Hello all. I've been a reading member of the forum a while and it has been a good resource regarding upgrades, etc. but I have an issue now that I need help with so I thought I would come to the experts.
I had some major A/C repairs done to my vehicle yesterday and in the process they disconnected the battery. Upon picking up my car, my head unit was prompting for a password, which I do not recall ever setting. I tried about 10-12 different ones including using Google to see if there was a default one for these units. After having no luck there, I start looking for a solution/hack to determine or reset the password. In doing that I came across the post on these forums about HACKMODE. Unfortunately I started with the v2.21 of HACKMODE instead of v1.4, and I seem to have damaged my HU.
I'm not sure what v2.21 did to the unit but I can still boot off the v1.4 SD card and browse successfully with the File Manger. (If I had only done this from the beginning as I was able to read the password.dat file and sure enough the password was a variation of something I have used in the past.) Now that I know the password, I just need the HU to get to the point of prompting me again, but it seems v2.21 has made that impossible.
I have read through several threads and understand that there are 2 possible boot locations PRG0 & PRG1. I do not have a file called PRG.FLG in my unitis USER folder, so as I understand it, that means my unit boots from PRG0/APL. In looking in that PRG0/APL I see the AV.exe but the date/time on it is much older than the majority of other files. The other files are 13 Jul 2010 14:32 and the AV.EXE us 8 Apr 2007. That seems like an issue to me but maybe not. I do still have my SD card with the 2012 update but nothing happens when I boot up with that card.
Any guidance you folks could provide would be most appreciated and if I left any needed info out, please don't hesitate to ask and I can run it down. Thanks!