I did not see the big thread before I saw a smaller one. My 700 began the constant rebooting process this afternoon. I have not made a settings change to it in months, so it is certainly not an issue arising from a user change.

I sure hope Pioneer or someone else figures out exactly what is wrong, and fixes it shortly. I reset the unit and all of the common stuff, it still hangs on startup and then resets.

What is the number to call to get the ball rolling on returning the unit to Pioneer? I sent an online form message this weekend that was not answered after a full business day.

I cannot deal with this thing continually resetting in my dashboard. It is actually kind of funny to watch Pioneer headunits get unsold to my passengers today. Before, I was a total evangelist about the AVIC-F too...

try fresh reinstall...worked perfect for me

How do you do a fresh install?

How do you do a fresh install?

If you PM your email address to me, I'll set up access to my virgin 2.0 files, you download them and copy them to a 2Gb SD card, and also get the testmode files from my online backup. Unzip the testmode file and put the two files from there on the root of the SD card.

Put the SD card in your unit, then turn the car ignition on (but don't start it) you'll get a screen that says copying files.

Once that's done either hit ok or the X in the top right corner. then it's start, programs, windows explorer go to "my flash disk" then do start, programs, windows explorer again and select the SD card. then select all the files except the two from the test mode file and select copy. then change to the "my flash disk" and edit paste, click yes to all.

once it's done. eject the SD card and turn the ignition off. wait until the unit shuts down completely, then either turn on the ignition or start the car.

First time after doing that the unit will take a decent bit longer than normal to start, be patient...

After that you should be back to normal and working.

My AVIC-X910BT has started just coming up with the pioneer black screen and then every 10-15 seconds resetting and starting over. I can hold the menu and map buttons at the same time and the blue screen comes up, and when i put the up, up, down, menu, left then right password in it comes to the menu screen, but it still resets after the 15 seconds anyways so I cannot change anything or try to update it. Maybe once every few days it loads normally and I can listen to the music on the SD or radio, but the GPS shows that I am somewhere in LA when I am in Ontario, Canada. As soon as I turn the car off the system starts back up resetting every few seconds. I checked the versions last time it worked and the map version 02.000000 and Version 2.970000. The problem arouse when I was driving and the system just turned all the way off and went black. I pulled over and the resetting problem started when I turned the car back on to try and fix the problem. How can I get the thing to stay on long enough to update it or fix it?

Also I have never modded anything on it, but it was installed in the car previous to me buying it. I just normally listen to music off of the SD card and the radio.