Hi,

Before buying this Pioneer F900BT, I bought a cheap Chinese device, also running WinCE. It took only 10 seconds to boot, had the same features as the Pioneer itself, but had a pretty ugly UI and quite a lot of spelling errors. Are any of the Pioneer employees using their own devices? I don't think so - slowest bootup ever, nice big screen but not utilized very well, so disappointed in Pioneer. Ok, they can make a nice package and put their logo on it, that's fine - but for God sake, use Linux and make an open API that developers can use. How many more people would buy the device if they could install their own applications on the device? They have a potentially huge community out there that would just help perfect a good base, I don't get what is so bad about that. Why is it that all these big companies think they have the best people to do the best devices - they obviously don't!

Look at what's happening with the cell phone market. Open platforms everywhere, users own applications running on every device, that's the future.

Anyways, I sometimes use it for some foreign language training on the way to work. The files are mostly around 30 minutes long, while my commute is only 20min. On any other car stereo (or audio device) I have owned, the obvious thing to do would be to resume the last file where it stopped. But the F900BT only starts the whole thing over again. Well, of course I just fast forward 20 minutes into the audio file, right? That takes about 10 minutes, ridiculous

Does anybody know if it is possible to change the resume setting, or maybe change the fast forward speed? I am so sick of this nice stereo

What are you playing the mp3s from? USB stick, external hard drive, SD card, ipod, zune?

I know with an ipod, it automatically resumes because that's a function of the ipod. I don't know if it was explicitly mentioned or implied in the user manual that functionality inherent to mp3 players would occur with a mass storage device, unfortunately.

I have the same issue where I play movies via SD and it always starts the movie over from the beginning when I restart the car. Seems like something so simple, yet overlooked.

I agree with the OP though...having an open platform would be so nice. I just replied on a thread about someone hoping that Android could be hacked and made to work on the AVIC. That would be awesome, but it seems this board has a fair share of "glass half empty" users who've made up their minds of what is and isn't possible.

but it seems this board has a fair share of "glass half empty" users who've made up their minds of what is and isn't possible.

A lot of comments that are made about what is and what isn't possible was made by experienced modders that know the coding capabilities about the AVIC. YOU obviously do NOT!

You should respect their comments and not belittle them as this is really not making you welcome on this forum at this time!

but it seems this board has a fair share of "glass half empty" users who've made up their minds of what is and isn't possible.

A lot of comments that are made about what is and what isn't possible was made by experienced modders that know the coding capabilities about the AVIC. YOU obviously do NOT!

You should respect their comments and not belittle them as this is really not making you welcome on this forum at this time!

Along with the fact that the F-series in particular is a dying model, so anymore modifications will be done by those who still own one and will be based on past mods in the first place. Android will not be ported over to the F-series.

There is no fix for this particular problem. I sent my unit in for repair because I thought this was not normal. I have 3 other pioneer units that pick up from where you left off but not this one. Pioneer told me this is normal operation for the unit. You will also notice that if you have an SD card and a USB pluged in at the same time on power up the SD card can take as much as 45 seconds to show up, this is also normal operation(so I'm told by pioneer themselves)

I'm by no means knowledgeable about hacking, but isn't the FX3.1 that Retell did basically X series software that runs on the F's? If the other Pioneer models as you stated can resume MP3's from where you left off, it seems that all it'll take now is someone to figure out how to get it to function like that on the F. It may be an aging unit, but it does everything I need it to, and I'm sure as time passes more and more hacks from other units will trickle their way down to us.

You should respect their comments and not belittle them as this is really not making you welcome on this forum at this time!

Don't be so sensitive, it was an observation, not some direct insult at their mother or something. It's the internet, lighten up. I've said this before, but I'm sure there are plenty of things that people never thought or said couldn't be done to this units, which now the entire hacks/mods subforums is built upon. I understand things have been tried, and while some have failed, that doesn't mean someone isn't going to figure it eventually.

I read page after page of how to do the 3.0 hack, all the numerous steps required, people having TONS of problems, etc, then it seems out of nowhere someone makes a .rar file and the simplest and best upgrade I've ever done to my F90 in a few super easy steps. Time goes on, people figure out how to make things work and they make it easier to do. I'm just opened minded.

When i brought mine in for repair i spoke to the technician at length(I live a 40 min drive from pioneer headoffice in canada were they do repairs as well) apperently he was one of the technicians resonsible for the firmware upgrades. His explination for why it happens is that when the unit starts up it checks all of the digital media slots for firmware updates, starting with the SD slot(why it checks USB as well he couldn't explain) It has to go through it's procedures and loading the nav info(hence the start up times) first before it will play music. The track resets because the unit doesn't know if it's an mp3 file or what ever, and if it was a file that was used to update the firmware it couldn't start half way through so it simply reads each file from the begining. It only does this on start up. He said the simple answer is that the unit was only really intended to be used with an ipod, so any other stuff that it can do should be considered icing on the cake.

Since your stuck with your unit ...Try using a ipod to play your video instead they will all resume where you left off

so that nudy seen you dont like will be passed next time you get in

When i brought mine in for repair i spoke to the technician at length(I live a 40 min drive from pioneer headoffice in canada were they do repairs as well) apperently he was one of the technicians resonsible for the firmware upgrades. His explination for why it happens is that when the unit starts up it checks all of the digital media slots for firmware updates, starting with the SD slot(why it checks USB as well he couldn't explain) It has to go through it's procedures and loading the nav info(hence the start up times) first before it will play music. The track resets because the unit doesn't know if it's an mp3 file or what ever, and if it was a file that was used to update the firmware it couldn't start half way through so it simply reads each file from the begining. It only does this on start up. He said the simple answer is that the unit was only really intended to be used with an ipod, so any other stuff that it can do should be considered icing on the cake.

I could have sworn that Retell's FX3.1 had something in it about no doing so many of the redundant checks, booting faster, etc. I wonder if doing that will make the MP3's resume. I'm going to have to readup on that thread again. Thanks.