DVD NAV does not want to Eject!

Try Sliding the door closed and then slide to open.

 

Was this a Toyota factory disk, or someones burned at home copy of the map disk? Did the disk also have a paper label on it? The reason I ask, is there have been threads about "Homemade" disks with paper labels being shoved into the CD Player slot and getting stuck.

They got stuck, because a factory stamped disk is thinner than a burn at home disk. The paper label does not help matters any. There could be the same clearance problem with the Map DVD unit!!

Let us know what develops!!

 

If you would, compare the thickness of the Toyota Original DVD you pulled out, and the thickness of the stock you put in. If you have calipers that would make life easier. If they are the exact same edge thickness, well forget that idea!!!

If indeed you find the stock thicker that the Toyota disk, you are probably going to have to pull the DVD unit from the under the seat location, and relocate it to a well lit tabletop. Pull the cover and see how badly the disk is jammed.

Will it rotate on its drive spindle? Is it centered on the Drive spindle? If the disk goes in sloppy and does not self center, you can have a problem. Yes I know that's a longshot, I have however seen it happen in other drives!

When you hit the eject button, does it sound like its trying to spit it out? Clicking?, Grinding?..... Let us know

 

Good for you!!!
Did you determine what was stoping the DVD from ejecting? Anything obvious?

 

Found your problems interesting to me. First, you said you have a 2004, right? I've spent the last 3 weekends trying to modify a new Nav Ver. 8.1 for my 2005 Prius, so that I could still access the hidden override menu, by swapping the "loading.kwi" file. Messing around in the hidden menu, I went to "Loading" and scrolled down to some unknown somehing-or-another (Australia, maybe?) and evermore locked up my Nav.

No matter how long the power disconnected, half hour and more, it still only asked for the proper DVD. Read about a reset button inside the unit. Took it apart. My many years as Military Aviation Electronics Technician can tell you, for a fact, there is Not a reset button inside my Nav. Box. The only button in it is the cover open/close button, actuated by that outside slide switch, which I did press several times when it was in pieces. And when I put it back together, it accepted my original disc. Works fine.

There is two types of these Nav. units. Generation 4, for the 2004 and 2005 Prius, having an "analog" display, like regular small TV's. In 2006, and on, It is Generation 5, being a "digital" display, like flat screen TV's. My first attempts involved a copy of Ver. 8.1 from a 2009 Prius. This resulted in a lot of newly learned knowledge. ha ha

Bought a Gen. 4, Ver. 8.1, and tried to swap "loading.kwi" It worked, great, for almost 2-days. Went to override, and then entered several POI names on keyboard. But then, after doing this atleast 4-seperate times, it stopped displaying keyboard. Maps worked. Override worked (boxes not grayed out). But pressing Destination boxes would not bring up keyboard. Then spent several hours reading other Toyota products chat groups, and found many others having same problem trying to make "hybrid" nav discs. One in particular said going from ver. 4.1, and 5.1 to 8.1 requires more than just the one loading.kwi file. I'm not a member of that chat group, or otherwise would have asked what other files are required?

My final thoughts, swapping loading.kwi to make hybrid discs still capable of hidden override menu may have worked for versions 6.1 and 7.1 (sometimes) but does not seem to work for 8.1. (Ver. 5.1 is supposedly the last version, and in digital Gen. 5 that still had the override in it.)

I put in the switch on the speed sensor. And then I found out if you leave switch open for several minutes, Nav gets "lost" ....takes 15 or more minutes for it to find itself again. Oh Well, just got to type fast when driving. ha ha

 

I have the same problem right now with my 07 prius. I don't know what to do. Did you just pry the clips off the cover and break them?