Pioneer FH-8000BT Car Radio & iPhone OS 3.1/3.1.2 Bluetooth Audio Issue

I have a Pioneer FH-8000BT Car Deck that has Bluetooth (http://bit.ly/4c7ofq).
I have an iPhone 3GS 32GB unit that came with iPhone OS 3.0 on it with Firmware 04.26.08.
I upgraded to iPhone OS 3.01 when it came out and all was fine (the baseband was unchanged)
I upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1 while keeping Baseband at 04.26.08 using methods that shouldn't be discussed, and while the upgrade went perfectly fine, my audio between the deck and the phone now gets garbled for both me and the person on the other end. The audio compression issue occurs every 30 seconds - 2 minutes and lasts for about 5 -15 seconds and repeats itself during the call. Kind of annoying right? You bet! I have to put the phone on speakerphone to talk to someone. I won’t be able to do that much longer because as of October 26th that will be against the law here in Ontario. All devices in the car must be hands free.
Recently, I upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.2 and upgraded the Firmware to 05.11.07 to see if it would make a difference and it made no difference - I still had BT compression issues.
I have tried with another iPhone (a 3G model) running 3.0 -> No problems with BT audio compression there...
I've even swapped out the deck with another one - but I have yet to attempt a 3.1 or higher OS.
Pioneer told me that they were hearing reports about this deck with the iPhone, but they never heard about the technical details I gave them. No word about a firmware upgrade, or a fix for this from them.
I've had my phone swapped out at the Apple Store here in Toronto, and I had OS 3.0 on it which I don't think I'll be upgrading at this point because of the audio issues. So, I am stuck at OS 3.0. Unfortunately some Apps I use are now becoming a minimum requirement of OS 3.1 - par for the course I guess?
I'm very curious what changed in OS 3.1 since 3.0/3.0.1 for the bluetooth...
Does anyone know?
Just wondering if anyone else out there has this deck and has a problem?

You can get the Bluetooth Audio streaming working? I can't get that to sync up properly. sigh ...
I called Apple and they documented everything for me ... Case # 140385552
If you can do a test call for me that would be amazing! Just keep talking ... you should be able to hear the audio compression problem (and so should the person you're talking to) ...
Glad to hear there's someone out there who has the same deck as I do.
Also find out if your callers hear your alternator whine when you drive ---
I get that problem too but that's wiring / deck related. A ferrite core should solve it but I can't be bothered at the moment.
You using the usb cable at all or using bluetooth to stream?
I'm using the USB cable. I can get the audio to pause and play using USB cable.
Again, I'm unsuccessful with the BT Audio Streaming part.
Message was edited by: Cory Megitt

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