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AVIC F90BT REBOOT FIX

By GCL915 · Jul 05, 2009in Problems/Troubleshooting💬 130 posts👁️ 95,751 views
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Posted May 10, 2010 · 14:46 UTC#76

Recently (a couple months ago), my unit (F90BT) would turn on, get to the splash screen, and then go blank. The buttons would also turn off, so for all intents and purposes, the unit was off, though you could hear it humming.

 

The last update was 2. something...

 

I tried the directions as in the first post of this thread, and can only get to #9... at that point, the unit boots up in test mode, where you are in Windows, but it stays there for only a second or two before the screen going blank, and the buttons all turning off.

 

I've tried different WINCEIMG.bin and WINCEIMG.cks, including the ones directly from Pioneer.

 

Can anyone help?

 

- HP

Posted May 14, 2010 · 16:21 UTC#77

No one?

Posted Jun 11, 2010 · 07:06 UTC#78
Recently (a couple months ago), my unit (F90BT) would turn on, get to the splash screen, and then go blank. The buttons would also turn off, so for all intents and purposes, the unit was off, though you could hear it humming.

 

The last update was 2. something...

 

I tried the directions as in the first post of this thread, and can only get to #9... at that point, the unit boots up in test mode, where you are in Windows, but it stays there for only a second or two before the screen going blank, and the buttons all turning off.

 

I've tried different WINCEIMG.bin and WINCEIMG.cks, including the ones directly from Pioneer.

 

Can anyone help?

 

- HP

 

 

I am having the exact same problem. Anyone?

Posted Jun 23, 2010 · 02:24 UTC#79
I am also having the constant rebooting problem with the f90bt. I ran through the steps, but when i try to load testmode 2.3, the screen turns blank/black in 2-3 seconds. i put AVIC-F90BT Firmware Update 2.0080 on the wince sd card but it doesn't do anything different. Can someone help me plz?

 

 

Has anyone figured how to get out of this loop ?

 

I'm having the same issue with a F90BT and regardless of the version of testmode I use or even with the Pioneer 2.00800 upgrade the unit is only loopig to the Pioneer screen and re-boot...

 

Please help.

Posted Jun 26, 2010 · 07:51 UTC#80
:evil: damn i did every step 1 to 15 on my f90bt and now after step 15 take out any sd and restart, when i turn it on it shows the splash screen and then just turns off back to black screen before i did any of these steps at least i still went to the main menu for a couple of seconds, now just the splash screen and off, can anybody help me!!!! i did every step 1 to 15 exactly as its written no problems at all through the steps, now when i finally thought i was done and had my unit fixed, just splash screen and off, do i need to go back into testmode, windce screen, and add a diffrent backup files to flash disc!! what do i do please help!!
Posted Jun 26, 2010 · 07:57 UTC#81
Recently (a couple months ago), my unit (F90BT) would turn on, get to the splash screen, and then go blank. The buttons would also turn off, so for all intents and purposes, the unit was off, though you could hear it humming.

 

The last update was 2. something...

 

I tried the directions as in the first post of this thread, and can only get to #9... at that point, the unit boots up in test mode, where you are in Windows, but it stays there for only a second or two before the screen going blank, and the buttons all turning off.

 

I've tried different WINCEIMG.bin and WINCEIMG.cks, including the ones directly from Pioneer.

 

Can anyone help?

 

- HP

 

i had that same problem, it would go to the windows screen then turn off right, what i read somewhere else is to 1. start the car, 2. on pioneer start logo click and hold the reset and eject button at the same time, after 5 seconds let go of the reset button continue holding the eject button for about 3 more seconds, then let it go, that worked for me, after i tried this way it then stayed on the window screen without turning off

Posted Jun 27, 2010 · 01:26 UTC#82

Thanks to GCL916!! My avic f90bt started doing the reboot to black screen 2 days ago read this forum yesterday morning, got my f90bt working again today, Thanks Again!!

 

anybody else need advice on following GCL916 steps, ill be on all day today!

Posted Jun 27, 2010 · 02:39 UTC#83

NMurillo503 - you rock!!! Thanks for the missing key to getting my F90BT back up. Everything I could find said I was using the wrong Testmode version. Cool!

Posted Jun 29, 2010 · 17:58 UTC#84

Ok so when I started copying the files from the jump drive to the flash drive all was good till about 65%-70% then it started giving me "cannot access file- abort, retry, ignore" Any ideas why? Did I not do something right along the way? :cry:

Posted Jul 03, 2010 · 01:58 UTC#85

How do you copy files from the USB to the f90? I made it all the way to the copy files from USB. Now I'm pulling out my hair. Please let me know how this is done. Thanks.

Posted Jul 03, 2010 · 02:47 UTC#86

Click "Edit" from the menu in the explorer window..?

 

I'm sure you can figure out the Copy/Paste/Select All sequence, right?

Posted Jul 03, 2010 · 02:55 UTC#87

I have the copy past part down. LOL. I can't find my USB drive to copy from.

Found the SD card just fine. Think might put backup on a SD card.

Will post results tomorrow. Everything went by the book till this.

My unit no longer restarts. Thank all who posted.

Posted Jul 09, 2010 · 21:14 UTC#88

Hey what are the GCL916 steps?? I'm having the same problems

Posted Jul 10, 2010 · 00:55 UTC#89
Hey what are the GCL916 steps?? I'm having the same problems

 

Really? You responded to a thread to ask what the steps are in the first post of this thread?

Posted Jul 10, 2010 · 13:47 UTC#90

Well this almost worked. I had to copy past from SD. No problem. Restarted the f90 and fount it turns on and does not restart at all. Great but will not load music or navigation at all. Like something is missing from the backup files. Anyone have any advice?

Posted Oct 25, 2010 · 11:51 UTC#91

Just wanted to give a huge thank you to this fix. It worked for me whereas nothing else would. My unit was stuck on a reboot right after the pioneer splash screen.

 

There is an easier way to do this though. You don't need three SD cards, you can do this all from one SD Card. I have a 16gb generic SDHC card that works

fine. It has the WinCE update on it, test mode, and also the contents of the myflashdisk and I did the whole process with just this.

 

1) Reflashed/upgraded WINCE through the service menu.

2) Reboot into test mode with same SD Card.

3) Unmounted and deleted the myflashdisk partition.

4) Created new partition called part00 and formatted it.

5) Copied contents from the SD card myflashdisk to the one on the unit.

6) Rebooted and the infinite loop was gone.

Posted Oct 26, 2010 · 22:37 UTC#92

Just wanted to give a huge thank you to this fix. It worked for me whereas nothing else would. My unit was stuck on a reboot right after the pioneer splash screen.

 

There is an easier way to do this though. You don't need three SD cards, you can do this all from one SD Card. I have a 16gb generic SDHC card that works

fine. It has the WinCE update on it, test mode, and also the contents of the myflashdisk and I did the whole process with just this.

 

1) Reflashed/upgraded WINCE through the service menu.

2) Reboot into test mode with same SD Card.

3) Unmounted and deleted the myflashdisk partition.

4) Created new partition called part00 and formatted it.

5) Copied contents from the SD card myflashdisk to the one on the unit.

6) Rebooted and the infinite loop was gone.

 

 

Any chance you could walk me through this in a little more detail? Mine has been stuck for months and I'd really like to resolve this if possible

Posted Oct 28, 2010 · 01:44 UTC#94

http://avic411.com/index.php?showtopic=24113

 

There is a really indepth walkthrough there, thats what sorted mine.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Will

 

 

Thanks, I did see this link before, but the link to the back up files is dead...any chance you could share them if you have them still?

Posted Oct 28, 2010 · 02:54 UTC#95

Thanks, I did see this link before, but the link to the back up files is dead...any chance you could share them if you have them still?

 

 

ugh, got into test mode, copied contents to flash drive, now it goes black after splash screen...I at least still had the radio working when it looped...any suggestions would be great!

Posted Oct 28, 2010 · 03:42 UTC#96

ugh, got into test mode, copied contents to flash drive, now it goes black after splash screen...I at least still had the radio working when it looped...any suggestions would be great!

 

Did you copy the 'CONTENTS' of MyFlash drive over rather than copying the MyFlash drive folder?? Or just do the FX3.1 upgrade.

Edited Oct 28, 2010 by LOOSEWHEEL
Posted Oct 30, 2010 · 14:20 UTC#97

Update: I thought I was good, but something is still f'd up. Everything works most of the time, but I'm not sure what happened during the file copy or update

because when I press HISTORY under navigation, a "windows" window pops up and says it cannot open some file and the application terminates. Stupid thing is it only

happens sometimes, other times history works fine.

 

Also, I tried to set a route yesterday and out of the blue it crashed with a different window that said that some file about 'exit numbers' or something couldn't

be loaded and it crashed again the same way. Right after that it worked on a different route.

Posted Nov 01, 2010 · 21:12 UTC#98

Did you copy the 'CONTENTS' of MyFlash drive over rather than copying the MyFlash drive folder?? Or just do the FX3.1 upgrade.

 

Here's what I found somewhere else that worked for me finally, you cant just copy the contents from the card over and paste to the unit!!!! PM me w/ any questions.

 

11. Go to start, control panel, Storage.

Due to the difficulty of the next few steps, I would take the few extra seconds required to calibrate your screen. When I was doing my reflash, I got to a point where I needed to select something that was not selectable because the screen was so far out of calibration. Trust me here, do this step. Press Start,settings,control panel and then look for the stylus icon. Double click the stylus icon and click on the calibration tab and follow the simple calibation instructions. You will thank yourself for doing this step. Once this is complete, it is now time to clear the internal flash memory to get it ready to accept the new files. While still in the control panel double click on the Storage Manager icon.

 

12. Unmount FlashDisk, and press FORMAT.

Once the storage manager box is open, you will have a dropdown box with 3 or 4 selectable options to choose from. You want to make sure that this source is selected: dsk1: sdmlc disk and the partion on the right will read like this: part00

Press the button that says Dismount and then press the button that says Format. This will erase the internal flash memory and you will lose the partition. No problem. In the bottom right hand corner of the screen, there is a small icon for the virtual keyboard. Click on this, and a window will pop up that says keyboard. click on the keyboard font and it will launch the virtual keyboard. Now, in the right hand column of the storage manager, click the button that says New and you will create a new partition that will prompt you for a name. Touch your stylus in the name field and then type in part00 and press the OK button. You will now see that you re-created the original partition and it is already mounted. If you chose not to recalibrate your screen as suggested earlier, you can now begin to start swearing as the keyboard will most likely not be selectable.

 

13. Once formatted, create a new partition and call it part0. Mount it back up.

Just skip this step as you already completed it in the step above.

 

14. Copy ALL files from USB drive backup to FlashDisk This should take about 40 min or so

This is the step that had me tearing my hair out until I figured it out. You can now close the control panel and anything else that is open so that you go back to the desktop. Double-click on the My Device icon. Here you will see a few icons that represent your different storage devices. You are now going to copy the files from either your SD card or USB drive depending on which storage medium you chose in step 1. If you are using a USB device, make sure it is plugged in. If you chose to use an SD card, make sure you insert it into the headunit. As I chose to use a USB drive, my instruction will detail this step, although the exact same thing applies to the SD card.

Double click on the USB disk icon. This will show you all the files that you stored on the USB drive back in step 1. Click on the Edit tab at the top of the screen and then press Select all. Press on the Edit tab agian and then press Copy. Now, double-click on the My Flash Disk icon and it will open the folder that you formatted earlier. There may be a couple of very small files in this folder, but they will be over-written very soon. Click on the Edit tab and then press Paste. This will dump all the files from the USB drive into this folder. You may get prompted about " do you want to over-write some files". The answer is "Yes to all". It will now take about 45 minuted to download the files into the internal flash card. Once this is complete, follow the final step and you should be set. After rebooting/resetting, you will have to plug your Ipod in and reset all your personal preferences.

 

PS. If you chose to use an SD card to transfer the files, instead of double-clicking on the USB disk icon, double click on the Storage card and follow the same instructions.

 

15. Take out any SD cards from the unit and reboot.

Posted Dec 13, 2010 · 22:36 UTC#99

After asking a stupid question a few months ago, I managed to get my F90 restored and working great. Then it began again a few weeks ago.

 

I went through the process with no problems except....

 

my touchscreen is completely unresponsive!!!

 

Any suggestions?

 

I re-read the entire thread to look for an answer. I hope I didn't miss something obvious, but I really need help.

 

Thanks.

 

Again.

Posted Apr 02, 2011 · 17:59 UTC#100

THE FIRST STEP DOSENT WORK ANY MORE BECAUSE THE LINK FOR THE BACKUP FILES DONT WORK ANY MORE DO ANY ONE

KNOW WHERE I COULD GET THE FILES...?

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