[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heroskyy:
Hello!

I've been out of the phone game for a while (plan on coming back soon though), but I've been tinkering around with random things.

A few months back I picked up a new car that had a double din alpine head unit, and behind the head unit this PMD - 200 Blackbird 2 was being stowed.

Interested in what it was, I quickly learned it was a Windows CE 4.2 based device that alpine had applied a skin to.

As I started messing with it, I realized that whenever I turned it on, it would just go to a black screen. After looking around online and talking to some Representative at Alpine, there was no longer any support for it and they pretty much told me to go screw myself with my obsolete device.

That's fine, I said...I'll figure out a way to get it working. Obviously the device is home to a Win CE infrastructure and I'd be happy with having that alone...and from there I could do many things.

So I started messing with it. Pushing different button combinations seeing if it would boot into a boot-loader or anything. To my avail, about 15 minutes in I had it booting into Windows CE. I Simply held the reset button and the power button for 15 seconds, let off the rest button, it powered on, started playing with the center button...and poof...Windows CE appeared.

So I start messing around. Checking out the pre-installed data and such. Im about to wife all of Alpine's crappy software and have it boot strictly into windows, and by accident I clicked an icon that booted me back into Alpine's overlay.

No matter! I'll just boot back into windows! So I hold the reset button and turn off the device. Then I go through the process of booting windows again....and nothing...it boots straight into "Map Update Mode". I keep trying the same thing, but the more I try, the more frustrated I get that it won't do what I had it doing before.

That's okay. Map update mode is essentially saying the device is looking for update. Oh..I'll give it an "update" alright I said...But it's plainly recognized as a mass storage device.

MY problem is, this has become about alot more than what Im going to do once I get back into windows. It has been bugging the hell out of me, and I REALLY need to get back in, but Im just running dry. There is absolutely NO information out there about this(well, for the blackbird 2 I should say)

I'll list everything I've found so far, if anyone at all has some words of wisdom, a suggestion, or even knows how to do it...please help me out before my head explodes..

Device/Controls:

--Top//

--Bottom//

Screens and Functions Achieved Thus Far:

--Normal Boot (Hold Power) //

--Basic Boot (Hold Sound Toggle In the Down Position While Holding Power)//

--No Screen Boot #1 (Hold Power Button While Holding Down Arrow On Keypad)

Center Ring is Lit!

--No Screen Boot #2 (Hold Reset + Power + Down Arrow on Keypad)//

Both Center and Outer Ring Lit!

--Windows CE Boot (Unknown)

Instructions on how to Achieve Windows Mode on Alpine BlackBird 1 (PMD-100):

USB Connectivity only appears to be viable when the device is in "Basic Boot". At that point it appears a s a mass storage device.

ANY HELP would be GREATLY appreciated. You can tell how much this is bugging me based on how in-depth I made this thread.

As stated before there is NO information on how to do this, so this is practically a developing thread. ANY comments to further this are appreciated!

Thank you!