Bypass lockout on AVIC-N2, AVIC-D1

Yes, That is what I was saying.  You shouldn't have to cut away the peice.  Just use standard iron solder, and let a small ball of solder drip between the two points and into the holes where the pins are missing.  There should be no cutting involved.  You should be able to heat up the solder enough that it breaks away from the wire and drips into the spot that you want it to. 

Basically just get the solder to sit into the holes where the pins were and then connect the two points, the pins don't need to be there.

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Rick

[QUOTE=heavy02gt]has anyone else tried the circuit tracing pen? it seems like this would be the easiest way and most accurate to use.. any input?[/QUO

Here's one for you. I bought a n2 on ebay. Put it in my car monday. Found this site and was reading the threads and decided to 'unlock' my unit. I took it out and behold, the tape was gone and on further looking found that someone had tried to do the bypass and did not succeed. he left a hole on one side that could not be soldered again. I read about the trace pen and decided to try it.

I went to Rat Shack today 12/2  and bought part number 6404341 contact cleaner pen and Part number 6404339 circuit writer pen.

Cleaned the area good with the cleaner pen and wiped it with a qtip. Took the circuitwriter pen and followed the directions to a t, and put down a line and filled the hole at the same time. took it out to the car and it works   GREAT . A big thankyou to the person who suggested it and I will always use the pen on boards from now on......

I'm very new when it comes to modifying boards.  I have experience installing stereos but not messing with boards. 

Thats why I would like to know if anyone has pictures of the actual pins?  Can you post them?

Also, the CircuitWriter seems easy, but will it create any problems because the actual conductive ink lays on the board?  Will it heat, will it create a short, etc?  Any help with this question will be greatly appreciated.

Please remember, I'm very new to this and just want some help and information.

Thank you all.

hey guys,

newbie to the site, but not to car audio.

I have an avic-n2 and i did the soldering bypass and it works great.

to the guys who say it blanks out the screen, you dripped solder on the board which created a connection between one or both of the pins and the board. This shorts out the radio, but does not kill the radio.  just scrape the solder off and try again.

I personally took a piece of 18 gauge speaker wire, split it into the two seperate pieces and only used one piece.

I cut it about an inch long and sliced off about 2mm of the rubber coating from both sides.

i then wrapped some solder around the exposed copper wire and tapped it with my soldering iron untill it melted to the wire.

Then I touched the wire to one pin at a time and tapped the WIRE with the soldering iron until the solder made a conection to the pins. 

I then stuffed the rest of the wire into the unit and replaced the silver sticker.

The bypass is complete and it works.

Just as some aditional info, (not sure if this has to do with the bypass) but I have xm radio hooked up and when in the navigation view, rear view, and driver view I keep getting a pop up saying, "XM Updating, Please Wait."  I press OK on the screenand it goes away briefly but then pops up again. Is anyone else having this problem?  I have had the XM hooked up now for going on three months.  I doubt it takes that long to update.  Any info regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Alan Adams