Today for some reason everything worked good. I have 4300 songs and it took 15 mins to do a full vr update. All subsiquent connects were near instant.

Did you do anything different?

Today for some reason everything worked good. I have 4300 songs and it took 15 mins to do a full vr update. All subsiquent connects were near instant.

whaaaaat? what did you do? this was with an iphone or ipod?

The only thing is I made sure the iPhone was on before plugging in. It was with an iPhone 3GS. 3.1.3 same as when I was having issues.

On as in already playing music, or swiped as in "unlocked," or simply powered on?

On as in already playing music, or swiped as in "unlocked," or simply powered on?

As in I unlocked the device out of standby and selected the iPod application but did not start music playing. I then connected to the HU.

On as in already playing music, or swiped as in "unlocked," or simply powered on?

As in I unlocked the device out of standby and selected the iPod application but did not start music playing. I then connected to the HU.

I'll give that a go. Did you have VR Catalog already turned to "On" or did you connect it with VR "Off" and then switch it "On"?

And do you have to connect it that way every time now so that the VR works or was it just that one time?

UPDATE: Brilliant! Worked. Took about 8-10 min to run the first scan, but turned off my car, unplugged and then turned on the car again and plugged in my iPhone and the scan only took about 15 seconds.

Have you found you need to always have the iPhone on the iPod "Now Playing" screen on subsequent connections to have the scan run quickly? I did it when I attached it just to be safe, but if this isn't necessary with subsequent connections that would be great.

On as in already playing music, or swiped as in "unlocked," or simply powered on?

As in I unlocked the device out of standby and selected the iPod application but did not start music playing. I then connected to the HU.

 

I'll give that a go. Did you have VR Catalog already turned to "On" or did you connect it with VR "Off" and then switch it "On"?

 

And do you have to connect it that way every time now so that the VR works or was it just that one time?

 

UPDATE: Brilliant! Worked. Took about 8-10 min to run the first scan, but turned off my car, unplugged and then turned on the car again and plugged in my iPhone and the scan only took about 15 seconds.

 

Have you found you need to always have the iPhone on the iPod "Now Playing" screen on subsequent connections to have the scan run quickly? I did it when I attached it just to be safe, but if this isn't necessary with subsequent connections that would be great.

Not sure on that. I'll have to test it out. Glad this worked out for you.

Are both of you now getting this to work without problem. If so we need to narrow down exactly what solution you have come up with to eliminate the issue so I can create and sticky the solution for anyone else that may have this problem. Please keep this thread updated.

Here's one to test.... and in which we've probably all over looked...

I have a JB'en Iphone.... I have Kirakae installed, which is more like an (alt-tab) or (command-tab) type application... Some use it along with the Backgrounder app to have "multi-tasking".... How-ever I don't use Backgrounder for battery reasons... and mainly use it for a "task manager" or "alt-tab" for quick app switching....

Point being... the IPhone actually does "multi-task"... even stock... the Kirakae app shows this, as you can see any current apps running... even at the home screen...

Springboard...Phone... and Mail(at least if using any "push" account)... are always running on an Iphone... Ipod app will always run as well once fired up, until a reboot... then it will not run, at least until you first fire up the IPod app...

Under "normal" use... the IPod app should pretty much "always" be running... But if your springboard, or Iphone/Ipod was crashing in any way(in between you hooking it up to your Avic) (or even rebooting)then I could see this being a contributing factor to this issue....

I will test a little more to see if this indeed what's going on....

For example... and doing my best to do a VBlue42'ish vid....

I'm not good at explaining stuff...

Clicky for vid

Are both of you now getting this to work without problem. If so we need to narrow down exactly what solution you have come up with to eliminate the issue so I can create and sticky the solution for anyone else that may have this problem. Please keep this thread updated.

Here are the parameters with which I got it to work:

1. Turn on unit, ensure that you are on map screen at boot so you can press "OK."

2. Ensure that VR Catalog is currently set to "ON." I am not sure if this would work if you activated after start-up or connection of your iPhone, I just know that is how it was set for me.

3. Have your iPhone unlocked (as in simply swiping so that the phone is "active") and set to the iPod function. I went as far as to be on a "Now Playing" screen, though not sure if this is necessary. (Note: iPhone was *not* playing music, simply set to the iPod function.)

4. Allow the unit to scan the iPhone. I have ~1,000 songs on my iPhone and the full scan took 8-10 minutes.

5. Verify that the scan works by testing a few artists albums.

6. Upon subsequent re-connections of your iPhone to the unit, I am not sure if you need to replicate having the iPhone "active" and on the iPod screen, or if you can just plug it in unlocked. I haven't tested that yet as I'm not too eager to test my luck just yet. But when I reconnect my iPhone the scan update takes only a few seconds and all VR artist/album commands work fine.

Alright if you can start a new thread about this I will sticky it. I may edit some of the wording or the title to ensure people can find the thread.

Alright if you can start a new thread about this I will sticky it. I may edit some of the wording or the title to ensure people can find the thread.

I'll do that right now. Additionally I'll test whether subsequent VR catalog runs where no data has been modified in between can be instant without unlocking the iPhone before connecting it.

I'll edit this with the new post topic to lock in a few mins.

UPDATE: VBLUE42, the instruction thread I just created is viewtopic.php?f=58&t=31136#p210273. It is in the Troubleshooting section for the Z110BT.

I will add more testing data as I obtain it on Monday.

Just to update, I got it to update no problem just plugging it in without swiping the iPhone into active mode.

Seems like the trick is whenever you update the iPhone with more songs, you need to swipe it and set it to iPod and let it re-run a full scan. Upon adding more music to my iPhone it again took about 8-10 minutes to scan.

After that, just hook it up as normal and it will quickly scan.

I think part of my initial problem was after the scan I would turn off VR Catalog so I wouldn't have to sit through re-scans, and that was losing all my info.

UPDATE: VBLUE42, the instruction thread I just created is viewtopic.php?f=58&t=31136#p210273. It is in the Troubleshooting section for the Z110BT.

 

I will add more testing data as I obtain it on Monday.

Funny, the unit is running the VR quickly for me now, but I tried to use it last night and it actually doesn't recognize any artists or albums or anything, even though it runs the update and completes it.

Anyone experience this?

Are you hitting the map OK button before you attempt the VR?

Are you hitting the map OK button before you attempt the VR?

Yes. I make sure to do that as a best practice every time I start the car. In fact, I even make sure I go back to "Map" mode when I turn the car off so that the OK screen is the first thing that I see after the unit finishing booting.