[Android Head-Units] kaween:
[MENTION=593319]ryhoo2[/MENTION] : what I meant with "other 3th party apps" in my situation was the use of PowerAmp instead of the skinned multimedia player that Chris R.R. so kindly provided. I prefer Poweramp as it can work together with the PowerAmp Toast program that shows you currently playing track info ontop of the active app (for example your Navi app). I've no alternatives for other software than that (sadly - as I would very much like an alternative radio APK that has a problemfree RadioText+ decoding). By rooting your device, you can solve certain problems with Poweramp (like its incapability to just start playing the most recent track after launching PA .... something you can solve with Tasker, LLama and such).

As for the Dashcommand app, never tried it. I've borrowed out my OBDII to a friend, I'll ask it back and see if I can get any life from it.

[MENTION=3957850]aroel1[/MENTION] : an mcu with code 4.3.10.1-612101 should be BC6. The BC6 can connect to a OBD BT without any additional BT module. Why exactly did you buy the addtion BT module ?

[MENTION=5605270]disc golfing[/MENTION] : 40~60 seconds ?? I've never seen an AN21 boot that slow. Mine boots up within 15 seconds flat. Sometimes a bit faster. Changing the firmware has never had that much impact on my unit. Odd. In fact, I'll never consider any unit with a higher boot time, as even 15 seconds is (from a neutral user pespective) barely acceptable. When I look at other units stating normal boot times of 30 seconds and more I wonder how people can cope with it. :) But if you have your unit since Kids52' times, I gather your one of the earliest users, so that might explain a lot as you're probably running a very, very early system version. Just out of curiosity, what is your system version number ?

The "saving grace" of this unit is its capability to let the user listen to the radio from the moment the unit is powered on. Most other units can not do this, so you'll have to wait till the thing is booted (which will cost you 30+ seconds on nearly all other units, bar a few exceptions or after seriously modifying the unit in question) to have ANY use of the unit, and it was one of the reasons why I chose the AN21 platform in the first place.

Updating the system is very easy : put it on the root of an sdcard, put it in your unit, start unit, go to "settings"->"general"->"system update".

Before you do that, make a screenshot of your current system and mcu info so that in case things would go south, you at least know what system and mcu are present NOW. In case of doubt, post that info here before flashing/upgrading your unit. And at the risk of repeating myself to death, do NOT update the mcu without valid reason, and even if you do, always make sure you can find the correct old version in the repository before updating the mcu in case you still would find the need to update the mcu.

[MENTION=6228162]Quincydog[/MENTION] : sadly, I've no info on this. However, I do not think the idea is to simply use a USB cam but a specific DVR-USB dashcam thing. (but I could be wrong).

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Can you give me an example of such an app that refuses to be moved ? I'll see if I can come up with a solution.

Frankly, I've no issues with the internal space, as I only have installed a very small number of apk's (Poweramp, LLama, Automate-it, Viper, Slingbox, Moviebox, and the odd game and some software I try and remove afterwards ...) but I can imagine that this might be an issue if you want to do more than that. On the other hand, none of my other droid-hardware has more than 1GB internal space, and I always was able to cope with it.

When I'm running into trouble with internal space on for example my phone, I use stuff like "move to sdcard" which is able to force quite a lot of unwilling software to run on other places than the internal storage. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ljmobile.move.app . However, to be truly useful, your unit needs to be rooted.