idk if it has something to do with the bypass mod i did... but when i did the mod, it worked fine at first, but after that all it does is play the audio, and just continue to show the background screen with the DVD info such as title, chapter etc etc

does the same for anything that required the bypass mod (viewing pictures etc)

any ideas? do i need to recheck my bypass mod?

i figured it was the sort of thing that either works, or doesnt. but maybe im wrong. dunno lol.

 

does it play video when you put your p-break on??

 

its broken. ill take it. kthanks.

 

^^haha

and its not connected to the parking brake at all. the bypass mod does away with that and uses a relay to delay the ground.

if it wasn't grounded correctly, it would display the error message that stops you from watching DVD's while driving.

i mean if worse comes to worse i'll reattach it to the parking break, and just barely engage it when i really wanna watch something on a road trip

 

well im asking cuz if the bypass was bad then it wouldnt play. or i wouldnt think. try hooking it to be break to ensure its not the unit.

 

and about engaging the pbreak thats what i was goig to say too. if worst came to worst.

 

yeah if i get the energy i'll go back out and ground it to the parking brake cable and see what happens

 

If me… check the Mod out to verify.

 

i did that. nothing is appearing to be wrong though.

and i would think if the mod was done incorrectly, it wouldn't work at all. hmm either that or im missing something somewhere in the settings

 

I am a little confused on the exact unit you have one point I thought it was the 4200 but now I think I see the 3200.

No matter post the vid you used to mod the radio ?

thank,

 

its a 4200.

YouTube - Pioneer AVH-P4200DVD Bypass & AVH-P5200DVD Bypass

 

You checked your wiring, then it has to work.
If the mod was wired wrong then and I am guessing here because I do not have the radio here, just the DVD will not work, so that may apply to all video stuff.
Again make sure the relay is clicking and only after the unit comes on; if it click to soon too, then the system will not initialize.
I’m not questioning your wiring capabilities but you did ground the parking brake wire ?


ltr,
Luck

 

I know when my unit doesn't recognize the ground it will still play but the screen will be black. Also mine I just put a toggle switch in to make it think its the parking brake. Flip the switch On-off-On then your watching movies.

its the switch by the cubby hole.

 

Yeah I've heard of people using the switch too. Search AVIC-411, might be able to find something over there.

 

i did. that site is dead lol

 

The switch just replaces the relay as the grounding mechanism.
No control wire but the wire going to the brake can be put on a switch just make sure to use an indicator light.

 

I just grounded mine behind the radio

 

can someone give me a quick rundown of how to go about wiring up the switch?

 

I think you just wire it inline with the ground. Then just turn it on-off-on

 

by just doing that will the switch illuminate? or would i need to run a small power wire to it

like i've said before, i suck at wiring. lol

 

Have you tried another relay? Take a pic showing the bottom of the relay so we can see what wires go where if you can

 

Depends what kind of switch you would use. If you use a switch with a LED in it you'll need to put a power wire to it.

A non-illuminating switch will just have 2 prongs, you wire one side of the ground wire to one prong, and the other side to the other prong.

A illuminating switch will have 3 prongs, 1 power, 1 ground and 1 switch. You wire the switch to one side of the ground, power to power, and the ground to the other side of the ground wire.

 

All you need to do is run the Parking Brake Wire to a switch and from the switch to ground.
If you want an indicator make sure you can feed a separate 12V power wire to the sw to light up the indicator when the switch is on and sending a ground signal, Maybe even a separate flashing LED.

Rat Shack has some separate Flashing LED already wired for 12 V, might work too.

 

Why would you want a flashing LED for that. Seems like that would just get annoying.

 

Your right it would but you can’t leave it on or the next time you start the vehicle the ground connection will already be made.

Just thinking like me if it is blinking and annoying I will remember to turn it off.

I like the Relay setup the best like the video setup, don’t see why that shouldn’t work.

I thought the problem was loose connections, what happen ?