mattlach

I can't recall what it is set to now, but I toggled it through all the options and none of them produced sound Do I have to use a proprietary Pioneer cable?

Are we talking about the front panel 3.5mm plug? I had no success with this. I tried a bunch of different settings without any luck. Just silence. I used a generic 3.5mm to 3.5mm wire hooked up to my iPhone 3g...

How do I use this? I have a regular double male 3.5mm stereo cable, plugged one and into my iphones headphone jack, and then other end into the front panel, and no matter what I did, I could not get it to play sound. I played with the audio in settings menu but could not get it to work. What am I doing wrong? I use a dedicated car ipod classic for most of my music, but also like to stream internet radio over my iphone 3g (before the avic unit I would do this with a tape adapter) Any assistance appreciated! Thanks, Matt

yeah, mine is a 6th gen. The iPod hard locks and is unresponsive, so you have to do a hard reset by holding down the center and menu buttons until the apple logo appears and the ipod reboots. Based on what happens I am leaning towards an iPod problem, but it is not completely out of the question that something about the USB link to the head unit is confusing the iPod and making it crash.

PM me if you want help trouble shooting it. I don't want to contribute any more than I have to the scope creep of this thread. I have seen Rockbox in action (though have not used it on my own, as I got the iPod specifically for the AVIC F series and voice commands require the factory firmware). I'm not quite sure what you mean by "factory firmware does not recognize it" Do you mean the F series head unit? That I can not speak to, but it ought to see it just like a mass storage device, similar to attaching a large flash drive to the USB port...

I really like what you did to the bezel, the SID and the ACC unit. Painted to match. Do you have any details on this?

The F Series have two sets of outputs. One set is amplified and one set is line level line level. If you use the amplified outputs and wire them right to the speaker wires, not only will only 4 speakers work, but due to the odd impedances of Saab speakers it will not sound right. You will also have no bass as your sub woofers will not be installed. If you use the line level outputs and feed them into the stock amplifier, the stock amplifier will power all 9 speakers, including the sub woofers. Additionally you will have line level outputs for a sub woofer you can route to an amplif

Regarding Reverse Signal and VSS, see this thread.

Well, lets see, I have three speakers in my dash (left, center, right, one on each door, and two sub woofers in the hat shelf. That adds up to 9, as far as I'm concerned, but there are not 9 independent channels, there are four. Front left, front right, rear left and rear right. The amp creatively mixes these together to make something that actually (IMHO) sounds pretty decent. Yes, with this AVIC install, all 9 of the speakers work. This is because in this install the AVIC unit uses pre-amp inputs outputs to feed the stock amplifier. The amplifier takes care of anything th

yeah, but iTunes is horrible bloatware. The only reason for it to exist is so that Apple can make it easy for you to access their store and buy music... They inconvenience their customers so they can't just drag and drop music onto their players but need enormous 200mb bloatware in order to sync, just so they can make an extra buck, when it would have been both easier, less costly, and a much more sleek solution to just drag and drop music onto a mass storage device mounted as a drive. Even if I didn't mind iTunes it would offend me on principle

Alright, I did some research on this and found a great and easy way to tap into the reverse signal on the 9-5. (This was done on my 2004 Aero 5spd model) If your 9-5 is equipped with the auto dimming rear view mirror, the rear view mirror listens for the reverse signal so that it can undim when you put the car in reverse and it is bright behind you, so you can see. This is a green wire that goes from the DICE unit under the dash, up the passenger side A-pillar (on LHD models, not certain about RHD), along the headliner and through to the rear view mirror. I didn't have much luck f

xm radio/fm/am/ipod will not be supported yet. There are still problem with the audio video running alongside with leetlauncher. Once i figured out why, the LeetLauncher will be fully integrated with the pioneer deck. You could probably hack your iPod using Rockbox though, and then it would likely just mount as a USB mass storage device and the launcher would hopefully understand the content and just work. This has the added the added benefit of no longer needing to use the horror that is iTunes in favor of an opensource player on your PC. just drag and drop mp3's onto the iPod in

just for reference, what version of IGO does the F series use natively?

Like 15 - 17 seconds. Its awesome This probably depends on how fast your SDcard is too. A Sandisk Ultra III is probably in order to reduce that time. Does anyone know how large the IGO8, TomTom, Garmin XT and launcher content is once uncompressed and placed on the card? The Ultra III cards can get pretty expensive pretty fast once they get large. Don't want to ahve to spend more money than I need to...

This looks fantastic. just because I am a complete noob to this kind of stuff, can anyone tell me what I gain by running IGO 8.3.2? Doesn't the unit already have IGO built in? Also, when it comes to Tomtom navigator (6 or 7) and Garmin XT, what are the advantages of running this software over the built in IGO?