...I lost the bluetooth device recently as well....Got that back with a backup reloaded on.

Which BT firmware should we use for Oz?......

One thing that annoys me is that the bluetooth does not work down the list if a particular phone disconnects.

All the standalone Parrot kits do this as i have had 2 Parrot kits before.

I can only suggest you delete the BT settings in the user dir. None of the mods have anything to do with the BT other than the beta versions display the status and clicking on the BT icon dials home.

As far as I know their is only one BT version for the V3 firmware.

I have not personally tried with more than one phone. I use blackberry bold 9000 which works flawlessly.

To the best of my knowledge the code was supplied by parrot and modified by pioneer. The features have not changed between V2 and V3 firmware. IE not all of the features in the parrot car kits work. IE no a2dp support.

You will need to do some searching on that, please post references to any answers you find.

BTW when you reloaded your back you also changed the users directory. None of the BT files have changed in these mods. So again that tells me the problem was more than likly in youe saved settings un the USER directory.

When things dome seem right. Rename this dir. It will be recreated on startup. You will need to redo all your settings but 9 out of 10 it fixes your problems. You can also copy things back in an test ie your favourites ect

Cheers

34by151

Hmm big issues today....

No audio when playing back audio files from SD card (yet GUI shows it playing)

TTS lost again

BT audio not working....

Pulling out the backuo to double check hardware then going again....

No audio when playing back audio files from SD card (yet GUI shows it playing)

TTS lost again, BT audio not working....

Try removing the SD and reinserting it after power-up.

What do you mean TTS lost? you should not have the TTS unless you have altered the sys.txt or device file.

What voice are us you using. Go back to non TTS Jason.

TTS Jason has bugs. IE it does not support turn left right if you must use TTS use Samantha

BT Audio? Do you mean no audio on your phone, I hope so because streaming mp3's is not supported.

Did you wait for the "Phone Connected" Message. If so the wait for the bluetooth icon to appear on the screen. The pioneer "Phone Connected" message just means bluetooth has connected to the phone not that the features have started. Once the features are all ready you get the bluetooth icon on the nav screen (nect to the compas)

If you still have problems try deleting your setup files in the USER directory, Specificity user\userdata\setup\btsettings.dat

You can also try a long reset which will delete the files for you.

Cheers

34by151

In regards to no BT audio the phone was paired fine and could make a call with contacts but once the call answered the audio wasnt heard. Went into the BT menu in the phone and brought the audio back on the phone no problems.

As far as the SD audio goes it came back after i went into settings/run/restart then they came back.

I have gone back to Pioneer base now and it works fine it appears.

I will update step by step and see if these issues arise again.

I....Went into the BT menu in the phone and brought the audio back on the phone no problems....SD audio came back after i went into settings/run/restart then they came back

Running the reset app is the same as a short press of the reset button. It changes nothing other than to reload the OS. A long press will remove your setup files and rebuild them. Read your Avic Manual

In the root of My Flash Disk you have the winceimg.bin file. This is the wince os including the os drivers for things like video, usb and bluetooth.

Once the OS boots it starts the GUI. The main things here are

\apl2\ezrider which is the Igo nav application

\apl\mainmenu. This is the app that you see when you press menu. I is just like task manager in WinDoze it just changes focus to ezrider, tel and av

\apl\tel This is your bluetooth app that shows your phone functions

\apl\av This is the app that runs all the Audio and video functions.

Now if the bt or usb has has a problem at any time it will shutdown the os driver. When this happens the apps above them wont work correctly or not at all. Rebooting or running reset will cause every to reload. Just like turning off and restarting your PC.

You can replicate your phone issue but making or answering a call right after you get the "phone Connected" message. The Bt will be up because it connected, but the interface to the handsfree and mutes for Audio and Nav will not be started ath This pont. the result will be the Phone popup over he nav screen but no audio. Normally waiting will give you the hands free once these things powerup

Another example sometimes the system will power up and you get weird audio from the ipod and or you cant change songs with the knob. Classic, usb did not powerup correctly issue. This tends to happen if the 12V gets a spike on bootup. Somtimes the system will boot repeatedly. Again a usb powerup issue caused by the Ipod locking up.12V Spike issues can often be solved by making sure the main poer wire is connected directly to the battery and or adding a diode and capacitor to the main power wire

Nothing in this is related to the Igo nav app

Look in the \user dir. You will fin each subdir has the settings for each app. Most problems with apps are related to problems in these files. Deleting them solves this. After doing this if you still have issues it will reate to the hardware you are using.

Just because a phone has BT does not make it connect correctly every time. Look ath the firmware on the phone do some searching on it's compatibility.

A lot of SD issues relate to the quality of the card you have and the health of the file system on it. If your SD is slower than class 6 you will have speed related issues, try a faster card to avoid hardware issues

All the answers are here on this forum, you just have to search and readup

Cheers

34by151

I will add to my list to have a selection of click sounds.

Ah, now I feel bad! Don't do it on my account, I'm happy to mess around with data.zip.

In the settings

Off= DIsabled

On= Alarm for Basic types and Off for advanced Types

Custom = Enable Speeccan menu and set warnings per type

Thanks for that, makes sense. Loving the new features!

I will add to my list to have a selection of click sounds.

Ah, now I feel bad! Don't do it on my account, I'm happy to mess around with data.zip.

That's Ok. I have list of stuff to look at. some are being done now, others latter and others again thing's I don't know if they are possible or not.

At his point the things in the beta are being finalised.

A new version is on it's way and I will go into that in detail when it's ready. You wont see to much in the way of visual changes but a lot of the code is being simplified and altered. As a result, I'm not working on new items for now till the new version is ready.

Once the new version is out I will start working through new features. More than likely future versions be released less often but have more features. I will still release betas as soon as each new feature is put in. So if you want something sooner you can have it early. Oh yeah, betas also help a lot with testing before full release

These mods mods exist because it's what I want for my AVIC's To that end I'm happy to share my work.

By all means ask for things and I will do my best. If you make make changes that you thing should be put in the releases PM them to me. That saves you having to redo them on each release.

Again, by all means, ask for thinks and or PM me your changes. You never know you my may just come up with a killer idea. For example I think I may have a way to change the Dynamic Volume so that its linked to the Audio volume and not speed. This will make the nav sound proportional to the music volume not linked to how fast you are going. No promises, it's on my wish list and I think I know how to do it but haven't started the detailed stuff as yet. For me, and the way I want to use the AVIC, It's right up there with sorting the Favourites which is, for me, the thing I use the most.

Cheers

34by151

I think I may have a way to change the Dynamic Volume so that its linked to the Audio volume and not speed.

Great idea! Dynamic volume is a useful feature but its implementation is poor. Linking to music volume seems like the simplest approach (one control for everything), but it's also the most practical.

Looking forward to future updates. Cheers!

Loving this.. So much better then the stock program

Great work keep it up

Thanks Guys

Pleas post or PM me if you have any suggestions or idea's

Cheers

34by151

My second F900BT did not have V3 firmware so I thought I'd work out how to do it using 2 SD cards supplied for my other unit. Now if I used the pioneer instructions I would need a new unlock code. So here is how to do it without the unlock code.

BTW this is also how you fix a bricked unit, one with a dead flash disk, or one that has "Software not Found" for bluetooth

Step 1 - Reinstall the WINCE bootrom.

1. format an SD card on your PC using the FAT32 file system

2. Check that your SD has no files on it

3. Copy from the files WINCEIMG.BIN and WINCEIMG.CKS from SD1\LUPE080\PLT to the root dirctory of your new SD card

4. Verify the only files on the new SD card are WINCEIMG.BIN and WINCEIMG.CKS

5. Verify the file sizes match those on SD1.

6. Do steps 5 and 6 again. If you upload corrupt files you can not recover from it so make sure

7. Boot your avic into the service mode using the next steps

8. Power on the AVIC

9. When the boot screen appears, Press and hold in the Menu, Map and Eject buttons

10. Press the reset then release the Map and Manu buttons. IE keep pressing in the eject button.

11. You will see Blue screen with the words "Please push reset key again", you can now let go of the eject key

12. Enter the password, Press UP, UP, DOWN, MENU, LEFT, RIGHT

13. You will now be in the service menu.

14. Its a good idea to test the Bluetooth while you are here so do that if you like. NOTE: Option 2 in the bluetooth menu will bot work with a special cable

15. Go into the WINCE Upgrade menu

16. Insert the SD card we made in the first 6 Steps

17. Select the first option, "WINCE by SD/MMC (Format). This will reformat "My Flash Disk"

18. The Winceimg files will now copy into flash. This takes about 5 mins to complete. On the bottom of the scree you will see this as it's done.

19. Wait till you asked to restart

You have now re-flashed your AVIC but "My Flash disk" is empty. We now need to reinstall the Files

Step2 - Reinstall the V3 applications to "My Flash Disk"

1. Go back to your PC

2. format an SD card on your PC using the FAT32 file system

3. Check that your SD has no files on it

4. Copy the files from SD2\LUPE080 to your SD Card

5. Check you now have the LUPE080 directory on your SD card

6. Copy the Testmode directory from any of my V3UPDATE files to your SD Card

7. Check you now have the Testmode and LUPE080 directories on the SD Card

8. Copy the files from SD2\LUPE080\PLT to your SD Card \LUPE080

9. copy from SD2 \RENEWAL\VERINFO.DAT to your SD Card \LUPE080\RENEWAL\VERINFO.DAT

10. copy from SD2 \FLASH\RENEWAL\CONF4000.DAT.000 to your SD Card \LUPE080\RENEWAL\CONF4000.DAT Note the file name change

11. Copy the Directories lang and voice from SD2 \LUPE080\APL2\iGO\content to your SD Card \LUPE080\APL2\iGO\content

12. On Your SD card, change directory to \LUPE080\APL2\iGO\content\lang

13. Rename every file removing the .000 from the end. IE Lang_English-aus.zip.000 is renamed to Lang_English-aus.zip

14. On Your SD card, change directory to \LUPE080\APL2\iGO\content\voice

15. Rename every file removing the .000 from the end. IE Voice_Eng-aus-f1.zip.000 is renamed to Voice_Eng-aus-f1.zip

16. Copy the Directories APL and APL2 from V3UPDATE01\My Flash Disk to your SD card card \LUPE080\ Overwrite any files when asked. This will give you the 16.1 maps

17. Put your SD card in your AVIC and turn on the power

18. Wait for Testmode to startup

19. Go into "My Device" then "Storage Card" then "LUPE080"

20. Select all of the files and directories

21. Select "Edit" then "Copy"

22. Press the "UP" arrow till you can see the directory "My Flash Disk"

23. Go into "My flash Disk"

24. Select "Edit" then "Paste"

25. The Files will now copy onto "My Flash Disk" when complete your all done

Cheers

34by151

Thanks heaps for all your efforts 34by151

I now have my F900BT all sorted with v3 and your updates....and it rocks.

One small query (which I could probably work out myself but find it always pays to check) - if I did each update in sequential order, except V3UPDATE02b (ie. I went straight to the 2c_beta) will I be missing anything? I haven't had time to check all the extras / utils and haven't yet come across any issues, but before I get too far down the road would be keen to confirm...

cheers

Northy.

if I did each update in sequential order, except V3UPDATE02b (ie. I went straight to the 2c_beta) will I be missing anything?

You need the first one V3UPDATE01 this has the basic mods plus the maps. The Skin starts with V3UPDATE02. You can miss V3UPDATE02 and jump right to V3UPDATE02c. If you apply betas you must install the full update before that but can jump to the last beta.

IE Do V3UPDATE01 then V3UPDATE02c then the latest beta if you want the next version early, well as I do the mods

Just follow the posted instructions

Cheers

34by151

Have some bad news,

The F900BT in the car has died. Some of Flash disk memory has failed which corrupted "My Flash Disk". I managed to get the flash disk working again but it's 200mb less than before. I also needed to reload the MBR record, Uboot then the WINCE in service mode. Unfortunately some of the dead flash disk memory is right where winCE needs to load from. The net result is an unusable AVIC.

I have a new unit on it's way but wont have one in the car for a week or two that I can test the new update with.

I will get back to things as soon I my new unit is installed

Cheers

34by151

That's bad news for us all,but espiecially you of course.What causes something like that do you think?Is it just bad luck?Have you managed to sort it under warranty?Hope you get up and running real soon.

The Flash disk is just like and SD card or USB memory stck. At some point they all stop working.

I have a collection of SD's that have bad memory locations. It's the same thing

The problem on mine is after reformat it's lost 200mb of storage space. I could get around that but where it has failed is right where the boot loader is. same thig as the boot sector fail on a HDD. The disk works but you cant load an OS from it.

It failed today. I stopped to gas up and it died when restarting. I was able to get onto the guy's that customised my car who open up their shop and pulled it out on the spot and swapped in the OEM Jag sound system. They also called in a favour and rang someone at Pioneeer (who i will not name) and sorted out a replacement unit to be shipped from Melbourne on Monday morning. So with a bit of luck I will backup and running soon.

Don't know about warranty, I suspect I'm just paying for the shipping. It's not being replaced through retail channels. I had my car booked in to have some more custom work done in 2 weeks anyway. So we will see what happens

Cheers

34by151

Damn, sorry to hear that mate. Glad it didn't cost you too much to get another one on its way though!

Damn, sorry to hear that mate. Glad it didn't cost you too much to get another one on its way though!

Thanks Mate

Well, my installer had a brand new F900bt hand delivered by pioneer today for nothing. Well considering the cost of the custom work to the rest of the car, I guess it not nothing.

I will still be without my unit this and next week as I can't spare the time to have it put back in. In any case the installer has to remove the whole dashboard next week so I guess it does not matter.

I guess I have a new warranty as well if I'm cheeky enough to send in the new warranty card

Cheers

34by151

Download link not valid

Download link not valid

Which Link are you using an old one?

All the Files are here

Firmware Version 2 Files

http://www.4shared.com/dir/14084405/70e2b4d9/V20a_Update.html

Firmware Version3 Files

http://www.4shared.com/dir/24382274/615944ab/V3updates.html

Cheers

34by151

Hey mate. I tested the beta u sent me but i was unable to get it running. Was is only the data.zip or other compnents i needed to replace as well. It says upon bootup that the program application database cannot be found.

Hey mate. I tested the beta u sent me but i was unable to get it running. Was is only the data.zip or other compnents i needed to replace as well. It says upon bootup that the program application database cannot be found.

The new data.zip replaces the data.zip in "My Flash Disk\APL2\Igo"

As will all mods you also need to delete your save files Ie delete this directory

"\My Flash Disk\USER\UserData\iGo\save"

If you still get the error it a problem reading data.zip. Either th one you have is corrupt or not in the correct location

Cheers

34by151

Hey 34by151,

Just wondering what additions have been added for beta2 and beta3.

Thanks!

Just wondering what additions have been added for beta2 and beta3.

I have been writing so much code recently that I don't really know that answer to that. The mod is at least 10 versions beyond that revision now. These versions are being tested by a few beta testers. As my F900 has been out of action I have had rely on this to check the code. I get my car back today so I will be able to test myself from today.

For those of you that have not read Diaftia's thread. We have combined efforts for the next release. All three of Diaftia's versions (US, US with MSDN, and Euro) plus my Oz version have been combined. All the difference are now selectable in the settings menu's. Added to that lost of the code has been rewritten in a effort to increase performance and a giant list of mods have been added.

If you are looking to have something specific please post a suggestion and we can look it at. I cant promise that it will make it into the next release as we are quite advanced in development now. However if I cant do it for the next release I will put it down for the following one. Without posting suggestion what goes in is really the things that Diaftia and myself want for our own units.

cheers

34by151

Hi did not install everything yet, using Diaftia's release now for a while. I like it a lot but there is always room for improvement, e.g. the mute button that nees to be pressed after each new calculation (nice if it would be a fixed setting)

What I really would like is is TMC improvements. (understand you did some work on this already right?)

1.Be able to tune to the right TMC provider, it sometimes freezes without the opportunity to search for a good TMC broadcast.

2. For the traffic jams, sorted in such a way that everything on the planned route is sorted first, with the option beside the individual traffic jam to avoid it. Or if that is too difficult 1 button to avoid all trafic jams on the route and once in that mode should be used to return to the original planned route without traffic.

3.The option with a pop up leaving the choice in case of traffic to either reroute or not.