1) Startup order after reboot, say if SD played last, make it start first and continue the last song. If that's impossible, at least play radio or CD so that we don't have to wait 90 seconds to be able to hear music. Preferably, leave the choice up to the user.

2) Don't totally mute the music when giving Navi voice commands. Attenuate it, again leave the choice up to the user. Edit: I think it may already be there, page 144 of the manual, I'll have to test that out.

3) Allow us to have something other than black as the background for A/V source playback. I'd rather have a nice red or blue background than just a greyish/black background with white letters.

4) Finally, please allow us to be able to change the system settings without the parking brake having to be engaged. I know, this last one may be a stretch, but the top 3 should be a piece of cake to implement.

Thanks in advance, your satisfied customer.

90 seconds? I get audio in 29 seconds!!!!

1) Startup order after reboot, say if SD played last, make it start first and continue the last song. If that's impossible, at least play radio or CD so that we don't have to wait 90 seconds to be able to hear music. Preferably, leave the choice up to the user.

My Sirius/CD/FM (whichever was playing before the car was turned off) starts playing about 7 seconds after the unit turns on; yours doesn't?

4) Finally, please allow us to be able to change the system settings without the parking brake having to be engaged. I know, this last one may be a stretch, but the top 3 should be a piece of cake to implement.

See the "Hardware Bypass" in the hacks forum. Pioneer has designed the parking brake check for their liability and for your safety, but also left us a way to get around it.

I'll add another one to your list which, based on my reading on this forum there are many others who would agree, is adding 2D Track Up. It's absolutely ridiculous that this isn't an option in Nav mode - I've never seen a GPS that doesn't have that view as this is the view that most people use.

Just like you can select what routing formation you'd like to show "at the bottom left" while routing. (I.e. speed limit, time ETA, distance, etc...)

Well, It would awesome if the user could select what icons they'd like to display on the right side while simply in navigation mode. (I.e GPS signal strength, details, suspend route, 2D/3D, etc...)

Simple a more customizable User Interface.

Add this to the top of the list!

The ability to add user made skins via the PC/SD interface

Custom Icons for user made POI's

Visualizations for audio files

Support for large(able to be filled) hard drives

let the palm products (centro, treo, etc) actually be able to transfer contacts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3) Allow us to have something other than black as the background for A/V source playback. I'd rather have a nice red or blue background than just a greyish/black background with white letters.

it can be done. just edit IMAGE.RES ... it's not too hard, just take the time to try and figure it out. i could possibly do it for you, for a small frustration fee. call me a jerk, but its a pretty long job.

xtreme:

visualizations would be really cool...

+1

You might as well ask for everything, here is my list:

1). Brand Icons for POIs (Mcdonalds logo...)

2). When you click on a POI icon, the system tells you what it is and offers you a route to it

3). Heading Up in 2D

4). The ability to zoom back further in 3D

5). The ability to manually add a Contact to the BT Contact list

6). The ability to use the dial pad while on a BT call

7). The ability to use the Nav while on a BT call

. HD Radio Frequencies listed in the presets

1- Be able to mute the guidance voice from the map screen. (Without hacking the unit)

2- Be able to cancel a rout from the map screen. (without hacking the unit)

3- Make the clock easier to see on the map screen. That green is almost invisible during the day.

4- Put a button to MSN direct on the map screen.

xtreme:

 

visualizations would be really cool...

 

+1

I think so too, but I dont see it happening with their stance on moving pictures while the car is in motion. I imagine we will see a mod here on these boards before anything else. If we could just get Media Player for CE up and running...

The unit is extremely cool, I think that Pioneer needs to add a front end for PC's to allow more customization and maybe allow use of third party apps. hell, if they did that, they could charge developers to publish apps for their unit. I'd be up for paying for add-on, useful apps. Lets face it, this unit is a compact mobile PC and has far greater usefulness then Pioneer displays with their front end.

If one decent coder digs into this unit, I imagine they could create their own front end and open up endless possibilities.

Regarding dancing equalizers and other visualizations, has that been deemed illegal in the last decade or somethign? I remember there were dancing dolphins on one model say 10 years ago. I haven't been into the car stereo scene until I got the new F/D series.

It would be very cool to have a windows media player or other cool visualization for it.

I guess there is a reason for it, too distracting. Maybe a liability or something.

The built in nav's from say toyota allow you to input addresses etc through voice, granted it would be faster to just do it yourself.

It will be interesting what they add in the new series. Whenever that may be.

Safe to say no added features maybe go so far as to assume no additional updates either. Considering the call volume to the customer service will prob drop 90 percent thanks to the 2.0 update.

We can have a wish though right.

Dancing Dolphins should be illegal just based on good taste alone!

1) allow blackberry users to download their contacts

2) instead of the presets labeled "Preset 1, preset 2,..." how about the channel name and number

 

It will be interesting what they add in the new series. Whenever that may be.

 

Safe to say no added features maybe go so far as to assume no additional updates either. Considering the call volume to the customer service will prob drop 90 percent thanks to the 2.0 update.

So lets keep calling and bothering customer service.

The ability when in shuffle mode (ipod) the ability to push the artist name to bring up all the songs from that artist or push the album name and get all the songs from that album.

I think it would be nice when a song pops up and you think, wow, I would like to hear some more from that artist you push the artist name on the screen and it pulls it up. Same thing on the album.

The ability to have my helio oceans phonebook transfer.

The ability when in shuffle mode (ipod) the ability to push the artist name to bring up all the songs from that artist or push the album name and get all the songs from that album.

 

I think it would be nice when a song pops up and you think, wow, I would like to hear some more from that artist you push the artist name on the screen and it pulls it up. Same thing on the album.

++++10!!!!

Now *THAT* is a useful feature request! Though... I would like this functionality in any playback mode on the iPod, not just in shuffle mode.

How about this: MAKE IT STOP CRASHING EVERY GOD DAMN TIME I HIT SETTINGS

As much as cash as these are running for, you think they would have incorporated the station name and number... (I.e. 101.5 KROX)

- Favorite contacts list.

- Be able to manually add a name to the FM and AM stations.

- Be able to turn the rear camera to B/W mode.

- when searching for addresses by using the postcode search the ability to include a house number

In the event they actually read this thread, here's what i'd like to see..

Phone calls don't automatically switch to the map screen.

Phone calls pause CD playback. I listen to audiobooks and miss parts of the story because of phone calls.

Bigger buttons on the phone controls.

More colorful screens on the audio playback. The white on black is boring. How about the ability to choose a background screen?

Fix the presets on the HD screens so it remembers the station names.

Add a voice mute (copy the hack here) on the map screen.

Ability to change the clock size and color. Can the clock be 'drag'-able? Pull it to where you want it? Size it the way you want? Offer different styles?

Clock displayed on EVERY screen. I don't just need a clock while I have the map screen up. I need it all the time.

Have the volume of radio/cd/aux input increase and decrease with speed. Road noise drowns out playback. At high speeds, increase it to a set number and lower speeds to a minimum number.

Button on the pop-up phone menu to switch off bluetooth and force it back to the handset. Under noisy environment, I have to dig out the phone, find the cancel bluetooth button which is unsafe and a major distraction. Canceling from the popup would make it so all I would have to do is dig out phone and hold to ear, not distracting my eyes from the road.

Permanent cancel route button on map screen (like the compass hack).

Permanent 'add place' button on map screen which 'marks' you current location in your POI database for later retrieval. I know this is buried in a sub menu, but would be nice to have right on the nav screen.

I'll add more later

how about making the unit a little more ergonomically friendly by putting the on screen controls on the left side. I hate having to reach across the screen to control my cd/ipod/radio station. Maybe not such a big deal in a smaller car, but I drive a behemoth.

how about making the unit a little more ergonomically friendly by putting the on screen controls on the left side. I hate having to reach across the screen to control my cd/ipod/radio station. Maybe not such a big deal in a smaller car, but I drive a behemoth.

What is that? A hearse? Very cool looking!