Sorry to get your hopes up man. I was mistaken. Lack of sleep I guess, I really believed it when I typed it. It's the ipod that does this when you scroll quickly. I just got my first ipod and an IPC-106 a couple of days ago and confused the functionality of the two. I had a hard drive connected to my old HU. That really does suck! Now I've got a 120 GB ipod full and you're right it takes forever just to scroll through the list of artists. I mostly just put it on random though so I guess that's why I hadn't gotten annoyed by it yet.
726e iPod scrolling does not work when you hold down the arrow. BUT, it does scroll through songs pretty fast. it lists out 6 or 7 songs per page and the response time when you touch the screen is pretty fast. i went through 614 songs in about 15 seconds. Obviously not as fast as the iPod, but much better than the 5495
726e iPod scrolling does not work when you hold down the arrow. BUT, it does scroll through songs pretty fast. it lists out 6 or 7 songs per page and the response time when you touch the screen is pretty fast. i went through 614 songs in about 15 seconds. Obviously not as fast as the iPod, but much better than the 5495
How your unit when it comes to I pod I don't like the Eclipse very much when i shopped for them in 2006 because the screen res was horrible for LED (color faded) and they didn't provide Hdd access (hard drive access like my pioneer Z1). When it came down to features the pioneer Had them all beet for the time period. I've never been to key on the Factory Navi either but Eclipse makes them for Toyota and a very crappy system.
Last edited by Tundrav8yamaha; 05-23-2009 at 09:46 AM.
Great write up Imdone! I've been racking my brain trying to decide which head unit to buy. The Eclipse AVN726e was on my shortlist that I had narrowed down. Others were Pioneer Avic-F90BT (reduced down now in price to $749) and Alpines IVA-W505 (great looking unit, Ipod interface is probably the best out there, but the navigation & BT leaves a lot to be desired according to all the user reviews.
I have not hooked up an iPhone, but I have an iPod touch and outside of the phone and the camera they are pretty much the same thing. the iPod touch works just fine.
I also have a blackberry 8330 and a Moto Q 9M that are hooked up via bluetooth and calls are perfect with either one.
HOWEVER, neither of these phones will transfer the phone book. I may be doing something wrong, but, I haven't seemed to figure out a way to get it to transfer. I will post again if I can get it to work.
Here's one weird thing.
I was using the Nav for guidance and had an MP3 cd playing. The steering wheel controls spazzed out and turned the volume all the way up to 80. (wife had to cover her ears it was so loud) I pulled over and shut the truck off (on the freeway) fired it back up and it finally turned down. I reset all the steeringwheel controls but I haven't had that MP3 CD back in so I don't know if it was the format of the music that caused it to freak out and turn all the way up and not come back down or what.
As of now all is well though and I have used the nav again and played other cds and used the iPod and Sirius, with that everything has been fine.
I did read in the "instruction novel" that manually setting the steering wheel controls may not work due to weather/temperature. I don't remember it going into detail, but I plan to look into it further...
Have you taken a video of it yet? That would be pretty nice to see. I have yet to see any detailed writeups on this unit. Yours is about as detailed as I can find.
For the amount paid for AVN726E one thing is they did not include text to speach feature in the GPS. Would have been nice if we had that function. Other than that the unit is A++++.
For the amount paid for AVN726E one thing is they did not include text to speach feature in the GPS. Would have been nice if we had that function. Other than that the unit is A++++.
Thats one feature i like about my unit Pioneer z series everything is voice command from music to phone operations to navigation. This unit exceeds on a lot of things
Have you taken a video of it yet? That would be pretty nice to see. I have yet to see any detailed writeups on this unit. Yours is about as detailed as I can find.
I haven't taken a video of it.
What do you want to see in the video? Something specific or just general rolling through the screens?
1) If you are using the IPOD hookup does that take away the USB or is there another usb plug?
USB connector is used for the ipod, but if you unplug your iPod you can connect something else that uses USB.
2) Does the unit come with everything for BT? Or do I need to buy something else?
Yes, it comes with the mic and everything inside for bluetooth.
3) Does it play burned DVDs?
I have played a DVD+R disc and it played what was on the disc.
Also can you pm me the price pacific gave you? Looking to buy one soon.
As for the Unit, I paid $999.99 for the h/u and the iPod cable was free, shipping was also free. I also bought the Sirius Tunners. Yeah, you need 2 pieces for Satellite radio.
It is my understanding that this deal is no longer available so stating the price isn't an issue.
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