Welcome glad to help for others jumping in here, use torrent file for updated files

So after buying a used / bricked Avic from an exmember of this forum and finding out that he had posted several posts about how to use SERVICE MODE i discovered that he had reformated his SDMLC/MBR info on his Avic there by bricking it. After 2 weeks of work and scouring for different solutions and a lot of trial and error I have succeded in solving this problem. Several other members have also had this issue and so I figured more will in the future so here is how to solve it. If you have done any of the things listed in the title, formatedMBR in service mode, Formated SDMLC in controlpanel/system/ or for one reason or another are getting the error when trying to get into testmode Error 0X00000 this is for you. Other symptums that this can solve is if your system never boots to menu screen but you can press menu after about 30 secs of turning it on and the menu pops up but only lets you into settings then system settings.

 

Points to note, when in Service Mode dont mess around in there, this can lead to the bricking of your system as has happend to mine and several others. If you do happen to mess around and brick it, here is how to fix that system. A second point to note is that its helpfull to have at least 2 memory cards one with 2+GB on it another at least big enough to hold a firmware update.

 

I created a torrent, it has tons of f series files, but I am not sure if I have done it correctly I uploaded it to TPB. Link is here

 

http://thepiratebay....e_anc_fix_files

 

 

Part 1- Downloads

1) Download the firmware up grades from Pioneer it is best to have both of them that way you can have the Bluetooth and TTS upgrades. You can find them on Pioneers

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2)Download the latest Version of Testmode found on this forum it should be Testmode V2.3

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3)Download these two files provided by Carver they are the ones responsible for bringing your unit back to life.

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4)If you dont have a backup copy of MY Flash Drive for your own Avic you will need someone elses which can be found by using the search feature on this forum

 

Part 2 - Uploading and Applying downloads

 

1)Format your SD card or Cards Fat32

 

2)Find where you downloaded the Firmware Updates inside that folder go to LPO80/PAL and find the two files labeled WINCEIMAGE.Bin and WinCEImage.CKS and load them onto your card

 

3)Go out to your car. Start up the AVIC then try to enter Service Mode

a)Press Reset, EJECT, MAP, MENU all at the same time

Let go of Reset but continue to hold the rest

c) When you hear your speakers make a small pop sound let go of EJECT but continue to hold MAP and MENU

d) A blue screen will appear that says press reset DO NOT press reset

c) enter this code in, as you do * will apear at the bottom of the screen for each button pushed. on the nob Push

UP UP DOWN MENU LEFT RIGHT

d) This enters you in SERVICE MODE

 

4) Do not mess around in here, this is what leads to bricking of uinits! Once in here press the nob in for Windows Upgrade

 

5) insert SD card in the slot and then click the first Option Upgrade from SD/USB (formated)

 

6) You will see a Blue Screen and it will be uploading the WINCEIMAGES once it is complete it will tell you to restart. Shut off your car.

 

7) If you have a second SD card this should be the smaller one you should have put the whole Firmware Update from Pioneer on here. If you only have one SD card go inside reformat it and copy the the Upgrade to it.

 

Put the SD card with the firmware update into your card, turn your card on and let it run. While it is doing this take your other SD card inside (if you dont have a second one wait for it to finish and use the same one). Reformat the SD card and place the Testmode Version 2.3 on there in the root directory.

 

9)Extract the files from NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.rar you downloaded. One is just a .txt file that you dont need the other is an .IMG file that has to be on the card.

A)if you can also fit the copy of your backup you will be doing yourself a big favor and saving a lot of time. if you cant fit it you will have to reformat and add this after you go through steps 10-12

 

10)Once Firmware update is complete take the SD card out and Put in the one y ou just uploaded Testmode and the IMG file on into the avic and turn on your car. This will allow your avic to go into testmode. If you have not used one of these versions of test mode they have extra Utilities on there that allow you to do a lot more inside test mode. The part we are interested in is the program called DISKRW

 

11)Open DiskRW

a)change the little dot in this program to Write (instead of read)

b)click on the first drop down menu and and find where it says SDMLC and make sure that shows in the window

c)Click on the botton that has the three dots (...) and brows to your SD Card and then find the file

NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.IMG and click on it

d)I forget exactly what button you have to click here or if it runs automaticly but if it doesnt look for a button

that says start or something of that sort.

e)You should see the blank text box start to run all sorts of text info then tick ********* for a while until it is

complete

12) Once the IMG has been writen successfully close out the window

13) If you had enough room on your storage card to add the copy of your back up you will go to Explorer under Start/Programs/Explorer

14) Go to your storage Card find your folder with all your backup Files in it. Click Edit/Select All then Edit/ Copy Copy now using the back button navigate to your MY FLASH DRIVE and click on EDIT/PASTE even if it gives you an error message saying there is not enough room press ok. It will begin to copy files, make sure if you are ever asked if you want to copy over a file you click YES ALL.

This may take about 15 minutes to complete.

15)Once done close out all the folders and restart your unit.

You may need to wait about a minute for it to load because it is going to act like it is its first time ever loading if for some reason it does not load here. Reload a firmware update and you should be back in business.

 

I hope this helps someone else, I had yet to find a strait solution to my problem posted here and with lots of help from different members posting and giving me info and software/backups ect I have come up with this solution. Non of this info is really my own I have just taken what I have learned through other posts and made it into a solution for others to hopefully fix there unit.

i have tried this and i am having no luck. i cant get into test mode and my unit will not load the firmware update. it gets tot he splash screen and crashes everytime.

Genius!

MBR back in business. Few clarifications on his directions. I did this on a x910bt.

Part 1- Downloads

1. Download the firmware upgrade from Pioneer it is best to use the earliest version, F-Series 2.006000. You can find it on Pioneers website:
   
   1. 
      
   2. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Products/CarAudioVideo/In-Dash/GPS-Navigation-Systems/AVIC-F700BT?tab=F
      

1. Download the latest Version of Testmode , it should be Testmode V2.3
   

1. Download these two files provided by Carver they are the ones responsible for bringing your unit back to life.
   

http://www.4shared.com/file/105507086/7d061dc3/NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.htmlb%22%3Ehttp://www.4shared.com/file/105507086/7%20...%209984.htmlb%3C/a%3E%3C!--%20m%20--%3E)Disk1File%20%3C!--%20m%20--%3E%3Ca%20class=%22postlink%22%20href=%22http://www.4shared.com/file/107628372/cc1d5bfd/NN746UC_DSK1_WO_MAP_RealSpeak.html

1. nn746uc_sdmlc_0_108009984
   
2. NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.img_read
   

1. If you dont have a backup copy of MY Flash Drive for your own Avic you will need someone elses which can be found by using the search feature on this forum
   

Part 2 - Uploading and Applying downloads

1. Format your SD card or Cards Fat32
   

1. Find where you downloaded the Firmware Updates inside that folder go to LPO80/PLT and find the two files labeled WINCEIMAGE.Bin and WinCEImage.CKS and load them onto your card
   

1. Go out to your car. Start up the AVIC then try to enter Service Mode
   

   4) Select Windows Upgrade with push of volume nob.

   5) insert SD card in the slot and then click the first Option Upgrade from SD/USB (formated)

   6) You will see a Blue Screen and it will be uploading the WINCEIMAGES once it is complete it will tell you to restart.

   Shut off your car.

   7) If you have a second SD card this should be the smaller one you should have put the whole Firmware Update from Pioneer on here. If you only have one SD card go inside reformat it and copy the Upgrade to it.

   8 ) Put the SD card with the firmware update into your card, turn your card on and let it run. While it is doing this take your other SD card inside (if you dont have a second one wait for it to finish and use the same one). Reformat the SD card and place the Testmode Version 2.3 on there in the root directory.

   9) Extract the files from NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.rar you downloaded. One is just a .txt file that you don’t need the other is an .IMG file that has to be on the card.

   1. if you can also fit the copy of your backup you will be doing yourself a big favor and saving a lot of time. if you can’t fit it you will have to reformat and add this after you go through steps 10-12
      

   10) Once Firmware update is complete take the SD card out and Put in the one you just uploaded Testmode and the IMG file on into the avic and turn on your car. This will allow your avic to go into testmode. If you have not used one of these versions of test mode they have extra Utilities on there that allow you to do a lot more inside test mode. The part we are interested in is the program called DISKRW

    

   11) Open DiskRW

   1. change the little dot in this program to Write (instead of read)
      
   2. click on the first drop down menu and find where it says SDMLC and make sure that shows in the window
      
   3. Click on the botton that has the three dots (...) and brows to your SD Card and then find the file
      

   NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.IMG and click on it

   1. click on "ok" in top right corner of screen, then "write" in next screen..
      
   2. You should see the blank text box start to run all sorts of text info then tick ********* for a while until it is complete
      

   12) Once the IMG has been written successfully close out the window

• UP, UP, DOWN, MENU, LEFT, RIGHT
  
• This enters you in SERVICE MODE
  

This procedure can be a bit complex at times, especially if you are like me and the screen calibration is so far off you can't hit the start icon!!!!!! I had to substitute the CECMD interface for all the start/files/etc......it can still be done, but it is more difficult. The file system doesn't like to copy from SD to MyFlash but after a couple hours I managed a workaround for it. But in the end, when all else had failed, this method worked for me, taking about 3 hours from start to finish. I did have two SD cards, though I think one card with enough GB memory should work fine. (I had a 4GB and 1GB, the 1GB not big enough to handle a bunch at one time. But also, being that SD cards at walmart are like $7 for 16GB the expendature in minimal considering the cost to send it off and have it repaired) The biggest real challenge is to get all the files you need. After several hours reading, and one post for help, I had it all and got'er done. Thanks all, those who supplied files and those that wrote directions!

B

No worries. The key here is people need to really follow my directions... a lot run off and make an error because they didnt print all the steps. All the files to do this should be in my torrent as well so only need to grab backups if you have a non american avic. Hopefully I can creat a second torrent for non US people with Euro/Aus and Rus

Thanks for this guide it really fixed all my problems (constant reboot and no access to anything but "setings"...

i just had to do a 3.021000 firmware update when finished.

:tail24 if you're interested i've made a .rar file with the files needed for an Eu fix.?

i'll keep seeding on the torrent from tpb.

That would be awesome. Do you have it uploaded somewhere or are you seeding a torrent full?

Thanks brother this really was my last resort before sending my unit off and it worked. # life saver

Glad it helped

How do you do the firmware update once completed? I saw the short aversion at the end of the original post but I really don't want mess this up. Please help.

That would be awesome. Do you have it uploaded somewhere or are you seeding a torrent full?

no haven't uploaded it. trying to make a fileshare work however without luck for now. collected the files from your links in the guide and the pioneer support site.

i'll get back to you in here when some thing works

How do you do the firmware update once completed? I saw the short aversion at the end of the original post but I really don't want mess this up. Please help.

when i completed Tail24's guide (with EU files however) all i did was getting the firmware update from pioneers support site and ran it like normally (you know, unpacked to a SD card, insterted to my unit and power it up, like said in the manual)

Just do a wince flash for which ever level you want (3.0 , 3.x , 4.01 hybrid) then add that backup in test mode

After fighting with my F90BT all morning, trying everything in this thread, I found what worked for me. The SDMLC in this torrent/thread would not load for me. Either it would error out with "error code 2" or the hourglass would just spin forever and ever. After poking around at the hundreds of threads of other people in similar situations:

this thread---> http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/27807-fx31-complete-firmware-image/

worked for me. Just downloaded the torrent, dumped everything onto one SD card all at the same time, reloaded WinCE using the files in that torrent, then copied everything over using WinCE copy and paste function (Had to use a stylus to be able to select "edit" at the top toolbar). Took 25-30 minutes to copy over. And now everything appears to be golden. Just thought I'd give anyone reading this thread my two cents of what worked for me.

i noticed on top of the blue screen it says AVIC-F700 something something else.. but i have an avic f90bt premier.. am i entering the wrong code

thanks to all for imformation

i have a f900bt. was all good and now isnt !!!

have tried this fix a couple of times and now i know my way around the unit etc i realise that i have the wrong files

im in uk and these are the files that i think are wrong

NN746UC_SDMLC_0_108009984.IMG

ive used LPUE080 from pioneer website (think thats ok) also took winCE files from there

ive used http://webdesignsfor...lash%20Disk.rar the euro back up for the disc image

ive even got to update to 4.00 but unit just hangs on pioneer screen

ive tried updating maps from here http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/35351-european-2012-q1-teleatlastomtom-maps-complete-guide/ (europe maps)

so my (begging) question is what sdmlc file do i use for uk and where do i get it please ?

any help much appreciated

thank you.

all back up and running !!!!

if you are like me and have the following

IN THE UK avic f900bt thats hanging / rebooting then follow this

http://avic411.com/i...o-files-needed/

a big thank you to tail24 and whirlwind !!!!!

everything you need is there

i tried this http://avic411.com/i...complete-guide/

but it put me back to square 1 !!!! so i reinstalled from whirlwinds / tail24 tutorial and im back

it leaves you on firmware 3.00 and maps 2.00

once again big thanks to everyone who has spent time to help on here

Hey guys, I'm new here,

I've been reading a lot in this forum to solve my problem in my avic 9110bt EU unit and I think I understand enough now to do that, basically I'm just trying to restore it after a pioneer update that just gone wrong with the horrible red screen popping up with errors, so I'm gonna install something fresh and maybe even some mods.

Problem just is the stupid fact that as an asshole I made the newbie mistake of not backing up my files, and I haven't been able to find EURO unit's backup files, and with the American ones system keeps rebooting with that awful message: "system starting up, please wait" all the time, and I still don't have the knowledge turn that around, but from what I understand with backup files from an euro unit I would manage to revive my avic.

So, can anyone help me with that and somehow give me a backup of a EU unit? I would appreciated it a lot as I'm really tired of spending hours in the car trying to solve my mess and going nowhere, plus I'm a driver and work with my car, and the long hours without music suck like hell.

Please help me!

Thanks a lot

The the files should work with all f900-90-700 series

hi,

can someone tell me how long it should take for the winCEimg.cks file to give the restart message.

Its been over 40 min now and it still says "read progress 100%"

Thanks for your help

After ALOT of trial and error and advise on this thread and forum my f900bt is working.Still a few bugs I need help with though.I can not adjust the volume and The HU will not recognise my Ipod even thoough AV1 setting is set to I pod.This may be because I could not get a CD-IU230V cable locally so I bought a Scosche sneek peek composite AV cable.see here http://www.scosche.c...ch/product/1622 I assume this may be my Ipod concern.Has anyone used this cable with any success?As far as the files that got me this far I used the most up to date Testmode v2.3,wrote the SDMLC file,A backup file for a F90BT.( bought the unit bricked and this was the only backup I could find),and finally updated the firmware to 2.00600 from Pioneers website as well as the bluetooth V3.3 also from Pioneer.Major thanks and props to everyone for much needed info on this site.So can someone tell me how to get my volume restored? So close and I really like what I have seen with this unit so far.(being the HU I took out was an N3)Thanks in advance

i also ran into this problem with the volume it will not raise or lower everything else works fine any ideas?

TAIL24 plz email me if u have any ideas on how to fix this a text or call would be great 859 319 7866 or nathan [email protected] thanks for all the help

so I've reflashed the using the Win ce file many times, with the last being 2.0, but I keep getting the same black screen followed by the lights going out system, still stay running but nothing I put on the sd card will load. I have tried firmware updates, test mode file, but still get the same results I started with. Lights come on, no splash screen, then the lights go on, fan stays running.

I can enter service mode, but that's it.

Can anyone help me out, TIA

Just wanted to point some people to what helped ME after my US f90bt took a crash. First I had the 5 minute reboot and tried every single fix I could find. My unit would boot to the pioneer screen and hang no matter what update I did after trying to fix it.

I used these insructions and i had to use the 3.0 update with those maps. It was the only fix to my solution. I spent probably 5 hours researching and 10 hours of updating my unit with every fix listed.

Hope this can help someone in the future from a headache. A FRESH install may not be the answer to get your unit back up and running.

I'd also like to point out that I figured out if you are at the hanging pioneer screen, holding menu and map can force your unit to boot up in some cases. I was able to but the only thing I could get into was settings for language, etc...

ok, so I got winCE working properly, and put my backup flashdisk back on. Progress! It goes to the main menu, but stops on system startup, then after a few moments, resets. I read something else on here before about that, but i can't seem to find it again, but I'm continuing the search

I'm having the same issue and I can't seem to fix the issue. Pretty frustrating to say the least. I'm at the point where I'm ready to remove the system and just go with something else. This will be the last pioneer item I ever purchase.