That page of yours is the shizznit. Love those step by step pictures. Wish I had that kinda help when I did my n2. Cant wait for the downgrade section. Great work! :D

Hey amp3d, thanks for that guide man, 1 day after I needed it :)
But I am sure many will be very happy you posted that!
Its a very good idea for stuff like this. Helps make a good walk through.
Next time you take a unit apart you should think about taking pictures along the way and making a step by step with pictures.
Once you done it a couple times, it gets allot easier, I was looking around allot the first time, nervous I wasnt going to mess something up, and also trying to find the exact spot I needed to open to get to that part of the board.

jsdeprey said:

Hey amp3d, thanks for that guide man, 1 day after I needed it :)
But I am sure many will be very happy you posted that!
Its a very good idea for stuff like this. Helps make a good walk through.
Next time you take a unit apart you should think about taking pictures along the way and making a step by step with pictures.
Once you done it a couple times, it gets allot easier, I was looking around allot the first time, nervous I wasnt going to mess something up, and also trying to find the exact spot I needed to open to get to that part of the board.

Glad you guys appreciate it =]
As for the step by step pictures, I was hoping to do that to help people know which screws should be removed first etc but I didnt feel like removing the unit from my car again LOL, I missed my music =]

Sometime next week I should be working on another Avic belonging to my friend so I will try to get updated pictures when I open it up. If theres somthing you feel is missing let me know.

PS, I have completed the Downgrade info if you need it. Its in the sig.
Choww =]

Thanks for the downgrade info. :D What, no pics :shock: Can you get into this menu and then back out to normal without changing anything if you just want to look around? Keep up the good work. :mrgreen:

executioner said:

Thanks for the downgrade info. :D What, no pics :shock: Can you get into this menu and then back out to normal without changing anything if you just want to look around? Keep up the good work. :mrgreen:

Actually, I will try to get some pics for the downgrade tutorial later. I just have been very busy this weekend =] Plus its not like there are alot of pics floating around the web I can steal so it takes more effort =]

Yes, you should have no problem looking around the menus and exiting. It actually takes some effort to mess things up in there...but I dont see why you would need in there if you werent doing a downgrade.

amp3d, I PM'd you the other day. Did you see it?

Paul1965 said:

amp3d, I PM'd you the other day. Did you see it?

nope sorry, no new pms yet

amp3d said:

Paul1965 said:

amp3d, I PM'd you the other day. Did you see it?

nope sorry, no new pms yet

Check again...

Is this on the head unit or the display?

lraiello said:

Is this on the head unit or the display?

This mod is done on the head unit.

well then shuddup dumbass

tillithz said:

page six of this thread no worky?

It works now. There were a couple posts that were removed and for some reason it didn't reset the page count.

would one of the conductive wire pens from radio shack work with this? I was reading on another forum that that is how they were bypassing the n2's without sodering.

bump. yeah, can it be done with the circuit tracer pen??

i have a customer that had me put a N1 in and grounding the eBrake didnt work. now i see you have a mod for it on here, but i dont remember ever doing this years ago when this came out. and ive done a lot of these N1's to. will a switch do the trick also or will it still cut the video out after a certain speed? and i thought i remembered something about running your video out into the camera input.

So is there anyone here that can confirm that a Circuit writer pen works? any pics?

Nice, I did this mod today and it works great!
I ended up taking the deck apart a little more than needed but it made it easier to do the soldering. I've soldered on Xbox and Ps2 in the past though, so I have a little experience. I wouldn't call the soldering hard, but you have to be very precise and have a steady hand. Make sure to have a low watt soldering iron with a very small tip. You probably have to buy the smaller tip from radio shack, the standard tip will not work.

For the wire I used aboug .75 inch of wire from a network cable. Tinned both sides, lined the wire up, and then taped the wire down with electrical tape over the connections I wanted to make. That way I could have both hands free to do the soldering. This helped a lot. After I did the solder. I used a magnifying class to make sure that points weren't touching other things. Ended up having to pull everything a wire back a little bit. After that I put electrical tape over the jumper cable just to be safe.

Also, make sure to get the right tools. I went to the home depot and picked up this Husky electronics screwdriver which had 8 switchable heads. I was able to get out every screw without stripping one. It only cost like $6.

This will be a nice replacement to my previous method which was a switch on my GPS antenna and a switch on my VSS/Parking brake.

Also, the first time I put everything back together, I hooked it back up and it was working great except I had no sound. After taking it part again, I realized that I had forgotten to connect the flex cable going from the RCA Outs/Speaker outs to the main board. After I made that connection, all was well again! :D

I'm in the middle of the hack and cant get the top connection to stick and now the little tip of solder on the board is gone.... any ideas

I did the hack last night. Got to be honest, this was not an easy disassemble job. You guys weren't kidding when you said those screws are a pain to remove. I am under the firm belief that there is lock tite on those screws. But after messing with it for a long time and finding the right screw driver I got the unit apart, put the jumper on, soldering was a pain as well considering I've never soldered in my life. Ended up putting it all aside to finish up today. Didn't have the energy in me to put the unit back together. Here's what the jumper looks like.


*UPDATE*
So I finished putting the unit back together, popped it into my 2005 GMC, grounded the green wire, and..... Everything works. Very nice being able to drive and watch videos and or change/search for a new destination. Thank you all for this forum and the abundance of information found here.

Well i just got done the Upgrade, if you will to my N1. It went very well.. All though i cant test it yet, untill my GPS antenna comes in, but i did put it back together, powered up, plays DVDs, Audio, no problems so far.

Let you know more later!

so... a few days after the bypass i lost All video capabilities... the unit still functions as a nav unit, i can still search destinations while moving... But when i put a dvd in, it only plays the audio off the dvd, no video is shown. Any one know what the hell happened? it just cut out right in the middle of playing a video... HELP PLEASE!!!

I'm so glad I found this forum. I have an N1 and upgraded the maps to the 2006 version from 2005 and lost my video/nav functions like many of you. I bounced around the net trying to figure out a solution and stumbled onto this forum.

So you've found a place to mod the N1 and allow for nav/dvd while driving again? Sweet! I hear its easier on the N2's right because they have a sticker you lift up and then just solder the two connections under the sticker. So this really works? I've also never lifted a soldering iron in my life but i work with some engineers that could steer me through it. Seems from reading this that people are having some varying degrees of success... and now Kasper said he lost all video capability. Is this a good idea? Or does it make more sense to flash the firmware back to the original? Of course then I have to deal with old maps and the money i spent on the update dvds goes down the toilet. I mean does this really work or is what happened to Kasper going to happen to me?

N2, you need to rake apart the unit, and solder the inside, not remove the sticker!! thats the N3.

Yeah works great, i use it! i run a shop and offer it..

So anyone know what the hell happeded to my unit? Do i have to take it apart agian and recheck for the solder points, or could this be something that i just turned off? Any experts here? Please help.

Just a quick update for all you all, I figured this out months ago, but kept putting off posting this. All I had to do to fix my problem was a rest. been working fine for a few days since my last post.