Got my AVIC-X910BT about 11 months ago. First thing I did was to mod it with all the navigation upgrades (used Diaftia's mod collection). First step of the mod is backing up your current system files...just in case. Mod complete, and everything works awesome.

Fast forward 11 months and all of the sudden my unit reboots itself while listening to music on an SD card. The unit then continuously reboots itself every 30 seconds never making it past the splash screen. Hitting reset doesn't fix it, and neither does restarting the car. Hitting Reset + Eject temporarily fixes it, but navigation then doesn't work and the issue represents itself the next time you start the car.

Called Pioneer. They say that a file got corrupted while I was listening to music. Not too uncommon. They want me to send the unit back to them so they can reinstall the software. Turn around time is 3 weeks...so no car stereo for 3 weeks. Plus I gotta pay shipping. One more month and it would have been out of warranty, so I would have had to pay for the repair too.

Then I remembered the backup I made. So, I hacked into the unit again, restored my files (including the mods) and low and behold everything was good and back to normal.

Now, you might think that the mod caused the issue, but I highly doubt it. This same thing happens to people that don't mod their units. Only they don't have a system backup, so they're screwed. Also, all was good for 11 months, and then suddenly things broke while using features of the system unrelated to the mod.

So, point is, if you got a unit, highly consider hacking in and at the very minimum, grab a backup of your files. It's very easy to do, and in my opinion, totally worth it for this reason alone.

Nice, i got this unit installed 2 weeks ago and it started doing the problem you are describing, so im pretty much screwed.

Nice, i got this unit installed 2 weeks ago and it started doing the problem you are describing, so im pretty much screwed.

There's a thread where people have uploaded a backup of their system files. I'm not fully certain that it's definitely compatible with the X910BT, but I think there's a good chance it did. Here's the thread. Read through it and ask questions. You might end up being ok:

http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/27807-fx31-complete-firmware-image/page__hl__%2Btorrent+%2Bseed

okay , im going to buy an sd card and try it out tonight

Then I remembered the backup I made. So, I hacked into the unit again, restored my files (including the mods) and low and behold everything was good and back to normal.

I've got the entire MyFlashDisk folder backed up and would like to do a restore as well. Is there anything detrimental with deleting all the contents of the MyFlashDisk folder prior to copying & pasting the backup folders/files to the unit? I'm hesitant to simply overwrite since there may be some files present now that didn't exist when I made the backup that could create conflicts.

Background - I too did the Diaftia mods about a year ago without issue. For some reason some of the route options that show on the map (like delete, mute, etc) no longer appear. I have backups for both pre & post Diaftia mods. I plan on restoring using the post Diaftia mod files.

i would recommend making a back up of the files on your system even if you never plan to mod your systems for this reason.

i had my system modded for almost two years before this started to happen, loaded up the stock OS and reloaded my mod file, worked like a champ

For those of us who neglected to backup the unit prior to modding, are there kind souls who could upload stock backups?

There is another thread discussing this, but the server hosting the backups is no longer active.

brain

you have to keep your eyes open, they pop up from time to time, but they dont see a lot of traffic so they wont last too long

Anyone know where the private data is stored? My hesitation in part comes from that. Prior phone calls, GPS History, unique keys tied to my particular unit, etc. Also, not sure of the legality of redistributing all the system files like that.

Can someone point me to the thread where I can learn the process to back up my unit? Haven't had the majoe issues some have, but unit is going on three years now and I don't want to have issues...

well for starters, that depends on which model you have, as the steps or files may be different.

i would start looking in the "hack/mod" sections of the forum instead of the troubleshooting section