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[Android General] donaldta:
I just wanted to clear something up since some of the users might be spinning their wheels trying to find something that cannot exist. That is a weather app which gets its updates solely through the GPS antenna. You'll never find it because that's not how GPS works. The GPS data from the satellites that orbit our Earth ONLY provides the time and position of the individual satellites. Your device then calculates this data into longitude, latitude, and altitude information to provide other software with location information.

There have been some standalone GPS devices which provides weather information but as codertimt pointed out, that information is gathered from another source. In his example, Garmin had GPS Navigation hardware which gathered weather information via MS Direct. This was a 67.65 kHz subcarrier FM band leased by Microsoft which broadcasted data packets that would include traffic, sports, weather, stocks, news, movie times, and time at two minute intervals. However, this service was discontinued last year and remains to be non-functional in the respective devices today. Most of the other GPS devices these days either uses Sirus XM's WX data, cellular data, or internal barometer sensors to provide weather information.

So, unless someone creates a barometer add-on or a Sirus XM receiver for the Asteroid Smart, you'll have to get the weather updates either by WiFi or Cellular Data. It is impossible to get weather updates solely on the GPS antenna.
[Android General] vINyL3:
So i was able to install apk on it, if i understand it right, the apk can only be install from the SD, right?

Now i use apollo on my smartphone, and want to use it on the parrot. I install it, but appears that it can't get musics from my usb pen. There is any way to make apollo search the musics on the usb pen?

and about the videos, i place on video on my usb pen in mp4 format, but i can't run it. I open the video apk but them there is no option tio search for it =S
[Android General] Happy Grumpz:
You'll also need the wiring harness that plugs in between your existing stereo wiring and the Asteroid.
[Android General] donaldta:
I could be wrong but after looking up the CTASTEROIDLEAD made by Connects2. The description indicates, "Steering Wheel Head Unit Connection Lead. This head unit connection lead can be used with all of the Connects2 steering wheel control interface range". It would seem that one would require a www[dot]connects2.co.uk/ProductInformation.aspx?id=18580 Car Specific Steering Wheel Control Interfaces for Chevrolet Impala 2000-2012. Maybe a quick call to Connects2 might provide you with a more definitive answer.
[Android General] zamboniman87:
1. Has anyone been able to disable/remove the softbutton sidebar?

2. Has anyone thought about replacing the stock tuner app? With an app such as this for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikersmicros.fm_unlock&hl=en

I've been using Spotify (downloaded from the play store, not the Asteroid Market version), but it doesn't work well with the stock media player that includes the tuner, etc. I figure if there's a way to disable/remove the stock tuner and/or media player, then we can just switch between the tuner app and spotify app, etc.
[Android General] fito1971:
Thanks codertimt

You helped my a lot because I was looking at the wrong place, I think AppRadio fits my needs.
[Android General] zamboniman87:
Do some research before you purchase one. I came to this headunit from an AppRadio 2. There are lots of compatibility problems with Samsung phones and the MHL connection. Not sure what type of phone you have.
[Android General] Joe333x:
I actually had an issue with my parrot not working with the mhl connection on my note 2. This app works wonders.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.samsungusbmassstorageenabler
[Android General] Bikegeek:
Requires Android 4.0.3 and up ..............:crying:
[Android General] devoidx:
that FM tuner app looks butt ugly anyways
[Android General] jamieb122:
kernel and .config

All,

Not sure if any of the hardcore devs are interested in the kernel for the Smart. They have provided it on their website I can't post URL here because I am new...PM me if you want it

I have also managed to pull the .config off the running version of the kernel. Still waiting on compile :)

May be useful for some lower level stuff
[Android General] kawauso3:
this wonderful product!
[Android General] iSNin0:
For the guy looking for mirroring the Pioneer AppRadio will do just that, how well? now thats a whole other story specially if you're an android guy with a newer higher ended phone.

For the few talking about developing for the SMART but are afraid of bricking it, i remember reading how to unbrick it at the beginning of this thread, some guy followed the same steps to unbrick an Amazon tablet, something like rub your fingers up and down on startup and it will boot, look around the beginning of this thread page 8 or so i believe.

I've got mine rooted running the play store and using ADW launcher.

i've managed to get the Apps i wanted working, whether via PlayStore or via sideload,

The issues im experiencing is that

1. the SMART struggles from time to time to run them smoothly, but ofcourse this would be due to the hardware and processor, i must admit a 1000GHZ overclock kernel would definitely be interesting to see especially since this is usually an issue on smartphones due to battery, but we aint gotta worry about low battery, and an additional 200GHZ shouldnt fry the SMART

and

2.My other issue is that while streaming music on Pandora or IHeartRadio, the sound quality is ****, i did try downloading an EQ and sortof tweaking the settings a bit but idk it just sounds really bad, idk if its not playing from all speakers or the KBPS ratio is that low but man, its just unbearable, which is really a sad thing since i live in Miami and the Radio blows beyond imagination, so i opt for other sources of music streaming, and this is really killing me, i've tried doing Pandora and iHeartRadio from my phone thru the SMART thru either Bluetooth and the AUX but i've had no luck.

Any ideas fellow audiophiles? im not even an audiophile just give me constant 320KBPS streaming and im happy lol
[Android General] AL-d82:
New Firmware 2.1.2 ??

I just saw that on the USA and UK flag is showing version 2.1.2. Is this a new update? What has been improved? When it comes to other countries such as Germany out?

http://download.parrot.com/Asteroid...hier=Asteroid_Smart_update_M4.plf&product=80&version=2.1.2&langue=us
[Android General] PetersonX:
Google Playstore disapears after reboot.

Hi, thank you for this wonderful thread. Since I am new to Android - I learned a lot.

Received my Smart today. Rooted it and installed the old vending.apk market linked in this thread (Somewhere around Post 320).

Somehow it was impossible to get the in-app purchases I did on my (also new) Nexus 4 to be available in the Navigon app with that market version installed.

Thus I installed the latest Google 4.3 Playstore apk. Interesting that it actually launched and worked fine. After some fiddling I managed to have all Navigon in-app purchases installed and available. But... there is one strange thing:

The Play Store under applications disappears after every reboot of the Asteroid Smart. I have to install it again after turning of the device.

Is there anything I can do to make the installation persistent?

Thank you for your help.
[Android General] donaldta:
It is newer than 2.1.1. You can always go to Parrot Asteroid Smart support page and click on the release notes. There's are also previous versions listed on the same page.
[Android General] devoidx:
don't see anything worth upgrading to on that list....glad they completely ignored our feature requests on their forum
[Android General] K_Hismoom:
- GPS module firmware upgraded

That's something that could be worth upgrading.
[Android General] Taomyn:
Upgraded to 2.1.2

Did the update to 2.1.2 using a USB stick (I have no signal in our garage to do it OTA). It did as with 2.1.1 in upgrading the main unit then a second one for the GPS.

Lost root, which I suppose is expected but as I still had Framaroot installed that was easily fixed then re-ran SuperSU (its root protector doesn't appear to work for me).

Nearly everything seems to be still there, my bluetooth pairings, WiFi access point, full TomTom app (off Play) and other apps, although I did lose my tuner favourites - couldn't figure out where they were stored for a Titanium Backup to restore, so not too bothered as it's minor to me.

Definitely wasn't as bad as I thought it would be having prepped another SD card with all the apps to get root back etc.

Haven't noticed anything else so far as it hasn't been long and can't get back to the car just yet, so haven't tested Internet connectivity.
[Android General] sav_za:
Cool, sounds like the same experience upgrading to 2.1.1 - lost root but everything else still working 100% and simply re-rooted using Framaroot.
[Android General] Bikegeek:
For some reason the GPS indicator stays on all the time now.....
[Android General] sav_za:
I've done the update earlier but can't check the GPS because it's buried under the dash.
[Android General] Bikegeek:
I mean the one on the touch screen.
[Android General] larsocam:
Can't get Google Market Working

I really want to get the google play store working but for some reason I cannot. I followed the directions below but whenever I try to move the Vendor.apk file it fails. I open Root Browser and can find it in the SD card, I hit copy, then when I hit paste into the system/apps folder it says failed to move. Is there some permission setting I am missing or something? Any help would be awesome since I am getting frustrated with this. Thanks
[Android General] PetersonX:
Had the same issue yesterday. I used the latest framearoot and the version of Root Browser from this thread does not seem to pick up rights from SuperU properly.

In the end I used NS FIle Explorer. Something like "Settings" _> Root-Explorer and mounted /system RW before pasting the market into apps.

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Is anybody actually using Navigon from Play Store?

First day actually using my Smart I had major issues with Navigon crashing a lot. Also saw some reboots.

Main issue is when switching between Anvigon and any other app (Spotify or Tuner). When switching back to Navigon, there is a 50/50 chance Navigon or the whole system crashes. I have a bunch of Navigon Add-Ons installed (Traffic Live , Live Alerts etc).

If anybody uses Navigon and it is stable - Any hint appreciated!
[Android General] kiswum:
Well this could also be something I think is worth the upgrade:
[Android General] K_Hismoom:
Sorry, can't give you any hint. I simply installed Navigon and downloaded the appopriate maps.

It just works on my device, but I don't have any Add-ons installed.

Do you have the latest firmware version on the Smart (2.1.1 or 2.1.2)?

As a last resort you could try a factory reset and reinstall everything step by step (probably beginning with Navigon after rooting) to see, if there's any app you have installed that's interfering with Navigon.
[Android General] kiswum:
Parrot Asteroid Smart Review

Yesterday I finished up a review about this Headunit.

There is one problem....

It is in Dutch, but I know a lot of Dutch readers wonder around on this forum :)

I haven't created a International version, it would take a lot of time to translate everything correctly.

If you don't understand it, then you would probably like the pictures or use the "translated" version.

http://tweakers.net/productreview/82014/parrot-asteroid-smart.html

Google translation from Dutch to English:

http://translate.google.com/transla...ew/82014/parrot-asteroid-smart.html&sandbox=1

I hope the topic starter will like this.

edit: I haven't posted more than 10 messages, you have to create the links yourself, because I don't have the correct rights at this moment ;)
[Android General] Taomyn:
For me too, but I think it's because I have one or two apps that use GPS in background - if it was a phone I'd be worried for the battery use, but not on the Parrot.

Also, seems for my upgrade I forgot to copy the system APKs to get Play Store working again d'oh! Need to dig out a file explorer again, not easy to so when driving so I'll have to do it later.
[Android General] kiswum:
May I suggest to use Total Commander? I used it in the good old DOS times and I'm using it on my Android devices nowadays.

You can get the .apk from the internet and (if you have a apk of the lan-addon) you can browse the root of your internal disk, the external SD card and it is compatible with your NAS/Lan shares.

Copy and paste is very easy because you use a split screen.

Good luck with your next file explorer!
[Android General] K_Hismoom:
Do you have AsteroidTweaker installed, by any chance? It has a feature for automatic volume adjustment, which constantly needs GPS to calculate your current speed.

Or maybe another app, that needs GPS to determine your position or speed?
[Android General] danger355:
Has anyone tried using any sort of USB hub with the Smart?

This may be a pipe dream, and is at the least a while off, but in addition to mounting a couple USB ports in some dummy panels in the dash, I was thinking of the possibility of having one or two accessible from the back seats too.

As of now, I simply have all the USB cables dangling into the front passenger floorboard :rolleyes:
[Android General] arshavir:
If anybody tested DVB-T/T2 USB dongle with Asteroid Smart, please post which one and how it was work. Thanks.
[Android General] nikkobenson:
Not sure if anyone answered this for you yet but I remember when I had the problem of things not being persistent between reboots I had to factory reset the Parrot and start over. That solved it for me. FYI, I have the latest google play store installed thanks to the instructions in this thread.

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So after reading 14 pages back (XDA, GIVE US A FORUM PLEASE!) I discovered that Google Maps is no longer compatible with Android 2.x.

Can someone please tell me the latest version of Google Maps that is compatible with our head unit? That way I can more easily find an APK online.

Thanks.
[Android General] Sirgeekalot:
Anything below the latest 7.x versions will work. Let me know if you get stuck. I can Rip the APK from the unit for you in the morn, but they're not hard to find on the intertubes..
[Android General] RigWig:
So I'm not too sure if this helps out at all but the guys working on the ar drone seem to have a tool to work with plf files.

https://projects.ardrone.org/boards/1/topics/show/2036 is mentioning a link to the download. I'm not all that great with dev work but I've been trying to atleast de-compile the plf updates to see whats in them in hopes of them being similar to a zip format for other android devices.
[Android General] nikkobenson:
Found it, thanks. 6.14.4 in case anyone else wants to know.
[Android General] Taomyn:
Many thanks, seems Total Commander was the only one that would work for me, and I tried 3 or 4 others.

Managed to copy over the two APKs I needed, changed their permissions then got Play Store working again and all is well with my unit.
[Android General] jamieb122:
iSin, I have the kernel code, and pulled the .config from the running kernel on the Asteroid SMART. I was also able to successfully compile it. Not sure how to get it into a flashable image, but I can send you an overclocked version if you are daring enough to try it :silly:
[Android General] PetersonX:
Thank you for the reply. Had 2.1.1 (since no German version of 2.1.2 seems available yet).

I tried 2.1.2 yesterday. Just installed Navigon so far w/o the add-ons.

Seems to run tad more stable, but I still get occasional Android restarts.

Can someone tell me where to find the crash logs?
[Android General] nikkobenson:
I have a hub in my car left over from my carpc days. I'll hook it up and test.
[Android General] N715DP:
6.14.4 seems to work well... with the exception of the spoken directions, they are very low when listening to my ipod as well. The ipod music dims down but you can still barely hear the spoken directions. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, there's no TTS.

For the stock iGo app, does anyone have TTS? I don't have any TTS voices available to choose from.
[Android General] Sirgeekalot:
i have done the same, what we really need to do is figure out how we can flash CWM recovery to the unit, but this will remove the ability to flash the PLF files. Basically, if it goes wrong, you've got a very expensive Door Stop.

i think the first Step is to deconstruct the PLF files. i know they'll have at least for seperate img within them.

1. The bootLoader

2. the boot img

3. system

4. data

there are several others in the system as well but these main ones are what we should be concerned with understanding.

i have tried to find similar systems running CM, the Motorola DEFY uses the Same Mainboard but i want to find a system that uses the same boot structure..
[Android General] loveshackdave:
Some work has been done to extract plf files by AR Drone hobbyists. Here is the code: https://code.google.com/p/ardrone-tool/. I've also compiled and attached the plftool application. I've successfully used this to extract the asteroid smart firmware using plftool.exe -e raw -i Asteroid_Smart_Update.plf -o OutputDir. I'm not sure what I'm looking at now though, there is what looks to be a bootloader and a bunch of unkown files. Perhaps someone with more Android developer experience can make more sense of it.
[Android General] jaanusj:
Navigation bar

Greetings to all asteroid users,

Just bought the asteroid tablet version - basically it has the same omap cpu and same android but no radio and camera functions. I like the device very much and mostly because it is designed as car a audio device - DAC quality is ok and no distortion from car power supply.

I have rooted it and now I have some questions:)

Is there a chance that we can hide the navigation bar when it is not used? I know that from android 4.0 onward it is possible but we have 2.3.7...

Second question is about launcher - I would like to have a launcher which looks like Volvo sensus connected touch - basically one large icon per page. The Sensus connected touch is also parrot device and uses plf files - maybe there is a chance to decompile sensus plf and get the launcher settings and icons from there?

Currently I am using Sygic as navigation app - is there a Navigon version available which works without google play? I know that it is easy to install play store but at the moment i would like to avoid it and load the apps via system installer.
[Android General] Jinster:
If you use the ADW launcher, it would allow you to hide the navigation bar. It would also allow you to enlarge icons (paid version) and change how many rows/columns you have so you can achieve your own layout. Don't know about Navigon. I use Google Maps, Waze, and other cheaper alternatives.

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Has anyone tried running a 2.5 inch USB HDD off one of the USB ports on the Asteroid Smart?

The lastest version of AsteroidTweaker allows easy mapping of the USB drive for MX Player. So it might be time to see if one can have an entire video collection at disposal on the Asteroid.
[Android General] nikkobenson:
I have a usb drive in my glove compartment. I use bubble upnp and mx player to watch videos. I use the shortcut trick somewhere in this thread to allow bubble to see the external hard drive.

Finally, I use bubble instead of mx player directly because it sllpws me to use my phone as a remote control.
[Android General] kiswum:
You're welcome, Total Commander is one of the first apps I install on every Android device I use. Copying files is so much easier with that app. With the plugins you can even connect use FTP or Lan when you are in the range of your router.

Getting the playstore ready is something I want to do later on.
[Android General] Taomyn:
Can someone advise me on the iPod port?

When I had the unit fitted I had one normal USB cable routed to under the Smart where I had my old USB cable from the previous head unit. The installer asked me about the iPod one and I said that even though I don't own any crApple products (yes a hater here :p) I might as well have it put in rather than later. So it was routed to inside the glove box.

Now I'm wondering if I can use it for anything else. Can I attach an external hard drive to it now that I have used Asteroid Tweaker to map the USB drives to the main file system? I'm hoping the extra power will help with using a hard drive as often normal USB ports won't be enough.
[Android General] RigWig:
I have plugged USB drives as well as an actual keyboard into that port so yes, it it just a regular usb port with some extra juice to charge an IPod or iPhone (or any device for that matter)
[Android General] Sirgeekalot:
that app was deisgned specifically for the ARDrone which wont have the same System Structure in their PLF files. Luckily the Dev who built PLFTool also developed a lib to use with PLF files. Hopefully we can use this to extract the Asteroid PLF files into their seperate images.

once these have been extracted it should be possible to build a flashable ZIP with the right file structure allowing us to use a custom Recovery like CWM or TWRP.
[Android General] loveshackdave:
You should really take a closer look at it. I think it's closer to what we need than you realize. It was able to extract the zimage, initrd, bootparams.txt for both the mainboot and installer plf files. It was also able to extract the bootloader.bin file. Unfortunately I'm just not familiar enough with linux file systems to be at all useful with this. I'm going to try converting this code to a csharp project because I am more familiar with the language and development environment. I will post the code here if I come up with anything useful. There is a volume_config file that was extracted from the plf. It appears to have image and file structure infomation in it, though I'm not sure exactly what to make of it.

EDIT: It looks like each file that is extracted with the apktool has a file header that lists the filename and full path followed by a termination string (0x00A481) then 10 bytes of white space (!?) then the file data. I was able to extract a working iGO.apk file from the .plf file by stripping the header from the extracted file.
[Android General] danger355:
I like where this is going
[Android General] Sirgeekalot:
I must be using a different tool from you? i have a linux version and all it does is extract the system folder to a tmp Directory. i'm doing my dev on an HP cloud VM. i've got a windows laptop from work knocking about though so i'll have a shufty at the w32 version and see what it gives me.

and are you talking about PLFtool or APKtool?
[Android General] loveshackdave:
Yeah, I'm talking about the plftool. Sorry, I called it apktool above. You have to compile it yourself or use the one I posted. It's not the installer extractor that is compiled and posted on their site. I've got a mostly working version for csharp now. I'll post it when I get the last few things worked out.
[Android General] jamieb122:
We REALLY need to get our own section in the forum, or go somewhere else....I think we could do some major work on this.

I know I have already compiled a kernel that should work for the smart (using the running .config that works on the 2.0.1 builds).

If we can build a PLF to flash with this firmware, we can make lots of changes.

That being said, it is also the beginning to being able to port the OMAP3630 ICS kernel from TI so we can get ICS on this thing...

Any thoughts or am I talking out of my ass here?
[Android General] danger355:
I put another post here requesting a forum of our own for this thing.

A quick search showed only 10 requests before mine - some may have been for Parrot devices in general.

Couldn't hurt to toss a few more votes in the hat ;)