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2. I had a Parrot CK-3100 LCD installed in my 07 with Navi. We had it installed in the sunglasses holder. Can close the sunglass holder and it's hidden away (love that!). The microphone is just above the rear-view mirror. Works really well so far, cuts out music when a call comes in, lots of voice command options, syncs with your phone and then has all your contacts in it which you can voice-command call once you program it. Item + install was $610 in SF Bay Area. If you have any info about question #1 please let me know.
Any and all help will be appreciated!
one thing to note, with the 2gb card you can't simply put 400 songs on the card, they have to be in folders. i chose to make four folders and put about 100 in each. something to do with the way the card holds information.
also of note, you can make a playlist in itunes and then highlight the songs you want and drag and drop them into the folders you made on the san-disk card. i made a playlist with randomly selected 4 and 5 star songs.
once in the car you can set the card to play songs at random from all folders. cool!! i bought the 2gb card in a store so paid $25 but online they can come way cheaper. will consider more cards with more refined playlists in the future.
I was able to load about 980 songs on the card. 4GB is perfect for the 999 file limit that Honda imposes. I'm still trying to tweak how to best arrange the songs on the card in the folder. The great thing is that it will display the Artist, Title and Album name on the screen. That's just awesome!!
But I can tell you this. The sound quality is awesome!! It totally blows away using your iPod through the mp3 aux jack. This is pure uncompromised sound coming directly from your mp3 file to the stereo. For about $60, I essentially have a 4GB iPod equivilent loaded into my CRV.
Finally, the navigation of searching through the 999 files is great. There is a keyword search where you can type in a partial keyword and it will find all songs that match that keyword. Type in "MAD" and it will retrieve all your Madonna songs for example. Then, you can just select which song you want to listen to and it starts playing immediately. Once the Flash Card loads for the first time and reads the file structure, access to any and all the songs is instantaneous. No lag switching between songs.
If you love your music and can live with a 999 file limit, then the PC Card is your best solution to getting the best quality music and functionality out of the system. Leave your iPod at home!!
This is not stated anywhere on their website or at the dealership. It's only stated in the manual. I feel like I've been cheated.
Does anyone know if you can swap out the Honda changer for an aftermarket brand that will play mp3 files??
Thank God the stereo system has the PC Card. At least I've got that working and have a 4GB card in there holding nearly 1,000 songs.
I don't honestly know if this will work for your unit (my regular EX, no leather, no nav is coming in this week), but here's the experience that I had with a CD player I had that specifically said that it wouldn't play CD-R's...
Try different brands of CD-R's - I found with my CD player (which was an Alpine) that those CD-R's that were specifically "Music CD-R's" seemed to work a lot more consistently in my CD player. Additionally, better quality brands like Imation and Sony tended to work better than others, especially the non-branded "value" CD-R's from CompUSA, but YMMV.
This is not stated anywhere on their website or at the dealership. It's only stated in the manual. I feel like I've been cheated.
Does anyone know if you can swap out the Honda changer for an aftermarket brand that will play mp3 files??
Thank God the stereo system has the PC Card. At least I've got that working and have a 4GB card in there holding nearly 1,000 songs.
Any CD player will play CD-Rs if they are quality blanks, properly burned and properly closed.
No commerical CD player that is not specifically designed to play CD-Rs will play CD-R's that are not closed. You have to make sure you close the burning session (e.g. no addidtional burns allowed after finishing) and make sure you use quality blanks. Taiyo Yuden, Ricoh... As long as it says on the box that they are made in Japan, you got quality blanks.
Is anyone aware of an integrated Bluetooth solution? One that will interact w/the Navi and display call/phone on the screen?
So bluetooth functionality is probably either already coded into the States navi firmware and has been disabled, or maybe it is not in there in which case maybe you could load the E.U. firmware version to get bluetooth.
The question is if all of the hardware needed (i.e. bluetooth RF transceiver and/or additional buttons on steering wheel) is in the States model or not. I have been trying to locate steering wheel pictures of an E.U. model CRV with navi to see if there are two additional steering wheel buttons or not. If they are required but missing from U.S. models then it obviously won’t work.
People have been hacking the navi system to change graphics, eliminate the warning screens, etc. Is there anyone out there who has the time to get in there and see if there is a region byte or something like that to enable bluetooth? Or look to see if there is a bluetooth code module in the U.S. firmware?
Honda should really consider selling bluetooth as an upgrade to the navi in the States. They already have the product developed and available for sale everywhere else. People in this forum are willing to buy aftermarket products to add bluetooth, so why would Honda not want to collect that revenue by selling a product they already have?
Anyone have an idea? DO i need to re rip all the CDs to the compact flash card? help.
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this is the site. software name is Free MP3 WMA converter.
or You can google to find it.
Its very simple. Copy the i-tunes to the PC and convert them into mp3.
After reading all the bad reviews, I decided not to get the Honda iPod Player when I purchased my Sport Auto. At first, I just plugged the 3.5MM mini jack cable into the Fit’s Aux port. I noticed that in order to get any sound, I had to really turn up the volume on the iPod and the Fit’s stereo. A couple of weeks ago I bought a Monster Cable iCarCharger. http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=2132
This thing has a mini-jack line output right on the charger’s dock connector and when I ran the cable from this connector to the Aux port, all the volume issues disappeared and the sound quality is noticeably better. You can buy these things for less than $30 and it is a great alternative to the Honda solution.
i believe my system sounds pretty good (after tweeking my amp enough) which consists of stock HU/speakers (the 4 door ones and 2 dash tweeters) and 2 12" rockford p2's in my trunk powered by a 450rms rockford amp.
what im trying to decide now is what to upgrade next but dont have much money left... im guessing if i just upgrade the speakers they will be way too underpowered but if i just upgrade the HU will the stock speakers handle the upgraded power?
again the specs on the OEM speakers/HU would be great if anyone knows!!! thanks!
- Ocotillo10
Monster MP3 MusicConnect™ Portable Audio Player to Car Stereo Cable (1/8 Mini to 1/8” Mini)
work just as well - between iPod headphone output and CR-V auxiliary audio input jack?
I'm having trouble figuring out what type of flash card I need for my 2008 CRV w/Nav, I can't find it anywhere in the owners manual.
I know it's not the "current" compact flash cards found in camera/audio stores, is it a PCMCIA card with a 68-pin connector? If so, what type do I need ( I, II, III )? Would the Nav. system accept a PCMCIA Adapter for use with a regular Compact Flash Memory Card? Others here have been using the 4GB card, is that the maximum the system accepts? Besides e-bay, where else can I get a good purchase price?
Those of you that use the card, any secretes as to how to arrange the files; alphabetical, by artist, by song?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. :confuse:
AFAIK, all of Honda radios in the US are from Matsushita Corp (Panasonic parent company)
Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help
I don't think there was EX-L in the US in 2006. There we LX, EX, and SE models. LX and EX come in 2WD and AWD, SE is always AWD. LX, SE and 2WD only come with automatic, EX AWD was available with manual.
There is a guy on ebay selling add-on XM receiver that also allows you to connect the iPOD.
So far it has been great, the files do have to be either MP3 or WMA. I also read in the Navigation System Manual that Compact Flash works but the system was never tested with a card larger than 2GB.
Hope this is helpful :shades:
Installation was a breeze.
Remove the bezel
Remove Radio
Unplug the old XM cable
Plug the new cable with piggyback connector.
Mount the unit on the passenger side of the glove box.
Run the iPOD cable through the back of the cubby under the radio
And you are done!!!
The unit allows you to control the iPOD through the stock steering wheel controls on the EX and SE, and from the radio on all models.
If anyone is interested, I have a $20 off first purchase code.
The issue I'm experienced is that when my mobile is connected to the car I cannot access from the car to my phone list on the phone, than the bluetooth is only for receiving calls not to place a call to anyone of my phonelist.
To make a call from the car I need to memorize one by one ( only 30 names total are accepted...very few) the names and numbers into the car and then I can call using vocal dialing.
There is a way to make the call using the phone and then automatically the call pass to the car as is connected via bluetooth?...or there is a way to access to the phone phonelist vis touch screen??
Thanks a lot for any help