Just wanted to post a general Thank You to everyone here. Thanks to you I was able to make my AVIC F-900BT MUCH more usable. FWIW, the hacks I did were the bypass (hardwire), hacked the phone book to make VR work much better and have home/work/mobile numbers for the appropriate entries, and did the "compass button deletes route" hack. Altogether, they make this a much better unit. Thanks to all.
happy holidays.
--Mav