2007 escalade aftermarket radio

crownvic31 said:

Hello all

In hope that I can get this all squared away I come to you guys for help. I am at lost with this and do not know what else to try.

I have a Pioneer 8200NEX installed in my 2007 escalade for about 2 years now. Everything worked great. No flows, no issues. Retained all my oem features including back up camera. So just recently when going into reverse, the screen on my pioneer head unit would just present a black screen with the parking guide lines. So I checked the fuse and even replaced it even though it wasn't bad. Nothing changed. So I went ahead and replaced the oem back up camera with a Dorman unit. After that was done, still didn't work. So at this point I am thinking its the head unit. I remove the head unit and inspect all wiring and connection. Everything is solid. Recheck several times the settings on the head unit and they are all good.

Now that I have access to the head unit and connections I go ahead and purchase a cheap $15 camera. I am trying to conclude if the issue is the radio or not. So I hook up the rear camera to the head unit and the camera works. This tells me that the radio is good. So now I start looking into the back up camera module under the passenger front seat. So I inspect all wiring and connections. Everything seems good. Remove the module to visually inspect and looks ok. So not knowing what to test for or where to look, I go on Facebook market and source a 2007 escalade for parts. I drive 15 mins and pick up the module. Plug in the replacement module to realize that the issue is still present. So now I am at lost.

I go ahead and purchase another pac rp5-gm31. Bought it off amazon. I figured I can return with out a problem if this doesnt solve my issue. Install it and nothing happen. This didnt solve the issue. Returned the pac unit, refund back. I now bring out the factory head unit. Plug her in and boom! back up camera works. So not I am really confused. Just for fun I remove my pioneer 5201nex from my other car and plug it into the escalade and back up camera just display the black screen. Plug in the OEM radio again and back up camera works.

So...….
-Pioneer 8200nex worked great for about 2 years. Then reverse camera stopped working(black screen).
-Replace oem back up cam with Dorman unit.
-Aftermarket camera works with Pioneer 8200nex
-New pac module and that didn't solve the issue
-Replaced back up camera module
-Pioneer 5102nex is same thing as pioneer 8200nex(black screen in reverse)
-OEM radio works and presents back up camera image.

Any suggestion please. What am I missing?

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Trey Hardy said:

That’s definitely a weird one hopefully someone will chime in! My backup camera has started getting funky like all blurry and pixelated green lines ran through it I’m assuming it’s the camera bad sometimes it works sometimes it’s black sometimes it is halfway clear it’s weird

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crownvic31 said:

Hello all

In hope that I can get this all squared away I come to you guys for help. I am at lost with this and do not know what else to try.

I have a Pioneer 8200NEX installed in my 2007 escalade for about 2 years now. Everything worked great. No flows, no issues. Retained all my oem features including back up camera. So just recently when going into reverse, the screen on my pioneer head unit would just present a black screen with the parking guide lines. So I checked the fuse and even replaced it even though it wasn't bad. Nothing changed. So I went ahead and replaced the oem back up camera with a Dorman unit. After that was done, still didn't work. So at this point I am thinking its the head unit. I remove the head unit and inspect all wiring and connection. Everything is solid. Recheck several times the settings on the head unit and they are all good.

Now that I have access to the head unit and connections I go ahead and purchase a cheap $15 camera. I am trying to conclude if the issue is the radio or not. So I hook up the rear camera to the head unit and the camera works. This tells me that the radio is good. So now I start looking into the back up camera module under the passenger front seat. So I inspect all wiring and connections. Everything seems good. Remove the module to visually inspect and looks ok. So not knowing what to test for or where to look, I go on Facebook market and source a 2007 escalade for parts. I drive 15 mins and pick up the module. Plug in the replacement module to realize that the issue is still present. So now I am at lost.

I go ahead and purchase another pac rp5-gm31. Bought it off amazon. I figured I can return with out a problem if this doesnt solve my issue. Install it and nothing happen. This didnt solve the issue. Returned the pac unit, refund back. I now bring out the factory head unit. Plug her in and boom! back up camera works. So not I am really confused. Just for fun I remove my pioneer 5201nex from my other car and plug it into the escalade and back up camera just display the black screen. Plug in the OEM radio again and back up camera works.

So...….
-Pioneer 8200nex worked great for about 2 years. Then reverse camera stopped working(black screen).
-Replace oem back up cam with Dorman unit.
-Aftermarket camera works with Pioneer 8200nex
-New pac module and that didn't solve the issue
-Replaced back up camera module
-Pioneer 5102nex is same thing as pioneer 8200nex(black screen in reverse)
-OEM radio works and presents back up camera image.

Any suggestion please. What am I missing?

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Doubeleive said:

during this process anywhere did you mess with the camera polarity settings in the pioneer? that can cause a black screen if the polarity is wrong. It's rare for the pioneer to glitch but it could happen I suppose. Or maybe there is a loose connection somewhere which may rear it's head again later or by moving the wires around you happened to just fix it..
maybe on your 5210 the polarity is set different. it's under camera in the settings

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crownvic31 said:

I wish the settings was the issue. Ive tried everything. The fact that the $15 cam I bought worked and not the oem back up cam has me baffled. Settings were the same on both pioneer head units.

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Doubeleive said:

my bet is it was connection issue somewhere, if it is working now leave it be

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crownvic31 said:

connection issue but where? Why would it work with a cheap after market camera and why does the camera work with the oem head unit?

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Doubeleive said:

the only other thing I can think of is the pioneer software sd card can eventually start to crap out and cause a variety of problems, replacement cards are sold on ebay, it's not hard to do if it ever just goes completely fubar on you.
I made this video on it. the various 7" models should be basically the same procedure

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