear everything. Then I stumbled upon the concept of putting the unit into Factory Service Mode. One can actually retrieve the password, by first putting the unit into factory service mode and then by reading an actual ASCII text password file. After not being able to navigate to the specific directory that contains the password file, as I couldn't find a "usr" folder, I noticed and tried successfully by performing a factory reset instead. First, go here and build a set of boot files required to put your unit into factory service mode: https://jenkins.adamoutler.com/job/Customize%20BSP/build?delay=0sec Keep everything defaulted except for the following two settings: launchMode=TestMode testSubMode=Serv Mode. Your corresponding readme.txt file should look like the following: Your SDCard Password is LKPFeD4BcVzESR2Y The password was set to LKPFeD4BcVzESR2Y set Boot Mode ullaunchmode to 0 (Default:Normal) at 4 set Launch Mode ullaunchmode to 1 (TestMode.apk) at 8 set Test SubMode to 1 (Serv Mode) at 12 set Boot Image Side Flag ulbootimageflag to 0 (Default:Side A) at 16 set Recovery Image Flag ulrecoveryimageflag to 0 (Default:Side A) at 20 set Debug Switch uldebugswitch to 0 (Default:Disabled) at 24 set USB OTG Switch ulusbotgswitch to 0 (Default:Host Mode) at 28 set Mem Check Flag ulmemchkflag to 0 (Default:no) at 32 set Sub Boot Mode sbspinfo.ulupdatesubflag to 0 (Default:Side A) at 36 set WARP!! sbspinfo.ulupdatesubflag to 2 (Default:Enable Warp) at 40 set Update Flag sbspinfo.ulupdateflag to 0 (Default:Recovery-Update) at 44 set Update Sub Flag to 0 (Default:SD Card) at 48 set UI Update Flag to 0 (Default:non-updating) at 68 CRC32 applied to warp Disabled image. CRC32 applied to warp Enabled image. CRC32 applied. Plug a thumb drive into your computer. I removed all of the files that were already on it, but I'm not sure if this was completely necessary or not. Save all of the files that you just generated onto the thumb drive, by hitting on each file, one at a time. The files that do not open with a "save' dialog window, do not need to be saved, ex. readme.txt, SD*.txt. If you can't find the page above, or don't want to build your own set of files, here's a rar compressed set that I had generated and used successfully for my password inhibited unit. I would imagine that these should work for most Pioneer AVH DVD units. Please feel free to grab them from the following dropbox rar file, also attached to this forum. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0xp6roa4xnq0zr2/PioneerAVH4000FactoryService.rar?dl=0 if you do grab my rar compressed file, please make sure that you extract the individual files before copying them over to your thumb drive. The port that you need to plug the thumb drive into is "port 1". On my unit, AVH-4000NEX, port 1 is the top rear port. Power up the unit. You should first see the password page, then after a little more time, the Factory Service Menu. Scroll down, select and execute "factory reset". Voila, "Factory Fresh Unit"!!! No more password, but actually, we ended up setting a new password along with a new password hint as well. But keep in mind, this is a total factory reset, like the type that first prompts you for your language, etc. I hope that this help you save the time and effort that I went through and/or throwing out $$$ to pay some greedy person on Ebay, most likely for exactly the same procedure that I've described in this post. If this works for you, please respond to this topic, as I would love to know that I've helped others out with the same issue and have saved you both time and money. -Mark PioneerAVH4000FactoryService.rar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skapek Posted September 1, 2017 Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 Bonjour, Je confirme que la méthode fonctionne avec le modèle AVH-X8800BTJ'ai acheté cette article en occasion suite à un retour de client qui selon le magasin n'a jamais été utilisé. L'autoradio était bloqué avec un mot de passe. j'ai économisé du temps et des frais.Merci beaucoup Sorry for translate : Hello,I confirm that the method works with the AVH-X8800BTI bought this item on occasion following a customer return which according to the store has never been used.The car was blocked with a password.I saved time and expense.thank you very much Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cravatts Posted September 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 Fantastic!!! I have been occasionally checking in and patiently waiting to see if someone would eventually find my article and use the information that I spent time writing up. Where are you hailing from? Canada, France, etc.? A response like this give me the encouragement and desire to continue to give back to the community that I learn so much from. Between Youtube and blogs like this, one can learn so much. It wasn't that long ago that the only way I could learn how to do something was to go to a library and hope that they had a book, magazine, etc. that had the information that I was trying to find. -Mark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JLiRD808 Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 This totally worked for me....thanks! Used the rar version Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzyb Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 Worked for me too. Thanks!!!!! It didn't work at first and took some troubleshooting. I was using a 16GB USB drive with no luck. Researching I found info saying to use a 1GB - 4GB USB ONLY. So I found a small USB (1GB) drive and it worked perfect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
10873231 Posted November 11, 2017 Report Share Posted November 11, 2017 thanks. workED like charm.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mrspink44 Posted November 11, 2017 Report Share Posted November 11, 2017 I could not remember my password and was dreading sending it out to Pioneer. Luckily I came across this thread and it worked for the avh4200nex. Literally just used it. Downloaded the .rar file and extracted the files prior to copying to the thumbdrive.Thanks very much for this! Greatly appreciated! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
C.MO45 Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!! This method works for the AVIC-5000NEX AS WELL. My unit has been locked up because the screen calibration went off after the last firmware update and I replaced my battery... Much respect and appreciation. BLESS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
val03 Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Hello I got the text mode menu I see number 6 initialize to factor default is that it because I did that and it still show the password screen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonelle78 Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 I am not tech savvy at all, but this worked!!! I thought I was either going to have to buy a new radio or pay someone to erase the password. Thank you for the help:) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jrn2786 Posted February 10, 2018 Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 I tried this method, didn't work for me. But the smallest flash drive I found was 16gb. So I'm gonna try to find a 4gb or smaller and try that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fcjuey Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 OMG!!! It fcuking works!!! Thanks a lot! LOVE YOU!!! Screw greedy PIONEER!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomunist Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 worked great. 4100NEX. Thanks, man. I was ready to put the damn thing back in the box and return it until I found your thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wjmfreeman Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Could my buttons be messed up? I get into the boot menu but when I try to select "initialize to factory default" I can't scroll down that far. It only lets me see the version information or goes all the way down to "clear sensor data" and shows "ERROR" on the screen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HouZanShi87 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I have the 4100NEX. Cant get it to go into test mode. Ive extracted, from the dropbox .rar, the individual files on my flash drive and waited about 15 min. I can see the access light blink on my flash drive but its not booting up. Ive tried a 16GB, 4GB and 1GB drive. All formated to FAT32. Does anyone else got any advise to send my way. Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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