I did the firmware update on Sunday after receiving the email b/c I was in the process of sending them back my unit for possible hard drive replacement. Since I've done the firmware update I havent had any issues ( knock on wood). The unit actually seems to boot a little faster. I also have the bypass done and it hasnt affected this at all.

I just did this and now my Z2 is f*cked up.

 

I popped the disk in and my Z2 went to a black screen with progress bars and started copying files, finished, and now it just keeps rebooting.

 

It starts booting and right after the "starting pioneer car navigation" I get "Starting program update" and then "Program update failed - rebooting" and it's an endless loop. I took the cd out and it does the same thing.

 

Sh*t. Now I've got no tunes. Guess I'll go grab a 12 pack and try and figure out how to image this spare drive I have next to me...

 

I think my hard drive was failing anyways, It would not boot up after work today and it was 55 out... probrably 70 in the car.

 

If I put a new drive in my unit it's obviously not going to work because there's nothing on it, but can I download the CNDV-700HD disk (if I can find it), pop that in and reload the drive?

 

Damnit this sucks

 

Now what my question is.. i tried burning this update on 4 cds as a data disk but it is still not working. So what is the trick behind this?

When you burn the disk make sure you turn "multisession" off, that's on by default, and click the checkmark to finalize the disk.

Oh, and I definately did do this update when my Z2 was locked up, dumb idea on my part but since it worked I just tried anyways. I think the drive was trashed anyways, it wasn't even warm out. I have a drive here right next to me at work that i just imaged. it's a hitachi drive so it'll probrably have that rebooting problem people get when changing to a non Toshiba drive but it's only going to be temporary till i can get a Toshiba.