AVIC-N2 + ib100 ipod adapter...
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St. Jude Donor '15
AVIC-N2 + ib100 ipod adapter...
Well, I just added the ipod adapter today to my avic-n2 and either pioneer did an insanely bad job of engineering this thing or mine isn't working right.
All I can get on the screen is "ipodXXXX" where XXXX is the play time in that song. I can't see what song is playing. Under the sources menu it doesn't show "IPOD" like the manual says it should, only some aux input. I remember when my XM radio did this same thing I had to keep taking it back until i finally (3rd try) got one that worked.
Any experience or ideas here?
All I can get on the screen is "ipodXXXX" where XXXX is the play time in that song. I can't see what song is playing. Under the sources menu it doesn't show "IPOD" like the manual says it should, only some aux input. I remember when my XM radio did this same thing I had to keep taking it back until i finally (3rd try) got one that worked.
Any experience or ideas here?
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disappointing, to say the least.
I have one of these added to my 94 with the Pioneer DEH-P7700 head unit. It is extremely disappointing. I have always rationalized it by accepting that it does the basic requirement acceptably (plays songs from iPod through car stereo) but the interface is very poor. If you get into the Function menus, you should be able to display a portion of the song title (that's right - just a portion), but that's about all you can expect. I would have thought that it would be easier with a unit like yours, but it would seem that you are having some of the same problems I had early on.
I created a bunch of playlists with the number in the playlist name (1-Mix 2005, 2-Rap/Hip Hop, 3-country) in order to make it easy and quick to navigate using the head unit. It is slow and clunky, regardless.
Sorry Pioneer - you missed the mark on this one. I should have returned it, but by the time i realized how bad it was, everything was already installed. If it didn't work at all, I would have torn it apart, but it worked. Just not well.
I created a bunch of playlists with the number in the playlist name (1-Mix 2005, 2-Rap/Hip Hop, 3-country) in order to make it easy and quick to navigate using the head unit. It is slow and clunky, regardless.
Sorry Pioneer - you missed the mark on this one. I should have returned it, but by the time i realized how bad it was, everything was already installed. If it didn't work at all, I would have torn it apart, but it worked. Just not well.
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Wow, I can't believe Pioneer was ignorant enough to put out a product that works this poorly when it should be so simple. Other mfg's have succesfully made an ipod to their headunit adapter but wow, Pioneer screwed this up
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