After 2.0 issues with fixes

A. Blue tooth was very wonky with the iphone 3g, this was fixed by resetting up the connection from scratch, reloading phone book etc.

B. voice recognition with Ipod wasnt working right, this was fixed by allowing the VR catalog cycle to run and complete, worked great after that. (duh)

C. Ipod (iphone3g) control wasn't working right or charging, front/back with pac steerging wheel controls was barely working. The fix to all these problems was replacing the Pioneer ipod cable with a new one (apple branded, i wasn't going to give pioneer any more money) and EVERYTHING works great now.

Any other issues I had, i can't seem to remember now was fixed by doing setting resets to default, under the navigation menu, pressing the reset switch button, and loading the default language again.

Just thought id share, its a great unit! Uh except the XM logos being gone now, but owell what can you do I am sure this will be fixed soon enough.

Also all those little things you don't know if you don't read the manual.

A. If you hold down the Menu button it goes immediately to screen calibration,

B. if you hold down the map button it goes to screen brightness settings.

C. if you push the knob in it answers and hangs up the blue tooth calls.

D. There are a whole lot of voice commands and how to troublehsoot the issues with them, things like uh, talking too fast or too soon.

Makes me wonder how many people hate this thing, simply because they don't read the manual. Noble concept, but uh i didn't even read it thinking it was common sense, it is not!

Glad it worked out for you. I guess the update was worth the wait, eh? lol

Cant wait to try it out on the road tomorrow. i purchased this before and sent it back (over the summer) because of the problems...but I'm sure its much better now right?

Can you tell me what cable you bought? Right now the Ipod dropping the connection is the only problem I have.

Dave

Apple composite cable, however there does seem to be an issue with the pioneer waking up the ipod after the ipod goes into sleep mode, you need to wake up the ipod manually before you start the head unit up, or else unplug it then plug it back in to wake it up.

You can find this cable at best buy, walmart circuit city or wherever, if this doesn't solve that problem, you can alwasy return it, thats the beauty of buying stuff locally.

it may not be just the apple composite cable. I have the pioneer cable and one three occasions in the month that I had it had to manually unplug and replug the ipod to get the avic to see it/turn it on. I don't think I am the only one, even after 2.0.

I have the Pioneer cable, and since the 2.0 update, I haven't had a failed connection yet, and all I listen to is my iPod. I do however, get an instance here and there, where it won't recognize the iPod upon startup and i have to unplug it/plug it in, but it happens so rarely it's not a bother.

I do however, get an instance here and there, where it won't recognize the iPod upon startup and i have to unplug it/plug it in, but it happens so rarely it's not a bother.

Same exact thing happened to me lately, although like you said rarely, but still Pioneer needs to fix this problem. Pioneer give us a stable unit!

Just a follow up. I had the Apple cable installed and it still drops the connection. However when I changed the AV1 setting from Ipod to Video. I was able to use my Ipod just fine. Granted I lost the ability to control the Ipod through the deck but I at least can still listen to it and watch videos from the Ipod.

Hopefully Pioneer or Apple will update their software and this issue will be resolved soon.

Dave