Well I just finished pulling the Z1 out to install the Pioneer ND-BT1. It works as far as I can tell with about 20 minutes of playing with it. One thing I have noticed immediately is that if you have a restricted phone (like the V3C razr from Verizon) you might not want to bother.

Its great technology but the phone I use has V-cast, meaning Verizon puts software on the phone which forces you to use their V-Cast service to pay for ring tones and wallpapers (which is horsesh1t and I can avoid that by using Motorola Phone tools and editing the INI file to detect the phone as something else besides a V3c) That same software prevents you from sending your address book to the Nav system, as soon as you try, the phone immediately disconnects.

I will be giving this phone the heave-ho in favor of an unlocked phone. Other than that the pioneer ND-BT1 works great.

 

hey ur quote is from me. lol sweet. but hey will this work with the avic d2

 

Check out BitPim. I use it with my VX8500, it's awesome!

http://www.bitpim.org/

 

Dude, just get that ish unlocked. Locked phones suck!

-Acree

 

Call Pioneer, they may have a solution.

 

Hope you don't mind, if you do I will remove. Anyhow, unfortunately the D2 doesn't have the internal components to work with the Bluetooth. The ND-BT1 is just an antenna.

 

Thanks, I just found a great wiki on how to flash it using the Alltel firmware. Really dig Howardforums FTW!

This will definitely be my last locked phone I ever purchase (pretty sh1tty how they disable the best features to coral you into using their pay service). Funny thing is I could care less about ring tones or wallpapers. If anyone wants the walk through PM me.

I don't think Pioneer has a workaround for Verizons crippling firmware, this is definitely a phone issue, not a problem with pioneer blue tooth.