bump , just HOW MANY people are suffering from this problem , factor in the VAST majority of people who have never heard of this forum to compare experiences !
I have the F90BT , same problem , I had NO idea this unit was KNOWN to have all these issues I have experienced until I did a google seach and found this forum , wow , Pioneer must be going broke if it needs to address a near 100% failure rate of their product ........
Installed Jan 2009 , have never updated or modified in any way , unit died a few days ago ....
Have been bitterly unhappy with the unit with a REALLY long bootup , lockups,random reboots,Bluetooth issues , unable to hang up phone , non responsiveness of the OS , un-usable voice commands , an AM radio that is almost unusable a touch screen that seems almost useless at times (bought my wife a 700 for XMAS and it's touch screen acually works , as does sort-of voice commands)...I have to stop this is depressing me now....
Anyhow , it's still in warranty , so I'm not going to risk Pioneer voiding the warranty by risking the rebuild myself , but my main point is , if SO many people have the same problem and it just "happens" then this must be sympomatic of a MUCH larger issue , it seems that there must be a HUGE issue with these units !!!!
And when Pioneer "FIX" the unit , I expect ver3 installed when I get it back for NO cost !!!! especially if it is esentially a bug fix for a unit that should have never been released , it seems like it is a BETA unit with V 0.2 software , NOT a retail product that has been on the market for OVER a year !.
When I get the F90BT back , then my wife's unit is going in for Warranty repair as well , it has all the problems above except for the boot failure,touch screen issues and voice commands (still very poor voice command control though) , but it is essentially like a 10yr old computer trying to run the most current microsoft OS ..... um , I should have just returned BOTH units when I discovered the microsoft WinCE OS under the hood , that can never end well ....
What is the main reason that the units performance/reliability goes bad over time (apart from the stuff that was bad day 1) , maybe the Flash memory fails over time leading to the need for reloading the OS , if this is the case , what will happen after warranty expires , it seems that it will only be a matter of time until the unit goes bad and will need a rebuild .... maybe that's where Pioneer plan to make up for the $'s , out of warranty charged repairs ????
shame on you Pioneer for releasing a product to market that was obviously still in Alpha/Beta point of development .....!
