help with stock head unit please

[jeetee-ess]

so i searched the FAQ's and couldn't find what i was looking for. i've been using the stock head unit since i first purchased the car. then i bought a red led conversion stock head unit off of a member from another celica site. anyways, i'm using the stock head unit because i like keeping it clean and simple, to match with my red interior lighting on my gauges, clock, and window button. so buying a different aftermarket head unit is out the question. so here it goes..

questions:

i burn cd's and lately, my head unit is having a hard time reading my disks. then it says "Err 1" and spits out the disc. how can i get my head unit to work like how it used to?

i've already used that CD cleaner thing with the brush attached under the cleaning disk. was i supposed to leave it on for a long time? i put it in for about 5 mins, and it still wasn't reading a few burned cd's

i've used my older cd's that play perfectly fine still, with no static noises and without having a hard time reading the discs. but now with the newer burned cd's, it's having a really hard time playing them. some songs would play, but static is louder than the song, or it just won't read until it spits out the disc.

[kiefer squared]

how did you burn the newer CD's
you may have burned the newer CD's as an MP3 CD which is not compatible with most older CD players
or you may not or may have closed the CD's i dont remember which it is but i used to get a message saying do you want to close the cd so that no more data can be written to the CD player

good luck

[2way]

Might also try burning them at a slower rate vs. max. That helps, sometimes. The Celica's CD "eye" isn't as exact as a PC's. If you have the problem w/original non-burned CDs, then you might need to get the laser "eye" aligned by an audio shop.

[jeetee-ess]

how did you burn the newer CD's
you may have burned the newer CD's as an MP3 CD which is not compatible with most older CD players
or you may not or may have closed the CD's i dont remember which it is but i used to get a message saying do you want to close the cd so that no more data can be written to the CD player

good luck

i have no clue. i've never changed any kind of setting when burning them besides the speed. like 95% of my songs are mp3, straight from limewire and they worked perfectly from all the previous cd's i've burned in the passed. i would say, since the start of last summer, my head unit hasn't been working like how it was when i first got the car, even with the cd's that worked perfectly fine before. with the new cd's i just burned, i can hear the head unit making retarted "clicking" sounds and it won't play anything until it feels like spitting it out saying "err 1". haha, i have no clue. i just want to bump my music and get on with my life, but this is just frustrating me. lol!


Might also try burning them at a slower rate vs. max. That helps, sometimes. The Celica's CD "eye" isn't as exact as a PC's. If you have the problem w/original non-burned CDs, then you might need to get the laser "eye" aligned by an audio shop.

how much would that laser "eye" align thing cost? yeah, i've been burning them at 1x speed vs. max.

the cd's work perfectly fine on my stereo at home with no static or anything at all. but my car sounds like crap, so i'm just listening to the radio all day...and i'm so tired of hearing the radio stations here play those annoying Pitt Bull songs! blah!

[2way]

The other thing would be if you've changed the media you're using.

If you have access to an oscilliscope and pick up an alignment CD, you could do it yourself. But, I suspect that the cost of the alignment CD would probably be darn near what a shop would charge you...... I'm guessing ..... somewhere around $50?

http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/cdfaq.htm