Stereo & Electronics - cant take it! need help with pioneer avh-p4000dvd

how do you friggin set a background :bang:
I have looked every where and only found the same crap about setting bgp1-bgp3.... well thats all nice and fine, but ive played around with each of those and noticed no diffrence and still cant figgure out how to set a custom one.
BTW the operation manual is frickin usless!!

On the 4k you can change the backround colors not the backround itself

On the 4k you can change the backround colors not the backround itself

bastards f-ed me again!!!
i am so sick of this company... let me tell you there customer support is a joke. I emailed them 3 times about 3 diffrent things and they all three came back "based on your email we need you to call our support hot line"

jackasses:mad:

Damn that sucks dude.....how do you like it else wise??? I am awaiting my bezel to install mine. I made sure to mess around with it pretty well before purchase.

that's gay you should call their hq and talk to some high up people instead of the broke end job employees

Damn that sucks dude.....how do you like it else wise??? I am awaiting my bezel to install mine. I made sure to mess around with it pretty well before purchase.

its a good head unit, don’t get me wrong there. It has plenty of features that I will never use. I just find that I have more questions than the manual has answers.
like
for some damn reason the 'eject lock' got activated. Nothing in the book about it, tech support emailed me back with "based on your email we feel we can better help you if you were to call us".....
basically it took me 3 days of pushing random combinations of buttons to find out that the eject button held down along with pressing the volume knob (mute) will turn off the eject lock......
what a stupid feature, you cant eject the disk when the car is off any way...
its very skip resistant,
with a little toying around you can figure out the menus fairly easily
dvd's look good (the 528t relay is worth its weight in gold)
I cant say enough good things about the I-pod interface,
and I cant wait to pick up a 250gig external hard drive and load it up with music..

I guess im just down on it because i get frustrated when I dont get the whole story up front...
that's gay you should call their hq and talk to some high up people instead of the broke end job employees

yeah I tried that, the issue is there is no one supervisor that handles all of the customer service requests on-line. They all get subdivided into different areas and I have so far had bad experiences with parts purchasing, installations and operations, and for some reason warranty (though I never asked any thing warranty related). so that’s 3 separate phone calls....

I guess if I get board one day I will make em...

This may or may not help...on the AVIC series you load custom backgrounds by putting them on a disc in a folder named "PICTURES". The disc must have at least 4MB of data on it in order for the deck to recognize it and it can't contain any other media files (MP3s, etc.). Picture files must be in JPG format and a maximum of 20 files is supported.

Pioneer's specs for that model don't list user created backgrounds as a feature but I suppose it couldn't hurt to try.

This may or may not help...on the AVIC series you load custom backgrounds by putting them on a disc in a folder named "PICTURES". The disc must have at least 4MB of data on it in order for the deck to recognize it and it can't contain any other media files (MP3s, etc.). Picture files must be in JPG format and a maximum of 20 files is supported.

Pioneer's specs for that model don't list user created backgrounds as a feature but I suppose it couldn't hurt to try.

cool, Ill give it a shot thank you!
I dont see why they would have it on an older model and not this one...

I could have swarn under the features on pioneers site they had it listed...

ah well,
thank you as all ways!!

Could you post up some pics when you are done? This is the HU i have been considering if I move up to a double din model. Thanks!

Jason

Could you post up some pics when you are done? This is the HU i have been considering if I move up to a double din model. Thanks!

Jason

yeah no prob, but Im detailing the whole install on this thread
http://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=917651
going over how to do some fabrication and bypass the monsoon amp and stuff like that.

Beautiful didnt see that one!

Jason

This may or may not help...on the AVIC series you load custom backgrounds by putting them on a disc in a folder named "PICTURES". The disc must have at least 4MB of data on it in order for the deck to recognize it and it can't contain any other media files (MP3s, etc.). Picture files must be in JPG format and a maximum of 20 files is supported.

Pioneer's specs for that model don't list user created backgrounds as a feature but I suppose it couldn't hurt to try.

nope didnt work...
that sucks...
ah well
heres pics of the finished in-dash
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/cudaeh/ID/radio034.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/cudaeh/ID/radio038.jpg
the color is a bit glam in the pics, but it looks alot more low key in person.

Lookin Pimp....I cant wait to get my bezel here to install mine now!!!