so i was listening to my ipod, and recently has been playing fine then saying "ipod connection failed. please reconnect"

... anyone else having this problem? i bought a unit with the new firmware already installed.

... anyone have a fix?

Same here, im having the same problem. Its very annoying that I have to unplug the usb and then replug it back in.

Its happened to me a couple of times along with some bluetooth instability. Just part of the overall instability of the F series os. There's still work that needs to be done on these units. There is a rumored Update 2 coming out so lets hope this stuff is addressed then.

Mine started doing this as well with a 5th gen 30gb. Also i started receiving static in my sound and low volume. Anyone else notice this or should i start a new thread?

Mine started doing this as well with a 5th gen 30gb. Also i started receiving static in my sound and low volume. Anyone else notice this or should i start a new thread?

same here. I called Pioneer and gave them detailed descriptions of the problems. They for some reason they sounded surprised on the other end of the phone. Their solution was assanine. I was told there was no plans for a second update and I would have to send my unit out for repair and go back to my factory stereo until they can figure out the problems, with no time frame for getting back the unit. BS

I called Cruthcfield and they sent me a new unit, at least one company knows about customer service.

Well i think i got my static worked out. I used a friends 6th gen nano and noticed the connector fully connected with his unit. on my 5G it was a little loose and i could wiggle it. So i just started wiggleing it in then it locked into place. Hopefully that does the trick.

I get a failed connection at least once a day.

I also get failed connection on my 1g ipod Nano. Irritating to say the least.

When I first installed my unit, I was using my 4GB 3rd generation nano with no problems whatsoever. A couple of days ago, I started using my 30GB video (5th generation), and have had numerous disconnects. I'm not sure what the difference is between the iPods, but the nano definitely works better than the video.

I get a failed connection at least once a day.

im with you.. MIN of once a day... which has become more like several times a day

since i'm in and out of my truck a few times a day (work and personal truck all in one)

it doesn't matter if i'm using the ipod or not, the error just shows up regularly.

I've had 4 or 5 since i bought the unit back when it was first released... And it only seemed to do it when it was really really hot outside and my car had been sitting in the sun with the windows up.

mine fails within two minutes of starting my car 50% of the time.

if i start/stop 10 times in one day (only done this once), it dies like 95% of the time.

this is really getting annoying. on a side note, i'm using the Apple iPod cable, not the pioneer one. what does everybody else have?

I'm using the Pioneer cable. I forgot to mention. Aside from it failing, I leave my iPod in the car, unless I bring it with me to work, and if it stays in the car, the unit doesn't even reconize it unless it unplug/plug it back in. Does anybody else have the problem? I'm using an 80 gig video

I'm using the Pioneer cable. I forgot to mention. Aside from it failing, I leave my iPod in the car, unless I bring it with me to work, and if it stays in the car, the unit doesn't even reconize it unless it unplug/plug it back in. Does anybody else have the problem? I'm using an 80 gig video

I'm using a 60gb video 5th gen

I'm using the Pioneer cable. I forgot to mention. Aside from it failing, I leave my iPod in the car, unless I bring it with me to work, and if it stays in the car, the unit doesn't even reconize it unless it unplug/plug it back in. Does anybody else have the problem? I'm using an 80 gig video

i leave mine in the truck all the time, just like a hard drive. only time i remove it is to reload the music or see if there is an update avail.

i have the 30g video..

mine doesn't usually fail first start of the day, just the rest of the day almost everytime i use the truck .. and the start of the day, is a 60% working, rest is fail

I think i have found the answer to this one if you shut the system off on the ipod screen you wont get the failed connection the next time you turn the system on. Try and and let me know it might just be me

nah mine will randomly fail. even if i had the ipod screen up when i shut off my car. also, itll just say the connection failed after listening to it for 10 min or so. i have the 90bt and the cable that came with it.

My IPOD (80gb 6g classic) would occasionally fail. If you pressed next track or anything on the screen it would just go "beep" and go to off just like if you unplugged it. I tried everything and as a last resort ended up using a program to back up my ipod to my PC. I then used Itunes to restore (totally erase it) and copy all my movies and songs back on. It seems to have fixed that problem. Strange huh?

I still get the occasional problem now where I start my car and the IPOD just plain does not show up. The ipod itself shows that it is charging but does not show the pioneer logo. I have to press menu and the center button to reboot the IPOD and so far that has gotten it back up every time.

I am using the $50 apple cable.

my 4 gig Nano fails about once a day as well. It always connects from the start but it will just randomly lose connection while I am listening to it.

Mine makes noise sometimes, too. It makes a soft clicking sound, even on pause. "click click click click........click click click click...click click click click." I noticed that the connection was a little loose and I wiggled it, and it seemed to make it better. That might be why I was getting a failed connection warning sporradically. I am going to replace the cable with a new one this weekend and see if it makes it any better.

Yeah this is very annoying it happens randomly, alot of time while I am driving. Make it seems rather hard for me to pull out the usb and plug it back in. So I have no music until there is a long redlight . The ipod connection failure message keeps staying on the screen as well.

I have noticed that this happens consistently on my unit if my iPhone is connected to the usb cable while the unit is booting up. If I make sure the unit has finished booting up before connecting the iPhone everything works fine. The times when I do forget and leave my phone connected, it fails after about 10 minutes and the only way for me to get it working again is to restart BOTH my phone and the head unit.

I have the same problem with my 700 and my 5th gen 30GB iPod video.

On the one hand, I'm glad to here that I'm glad to hear that it just isn't me ... on the other hand, it doesn't bode well for Pioneer.

Well I guess its not just me.

I'm getting more and more frustrated with this product every day - unfortunately I am in for a penny, in for a pound.

Has anyone heard anything solid from Pioneer about this problem?

I am finding I need to constantly plug and unplug my iPod to get it to work. No setting changes to the iPod or AVIC, no clear remedy to get it to consistently work. I've tried turning to radio before shut down. powering off iPod before replugging, Turning VR Cat update off or on... nothing seems to have any effect...

This is my second AVIC-F900BT (Pioneer took 5 weeks to replace my first one because of another issue). It has the firmware update (Pioneer did it). Brand new iPod Classic 120GB.

If anyone knows of a fix, I'm all ears!

Thanks all

Well I hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying this, but I haven't had a failed connection in over a week. It starts up when I turn the car on and stays on. Idk why the unit decided to stop being a pita, but I remember it stopped after I added some new artists to the ipod and it took a VERY long time to get it to catalog, along with a few failed attempts. Since then it's been fine. Also I was very attentive to the iPod UI idea, but it had no relation to the iPod failing.