Looking for a Good Android Auto Head Unit

Hey Everyone!
I'm looking for a good, reasonably priced, double-din head unit that supports Android Auto for my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo and am looking for some advice/suggestions.

All the car audio sites (Crutchfield, etc.) show that you can't install a double-din in the 850, but that's only due to two small plastic lips in the console from the original stereo that can easily be removed with a dremel.

I was looking at the JBL CP100, but that still isn't available yet (for who knows how long). I would like to get something with a reasonably modern feature-set and UI, and I've generally had good experiences with standard Kenwood receivers (I currently have a KDC-BT562U installed), but I'm not particularly picky.

I have an Xperia Z5 so Android Auto is a must (obviously), but also having Apple CarPlay functionality could be useful as I sometimes share the car with iPhone users, as long as it doesn't add on to the cost. Also, having a good standard Bluetooth connection option for relatively short drives that wouldn't require the full AA experience, but having the ability to just listen to music and make/receive phone calls is important.

I'm looking for something below around 0, but if that's not possible, I would like the get the least-expensive product that's not too much of a compromise.

Any input would be appreciated as I (obviously) have pretty much zero understanding of car-related things.

Thanks-in-advance!
Cheers,
4Strings

Android S07 head unit video out issues

HI i purchased my head unit in january of this year from a chinese manufacturer it works fine with one exception and that is i recently purchased a pair of head rest to add to my vehicle so that my kids can see movies ect. but my surprise only dvd shows on the monitors i checked the monitors against another source and they work fine so it took me back to the head unit i've reached the issue over the internet and found many others have the same issue.

Can anyone help solve the problem as it seems to be a programing/software issue i could be wrong. but i really need your help.

Thanks in advance.

Model number S07
Android version 4.4.4.
MCU version MTCB- KSP-V2.85
CPU ARM Cortex-A9 @1.6 Ghz

Head Unit Dead

Hello everyone, I have a Pumpkin RQ0255 (rk3188) unit: rk3188-eng4.4.4 29032016 firm
What happened is that I wanted to upgrade to the firm Malasyk, but after installation is complete, the unit will not boot again, the screen is dead.
When I press the reset button, the lights blink one second, but nothing happens.
Anyone can guide me ??
Thank you

Android Head unit still in boot loop even after update

Hi all,

Allow me to apologies if I post in the wrong thread.
Recently I bought "Bosion 420" head unit from Aliexpress
800x480, quad core, 1G RAM 16GROM. Android 4.4.4
It was working fine for first week. I download and install Sygic app. That's the last thing I did. After next time I start the unit, the unit loop in android boot logo
.
I contacted the seller and he send me the ROM to update. He asked me to put in the ROM sd card and boot up. It automatically goes into progress bar. And it run till 100%. After 100%, the screen become blare out and nothing happened. But when I took off the card and reboot, it goes back to the android boot loop still. Seller is not responding me anymore and its already out of time for dispute so I am out of options. Can somebody help me with that?

Thanks in advance!

Android 5.1 head unit >>> USB Audio (DAC) output

Hi, I installed a MTCD Android head unit with Android 5.1.1 in my car two weeks ago. (I could'nt start this thread in the MTCD section because I'm new here)

My car audio setup goes as follow: Android Head Unit >>> USB Cable >>> PCM2704 USB to SPDIF adapter >>> SPDIF coax cable >>> MiniDSP 6x8 >>> 3 Amps >>> Speakers + sub.

So far I've been able to get SPDIF sound output with Neutron (Direct USB mode), Onkyo HF Player, USB Audio Player Pro, HibyMusic Player.
Sound is amazing btw.
If I understand correctly, all these apps are working with the USB DAC because they use their own app's USB Driver.

Important to know: All song in 44khz are playing fine, songs in 48khz makes every app freeze. I got a way around this by setting Neutron to resample every song in 44khz, so all songs are working now.

Now, if I play a song in Google Play Music, Spotify, Kodi, etc no sound comes out ... same thing for my HU video app, phone calls etc.

Is there a way around this ? What modifications can be made so every sound outputs to the USB Audio ? IE. kernel update, system files modifications etc ??

Thanks for any input.

Head Unit Apps not working

Hi,

I have an Android Head Unit (I think its the AN-21) and for a while now a few apps will not work:

Google Play Store - Says no connection
Google Maps - Says Stopped working
iGo Navigation - Says Stopped working

below are photos of my head unit.






I am thinking of flashing new firmware however wanted to see if anyone else had any other suggestions.

Cheers,


Falz

SD Card Went Inside The Head Unit

Guys I was trying to do an update on my pumpkin 5.1 as suggested by the Manufacturer. I inserted my SD Card in the GPS slot SD Card and the card would not come out. I tried to get it out with a pair of tweezers but instead the SD cards went inside and the slot is empty.

Then I tried another SD card and it did not read it and it happened the same thing it stuck inside. What I noticed it went to the left side of the unit. I'm positive that I was inserting both SD Cards correctly. Do you guys think I would need to open the head unit to take them out or any of yo have any other ideas? Do you happen to know how difficult is to open this head unit?

Head tracking via camera + QR Code - is this possible?

Hi all,

Just a quick question regarding head tracking with Gear VR.

Having done some quick reading, I see that the general idea with head tracking relies on external equipment tracking movement or another idea has been to use a phone's internal sensors to detect movement.

Does anyone know if the idea of using the phones camera with some printed QR codes would be possible? The idea being to print out QR codes that can be placed around a user. A quick calibration wizard could be used by the user to ascertain their position relative to the printed codes and then use them as spatial points - similar to when using an AR app.

The phones sensors could still be used, this would just be an additional way to track movement.

Was just curious if it had been tried or was indeed possible?

Cheers,


Wayne

Does there exist a Android 5.1+ and 2GB RAM head unit that isn't terrible?

It doesn't seem like it's possible to find something with Android 5.1 (or later) and 2GB RAM. The only one I can find is the InDashNet unit except that one seems to still be in beta and buggy.
Doesn't anyone make something with 2GB RAM and a modern release of the OS? Getting real sick of my AppRadio issues, but I don't want to deal with the headache of 1GB RAM or an old OS.

Android Auto Head Unit with Spotify Unlimited Skips

Suggestion on getting Spotify Mod (Unlimited Skips) to display on Android Auto. New car has the built-in android capability "Projection". Any thoughts?

Android head unit - MTCD KD - Color inversion - impossible to revert

Hi dear all,

I just recieved a new android car 2din head unit, it's a MTCD version with the last firmware version 5.1.1 android+KD+04.05.2016 and I have an issue with the display.
I have an inverted colors on the display.
No way to return to real colors.
I have wiped all users settings in recovery mode.
I have tried via adb to set pm clean com.android.systemui with no success.

Can you please help me ?
Thanks

Artius

Use car's GPS antenna with Android head unit

Hi.
My Skoda Superb has navigation from factory, including GPS antenna on the roof. Does anyone know if this antenna will work with an Android head unit (Joying)? I need an adapter from FAKRA to SMA to physically connect it, but I don't know if the antenna would be compatible with regards to voltage, impedance etc.

Can anyone identify this Android Head Unit?

Can anyone identify this Android Head Unit? I am trying to find out if I can install 5.1.1 on it. It currently has has 4.4.4. The model number is AC8317. Kernal version: 3.4.35 root@ubuntu #51 Thu Apr 28 10:41:26 CST 2016. I am not to familiar with android because I always had apple devices but I got tired of them. I am trying to learn how to customize these. The home screen widget cannot be moved or deleted. It is stuck in KPH and 24h time and wont change even thought I changed the setting under car settings. It has 1gb of ddr3 and a 1.6ghz quad core A9 processor and 16gb Nand, not sd card slot.
ebay item number is 272278514841, Sorry I cannot post links.

[Q] Help with my Android Head Unit (update and video-issue)

After searching al lot on this forum I can't seem to get some answers (maybe because there is a LOT of info!) I am trying to identify my Android Headunit so I can make some changes. First of all some info about the unit:
I bought the unit half a year ago from aliexpress for a Suzuki Swift (>2011).

- Android 4.4.2 OS, HD 1024*600 Pixels Capacitive Screen.
- Cortex A9 Quad Core 1.6GHz CPU.
- DDR3 1GB RAM, 16GB NAND Flash.
- Built-in WiFi

Processor type: Quadcore-R16 1.6G
Android-versie: 4.4.2
MCU version: 5.3.17-1-10-610101-151112
System version: 4.5.3_20151027
DVD version: 2.13.15-860mc-150417

USB Debugging password protected password: "john@tw-desktop".
Factory Reset / Developer Options password: "7890"
Extra Settings password: "123456"

I need help with 2 issues:
- I would like to update is to a newer OS. Is this possible?
- Since I have a pair of rear headrest monitors in my car, there is a second thing I would like to change. ONLY when I use the DVD function the external monitors get an videosignal. Usualy this is no problem because this way my kids can watch a movie and I can use the navigation app. BUT when I want to show them media from, for instance, youtube of a USB stick, there is no videosignal sent to the monitors and the can only view it on my headunit . Is there a way to cure this? Maybe a way to emulate the DVD function?
- Is there a way to change the current orange illumination colour? (anyone know if there are a lot of led's and if it's do-able to solder red ones instead?)

Ik really hope someone can help! Thanks in advance!

AnyGo 4.4 or Joying 5.1 Head Unit

Hi Guys,

I'm kinda new on this forum, but I need some advice. I'm planning to buy an Android Head Unit for in my Suzuki Swift.

I found two units
- AnyGo Android 4.4
- Joying Android 5.1

The AnyGo is about 70 euros cheaper, but has Android 4.4 and I guess not a lot of customer support. The Joying one seems to have a lot better customer support and has Android 5.1, but is it worth the 70 extra euros? I could use this 70 euros for upgrading my stock speakers.

Also the AnyGo has the option to choose a TDA-7851 amp over the TDA-7388 on the Joying one. Does this make a big difference? What about Android 4.4, can I still use my apps at least the next 4 years? Can you guys help me choosing one of these units?

Thanks a lot! :highfive:

OpenHU Project - Continuing Mike Reid's Android Auto Head Unit App

Hi all, it appears that Mike Reid, the developer of the original FOSS Android Auto Head Unit app, has sadly passed away.

We are continuing the development in a new app, which we call the OpenHU Project. It stands for OpenHU.

Just want to address some one concern that some have already raised: OpenHU will continue to be fully open source under GPL, forever.

The only thing that may change is that we are trying to get permission from Mike Reid's family to relicense under GPLv2, as Mike had intended to permit those uses personally - and he obviously can't anymore.

Learn More: http://console.com.co/openhu/
Wiki: http://wiki.console.com.co/w/OpenHU
GitHub: http://github.com/iConsole/OpenHU

Finally - we are offering a ,000 bounty, as the first full round of our Console Developer Rewards initiative. We had previously planned to focus on Android for x86, but Intel and Android were on troubled waters at the time... so we didn't fully launch it. In the wake of Mike's passing, we felt the best thing to do was focus on this effort.

As you may have heard, some recent changes to GMS (Google Play Services) broke Mike's app. But we are already hard at work, and you can win a portion (or all) of the ,000 by helping us fix it!

10.1 android head unit,which to buy?

looking for dependable,least bugs and possible custom firmware?Please give me some advice,thanks

Joying 5.1.1 7" MTCD JY_V1 head unit review

Ive had this unit for about 2 months now. Purchased it from the US seller on amazon. It shipped within 24hrs from NY. Arrived in Florida in about 4 days.

It arrived in the typical plain white box, no thumbdrive with this one, no sd card. Not a big deal as i have plenty of both. Well packaged and un damaged.

The vehicle i installed it into is a 2016 Mustang GT, base model with the 4" screen and abomination that Ford likes to call "sync".

Without getting into why, I wanted a head unit that would have navigation and run apps without all of the nanny controls you find on the more common units, and did NOT retain ford sync. If anyone has ever been on a mustang forum, you will see half the threads are complaints about the factory sync, or people testing out various Chinese replacements for the base system. None of these options interested me as i would be still stuck with sync. So i discovered these types of android head units first on ebay, then some research on youtube lead me to the "Joying" brand. Some pretty favorable reviews here so i decided to take the plunge on this unit: h t t p s :// w w w .carjoying.com/android-5-1-car-stereo/android-5-1-car-stereo-2din/newest-joying-2016-automotive-lollipop-android-5-1-1-universal-7-inch-car-head-unit-double-2-din-autoradio-gps-navigation-system-quad-core-hd-1024-600-radio-stereo-audio-16gb-support-revers.h t m l

I figured it was more money than the typical china mustang screen upgrades, but less money than i would spend on an alpine or pioneer that still would not do what i wanted.

Contrary to what most people told me, there was plenty of room behind the dash, as long as you use a bezel from a premium model. I was able to complete the install to this point without cutting ONE SINGLE WIRE thanks to a member on mustang6g forum who made me a custom harness. In fact, Joying didnt even want to sell me the unit as they said it would not fit, despite my sending them pictures showing it would. It was as if the world wants you to suffer with a garbage radio if you own a 16 mustang lol.

So far this uint has performed nearly flawlessly. It has never frozen on me, or even slowed down on me for that matter. I am able to run pandora, spotify-yes spotify! waze, google maps and navigation, chrome, even netflix. I was rather surprised just how well all the apps run on it as ive read threads on here where people have had issues with some of these apps, but it runs just as fast or faster than my galaxy s5. The only thing ive seen happen is if you try to run apps as its still booting up it will bog down.

The sound quality of the built in speaker level amp is very good. much better than stock. I have not tried using the pre-amp outputs yet or the sub output. The factory equalizer does its thing, has a fader but not a spacializer. It appears to be able to use the steering wheel controls but i have not tried to tackle that yet. Also, there is an area where it appears you can read the vehicle can bus, but i have no idea how to connect that as there is almost nothing on the market for the 15-16 mustang yet.

Here is a bad video i made of it lol: h t t p s :// youtu.be/VDxKmkw_as8

If anyone on this forum can point me in the right direction as far as steering wheel controls or can bus connection I would really appreciate it, and of course ill try my best to answer any questions about my experiences with this unit.

Also, i thought i saw there is a contact for JoyingUSA on this forum? Maybe he could offer some guidance.

Thanks
Nick