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I have a permanent installation with the 4 channel gateway. I got a new ipod and the unit now operates as you would expect most of the time. Sometimes, however, the unit does a complete reboot when the car is started rather than returning to where it was at last shutdown. With a USB flash drive installed it always freezes up with the USB error message on the screen when the ignition is turned off. With the SD card active at the time of shutdown, the unit behaves as it does with the ipod active at shut down. I have replaced the USB cable with no change in results.

I'd like to reopen this thread because there has been no activity for over 6 months and I -at least- still have the following problem. (My unit came with 3.0 so I don't know about pre 3.0.) When either an ipod or a USB device is plugged in the F500 does not shut down properly when the ignition is turned off. The screen freezes with either the error meesage about USB or the nav screen if nav wasd in operation. The screen won't go blank and none of the touch controls work. The only way to clear the screen is to hold the power button for 6 or 7 seconds. Then when the car is restarted the unit mus

I have a F500BT that was having a similar problem. I now think I know what the problem is but I don't know how to solve it. The problem on my unit was that it wasn't powering OFF. As a result the battery drained and the unit won't operate correctly or at all. I charged the battery in the house and brought the unit back to the car. It worked fine EXCEPT (and here us what I need help on) when I have a USB flash drive installed as a music source and turn off the ignition an error screen comes on probably because a USB device won't work w/o external power. The manual says the error message might b

f500bt gives the following error message when i attach a 32gb hrad disk via the USB cable that came with the unit: "An error occurred on USB connection. USB devices are not available to use and ipod power supply is also unavailable." Any ideas?