[Android Head-Units] Karmacom:
Nope. The thing is, sometimes my unit boots faster, sometimes a bit slower, ranging from 10-30 seconds, and it all seems by random more or less.

You won't get much more bootspeed from the S150 by disabling bootanimation unless you put in a bootanimation that is 20-30MB, but thats not the case with the inbuilt "Android" animation which is just a single very small picture and then system/bin/bootanimation has some GPU-effects it runs on top of it in realtime rendering.

The car-logo-collection of animations im putting out V2 of tomorrow goes the same, the zips are between 500kb -> 2mb, not large at all and wont consume much from the boot-efficiency.

Also, I have frozen/disabled/uninstalled alot of native apps, which makes my unit faster and more responsive, I've disabled the native launcher and swapped it with Nova launcher which IMO is alot faster and responsive, but again, none of these things gives me any faster boot, just a faster system in general, but boottime is the same.

I've had units/tabs/phones where disabling the bootanimation has shaved of 7-8 seconds from the boottime, but this is not the case with the S150 (atleast not my unit).

I also did some disabling of some services regarding wincaservice. I'm not sure what I really did, but I managed to get it to not autostart any of the native apps at boot, like radio/dvd and the chosen NAVI-app. It will still play the sound from the last used device (ex. radio) since thats controlled by the MCU, not by the app controlling it, but all the buttons and everything works fine, it just doesnt autostart e.x. the NAVI/radio app, meaning what I see always when starting now is the home-screen. Then if I want some of it to start automatically, I use "NO ROOT Auto Start <- Google playstore) which then allows me to set up a delay for the start of whatever I want to have at startup.

I will check out tomorrow what exactly I did to get it that way. Booting to the home-screen suits me much better, then I can always hit the steering wheel buttons or hardware buttons on unit (or icons on homescreen) if I want to start NAVI, RADIO etc). Gives me much more control.

One thing for sure is that since this is possible to do, without renaming the apks (and then loosing the ability to start the apps / use the hardware buttons) then that means it should be easy for the developers to actually make that a user-choice (without having to dig into ROM toolbox to disable sub-services of wincaservice etc.)

The thing about S150 is that the "Internal Memory" is at best slow to mount, they probarbly have some cheap slow memory used for it, or maybe even an actual sdcard on the motherboard, but it mounts slowly, sometimes too slow for some of the apps (especially NAVI apps), meaning the NAVI app start sometimes before Internal Memory is finished mounting, resulting in the NAVI app thinking it has no configuration, making it fall back to default setup, loosing your settings (Sygic in my case) which is very annoying.

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Does your HDD show up in Settings -> Storage? Does it turn up as a device in your filemanager? (ex FSexplorer, Solid Explorer, Root browser etc).

Not all USB sticks / HDDs are supported afaik.