So I updated the 4 wav files to silence the annoying key beeps while in the A/V section of my F90BT.

I may be crazy but it REALLY seems to me that the buttons (physical and on screen) respond more quickly now and the system doesn't appear to hang or lag as badly as it did.

Could substituting the 40kb system files with the 7 kb silent wav files really have made that big of a difference or am I just being optimistic?

I know 40 kb isn't that large but could the .wav file size combined with the code to perform whatever task is assigned to the button be causing the system to lag?

Either way . . . AWESOME MOD GUYS!!!

It's definitely plausible.

I notice it big time. The reason why is that I integrated the deck with my steering wheel control. Everytime I control the steering wheel with the sound there is a huge lag and delay. After I silence out the tone, it seems to run much quicker.

After reading these posts I decided to try to put in the silence wavs to see if they improve the response of my steering wheel controls. And to my surprise I can definitely say that it worked and my steering wheels controls are much more responsive!

It would be much faster if it doesn't even have to load the silence .wav. It takes some processing when loading a .wav file, even if a silence wav. If only pioneer allow us to disable the sound. It might even be possible for us ot hack this to not even load the .wav.

What would happen if we just removed the sounds from the sounds folder? Would we blue screen? haha

I haven't tried it but I have a backup of the files. Maybe I try and just delete the wav files???

I agree though, the smaller files seem to make a big difference.

What would happen if we just removed the sounds from the sounds folder? Would we blue screen? haha

No it wouldn't blue screen, but it may not function right without the sound files. If it searches for the file and it's not there, it may not know what to do. IE just yesterday I was making changes to my UI's and I forgot to rename the file from "Copy of image.res" to" Image.res" and the screen was black because it couldn't find the files. It's better to just make them a blank sound so at least the files are still present.

It would probably throw an error message or window. It might continue working or it might sieze up. With the iGo stuff, if I've omitted something it throws a little windows error message, then pretty much locks up.

I replaced mine as well, and I have noticed it to be a little faster, but not quite as fast as it should be.

I just deleted them... of coarse after backing them up, and it works fine. No wasted time opening a blank file. Super Fast!!

I just deleted them... of coarse after backing them up, and it works fine. No wasted time opening a blank file. Super Fast!!

Neat!

sorry if its redundant, but where are these files and what are they labeled? I want to just delete these as they serve no purpose.

The files were under the "DATA/sound" folder. I can confirm that deleting these files seems at the moment not to cause any problems...

has anyone tried opening a blank text doc and saving it as the same exact file name, with the same extension?

that way you would still have the file there but it would just be blank instead of a silence file.

has anyone tried opening a blank text doc and saving it as the same exact file name, with the same extension?

 

that way you would still have the file there but it would just be blank instead of a silence file.

That might work, but from the sound of it the newest/easiest way is just to back up the files and delete them.

has anyone tried opening a blank text doc and saving it as the same exact file name, with the same extension?

 

that way you would still have the file there but it would just be blank instead of a silence file.

 

That might work, but from the sound of it the newest/easiest way is just to back up the files and delete them.

Agreed, even if it is blank... it still must open the file If its not there...

*I have not tried deleting them as of yet.

have deleted them, is working fine

thanks

Sorry, new Avic F series owner here... how do I gain access to these folders to delete them?

Thank You

I just deleted them... of coarse after backing them up, and it works fine. No wasted time opening a blank file. Super Fast!!

You're assuming throwing a silent error/exception is less costly than reading a 0kb file. And that it causes no other side effects (memory leaks etc.)

Sorry.. my nerd is showing..

-dp

 

You're assuming throwing a silent error/exception is less costly than reading a 0kb file. And that it causes no other side effects (memory leaks etc.)

 

Sorry.. my nerd is showing..

-dp

This is true, but after a week and several long road trips I think its safe to say that there is no harm no foul.

You're assuming throwing a silent error/exception is less costly than reading a 0kb file. And that it causes no other side effects (memory leaks etc.)

 

Sorry.. my nerd is showing..

-dp

Yeah, but wav files have headers describing the format of the sound. If you just substitute a 0kb file, you probably have the same errors. In fact, if the programmers check for file existence before opening, it probably would be faster to delete than to have a 0kb file.

I renamed mine with a .old extension after the .wav extension (effectively deleting them as far as the system is concerned) and its working fine. I haven't noticed much of an increase in speed over blank files, but never had much lag with those to begin with.

I renamed mine with a .old extension after the .wav extension

I'm just wondering how people are renaming the files, I have been just copying them onto my SD card for backups but would prefer to rename. Problem is that while I see a keyboard icon in the lower right corner I can't select it for whatever reason to type. Do I just need to recalibrate my screen or something?

I renamed mine with a .old extension after the .wav extension

I'm just wondering how people are renaming the files, I have been just copying them onto my SD card for backups but would prefer to rename. Problem is that while I see a keyboard icon in the lower right corner I can't select it for whatever reason to type. Do I just need to recalibrate my screen or something?

I renamed mine with a .old extension after the .wav extension

 

I'm just wondering how people are renaming the files, I have been just copying them onto my SD card for backups but would prefer to rename. Problem is that while I see a keyboard icon in the lower right corner I can't select it for whatever reason to type. Do I just need to recalibrate my screen or something?

yes