[Android Head-Units] gyaku_setsu:
Well, I finally got my all-touch VW-model-specific unit today and I LOVE IT. It looks incredible in my car, runs super smoothly, physical installation was a breeze—literally took me 15 minutes with the included harnesses and such, even with weird extra USB hookups and aux input adapters and taking my dashboard apart. Everything just sorta worked, which really surprised me. The 8" screen is amazing. Really, can't find much to complain about.... except...

Root. Tried the method outlined in the wiki with the provided app. Got to the point where it acts all slow and you should be able to delete the local.prop file in the terminal emulator, but the app apparently never really rooted the unit. Had to run a factory reset, which was annoying (mainly because I had already started installing apps on the unit) to get it running smoothly again. Anyone have any suggestions?

The remote does nothing. No functionality at all... I would never have used it anyway, but I like for things to be as advertized. Definitely complaining to the seller about this one. The wiring diagram has an IR hookup, but there are no actual cables for it in any of the harnesses. Probably need that to make the remote work.

Steering wheel controls are interesting. 7/8 work perfectly right out of the box. My "phone answer" doesn't do anything and I can't seem to reassign it no matter what I do. The manual says CAN buttons can't be reassigned for some reason, so I'm probably SoL. The CAN interface is pretty nice, though... shows when a door or the trunk is open, shows HVAC information. Honestly integrates better than my old factory stereo.

bezel buttons are finicky and could use a sensitivity adjustment. I find myself pressing them 3-4 times with different fingers before they work

Boot animation is meh (see my first note about root for why I haven't changed it).

Built-in microphone sucks. Can't even get OK GOOGLE to work. I would be surprised if people can hear me at all on phonecalls. Going to contact the seller to see if they offer an external microphone interface.

Bluetooth A2DP quality is TERRIBLE. Glad I'll never use it.

But yeah, everything else seems to function correctly out of the box. It does seem to think there is a DVD drive in there somewhere (even though there isn't an app for it...). I even noticed that you can make it so that the unit doesn't go to cold boot for up to 3 hours after the keys are removed from the car. Should be nice for running errands. I do wish there was some sort of event that happened when the unit powers down like that so I could program Tasker to pause music playback and resume it when the unit wakes back up. Anyone have any ideas? Bluetooth obviously isn't part of the android system, so I'm not sure what major event might happen during sleep mode that could act as a trigger. EDIT: Figured it out. Wifi state. I have a mobie hotspot that shuts off when my car is off, so that does it. :)

Here are the specific specs of this unit from the settings menu:

Cortex A9 Dual Core CPU

1GB DDR3 RAM

Android Version 4.2.2

MCU Version 4.3.5-1-10-2101

System Version 2.7.38

I made an unboxing video for this unit:

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Also made a video going over the features a little too:

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