Dension Gateway 500 Ipod Installation

[ukchris]

Originally Posted by Andrew Fawcett

Thanks, I am order with the PCM, I'm not good at DIY, so hopefully I can find someone in the UK that will install it and mount in glove box.

If you have PCM I'd put it in the trunk, easier install and you don't need to be able to see the ipod / USB drive as you can control it from the PCM.

[laphil]

Ok, I'll call it a minor annoyance. As it stands, I'm happy to have a proper sounding iPod in my 987...

BUT, anyone else with a CDR24 notice that when you connect your iPod and the head unit takes over the iPod, the iPod goes into repeat mode (one song) and random shuffle? This happens even if the GW500 is set for control from the iPod. Seems to be happening pretty consistently.

Now I've read the doc's and apparently you can control some of that behavior from CD controls (using cd 6) -- unfortunately on a CDR24 the CD FF/RW controls don't show up, just disc selection and skipping songs from the dial.

Is this just happening to me?

[ukchris]

Originally Posted by laphil

Ok, I'll call it a minor annoyance. As it stands, I'm happy to have a proper sounding iPod in my 987...

BUT, anyone else with a CDR24 notice that when you connect your iPod and the head unit takes over the iPod, the iPod goes into repeat mode (one song) and random shuffle? This happens even if the GW500 is set for control from the iPod. Seems to be happening pretty consistently.

Now I've read the doc's and apparently you can control some of that behavior from CD controls (using cd 6) -- unfortunately on a CDR24 the CD FF/RW controls don't show up, just disc selection and skipping songs from the dial.

Is this just happening to me?

Funnily enough I've been discussing this today with another Dension user, apparently it's a known bug, they suggest going back to V1.0 of the firmware or waiting "a couple of weeks" for V2.0 ( you probably have 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 or 1.4).

[ukchris]

Originally Posted by laphil

Now I've read the doc's and apparently you can control some of that behavior from CD controls (using cd 6) -- unfortunately on a CDR24 the CD FF/RW controls don't show up, just disc selection and skipping songs from the dial.

IIRC on the CDR23 you press another button to get the other functions on the "soft" buttons, control from the head unit still sucks though, stick with ipod control!

[tobesetc]

I've got a Dension GW500 in a 2003 Boxster S with Bose Upgrade (ie a fibre-optic MOST system) and a CDR23+Amp but no PCM.

I had been having the same issue as previous posts, with the iPod going into either Random Shuffle or Track Repeat mode everytime it's connected.

I've just updated the D-GW500 Firmware to 2.05 MOST and this seems to have resolved the problem.

Note - The upgrade did initially crash the iPod but after I reset it twice (press Menu & Select simultaneously for about 6 seconds) it has started to work. Fingers crossed.

Two questions:
1) Does anyone know if the Blue Tooth adaptor from Dension will allow proper Hands Free calling without a PCM?
2) Can it also work with a TomTom to give the voice control through the sound system? (The web site indicates it can).

Thanks!

[ukchris]

The upgrade to fix th shuffle problem is great new, thank you, do you happen to have the download link handy?

Chris

[roadracer311]

sweet! I'm going to go download the update now (if I can find the link again). This has been bugging me for a while.

(I have a 2003 Boxster S with the Bose system in it. I installed the iPod interface right after I bought it last June)

[roadracer311]

Hmmmmmm..... here's the link to firmware version 2.05
http://support.dension.com/support-center/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&root=12&id=110


But here also, is the entire list of known bugs of 2.05:

"Known Bugs:
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- After iPod is disconnected then reconnected again, repeat and random settings are not kept."

(source is the firmware history txt file that downloads with the firmware. the document was last updated on 9-19-2007, the firmware was updated on 9-11-2007. I would have waited a day, but that's just me.)

Maybe they fixed most but not all of the causes?