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[Android General] MightyDrakeC:
Backed it up with what? Titanium Backup? Can I back it up with one device and load it on another?

Drake
[Android General] RigWig:
Yes
[Android General] MightyDrakeC:
Thanks. That got me past it. Appreciate the quick response.

Drake
[Android General] MightyDrakeC:
And my attempt to save people a little wasted time. The new version of Google Maps requires Android v4+, so Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean. I was lucky that I still had the previous version still in a Titanium Backup. Unfortunately, I don't know where one would go to find a copy online.

Drake
[Android General] iSNin0:
Thats the version that was originally on this thread for the kindle fire root, the old ugly 'market' version, i believe its a gingerbread version, anyways, i switched to the new one because i couldnt find my apps using the 'market version'

In order to do this, this is what i did

1.Updated all my apps on my phone(try to do it over wifi)

2.Download Appmonster free(on your phone)

3.Back up Google Play Store, after go to backups>send>email>(send it to your email)

4.Remove the SD card from the Parrot and insert it in your computer

5.Once you have the SD in your computer, login to your email, download the .apk file you sent yourself, and copy it on the SD card under the DOWNLOADS folder

6.Insert the SD back on the parrot then settings>applications>development>install from SD card(just as you had previously done with the old version)

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Being new to this stuff one of the problems i encountered, that pretty much took me 4 months to figure out by myself was that theres no thoroughly detailed step by step instructions for a noob on doing this. To someone whos new to this and doesnt even know what an .apk is, getting lost is very easy, and while their questions go ignored, all the more knowledgeable guys just talk in Chinese about other things, it would be nice to have a forum section to this device since this is now a 77 page thread, and help on specific topics is already hard to find as it is, whether it be Rooting, Sideloading, UNIKA problems, Customization, i think that makes for a need to have a forum section for this device, im new to this xda forum but not to forums in general, so even though this might just get burried like many other's inquiries in the past, if a MOD ever reads this, or someone with MOD permissions, just give it a thought.

Anywho, what i wanted to ask a guru, or a knowledgeable person on here is to please upload all .APKs that are needed to root this thing and get the Play store working, yes the'res links to mediafire on the Kindle fire root thread, but those links are broken, i had to bust all sorts of missions to handpick these files, so if someone could share verified to work .apk files needed for this, it would be greatly useful for noobs coming to the site.
[Android General] xd_sjo:
Does the later version of the play store let you purchase apps? The earlier market posted in this thread on one of the guides crashes when I try.

I too agree a dedicated subforum would be a good idea.

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If you would like a dedicated sub-forum for the Smart, please reply to this post linked below:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43797725&postcount=9686

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[Android General] iSNin0:
As i stated earlier i got the latest version and i finally got it to NOT crash, it works

However the problem im having now is that when i try to find an app im encountering the 'Your device is incompatible with this app' message on the PlayStore, tried downloading MarketHelper and still nothing,

So then i gotta back up the app on my pohne get the .apk and sideload it to the SD card and then install it manually, which sortof defeats the purpose of having the PlayStore since many of the apps show that message.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
[Android General] r_benamin:
Anyone know how to get inapp purchase working?

I have no navigon working on my smart, but im not able to buy inapp like traffic, fresh maps and cockpit

Pls tell me how to get inapp working?

PS.: I got it.

I just had to take the newest apk from playstore: com.android.vending-4.2.3.apk
[Android General] deanesn:
I agree but post this in the new forum request so mods actually do something annoy it. I posted and the more people request the bigger the chance.
[Android General] melog69:
Where are people in the US getting the Connect2 adapter, neither Cruthcfield or Sonic Electronix have it, and i was only able to find it in ebay from a UK seller
[Android General] r_benamin:
I have just gotten Torque Pro working, didn't need to use market helper. Assuming you have already rooted your Smart and got the play store working. I did the following to get it up and running:

Bought, Downloaded and Installed Torque Pro from the Play Store

Bought, Downloaded and Installed Bluetooth Auto-Pair (If your ODBII device pairs on 0000 then you probably don't need this)

Ran Bluetooth Auto-Pair and paired to my OBDII ELM327 device using pin 1234

Ran Torque Pro, setup a profile and it all seems to work nicely! :cool:
[Android General] unlimited:
We have news from UK Parrot Forum.

:good:
[Android General] Viper87227:
As much as I'd love to see it, there's no way it's going to happen for a device like this. The Sero 7 Pro hasn't been approved a sub-forum yet, despite it having several huge threads, flashable roms and recoveries, and several hundred requests in the new device forum thread. If that can't get one, there's just no way they are even going to bat an eyelash at the Asteroid.

Being that there is no roms or anything, all it really needs is a single thread that remains maintained by someone. If the first couple posts were reserved to have links, guides, faqs, links, etc you could have all the information you need.
[Android General] s3rioussam:
Anyone tried xposed framework?
[Android General] Joe333x:
Isnt it only for ics.
[Android General] 972poker:
Hello,

Dumb question ... How can you sideload "non official" application on this unit ?

I would like to buy this unit or the tablet one, but only if I'm sure to be able to use waze on it. However, as today waze is available on the asteroid market only for the mini unit as IGo is available for the tablet and smart one unit. So I would really appreciate a way to load application appart from the asteroid market way.

Thanks for your help.
[Android General] twokidsandaphone:
I'll try tonight with just line-outs, but my guess is that the amp turn-on is sending out 12v before the audio signal is stable (assuming you are using the ant remote lead for amp turn on). You could put in an RC/relay delay circuit in if this does turn out to be the case - or see if Parrot updates control of that line...
[Android General] twokidsandaphone:
I so want FLAC support in the native music app (that allows USB access) - will root help with that, I mean can someone code a flac plugin/tag reader for it? Whomever did that would have my undying gratitude :)
[Android General] albert.r:
Yeah, VLC is available now! Tried to watch about a dozen of movies on Smart, and video playback quality looks quite good! However, some of the movies were not able to play their audio tracks, could it be missing audio codec? Hopefully, this can be fixed and we will get a full-featured video player on Asteroid Smart.

-albert
[Android General] djwishbone:
I'm really interested in picking one of these up. Are you guys pretty happy hardware wise? Do you think it has good processing power compared to middle of the line android devices? I look forward to seeing the rooting/custom roms for this device. Seems like a lot of awesome potential with this one!
[Android General] 0space_monkey0:
ahem..... VLC allows playing of files from a USB stick.... I play my movies off it.... (and yes i've tried flac files for you)

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From playing Angry Birds Space to spotify and using google navigation, the thing still flies.... with incoming calls in all.... I would like a Task Manager widget....

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thats what i was thinking.... ill have to try adding one and seeing if it makes a difference...
[Android General] danger355:
Ok, so here are the pics of my install. I took them with my phone so the GPS sensor is hard to see.

I tried getting the UNIKA interface working this weekend, but the instructions are extremely vague and couldn't really get anywhere... although I did still try wiring it up.

I've got an '06 Pathfinder. Any words of advice?
[Android General] twokidsandaphone:
I did try myself yesterday (VLC seeing the USB stick - for some reason I read that it couldn't). I didn't try FLAC, but I know form other VLC installs that it should work.

Here are my issues (apparently I want it all)

1)VLC doesn't work w/o handbrake up - I know it's easy to defeat, so that's a more minor gripe.

2)Voice recognition goes to default music player, and although I have only tried on the bench, so far selecting artist by voice kicks a$$

I also looked for the pop on start-up. I couldn't detect one, but I only tried the front outs. Tonight I will try the sub outs.

Cheers,

Jeff
[Android General] tzortst:
How is the music off a HDD handled with this device?

Do you browse it by folders or is it handled properly and by tags etc, like most music players on android?
[Android General] twokidsandaphone:
It is via tags. However, the stock music app does not scroll thru artists, etc (at least as far as I have been able to discern). The best way is to ask for the artist by voice recognition. VLC allows the scroll thru...

Anybody else want to chime in? I could be suffering from user incompetence.

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Well I have an 08 Saab 9-3, so only choice for me is to order connects2 steering wheel interface from the UK :rolleyes: There is a parrot compatible lead. Stuff should be here in 2-3 weeks, so I will let you know how it turns out.

At any rate, the install looks good.
[Android General] djwishbone:
Awesome, thanks for the response. Anyone else using torque or some other OBD interface? I'm interested if that is working. From what I understand the parrot is hardcoded to only accept 0000 for BT device pairing, but now that someone claims root I'm sure all that can be fixed. I think this may be my perfect head unit.
[Android General] ProTekk:
Working on the 0000 pairing issue now.
[Android General] djwishbone:
awesome! I look forward to hearing your results. I wonder if these units will drop in price. Right now they're being sold pretty close to retail.
[Android General] dalamario:
Can you share how you rooted it?
[Android General] ProTekk:
Had to RMA my unit. Touch screen stopped working. Don't know if I'll get this unit again or not but for those who want root: Framaroot works. For now.
[Android General] danger355:
Any thoughts on whether or not rooting it caused it to stop working?
[Android General] ProTekk:
Definitely not the cause of failure.
[Android General] djwishbone:
Bummer! I hope you get it replaced soon. How do you feel about the quality of the unit now that you've had a failure? Do you think it was a fluke?
[Android General] loveshackdave:
Play Story

FYI I was able to get the play store to work with root access. I rooted and installed SuperSU with farmaroot (SuperUser doesn't work). I installed the Google Services Framework, then copied the Play Store apk to the system/app directory. After rebooting the device, it worked great.
[Android General] djwishbone:
sweet, thanks for the update! I'm still on the fence on whether or not to buy this....
[Android General] s3rioussam:
I could work on a version below 4.0. But the developper didn't test it.
[Android General] Viper87227:
Does anyone have any advice on how to speed up boot times?

Currently it takes about 30 seconds to actually boot up to the homescreen (Smart Launcher) and the stupid radio starts playing pretty quickly after that. However, I've got Play Music to autostart, and that takes another minute and a half to two minutes before it's fully loaded and able to play music. I'd like to cut that down. I've got this SD card: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/128GB+S...55603539&skuId=6570862&st=128gb pny&cp=1&lp=1... It's about half full, mostly music. I realize that having 60GB+ music is a lot, but the SD card has decent read speeds and I would figure that Google Music caches everything, so it shouldn't be having to scan for music before playing each time.

I've blocked as many apps as I think I can from stating with the unit. I've left anything related to Google Framework alone, and anything related to Parrot alone. I've got Play Music and Accuweather set to open on boot. Everything else should be blocked. Is there anything else I can do to hurry things along? I assume the SD card is the culprit, but again, with the decent read speeds and the fact that it should be cacheing my library, I would think that it's size and contents shouldn't be it. I tossed in a 16GB SD card with a limited amount of music. It's a slower speed SD card, but it actually took longer with this card to boot, which makes me think the amount of music isn't a factor.

Perhaps there is a different music player I should try? I tried Poweramp, and didn't get better results. The app loaded much quicker, but it took around a minute after the app loaded before music would actually play.
[Android General] devoidx:
Unfortunately there is so much you can do to speed up a unit that's running an ancient 800mhz cpu with 512 mb RAM....
[Android General] DrWarrenKruger:
I believe it's the amount of music on your SD card, as the system appears to scan all media directories each time it's booted, presumably to run a comparison against it's internal database to look for changes. I have about 20% more music than you and what I did was to put the vast majority of it on an external source plugged into USB. I have less than 1GB of music on my internal SD card, which the system appears to scan first (before looking at external sources). I consider that my "startup music". My system boots and plays music from the internal SD card in less than 1 minute. As with you, it still takes a few minutes additional to read in the remaining library, but since that's external, I'm still listening to music while that happens. And then I can switch over to my full library playlists once the scan is done. You might want to test this by putting just a handful of songs on your spare SD card and seeing if those will play faster. BTW, I'm using the built in Music app, not Google Music. My solution is certainly imperfect, but it's better than waiting for what seems like an eternity with no tunes.
[Android General] Viper87227:
I've tried out the stock music app and didn't care for it. I wasn't able to find a way to actually search by artist or something, just a huge list of tracks.

I have been experimenting with different music players. n7player seems like it could be the answer, but it's being problematic. I have to let it manually build a database for every track. The upside to this is that as soon as the app boots, it's ready to play music. I can get to music over a minute faster with this player. The downside is that when manually adding tracks, it processes 5 tracks about every 3 seconds. Multiply by 8,000 tracks and thats a long time. If you stop part way through, it doesn't take. I haven't been on a long enough drive yet to let it cache everything. I manually cached up to my D's though, and the tracks that are there I can access quickly. It also doesn't seem to pause/resume properly when other apps want audio (like the phone), and it doesn't remember what I was last listening to. I don't care about track position, but any other music player I've tried at least knows to boot up ready to play a track. This I still have to go and search for a song on every boot. I don't care for that.

I imagine I just have to keep trying to find the right music app, because that clearly can make a difference. If I can't find one, I'll just deal with it. I'm still really smitten with the headunit. I really wish the idea would take off and we'd see some higher-end android powered headunits. This thing could have a lot of potential, hell even with like an old ass Tegra 2 which is 2+ year old technology, it would be a ton faster.
[Android General] Joe333x:
As much as I am against apple products iv always had an ipod for my cars since thats all most stereos take. The parrot works great with my 160gb ipod classic, reads it quickly and displays the album art. I know its much cheaper to just use an external drive but I like the ease of use that stereos have with ipods and itunes does a good job of keeping it organized.
[Android General] danger355:
Didn't the 2.1.1 update fix this?

(My OBDII bluetooth dongle is on its way, and I still haven't updated from 2.0.1)
[Android General] Adeering:
I cant seem to get the root working, I followed the directions and used framaroot 1.4.1 and its says it is rooted and SuperUser is installed, but it never pops up asking for superpermissions when I try to install the framework and it says installation doesnt work for the framework.

Same when i try to move the Vending.apk to system/app, doesnt ask for SU access
[Android General] r_benamin:
Not fixed in 2.1.1

You will need auto pair!
[Android General] sonicdh:
Out of curiosity, has anyone tried using the unit to fly an AR.Drone? I ask half tongue-in-cheek but also half seriously.
[Android General] Happy Grumpz:
Totally agree :good:
[Android General] WyoSi:
I'm glad there is an XDA thread about this device, I really want to pick up an android powered 2-din unit for my car in the next couple of months. But I'm a little worried about the specs on this one, I'm used to running an overclocked Note 2 and I'm afraid that this unit is going to feel really underpowered.

What do you guys that have one think?

Is there any scuttlebutt on a new version or a model from another manufacturer? I saw something about a Clarion Mirage, but it seems to not be released yet.
[Android General] Viper87227:
Meh... doesn't that mean actually selecting music on the ipod? I wouldn't want something that has to be out and accessible. Particularly because I'd be leaving it in my car and that becomes a theft magnet. I wouldn't want to have to hide it every time I park... that was sort of the point of getting this headunit in the first place, not having to use an external palyer ;)
[Android General] antipaq:
Better not try it. The wifi signal is very limited from inside the vehicle.
[Android General] Happy Grumpz:
No, you select your music via the Smart. Ipod lives in the glove box :good:
[Android General] Viper87227:
How intuitive is track selection? Can I chose to sort by artist or album? When I used the stock music app with the SD card it didn't seem to want to to do that, it just gave me a list of all tracks on the card. Also, using the stock music app, does it auto-resume from where you left off, or at least remember your source so that all I have to do it wait for it to hit play? The less button presses the better.

Right now I'm still sort of inclined to deal with the longer boot and keep using google music. I've got it set to automatically boot Google Music, so all I have to do is press play once the app loads. This means all it takes is a glance at the screen. I don't want to have to be flipping though menus while driving. It's also nice that I can easier search within the app... that's helpful with 60GB of music. I wish I knew someone with an ipod I could borrow so I could see how it would work out.
[Android General] coreyzw:
Been holding back on my longer term review... but here goes...

All in all.. the device is very unstable. It has hardware issues like the weak AM/FM Tuner which means reception is garbage unless you have an already amplified antenna. THe GPS unit has failed on MANY of the users (check the official forums and I am included). Software is very buggy and updates are slow. Customer service is really crap and they essentially look at it as they sold you something, have your money and no longer care.

On the plus side, the features that work... work well and are very nice to have. I wish WISH wish the hardware was more robust, the OS was newer and the hardware itself was working correctly. There are so many good things that were going for this unit and I was soooooo happy to try it out... but now it has me thinking of other options and throwing this one in the garbage.

So anyone on the fence? Dont bother... wait for version 2 perhaps?
[Android General] abstraction21:
I have this unit and I have a GS3 and it's an obvious power difference and screen quality difference but overall I'm still happy with it after I rooted it and installed play store. It does most of what you need it to do if you know how to work around some of the issues. Like installing Google maps has to be done from an APK. One thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't continue where the song leaves off and I have to reattach it and usb tether from my phone and pick a song everytime I get in my car. If you listen to FM radio, that shouldn't be much of an issue though. I'm planning on keeping it until a newer version comes out.
[Android General] Viper87227:
That just means wait for the Chinese :P

I was actually really contemplating getting one of the android head units on ebay, but decided to go for the Parrot instead simply for the sake of having an actual brand and resources for my first time installing a stereo like this. But there are a few on ebay that are probably better. (A few with 1Ghz cpu's, a few with ICS, all of them are (mostly) stock android and have hard buttons).

I'm going to be keeping an eye on if the Chinese come out further updated model. If one ever pops up sporting a dual-core or better CPU and at least 1GB of ram, i'll probably buy it sight-unseen and hope for the best :D
[Android General] Apex i ITR:
Anyone able to get the latest version of Google maps installed? I tried downloading the apk and installing it but the site I downloaded from both links gave me a error parsing the package. I'm hoping it was just coincidence and not by design.
[Android General] Bikegeek:
I believe you need 4.1 or higher for that version of maps.
[Android General] Apex i ITR:
Darn it. Thanks
[Android General] Happy Grumpz:
Track selection is perfect, either by track, artist, album, genre etc... And yes it does remember what track you were listening to, actually I think that's more down to the iPod.
[Android General] mackeystingray:
Same sentiments. I usually run torque and music at the same time. Usually the tuner hangs up and disables bt which then requires a reset. Obd2 bt is spotty at best and it's not the dongle as it connects to my s2 and s3 immediately.

GPS works for me and no issues finding signal but I rarely use it since I have to tether for data.

It's a good thought but I'd still consider this a beta they're selling. Hindsight being what it is, I'd probably gotten the cheaper Chinese ver.
[Android General] danger355:
What was meant by the release note below then?
[Android General] sonicdarack:
Hey Guys,

very happy with my Smart...

Even got an connection running to my Satellite receiver were i can stream all my tv channels now to my Smart ;)

Which brings me to a question,

I want to run the Connection through LTE (4G) I live in Germany and i am using Vodafone as my provider.

Anyone can tell me which Stick i can use with the smart?

I Have tried:

Samsung LTE GT B3740 Vodafone

Vodafone K5005 LTE (Huawei E398)

None of the above will work... :(
[Android General] Joe333x:
Do you have a rooted android phone? You could always tether your phones Internet.