Pioneer Bdp 450 Firmware Update

[Ara Kistner]

CautionRead the operation manual as well as all instructions and cautions before use.

Pay attention to the road, limit glances to the devices, and do not use any feature if it cannot be operated both safely and legally in your location and environment.

Distracted driving may result in serious injury, including death.

Pioneer Smart Sync requires a Pioneer's compatible in-dash receiver. Compatible products vary by region. Visit Pioneer website in your country for details regarding Pioneer Smart Sync compatible devices and apps.

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Connectivity & services may vary depending on the user's environment.

Connected services require connection to a wireless network via a compatible smartphone or Wi-Fi hotspot device.

Ability to use such services will depend on network availability. If your data plan does not have unlimited data, charges from your carrier may apply.

Availability of non-Pioneer content and services, including apps and connectivity, may change without notice due to changes in operating systems, firmware or app versions.

It is recommended the target drive is the only drive connected when updating.

This program is known to display some errors when using Windows 98SE with multiple drives attached.

However this will not affect the update process.

This firmware utility is not proper for updating OEM drive.

For users of OEM drive, please contact each PC maker for assistance when updating.

important notice

Please make sure to read the file readme.txt on the firmware update process.

Installing the improper firmware may render the drive inoperable.

Pioneer will not take responsibility for drive failures due to improper firmware updates or acts of nature that cause a power failure during the update process.

important notice

Please make sure to read the file dvdutil.chm on the firmware update process.

Installing the improper firmware may render the drive inoperable.

Pioneer will not take responsibility for drive failures due to improper firmware updates or acts of nature that cause a power failure during the update process.

About Region Codes

Region Codes are part of the DVD Standard.

There is a Region number located within one or all of the components required for DVD-VIDEO playback.

The Region number defines the region of the DVD-ROM drive and its playback hardware/software. DVD-VIDEO discs may also contain a Region number in the shape of a world globe. Unless the Region number on both the DVD-VIDEO disc and DVD-ROM drive and its playback components match, playback is not possible. When the word "ALL" is located in the world globe on a DVD-VIDEO disc, that particular DVD-VIDEO disc can be played on all DVD-ROM drives and its playback components, regardless of its region.

All Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM drives now conform to the RPC mode 2 standard,as set down by the DVD Forum as mandatory for all manufacturers of DVD-ROM drives produced after January 1st 2000.

RPC Phase 1- RPC code management is handled by the DVD Video decoder inside a PC system.

RPC Phase 2-RPC code management is handled by either the DVD-ROM drive or both DVD-ROM drive and DVD-Video decoder inside a PC system.

Right after getting my car up and running so that I could begin the tuning process and shake down other misc gremlins, my head unit went into an infinite boot loop until it ultimately shut off. I have a 2-DIN Pioneer AVH-4400NEX unit that is really awesome when it works. It has wireless android auto and great sound, lots of expansion capabilities, connectivity, etc. It's also kinda pricey to replace. So I researched if there was a way to bring it back from the dead.

It turns out that this is a common problem with those units. Pioneer apparently uses low grade SD cards for their firmware in the units and they tend to get corrupted easily. However, gaining access to the hidden SD card that holds the firmware is not simple. You need to disassemble a good bit of the HU just to access it.

If you zoom in, you'll see 2 SD card slots. The upper slot will hold media and stuff for your radio. The lower slot holds the Firmware SD card. I followed the advice and video from this post on AVIC 411 forum:

Of course, in order for me to get to this phase of the process, I had to remove the radio. that meant removing the AC control knobs and panel as well as the newly installed rexypow center console. Removing the center console requires removing the seats. So I almost let this stay broken for even longer. However, I'm working on another project for the center console to solve a deficiency with the design around holding the shift boot in place from underneath.

Yeah, you can see all of the stuff removed still and I didn't even bother putting the screws back in until I knew that it worked. I didn't bother checking to see what settings and features I needed to re-setup how I had them. But I'll get to that later on (Maybe this coming weekend).

Replace that SD card BEFORE you install it. You can probably clone the SD card image that is in there if you don't want to bother with downloading the one listed in the post that I linked above. That way, you won't deal with the annoyance of finding out your radio is stuck in an endless boot-loop and you are going to have to go through a ton of work just to swap out a simple SD card.

Cool, I like fixes like this. I think it was bad implementation for a separate SD card to hold the firmware but on the other hand it can be repaired opposed to having the firmware on the processor which would brick it.

Just a little tip for next time. If you get a low profile ratcheting tool that takes Philips bits that can be bought cheaply on Amazon you can remove the center console without removing the seats. It is a big time saver.

I have some low profile ratcheting holders like you mentioned. But I wasn't able to get enough clearance for those 2 screws. Also, taking that rexypow center console out and installing is a lot more tricky than just the stock piece. So having the seats out helps with that too. hahaha.

I thought about cutting the plastic plate that blocks the lower SD card slot so that I could access it while installed in the future, but decided against it. I did put in a high end Samsung SD card that should hold up over time.

Although Samsung cards are good I have had two get corrupted with with music files when you modify them to where they will have a hard time reading. Not a big deal as I can unload the music, reformat and reload the files and all would be well. The Sandisk cards are the very best out of all the cards I have ever used and I have many of them. They seem to go on forever and I never had a bad one no matter how old they are.

As soon as you mentioned "SanDisk" I was like "Oh wait... I researched this a LOT before buying a card and That sounds like one I bought recently". And sure enough, That is the one I went with. You can actually see the "SanDisk" logo if you zoom in on the first pic (Something I should have done before posting. hahaha).

SanDisk make the best cards and thumb drives but I think Samsung makes the best consumer NAND memory chips for external drives. I have a few of those extreme cards for cameras and they are dependable but there is one exception and that is my Delkin devices black series SD card which claim to be failure tested at a much higher level. I bought it because I was bored otherwise I have faith in SanDisk.

Most cards will do the job until they don't. Where they show their quality is if you delete selected images in camera or even on the computer and then keep taking images. That is when cards get corrupted. In general you should not delete images until you format the card. Most people don't know this but in general the SanDisk does better than all of them.

I have the PSoC4 4100S MAX pioneer kit. I am able to flash new sample touch applications to it. However, when I flash a new app, the IDE Console window advises that the KitProg firmware is out of date, and to use the fw-loader tool to update it. In the fw-loader folder, I see a batch file called fw-loader.bat. Launching this brings up a command line type interface that doesn't seem related to updating FW. In the bin folder within the fw-loader folder, I see a fw-loader.exe. Launching this gives me a GUI where I appear to be able to load a new FW, but I don't know where to get the updated FW version ( 2.50.1383 according to the IDE). Can anyone point me to the FW location or tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you for the link. I got the latest FW from there, and read the ReadMe file. I see that on my 4100S MAX pioneer kit, I must press the mode button to switch to CMSIS-DAP bulk mode. I confirmed the amber KITPROG3 Status LED is solid. However, I continue to get failures when trying to update the kit prog FW. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: I also don't seem to be able to get the pioneer board out of CMSIS-DAP mode. Holding the Mode Select button for two seconds isn't putting the board back into DAPLink mode. Power cycling doesn't work either.

Ah, thank you, I misunderstood. It appears my FW was updated successfully. However, as noted, I don't seem to be able to leave CMSIS-DAP bulk mode. Trying to use the CapSENSE Tuner app, I am unable to connect. Possible I corrupted the bootloadable? Any idea how to recover it? Thanks again!

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