I just finished upgrading my friends Z110 (Now Z120) and everything worked just fine the first time around. I noticed that Pioneer is offering a firmware update to 2.003 on their website. This is a free upgrade. I was wondering if this was "safe" to do with the hacked upgrade. Since it's not my unit, I don't want to brick his radio. Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
A big thank you goes out to all of those involved that are far smarter about this sort of thing than I am.
At this point you should assume no until there is info to say otherwise. Keep in mind this whole thing is in it's infancy at this point.
That is pretty much what I figured. The update may work but there is no telling if it will mess things up for future upgrades. Thanks for the input.
Do it. I checked the 2.003 version and I can hack it just as easily as I hacked 1.001
No worries. I was running 1.000 bone stock and did the whole shebang in one shot (hacked 1.001, 2.00, 2.03).
Works just fine 
So is this Ok to do after doing the cracked version of the software upgrade from z110 to z120 ?
Yes 
So is this Ok to do after doing the cracked version of the software upgrade from z110 to z120 ?
+1 yes
I did the 2.003 upgrade after the hack upgrade and it appeared to install correctly, but my system information still shows 2.000. Has anyone else seen this? Is there an easy way that I can confirm 2.003? Thanks.
I did the 2.003 upgrade after the hack upgrade and it appeared to install correctly, but my system information still shows 2.000. Has anyone else seen this? Is there an easy way that I can confirm 2.003? Thanks.
When you are on the System Information screen you must press and hold the "upper left corner" of the screen. Just imagine that there is an invisible button there that you are pushing. It will take you to another screen that will show you the v2.003. I don't know why they buried this information like that.
Excellent, thanks!
When installing the 2.003 over the 2.000 and the hacked 1.001 (1.002), do I need to hack it? That is, do I need to copy the two files into the 2.003 firmware before installing it? (The ones used to hack 1.001)
When installing the 2.003 over the 2.000 and the hacked 1.001 (1.002), do I need to hack it? That is, do I need to copy the two files into the 2.003 firmware before installing it? (The ones used to hack 1.001)
No, just follow the Pioneer instructions.
Alright, great, thanks. I hope I don't have any problems. I will let ya know...
I also just did this last week and went well without any problems!
K.J
Sweet! I bought a unit over the weekend and I'll get it sometime this week. I can't wait! I tried the Pandora just on my iPhone, with no head unit obviously, and it's pretty cool. It adds some much-needed variety to my playlists (which, by the way, I am so used to. I know what's coming.).
Hey ShortFuse, do you have any documentation on how you did this crack. I want to get into the HU cracking scene. I am relatively new to the binary cracking/explotation world, however, I am not a super noob. Did my first talk at Black Hat this year for network related stuff, so i hope you dont feel that your efforts in (hopefully) helping me get started in the HU cracking scene would be a waste. What do you think?
I was successful in getting the hacks installed and the firmware. but NOT the free Pioneer 2.0 update. The unit doesn't even attempt to update.
Any ideas?
I was successful in getting the hacks installed and the firmware. but NOT the free Pioneer 2.0 update. The unit doesn't even attempt to update.
Any ideas?
Yeah, start over and do it again. It works, so if you are having problems, it must be something you are doing wrong. How could we possibly help you with so little information?
This applies to everyone who has had issues doing the update(s) - all three major steps (or 5 if you include the 2 BT updates).
1. Follow the instructions explicitly and completely for each individual update. If something is not absolutely clear to you, ask questions here. Maybe you aren't clear about a step and assumed something wrong. No shame in asking.
2. If a step fails after several attempts, and you followed the instructions correctly, then it must be one of these:
Plenty of people have been successful. Some of us had to try it a few times to get it to work. The instructions may be vague in some places, so re-read them and try to figure out if it actually could mean something else. For example, I had trouble with v2.003, but I found the problem was the way I extracted the archive created an extra directory level (\AVICZ110\AVICZ110\...). I dragged and dropped the highest level AVICZ110 directory onto my SD. I thought I followed Pioneer's instruction correcly, but that part was a little vague.
I'm writing this because I've seen all these posts just saying it didn't work and asking for help, but giving no information of exactly what they did. So it is impossible to give any specific advice other than what I said above. Good luck.
It would be helpful if those who do have problems, such as the serveral listed above, and manage to resolve it successfully, could post a message describing the symptom and how you fixed it. TIA.