Don't kid yourself...bluetooth will still echo

OK OK OK OKAY. You guys can ignore all of my previous post. I was able to diable the security code using the correct version (can we edit that sticky on this). I have it back up and running and it says version 03.000. Is this correct? What else can I check to verify it?

I wonder if this is why I can't see mine when I try it. I too paid the 5 bucks to clean wipe/unlock my stock HDD. But when I rebooted, I was unable to get my comp to recognize my HDD. It simply would not see it. I even tried using my USB adapter. I'm at a conference out of town at the moment, but when I get home I will give it a shot. Good tip. We should ask them to update the stickied thread.

Just a heads up, after downloading the image numerous times (probably 6, once through bittorrent, 3 times over ftp, and 2 over http) and constantly getting a "image is corrupt" error, the image would not pass validation on my 64 bit version of Vista ultimate, but worked fine on my 32 bit laptop.

I feel dumb for not thinking of it first, but i copied the folder i got through the torrent over to my 32bit vista laptop, both using the same version of Acronis (i actually use it for my own data backups/OS restore) and it worked. I searched for this problem numerous times and found nothing on it, so hopefully if someone else runs into it they will know what to try.

Also, thanks for the image, currently seeding the torrent, but my upload is only 40kB/s so i'm not much of a help...

Jesus christ, you downloaded FIVE times from my server without asking if there was a problem?

Which there isn't....

OK OK OK OKAY. You guys can ignore all of my previous post. I was able to diable the security code using the correct version (can we edit that sticky on this). I have it back up and running and it says version 03.000. Is this correct? What else can I check to verify it?

 

I wonder if this is why I can't see mine when I try it. I too paid the 5 bucks to clean wipe/unlock my stock HDD. But when I rebooted, I was unable to get my comp to recognize my HDD. It simply would not see it. I even tried using my USB adapter. I'm at a conference out of town at the moment, but when I get home I will give it a shot. Good tip. We should ask them to update the stickied thread.

Mine did the same thing and I spent about an hour trying to get my computer to "see" the now unlocked naked drive. After that hour of frustration, I opened up Acronis, it saw the drive, I pointed the files to it and let it run. After the load was complete, my computer then saw it.

The easiest thing I found was to buy the hard drive on Ebay already done.

It took less than 10 min to complete the job and was only 115.00 for everything. The guys link is listed below:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=005

^^

One of the forum members is providing them for $120, as stated in the first post.

Actually, seeing as though you've only made two posts and both have been advertising the ebay drive, motion for Ducati to delete those posts and ban.

I'll second that one

First I'll like to thank everyone who worked hard on the Z3 upgrade. I did the upgrade on 40gb toshiba hdd. everything works fine at first til I put the cd in. Avic rebooted, so check around to see what's wrong and my avic is telling me I have 0% on hdd??? I took the hdd out and check on my pc and there's 19gb of empty space on MSV partition. So I changed it back to 9.5gb and samething. Than I reimaged the hdd with original(9.5gb) and the samething happened. If I turn off the recording the cd plays fine w/o reboot. What am I doing wrong??? Please help. Thanks.

Mine did the same thing and I spent about an hour trying to get my computer to "see" the now unlocked naked drive. After that hour of frustration, I opened up Acronis, it saw the drive, I pointed the files to it and let it run. After the load was complete, my computer then saw it.

BIG-FOCKER you are the man! Nice tip. It seems to be working now. I'm applying the image. I'll edit this post if it doesn't work, but All is going well at this point. I only hope that I can remove the security unlock feature on the HDD it when It's all said and done. That's ultimately the endgoal right?

Oh, and 45 gig uplaoded in Azureus so far. Keep downloading folks. I'll keep uploading. I know that's nothing compared to Hyprite, but I'm doing what I can.

HA!!! This is PIMP! It worked. phew. Load off my mind. ok, now I can finish completing Sheila and make it work the way I want it to.

Mine did the same thing and I spent about an hour trying to get my computer to "see" the now unlocked naked drive. After that hour of frustration, I opened up Acronis, it saw the drive, I pointed the files to it and let it run. After the load was complete, my computer then saw it.

 

BIG-FOCKER you are the man! Nice tip. It seems to be working now. I'm applying the image. I'll edit this post if it doesn't work, but All is going well at this point. I only hope that I can remove the security unlock feature on the HDD it when It's all said and done. That's ultimately the endgoal right?

 

Oh, and 45 gig uplaoded in Azureus so far. Keep downloading folks. I'll keep uploading. I know that's nothing compared to Hyprite, but I'm doing what I can.

Yeah once you're done with loading it, then definitely take the extra 10 mins to disable the security feature. It's free and will enable you to do mods in the future

Here's another tip: I used the write up that was done by Pulp_Fiction found here http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=728, well I followed it to a "T" and found that for some reason I could not get MHDD to actually run...there was a step missing (for my specific setup I guess).

Here's an excerpt from the writeup with my added step in there---

Connect it to the secondary IDE channel. Disconnect all other drives in your PC just to be safe (you want to be sure you are modifying the correct drive). Boot from the magic boot disk you downloaded.<<>> The only drive in your system should be displayed. In my case it is drive number 3. Press 3 and enter.

If no drives are displayed press shift F3 and the list should come up. Now press the number next to your drive.

You should be at a command prompt named MHDD> Type EID and press enter

This should display a log of information about your drive.

My PC is an HP Pavilion and I think I read somewhere that HP's acted different during this process...

Have fun with it!

B-F

Done Sir Done. Working like a champ. Thanks again!

 

 

Here's an excerpt from the writeup with my added step in there---

Connect it to the secondary IDE channel. Disconnect all other drives in your PC just to be safe (you want to be sure you are modifying the correct drive). Boot from the magic boot disk you downloaded.<<>> The only drive in your system should be displayed. In my case it is drive number 3. Press 3 and enter.

If no drives are displayed press shift F3 and the list should come up. Now press the number next to your drive.

You should be at a command prompt named MHDD> Type EID and press enter

This should display a log of information about your drive.

 

My PC is an HP Pavilion and I think I read somewhere that HP's acted different during this process...

 

Have fun with it!

B-F

agreed that the extra step you put in (typing mhdd to start the program at the first prompt) is needed - I had to do this on my Dell

Once I got a full trial version of Acronis, it was no problem. I went through 2 downloads that didn't work from the Acronis website. The trials were not fully functional. I tried this on a Vista machine and I don't know if it was Vista or the Acronis Trial that was causing the problem. Got my music partition up to 29.9GB and changed the splash screens. I noticed you can add your own bitmaps to the "PREINSTALL" folder for backgounds instead of burning a CD with JPEGs to load. Also, the preset pictures for phone ID - I changed the names in Notepad (make sure to keep all the same spacing (number of spaces) AFTER the name otherwise it messes things up. I'll bet you could add a bunch of stuff there too instead of burning a CD for people's pictures in your phonebook. Haven't tried this yet though.

Why is it everytime I update from Zx model the map is always in the state of california? I always have to modify the location and move it all the way to miami, fl lol

 

Once I got a full trial version of Acronis, it was no problem. I went through 2 downloads that didn't work from the Acronis website. The trials were not fully functional. I tried this on a Vista machine and I don't know if it was Vista or the Acronis Trial that was causing the problem. Got my music partition up to 29.9GB and changed the splash screens. I noticed you can add your own bitmaps to the "PREINSTALL" folder for backgounds instead of burning a CD with JPEGs to load. Also, the preset pictures for phone ID - I changed the names in Notepad (make sure to keep all the same spacing (number of spaces) AFTER the name otherwise it messes things up. I'll bet you could add a bunch of stuff there too instead of burning a CD for people's pictures in your phonebook. Haven't tried this yet though.

For some reason if I add pics to the drive while it's hooked up to the pc or the laptop, I get an error when I try to view them on the Avic. It tells me that the file is corrupt..?!

wanted to know if there was any way to put music onto the hard drive via the computer instead of burning cd's and copying them that way

Thanks

wanted to know if there was any way to put music onto the hard drive via the computer instead of burning cd's and copying them that way

 

 

 

Thanks

no, but this is DEFINITELY the right thread to ask

wanted to know if there was any way to put music onto the hard drive via the computer instead of burning cd's and copying them that way

 

 

 

Thanks

no, but this is DEFINITELY the right thread to ask

sorry about that then, just thought i'd throw it out there

-newbie

wanted to know if there was any way to put music onto the hard drive via the computer instead of burning cd's and copying them that way

 

 

 

Thanks

You're right Hyperite.

Not the best thread to ask in, but ...

research the Atrac format. that's the format the Z* rips as. It's not as simple as finding a something to rip it in the Atrac format. It has to be ripped just right. to my knowledge, no one has figured that part out. I myself have tried a few times, but could not find anything that worked. The time I spent converting and such, I could have burned a good quarter of my library to disc to trasfer as I drive around town. However, I believe there is a USB adapter that helps with this issue.

You could research that too. Let me know what you find out.

So lets say I have two drives. Drive A has a good sized music library, Drive B is just the naked Z3 image. You're saying that I cannot copy the music partition from A and transplant all the files directly onto B and it work?

So lets say I have two drives. Drive A has a good sized music library, Drive B is just the naked Z3 image. You're saying that I cannot copy the music partition from A and transplant all the files directly onto B and it work?

Um, yes, I believe that will work. Seems very similar to the Franken-Z* process out there right now with keeping the original settings and music during the "upgrade". The music in question was ripped on the original Z* deck correct?

It seems the problem is in the encoding process and format. I'm actually looking into it now. Atrac was used in mini disc players originally as far as I can tell. Guess Pioneer liked it for whatever reason. Maybe so it wouldn't be so easy to rip it ourselves. Or maybe it had to do with the voice recognition searching.

The issue isn't so much in the encoding, I believe, but in adding the reference to the AVIC database, since it doesn't just open the folder and see what's playable.

 

Once I got a full trial version of Acronis, it was no problem. I went through 2 downloads that didn't work from the Acronis website. The trials were not fully functional. I tried this on a Vista machine and I don't know if it was Vista or the Acronis Trial that was causing the problem. Got my music partition up to 29.9GB and changed the splash screens. I noticed you can add your own bitmaps to the "PREINSTALL" folder for backgounds instead of burning a CD with JPEGs to load. Also, the preset pictures for phone ID - I changed the names in Notepad (make sure to keep all the same spacing (number of spaces) AFTER the name otherwise it messes things up. I'll bet you could add a bunch of stuff there too instead of burning a CD for people's pictures in your phonebook. Haven't tried this yet though.

 

For some reason if I add pics to the drive while it's hooked up to the pc or the laptop, I get an error when I try to view them on the Avic. It tells me that the file is corrupt..?!

weird - are your files ".BMP" files (in caps)? Are you saving in 8 bit BMP or higher? I can't remember what bit the OEM AVIC bitmaps are, but I'd say make sure it is the same when you add new ones.

As many have said before, Thanks Guys!! I just ordered the 80Gb Toshiba drive from Newegg; they have the 60Gb listed but I've seen reference that it's been discontinued and people have recieved different drives in its place.. The 80 is only $5 more anyway.. I'll follow the instructions and see how it works out; half of the POI's I enter near where I work take me to the Mass Pike on-ramp! Funny the first time it happened, fortunately I knew where the restaurant was anyway. Not so funny on the several other occasions it happened.. Hopefully the Z3 maps will take care of that.

Also wanted to say that I want to try some experiments with drives, I've read quite a lot here about the stacks of drives people have tried and the issues they've had. Unfortunately I don't have a stack of drives to test with, but I would like to once and for all put an end to the "power requirement" issue if possible... -> I plan on trying a couple of drives powered up with an *external* 5v supply running off my Z1's incoming 12v. Not sure if it'd be a problem having it powered on all the time the Z1 is (doubt it since it should power up immediately anyway) but if you had to the 2ndary power supply could be switched on by the Z1's 5v output.

Probably a lot of trouble just to verify what some other's have mostly figured out; that it's not the power supply just the drive make.. But I like power supplies and such, so we'll see. For giggles I'll try to connect and power up a standard 3.5" ATA drive with the Z3 image on it as well. I'm a Test Engineer, so hopefully I won't FUBAR my Z1 too bad.

Within a day of buying the thing I had it torn apart with the intention of remote-mounting the screen. Scary. I ended up just mounting it normally behind my flip-up cover thing instead, not enough time to play with it.. (in a Scion tC) I did however lose the CD "finger" closer spring, that pulls the CD loading "fingers" towards the middle of the unit. (shot across the car into never-never land!) I replaced it with the only thing that would fit, a piece of elastic thread. LOL Still haven't found a suitable spring to replace it, but it's worked fine for over a year. Anyway, enough about that! Happy modding!

Sounds great riceburner98. I look forward to hearing what your results are.

I opted to simply start from scratch with the original hard drive. It does seem a little faster to me. Not a whole lot, but I think the maps look a lot better. At least they do here in the San Diego area. I haven't taken any trips down town yet to see what they look like in 3d yet, but maybe I will this weekend. All in all, I'm pleased. Oh, and I noticed that some have said that they still get the annoying echo with the blue tooth. Mine has gone away since the upgrade. Volume is better as well. I'm a happy camper!