iPhone won't work well with Pioneer DEH-5900IB Car Stereo

I have installed Pioneer DEH-5900IB recently and have connected my iPhone (firmware ver. 1.1.1) to this car stereo through Pioneer CD-I200 (interface cable for iPod). Then the iphone certainly asked me whether I want to switch to the airplane mode, and I said no. The music played immediately, HOWEVER the iphone could not charge (i.e. no lightening symbol), as well as 5900IB showed the message "error a0" with no playlist showing up. I could still change the song by using the navigation button (i.e. by clicking the wheel left or right side) though. Is there any possible solution to this problem?

I don't really want to connect the iphone to this car stereo via AUX, since the sound quality it could provide was obviously inferior to the direct connection through CD-I200.

Any suggestion, idea or even rumor on this will be really appreciated.

Thanks!

- SW

MacBook, Windows Vista

Posted on Oct 21, 2007 8:43 AM

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Jan 4, 2008 10:21 AM in response to swkim

Hi there, i have a pioneer DEH-P7750MP, with the CD-I200 cable to connect my ipod and it worked great, since it had a very good sound quality and charged the ipod at the same time.
Now i bought an iphone, and when i connect my iphone to the reciever with the CD-I200 it charges the ipod, but when i play any song or video, it sound through the iphone speakers, instead of sound in the reciever.
Anyone have an idea odf why is this happening to me or how can i solve it?
Thanks very much indeed for any help anyone can give me.
Richard Alves

Jan 4, 2008 11:47 AM in response to swkim

Hi, I work in a car hifi shop in the UK, I've tried my iPhone with the huge majority of currents systems and can confirm that all Alpine units from last years and this years range are fully compatable. Almost all kenwood units from the last five years if used with the IP500 interface work perfectly. This years Clarions are fine. The only Pioneer unit which I have found that works properly is the AVH-P5900DVD.
Having spoken to Pioneer technical they say that it's not their fault, they say apple must have changed the firmware, they also didn't believe me when I pointed out that most of their competitors units perfomed fine. Based on this, I veru much doubt there will be a fix for people who own a current(or older) pioneer unit. You may be interested to note that the Dension iPod interfaces(gateway 100.300 and 500) work fine with iPhone.
I know Dension make interfaces that will connect iPods to aftermarket head units ie- Kenwood, Pioneer etc.. It would be a safe bet that if you used a dension interface with your Pioneer headunit via its IP-Bus(multichanger) input this would work fine but I haven't had the chance to test this theory, I will post again when I have.

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