I have an avic-f700bt and have all the cables i need to hook up my ipod classic 160 gig probably a 1st or 2nd gen cause i have had it for a few years now. I plug it in and it will bring it up on the screen for about 2 seconds then shuts the avic-f700bt off and when i try to reconnect it will only charge sometimes. I have tried two different ipods and 3 different sets up rcas n usbs. It reads my thumbdrive great. When i first installed it everything worked great for about 2 days then it stopped. The usb reads my thumbdrive and never turns off but im out of ideas.

ive been reading about a lot of issues with the 160gb's, have you tried a different sized Ipod?

i have a 120 gig also and i think its a 6th generation and it does the same thing. My 160 gig is a 5th generation

All 100+ gig iPods are 6th gen or higher. There are no 5th gen in that capacity.

^^^ true, the 5th gens where 30,60,40, and 80 gigs and had a plastic front face with straight front edges (yes the corners are curved)

all of the 6th gens had aluminum faces with rounded off edges, they started out with either 80 or 160 gigs (these are the ones that ive seen the most issues with as they used a different HDD manufacturer which ive heard had too high of power requirements, and caused problems with a bunch of different brands of radios), both of these sizes where discontinued and replaced with a 120gb which was replaced by a new 160 later

im not sure what my 160 is then it looks like a normal ipod its a 160 gig andand i have had it for about 5 years but my newer 120 gig that is 2-3 years old doesn't work with it either and the sterao is updated to the most current update and also both ipods are to. Is their another ipod that works better with the system that is at least an 80 gig?

you could try a 80gb 5th gen. find a friend that has a 5th gen and see if it still has the same problem, otherwise it could be a problem with the avic software, as there is a different interface for USB and IPOD

2 year old 160GB classic here, works like a champ with my F700BT every day

Yea until just recently when I went full iPad in the dash I had a three plus year old iPod 160 and never had issues with it. It was used with every Pioneer unit sense the F90BT.

The only other thing i can think of is that i have some setting that is wrong but i do have my av1 changed to ipod but dont know if their is something else i am missing

I dont know if it was just coincidence or what but i changed the ipods name to just iPod and it works perfectly now

thats interesting.

F it, as long as its working

Yeah i spoke to soon i was listing to it and my wife hit back to listen to a song again and it shut off on me and wont bring it back up