So I just got my 900bt installed.. Everything works great, BUT the ipod hook up. When I plug my ipod in the ipod chord it does not recognize it, wont even read it nothing happens at all?? then I plug a ipod usb chord into the usb chord then my ipod into that it will read it however NO sound comes out. It shows the song is being played but there is no sound??
Anyone have any advice for me?? PLEASE HELP!!
Sorry if i didnt explain that very good, kind of hard to explain...
You have to plug in the USB part and the RCA cables and change AV Input 1 to ipod
Im sorry I just dont understand what you mean.. I know in my glove box, I have an Ipod cable, USB, and a USB out.. soo what should I do now??
So I just got my 900bt installed.. Everything works great, BUT the ipod hook up. When I plug my ipod in the ipod chord it does not recognize it, wont even read it nothing happens at all?? then I plug a ipod usb chord into the usb chord then my ipod into that it will read it however NO sound comes out. It shows the song is being played but there is no sound??
Anyone have any advice for me?? PLEASE HELP!!
Sorry if i didnt explain that very good, kind of hard to explain...
You can't use just any iPod USB cable; you specifically need either the Apple or Pioneer iPod interface cable that has BOTH USB and RCA connections and you must plug all four in. After you've done that, go into your settings and set AV/1 to "iPod" instead of Video or Off.
I understand all that you guys have said, I believe I am using the right cables and they are hooked up correctly.. I think the ipod cable maybe bad because when I plug my ipod in it does NOTHING.. So I tried to go through the USB (as shown in the picture) and it says pioneer on the ipod and everything looks good but NO SOUND what so ever, So im thinking that I have some sort of setting that i'm missing.. Here are some pics of what im talking about..
wow them pics are huge sorry about that..
yep its the wrong cable
again, the cable you're supposed to have has BOTH a USB connection and three RCA jacks; video, left audio and right audio.
Wellp I guess thats where the mess up is, I bought the unit used and the (ipod cable was included) I think the installers should have been able to tell me that it was the wrong one.. wellp thanx for the help, now I can stop worrying about this and start paying around with the fun stuff.. Which Im also going to need help with!!!
Wellp I guess thats where the mess up is, I bought the unit used and the (ipod cable was included) I think the installers should have been able to tell me that it was the wrong one.. wellp thanx for the help, now I can stop worrying about this and start paying around with the fun stuff.. Which Im also going to need help with!!!
The F900 doesn't come with an iPod cable
did you click the link I posted 4 posts up? double check and make sure your cable isnt exactly like that one; if you're still not sure, take a good picture of the entire iPod cable you have and post it
Is there anyway to get the Ipod to work without the CD-IU230V cable?
Is there anyway to get the Ipod to work without the CD-IU230V cable?
You don't *need* the official Pioneer cable, the Apple, JVC, or I bet many others will work fine, but you need both the USB AND the Red, White, and Yellow connectors.
It's $30 or less out there, this isn't some $100 custom cable folks.
Diane
yep its the wrong cable
again, the cable you're supposed to have has BOTH a USB connection and three RCA jacks; video, left audio and right audio.
If I look closer at those HUGE pictures, something is wrong, I'm seeing too many cables coming out of the black ipod connector, I see what looks like 4, and that would usually be USB, R, W, and Y, I wonder if the installer just plugged them into the wrong inputs on the back of the unit.
If that were really the wrong ipod cable, we should see a single cable coming out of the ipod connector that just goes to USB, not 4 cables.
The fact ipod control is coming up in the unit says that USB is right, but am I remembering that the Pioneer needs the audio and video to come in on the RCA jacks?
So without actually disassembling everything, I can't agree that the HUGE picture cable is wrong definitively, but someone needs to be sure the inputs in the back are connected correctly.
I have no idea about how it is plugged in the back it was all done at the shop..do you have what it should look like so I can show them at the shop?
What I do know is that there are 3 different chords in my glove box
1) Ipod, which does have 4 different little chords coming from it..
2) I guess for this I will call it a Male USB, just like any other USB you would put in your comp.
3) Again not sure technical name, But a Female USB, where as I would plug my ipod USB into my comp. and as you can see I have the back end of my ipod chord going into that..
Well when I say these cables came with I mean, the guy I bought this from had this hooked up in his car and included the cables..
Also again, maybe you can tell me how it is wrongly hooked up by what is going on..
When I plug my ipod into the ipod cable I get ABSOLUTELY nothing..
When I plug my ipod into the usb cable it all looks good, like its going to work
on my ipod it says pioneer, I get full access of it on my avic unit, but NO sound..
Thanks for you help guys, I paid way to much for the guys at the shop to tell me they dont no what to do...
Well when I say these cables came with I mean, the guy I bought this from had this hooked up in his car and included the cables..
Also again, maybe you can tell me how it is wrongly hooked up by what is going on..
When I plug my ipod into the ipod cable I get ABSOLUTELY nothing..
When I plug my ipod into the usb cable it all looks good, like its going to work
on my ipod it says pioneer, I get full access of it on my avic unit, but NO sound..
Thanks for you help guys, I paid way to much for the guys at the shop to tell me they dont no what to do...
ok im sure of it now, you do in fact have the wrong iPod cable and you need to buy the one in the link I posted above or you can buy Apple's cable, they both work the same, but people have posted saying apples is better quality
Well when I say these cables came with I mean, the guy I bought this from had this hooked up in his car and included the cables..
Also again, maybe you can tell me how it is wrongly hooked up by what is going on..
When I plug my ipod into the ipod cable I get ABSOLUTELY nothing..
When I plug my ipod into the usb cable it all looks good, like its going to work
on my ipod it says pioneer, I get full access of it on my avic unit, but NO sound..
Thanks for you help guys, I paid way to much for the guys at the shop to tell me they dont no what to do...
I keep looking at the pictures you have, and I see 3 things:
a black ipod connector with 4 big cables coming out of it (makes me think it's right)
a black USB male
a black USB female.
I don't want to see you using the white ipod cable I saw in another picture!!! 
What I haven't heard of you doing it the following:
Plug the black USB male into the black USB female
Plug the ipod into the black ipod connector.
Make sure AV1 is set to ipod
Because you're not supposed to have the USB male and female apart, they're supposed to be together, the female is the one that comes from the back of the Pioneer, and the male is the one that comes from the black ipod connector.
I think the reason it's not working is you have the USB male and female apart, and you keep plugging your white ipod cable into the USB female, and that would let you have ipod control, but no audio, and that makes perfect sense, since the only place the R,W, and Y inputs are active is if you use the black ipod connector.
Diane
Well when I say these cables came with I mean, the guy I bought this from had this hooked up in his car and included the cables..
Also again, maybe you can tell me how it is wrongly hooked up by what is going on..
When I plug my ipod into the ipod cable I get ABSOLUTELY nothing..
When I plug my ipod into the usb cable it all looks good, like its going to work
on my ipod it says pioneer, I get full access of it on my avic unit, but NO sound..
Thanks for you help guys, I paid way to much for the guys at the shop to tell me they dont no what to do...
I keep looking at the pictures you have, and I see 3 things:
a black ipod connector with 4 big cables coming out of it (makes me think it's right)
a black USB male
a black USB female.
I don't want to see you using the white ipod cable I saw in another picture!!!
What I haven't heard of you doing it the following:
Plug the black USB male into the black USB female
Plug the ipod into the black ipod connector.
Make sure AV1 is set to ipod
Because you're not supposed to have the USB male and female apart, they're supposed to be together, the female is the one that comes from the back of the Pioneer, and the male is the one that comes from the black ipod connector.
I think the reason it's not working is you have the USB male and female apart, and you keep plugging your white ipod cable into the USB female, and that would let you have ipod control, but no audio, and that makes perfect sense, since the only place the R,W, and Y inputs are active is if you use the black ipod connector.
Diane
I never saw any of the iPod cables RCA connectors (RWY) which is why I think its the wrong cable
can you point me in the right direction for the apple one?? maybe a link a part #??
just want to clarify, when you plug the ipod into the black dock connector, are you making sure to connect the male and female usb ends? the black pioneer ipod cable has 3 connections: one connects to the ipods dock connection, one plugs into the usb for control, and the hidden rca connection sends audio/video into the rear av input of the HU. you should not be using the white cable.
also, if you are connecting the usb, as i suspect you are not, then the link to the correct cable has already been linked in this thread
can you point me in the right direction for the apple one?? maybe a link a part #??
I never saw any of the iPod cables RCA connectors (RWY) which is why I think its the wrong cable
Correct, because they're in back of the unit plugged into the short leads out of the AVIC, and the reason I'm saying that I think it's the right cable is that if you look at the black ipod connector, if it didn't have the RCA's then you'd see it have a small wire out of it, like a normal ipod, not 3+ BIG wires (you have to look closely to see them)
The fact that we've never seen the black USB male and black USB female together (or heard of it) may be the root issue here. Especially when if you have it that way, the symptoms fit perfectly.
Diane
ok wow, thanx for all the help guys, im going to a family party right now and ill have my bro try the things that you mentioned. Hope it works and that I read it all correctly.
So what I got out of it was basically there is a link in the chain missing haha.. if I plug male and female USBs together then my ipod into the normal ipod connector the chin with be complete and should work??
and if it dosnt work, im done messing with it and going to buy new cables..
again thanx for the help, I hope I understand it all..
So what I got out of it was basically there is a link in the chain missing haha.. if I plug male and female USBs together then my ipod into the normal ipod connector the chin with be complete and should work??
sounds like it, if in fact you have the right cable
Hey guys, thanks for helping me out.. It worked!! Hooking the 2 USB chords together work perfectly.. why is that?