Pioneer 4500bt App Radio
 

I have the Pioneer avh 4500bt double din radio and cannot figure out how to make the apps work. I have an iPhone 5, updated the software and even bought the stupid over priced compatibility cable, but nothing works. I downloaded the apps I wanted on my phone and when I plug it in I choose the apps button from the main screen, it tells me to open "app radio or another compatible app" and when I do, the screen stays black... Anyone else have this problem and/or know what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks!

Did you download the app for the iphone yet? Also did you buy the CD-IV202AV Cable Kit?

Yeah, I posted this after I bought the CD-IV202AV cable kit, and realized I needed the Apple Lightning-VGA adaptor and bought that last night… HOWEVER it still does not work… Below is the inquiry i sent to pioneer after buying the lightning-vga adapter with still no luck. Also attached are pictures I took. The first 3 are when I use the Lightning-VGA adapter and the last 4 are without the adapter.

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I forgot to paste what I sent to pioneer…

I purchased/installed the above referenced radio in June of this year, and recently got around to trying to get the apps to work. I have an iPhone 5 and have updated the software to the most recent update. I also bought the interface cable kit and the apple lighting to VGA adapter. If I connect the USB from the radio to my phone with just the interface cable installed, the "apps" button on the screen will light up, all the "warnings" pop up and it will say "please launch pioneer AppRadio app or other compatible app from your iPhone", but when I try to open a compatible app, the screen goes black. If I hook up the apple lighting to VGA adapter (with the interface cable installed) and plug it into my phone WITH an Apple USB cable, it says "incompatible USB" and the app button on the radio does not even light up. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I'm extremely frustrated because on top of the cost of the radio, I've bought $200 worth of EXTRA stuff to make this work, and still nothing. I took pictures of the different screen pop up messages, but can't attach them to this.

I hope you get this figured out. I had an Appradio 2 and liked the app mode. I now have an X4500BT as well, and I don't want to buy the cable and adapter if it is going to be a dud.

I have the 5500, but I don't use the appradio2 (I just plug in my normal iPhone 5 cable to the USB so I can thumbs up/down Pandora).

Try using the lightning cable that came with your iPhone 5 instead of the one Pioneer gives you?

I know when I plugged my Windows phone (work phone) into the USB to see if it would charge I got an "Incompatible USB" message, but it still charged it at least.

Also, do you have the AppRadio app on your phone? Not sure if that makes a difference either, but it's worth a shot.

I was just glad when I figured out how to customize the background with a photo of my own. Now Hello Kitty is never far from me:

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/11/26/dusamamu.jpg

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I still haven't found out how to do that.

Though, I haven't really tried yet...