The sticky tutorial above says its for d1 and d2's only.

Is there something for the d3's?

Getting my d3 installed tomorrow.

Thanks,

Rich

i was wondering the same thing. i've been itchin' to change my d3's bg

it is in the owners manual.

Create a folder on your desktop/laptop that is named pictures. Drag the jpg. images into the folder. Once you have done this upload the folder on an ISO image maker program like ULTRAISO. Also make sure that you have over 100MB's. So you will need to upload some dummy data do not put this in the folder. I used the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee video LOL. I then used Alcohol 120% and burned the image to the CD. Went out to the Avic D3 and loaded the images up. Any questions please respond.

Here is a quick Q:

Can I copy my Nav disk, add a Pictures folder with jpgs, burn and use that? Is there anything special about the nav disk or can I just burn it as a regular data DVD-DL?

That is a good question. Give it a shot and see what happens. I'm curious myself.

if you read or even went to your d3 and went to system backgrounds and tried to "import" it clearly says burn images on a cd-r and make sure on the disc there is a folder named PICTURES and in that folders put your jpegs in there.

just tried to copy/paste the contents of the disk then add the Pictures folder then burn UDF mode in Nero... no dice.

It would not even let me set a picture off the DVD. It said no such folder. I wonder if a picture CD must be on a CD or single layer?

I'm now ripping the disk to an ISO and going to try and add the pictures folder to the ISO then burn

edit: could not get the ISO open in winISO so I just quit and burnt a CD-R with the pictures folder

it shouldnt matter what format it is . EVEN tho i used a cd-r .. make sure on the cd-r there is a folder named PICTURES in caps.. and in that folder put your jpegs.. to be safe forget the dual layers and dvds just burn it on a regular cd-r

having trouble. i mad a PICTURES file and added some backgrounds then also added a file that put the total size at somewhere around 22 mb. burnded them to cd-r and it will not work. manual says nothing about burning them as an iso image or anything like that. anyone have ideas.

no need for iso.. just burn the jpegs in the folder PICTURES.. simple as that then go to backgrounds and click import from cd

no need for iso.. just burn the jpegs in the folder PICTURES.. simple as that then go to backgrounds and click import from cd

I got mine installed yesterday and tried to do this using the Windows burning utility(Vista), and it didn't work. It kept saying there is no /PICTURES/ folder found.

I'm assuming it is just an issue with Vista taking my favorite CD/Data burning program(built-in XP one) and ruining it.

Any other suggestions?

don't really know much about vista.

I use a mac and all I did was create the PICTURES folder with jpegs in it on the desktop. Then create a new disk and drag the folder into my app and it worked just fine. I burned it as a windows/mac cd with no problem. No need to make the contents of the folder any large size either. Mines only 1.5 megs. You need to have your PICTURES folder with jpegs, open your app and create a new cd, drag the PICTURES folder into the newly created cd, and burn it. Its really that simple.

after burning the cd and setting the picture on the option, when you take out the cd... and stick in the navigation cd.... the images disappear? or are images stored as a memory or something????

images are saved as mem

what program are windows users burning these pictures on CD's with? I cant get anything on my computer to burn the pictures folder I have onto the cd I put in the drive.

what size should the pictures be? pixel size I mean...1024x768 I assume is too big.

nevermind...i found it 500x240.

also ive had trouble with too many images in the pic file.

ONLY 20 PICTURES CAN WORK IN THE FILE

at least thats what the d3 manual told me

D3 manual says pictures are pre-loaded on the Pioneer navigation discs. i have yet to find them on the disc.

i followed the instructions as in the manual, but i still can't do it. the D3 still has the "import" button greyed out.

and, none of you ding dongs try and tell me that "import" is only for CD-r's. read the manual, and in the section i'm talking about, step 5 says the steps are the same for cd-r's and the pioneer disc.

I am having no luck getting my head unit to read images from my CDR/CDRW/DVDR. Here is what i have tried. It could be my memorex or Ridata brand of CDR and DVDr?

1. I found 10 jpg files from this site in 500x240.

2. Saved those 10 jpg's to a desktop folder called Pictures ALL CAPS "PICTURES" (even renamed them to 1.jpg, 2jpg ect)

3. Opened up Nero 7 started new project in CDROM UDF/No Multisession

4. Then I Put a 5mb zip file in the root directory of the CD not the "PICTURES" directory. Dragged the pictures directory in root and started to burn the CDR.

I have tried this with a CDRW/CDR/DVD-r (I used a 200mb dummy file)

I get the same are message "Make a PICTURES directory and copy Jpg's in to it".

So what could I be doing wrong? Maybe it does not like my media should I try alch 120%? It does seem to read it though and not give me a format error. My system is just xp proffessional CD/DVDR is a plextor.

Please help!

how do you change them to jpegs

how do you change them to jpegs

many kinds of picture editing softwares can change pics to jpeg's.

post the pictures and ill change them to jpegs for you

thanks but i think i figured it out.