Hi there, i know this is an OLD thread but i can't find anything newer on this. I just bought a 2008 Honda Civic GX which has an Avic-F900BT installed. I really like it but it has a few things that could stand to be improved, the clock for one thing, is virtually unreadable because they put a pale green font over the tan background of the map and there's no contrast, small sized font as well, and spending a lot of time in my car going to appointments, i need a clock i can easily see without looking away from the road much. Also, the touch screen could be more responsive. I was happy to see videos on You Tube of F900bts's updated to firmware v.3, showing a clock with white text against a dark blue background, and fast responsive touch screen. But when i went to search for this update, it was not to be found. V.2008000 was the most recently available on the Pioneer site for F900bt. After a couple of days of digging around and trying to make sense of the you tube videos of F900BTs with V.3, i have concluded what this thread also suggests--there seems to be no F series v.3, and people have used the X series v.3 to update their F units.
So i am now looking for some guidance on how to do this. I have the instructions from the Pioneer site telling the steps for updating to v.2008000 and i'm thinking i would just follow those steps. I've downloaded the v.3 update for X900BT and have it on an SD card. but in all my searching around, i read a couple of cautionary comments about the update creating major problems in a couple of cases. One person said that repairing the damaged caused involved updating the version of Windows CE, and another person said that the key to success with this update was having the current version of Windows CE. Like this thread, all the stuff ifound on this was 2 or 3 years old. i'm trying to find out some more recent information/experiences with doing this.
I don't know if anyone is still connected to this thread, but just in case, i'm sending out this message in a bottle...
