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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antilogic32:
General Feedback and thanks!

I recently bought the JVC KW-NSX1 with Mirrorlink.

I wasn't really what I was going for, but it worked out rather well in the end.

After getting the stock app to run, got frustrated within 5 min... :(

I found this thread and VOILA! :D

Some info: I have a rooted Galaxy SIII, running Ultimarom 12.0 (Not too sure what modem etc....)

Running this version of drivelink (full mirroring) -> 1.1.028r2 THX! :D

Also to help get the full phone on the head unit, I use Orientation Control v1.4 to force the phone into landscape view.

This way you can have most things as well as SPOTIFY running on your dash!

I have no warning or error messages, but my unit has been wired to always have the handbrake on... :)

Only (personal) issue: After about 5-10 minutes? the phone disconnects from the unit, but only when running another app in the foreground... It might just be some setting on my phone though.... replugging usually fixes it...

Suggestion? Any way of forcing the drivelink app to run other music players/apps as the default audio app? Sorry If this is a re-suggest...

Many thanks to the gifted people helping!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Olywa123:
That does look really cool - I just wanted to point out that you can get close to some of these features using the google now/voice search. i.e. selecting an album/artist/song by name ("play green day American idiot") or making calls ("call John Smith"), works pretty well. But the parrot does look much slicker than our set up :)

Olywa

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This came up before when J0ep0 made his modified release - I think it's more a memory/android issue - as Drivelink is in the background Android gives priority to apps (foreground and other) that it deems more important and so DL ends up being killed off and so your connection dies. Do you have a lot of other stuff running/using RAM on your phone? I haven't really had it happen with AuRoNs releases yet but then I run my phone pretty light these days (no widgets/syncing/heavy apps installed) and use Sotmax ROM which has some RAM tweaks.

Not sure if it's possible for AuRoN to mod so that DL keeps priority even running in the background but you could look at how your RAM is being used. I saw this mod before for keeping apps from being killed - in theory this could solve the issue for you (never got around to trying it as don't need to now). Don't know though - the knock on effect (DL always running even when out of the car) would be battery drain but it might at least help you to isolate the issue - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2130044

Olywa

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Another thought and not tried this so no guarantees and kind of a 'hacky' workaround - maybe you could drop Drivelink into multiwindow with the app you want to use on the other side (and slide the divider to hide most of the DL window leaving your preferred app with the most screen real estate)? Figure this should mean Android still regards DL as a foreground app and so doesn't kill it off - maybe - just an idea.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vakamondsm:
Playing music from the drivelink app didnt do anything...it didnt even make the screen go black. Still no go.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdaisgreat:
So which Mirrorlink HU is the best one to get? I don't even have a GS3 right now, but I'd get one just to get Torque and Google Maps to show up on my HU. I've had ARliberator with App Radio 2 and I did not like it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuhl_man:
DVD and iPod will be shown on rear monitors.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaese69:
Any chance that this app will run on a rooted stock Nexus 4 or can be modified so that it runs on it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robert31:
I am new to android so please bear with me...

does the phone need to be rooted?

And what head units does this work for?

I really want full mirroring although It needs to be a face off.

I have a s4.

I will also donate £25 when I get this running.

Thanks.

Rob.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
No root needed.

S4 is compatibile

currently confirmed working with JVC and SONY unit. (alpine too, but with some limitations)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MolsonB:
I've been sitting and waiting trying to figure out what headunit to go with. Still leaning towards the alpine.

In the meanwhile....

Money sent.

Confirmation number: 23R534861M629210N
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robert31:
Sounds good man, been doing some endless searching for this, does the video lag or does it all run smooth?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacktacular:
What does the alpine offer over the sony? I have the sony and it has been good. Works well with the modded version. Alpine are finicky from what I read here.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
This depend from the car unit.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KenMich13:
I can not speak to the quality of the sony unit but i can tell you this. When i called Crutchfield and asked which one sounded better they said the Alpine would have better sound quality.

I would love it if all the cool features worked with my phone and the head unit but as far as sound quality it kicks some serious butt. I have a Chrysler 300 with the Boston Acoustics speakers and sub.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacktacular:
Ok well I use my hu for my highs and mids...no sound quality issues...even the factory crappy toyota speakers sound decent....but to each his own. GL with whatever you choose
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pedderd:
Can someone please assist - I have been following this thread intently and are too struggling with the Alpine ICS-X8.

I had been running NxTGen rom and installing J0ep0's Samsung TMServer XXDLJ5 so that Drive Link worked at all with the Alpine. I had no joy with the full mirroring V1 or V2 (i.e. nothing more than standard drive link functionality, with the mirrorlink connection crashing if I tried and 'extra' features.

I thought I would try a different ROM, so I have updated to Android Revolution HD, which I quite like. However, now I cannot connect drive link at all, even with installing TMserver as above.

Does anyone know if the TMserver version above is the latest ? Or if I am doing anything else wrong ? I quite fancy keeping the new ROM, but I do need the drive link to use for Sat Nav.

Many thanks,

Darren
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laxity:
I went with the Alpine as they are well known to have the best for audio sound quality which is my primary use for the unit. When I purchased it I tested Sony, JVC, Pioneer and Kenwood units and the Alpine came way out on top on sound quality in my opinion. Bought a low profile subwoofer with it also and it sounds incredible. Obviously the main issue with the unit is the poor MirrorLink capability mainly due to DriveLink and so far though it seems like the Sony and JVC units work better with the modified version of Drive Link than the Alpine does.

I am currently working with Alpine to hopefully get this fixed along with many other features that need improving on the unit. I am currently testing a beta firmware from Alpine but at the moment it still doesn't provide anything more than the standard firmware does. I will post here with any progress and updates on this. For now I am hoping AuRoN89 can work some magic and figure out how to get the Alpine to work with the modified DriveLink. :)

While I remember... I also reported the issue with the latest TomTom update 1.2 which crashes with standard Drive Link. The problem is suspected to be caused by "intents" which was added in TomTom 1.2. This allows TomTom to be started with command line options passed to it from other Android applications. When DriveLink tries to start TomTom 1.2 we think it doesn't pass any arguments and causes TomTom to crash. The workaround is to start Google Navigator from Drive Link first to search for a destination (e.g. speak the destination) and then select TomTom as the default navigation app. This passes the destination argument (i.e. "intent") to TomTom and prevents it from crashing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robert31:
So what stereo does this work best on?

I'm debating witch one to buy, sound quality isn't a issue although full mirroring is.

Has anyone got any videos of this running?

Thanks,

can't wait to get this all set up!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinzvidz:
Well, I can tell you that I'm very happy with my XAV-701BT now. At first I thought it was rubbish, with some functionality issues, but Sony have improved the operation of the unit through a couple of recent firmware updates. Sound quality is excellent, but that's through a stock '12 Camry Hybrid's speakers. MirrorLink is now the duck's guts, now that (mostly) full mirroring is a reality.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XXtremeAzzKicker:
Ive never been a Sony car audio fan. Ive always thought it was cheap crap and most of their stuff is. Most of my systems were Alpine HU and JL Audio everything else. I got the previous model XNV-770bt for a good price and liked most of its features and sound quality but wanted more. I was tryingnto decide between a Clarion and an Alpine when found the xav602 and thought the mirrorlink idea was genius. So I waited this Xav701HD to come out a scooped one up. Everything is pretty and smooth UI. The SirusXm you can pause live radio or rewind upto 30min, the backround animation, HD radio and my fav is the X Zone. Then a few quirks, the navi unit they discontinued before this deck even came out but I figured with drivelink who cares. It was pretty limited to just the built in media player and google navigation which is decent navigation but battery hog for some reason. The latest .28 update allowed other navigation software to be used and allowed the remote to change tracks which was pretty cool but still extremely limited. So unless I was taking a trip I didnt use it. But with this mod andnthe latest firmware the deck is prettty damn sweet. I have abiut 24gb of music and a couple movies on a flash drive, Xm Radio and DriveLink all working perfectly. As far as sound quality when I was running stock speakers it sounded fine to me and now im running polk audio highs and JL Audio Amps and subs my truck pounds prettt well. And be able to surf the web and check email from the deck is a neat thing to trip people out with. So anyways im a longtime Alpine fan but the HU is the shi*.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacktacular:
Werd! Well said man! JL here too for lows..I need to do highs/mids now...good chit meng!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddawson24:
I'm glad I found this thread. It's awesome that people are making the DriveLink app what it should have been. One thing I haven't liked with MirrorLink is there's no way to use your Google Maps while listening to HD Radio or SiriusXM. Is there any development taking place that will allow someone to do that with the Alpine ICS-X7HD?

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If you were in the US I would try to get you an Alpine ICS-X7HD to do your testing with.....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
new version r3 is ready (download will be avaiable later today, don't download the file if you don't see R3 in the version name)

nothing big here

Fixed a bug caused by the previous Warning Messages Elimination which prevented voice synthesizer to automatically start and reading weather, events etc.

Optimzed some custom modifications

Also, i found an interesting thing for the vehicle in motion message. the program have custom messages for that, and it even check for that. BUT, the message is sent by the head unit and not from the drive link application.

edit:

APK is ready to be downloaded.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viperz:
Hello guys,

Since this app look to be working great, I'm looking to buy a Sony XAV-601BT,

I'm a bit off topic, but can you listen to other audio source while operating Mirror link ? As from the FM tuner or Aux input ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
this depend from the car unit.

JVC NSX1 support that. dunno about Sony XAV
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupe110:
Nice work. Thanks for the fantastic Mods. in the Drivelink app. Im happy.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueMeany68:
Sony XAV610BT or JVC KW-NSX1

Which of these work OK with Drivelink?

I'm presuming they both do, but I'm running Omega (43.3, 4.1.2) and don't want to have to go back to stock. Was originally looking at the Sony but was advised they not the best sound. Only got a very limited budget... and then spotted the NSX1

Any help?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelviper007:
Thanks for all the hard work you are doing, but unfortunately, this release still has the issue on the Alpine unit.

I'm sure everyone here whether it's working for them or not appreciate the effort you are putting in.:good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacktacular:
So here is something I noticed today. When using the drive link app and listening through Google music it displays nicely and works well but I did notice a degradation of quality compared to using the BT Audio of the HU. I went in to the app and checked the stream high quality option and Ill report back once I test that out.

I found it odd that the audio was much better using BT audio as it is the same app running the audio....weird!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XXtremeAzzKicker:
Works fine on my note 2.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chohanj:
Hi,

Excellent work here, I've just got the JVC NSX1 and was looking for a phone. I understand from the changelog that Drivelink is confirmed as working on the S3 Mini? Has anyone tried this combination?

Change Log:-

[the app is confirmed working with:

Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III, Galaxy S III Mini, Galaxy S IV with Android 4.1.2 (stock) on

Sony XAV-701HD, Sony XAV601BT and JVC NSX1]
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djwilliams100:
Unfortunately you cant on the Sony
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
S3 and S3 Mini are almost the same phone. 99% sure that you can use drive link on that, you can't find it on the store with S3 mini device but this happen with S4 too (and it work on S4)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chohanj:
Thanks for the reassurance that it should work on the S3 Mini, it'd be good to know if any of you good people have tried it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
I Just finished doing some mods related to the vehicle in motion message. If someone can test the new APK please add me on skype. add me if you have an alpine unit too.

id is: auronx75.47
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddawson24:
I installed the new app today and founs that I can finally add the shortcuts in with my Alpine ICS-X7HD. The problem is they don't display on the head unit. For example, if I add in Facebook as a shortcut I can press the button on the head unit, it will launch Facebook on my phone, but then kicks me out of the DriveLink app and I'll be back to the source screen on the head unit. When I added thr SiriusXM app as a shortcut it did the same thing. The difference was when it launched on the phone the audio would still come through the radio. So I could relaunch DriveLink and have the SiriusXM app from my phone playing in the background. It's kind of a work around to not having the regular SiriusXM tuner plugged into my ICS-X7HD being able to play at the same time I use the DriveLink app. I'd love to get those apps to show up on the screen though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JuZDZ:
Hi AuRoN89, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with GPS Alpine ICS-X8, I added you on Skype.

Thanks for all
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chohanj:
Hi, I got hold of a S3 Mini and tried the latest Drive Link APK r3, on loading the app I get a black screen that results in "unfortunately Drive Link has stopped" :crying: a wild guess, could it be that its not handling the screen size?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
which android version are you running?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ANIVNM:
Money Sent!

Since it didn't look like there was a future for this working on the Note I, I went ahead and bought an S4. Donating 20 right now!

Conf# 73G95603PD104851T
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chohanj:
Its running Andriod Version 4.1.2, baseband I8190XXAMA2, Kernel version 3.0.31-809600, thanks for looking at this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ANIVNM:
Alpine vs Sony SQ

For those of you worrying about the SQ between the HU's, and may be on the fence about a purchase, know this.

DAC's

The diff in the SQ is usually because Alpine has forever been running 24 bit Burr Brown DAC's in their units, and the vast majority of their competitors were not really concerned with SQ.

EQ

Many of the top line Alpine's (Every one I have ever owned, and all I choose to use) also have a Parametric EQ, Digital Time Correction, and a nice crossover built in.

I have NEVER even considered putting a Sony in one of my vehicles, which were always mated with either Focal, Boston Acoustics, or now Hybrid Audio and Audison components (Hertz). I have a good friend who owns an audio shop and he let me test both. Knowing that this Sony was coming with a 24 bit DAC just like my Alpine's, I gave it a shot. While the Sony has limited Crossover and EQ functions, the sound quality is on par with the Alpine Units and I was very impressed. Unit to Unit with very little audio adjustments, the units sound comparable. Being that the Sony had more features ( DVD, CD Playback and more) I chose to go with the Sony. While I wish it had more detailed sound controls, I am very happy with the unit and for the first time in my life give credit to Sony for developing a solid unit. So if you don's know what a Parametric EQ is, and have never got into Crossover Frequency, Slope or Gain, then pic up the Sony and be happy you can play DVD's and CD's as well.

Personally I drilled a 3/4" hole in my dash, hard mounted a USB, and stuck a 128GB stick in there with about 10,000 songs. Love it!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
add me on skype, auronx75.47
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riptorn28:
Still getting the " cannot display while driving" message on NSX1 with galaxy S3 but only with some apps. Maps works fine but pandora won't
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sailor1173:
Hi AuRon89,

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 and ALPINE ICS-X8 and I look forward in helping to test your future APK on the Alpine set and S4.

Cheers !
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surfneck:
Dont know if its needed, But auron89's .apk works perfectly on a MetroPCS GS3 4.1.2....non rooted. Had to enable USB tethering though. Hopefully im not charged anything by metro for this haha.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ANIVNM:
Could not get it to connect with S4 and XAV701HD

Simply would not recognize the S4. Am I going to have to pay for tethering (att) to get this to work, and then turn on tethering before connecting each time?

Disregard, swapped cables and it worked like a champ! It would be nice if I didn't have to remove the USB Stick every time I wanted to connect the phone, other than that, it seems to work great. A little laggy, but I have a patch cord (6ft) wired from the head unit to a hard mount in the dash, that could be the culprit.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinzvidz:
The 701 has 2x USB ports, why not just leave a USB stick in one and utilise the other for MirrorLink?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
USB Tethering should automatically start on Drive Link Launch.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ANIVNM:
Yeah, I tried that. mirrorlink would not load with my USB stick on the other port, however, after mirrorlink was up and running I could insert the drive with no issues. Just a pain to have to pull it every time. Oh well, nothing is perfect and I am VERY happy with the work done to date.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XXtremeAzzKicker:
I leave my 32gb stick plugged in always and mirror link works fine on the other without unplugging the USB stick.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ANIVNM:
I will try running a smaller stick. I have a 64 I will try tomorrow. Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KenMich13:
Good Day, Good Day,

Any new news on the tweaks for the Alpine ICS-x7HD ? I know that there was some different drivelink versions floating around. i am currently using 1.1.028r3 ( Thanks again AuRoN ) and it is Soooooo close to being perfect. things i was hoping to see if had been fixed or that were on my wish list are.

1) Run shortcuts like Pandora without the screen exiting out of drivelink. Like other users when i select the pandora shortcut i see the app load on my phone and work but my head unit does not display the info. ( Side note, I can log back into my navigation and still play/pause and forward the pandora station with the buttons on the head unit. ) i just cant see the display of the song playing or switch stations.

2) Being able to use my steering wheel controls with drive link.

3) Install custom backgrounds and Icons. The head unit is sweet but the backgrounds and icons look like they are from my first gen motorola razor phone..

Ken
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drakeshreddy@ymail.com:
Where can I find 1.1.028r3

Can some one provide me the link to 1.1.028r3 version app.

Thanks.:good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KenMich13:
http://www.colmoschinxtreme.com/android
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 787tech:
Alpine icsx7hd

Anybody willing to start a bounty to get this unit to do full mirroring
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MolsonB:
I don't even own the Alpine yet and just donated $20 dollars anyways.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacktacular:
Good stuff thx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unclearthought:
If we can get full mirroring with the alpine units I will put up 20 bucks.

All you guys who have an alpine unit and want full mirroring to work should put up at least 20 each. a lot pf work is beong done to get this to work. Please help support.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KenMich13:
already did..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuRoN89:
guys don't worry.

i'm working on both alpine and vehicle in motion problems. If it can be fixed via drive link modification. i'll do that.

if the problems are generated by the units, well.. i can't
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 787tech:
Alpine ics

You know for some reason, I think the alpine unit is blocking full mirroring. Ok full mirroring works with every unit besides the alpine. If you take a look at alpines safety features that prevents you from watching a video it's ridiculous. They don't even want you adjusting the sound while driving. There are three different wires to hook up to get this unit to bypass. When you try to open other apps the unit starts to think then it boots you out of mirror link. I went to best buy the other day and plugged in my same galaxy s3 on Verizon and it mirrored just fine. The alpine is a great unit and the user interface looks almost like an oem unit but I'm afraid I might have to return it. The Sony works good although a bit slow to load mirror link. How does it work for you guys. Maybe I'll go back to best buy and update the firmware and give it another shot. It's a shame that it is the year 2013 and these aftermarket manufacturers are having a hard time keeping up with auto manufacturers head units
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluemeanie1409:
I might be wrong but it seems that nokia phones are fully mirroring with the Alpine so it could be feasible with android phones