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[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] agentdr8:
I have Waze set as my GPS app and don't have an issue with background music or radio. Maybe try changing the option in Waze under Sound...something like play sound through phone speaker. If it's on, try it off, if off, try it on.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] pants001:
Im wanting to update my loading image. It seems ok setting a custom static image (jpg) but how do i go about an animated gif.

I really want to use this one

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-...00-h800/poteau_1_carte_by_turst67-d6t4oyv.gif
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] ga!nusha:
I feel you. I have set waze as default navi app. Thing is, that randomly, it takes all sound. Music is being muted, either it being radio, music player, jet audio or spotify. It really bugs me.

I have a feeling that it is related to the order you launch the apps but as i use the car only a couple of times a week i haven't had time to test it.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] ga!nusha:
Here it is. Just replace the zip you have in mtc folder
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] mbarijfh:
new TomTom go mobile app - how to install map..

Hello,

does anybody use the new tomtom go mobile app ?

I have the following problem - In the new app, the Europe map is with 6.1 GB too large to install in the internal NAND memory, unfortunately tomtom does not offer the option to define the installation path, e.g. to the external sd-card.

In the forum, you find various threads how to move a map to the sd card, however these are for older tomtom versions and my main problem at this point is that I cannot even download the map, because tomtom tells me there is not enough memory....

Is there a way to mount the external sd-card as internal memory to overcome this problem ?

Thank you,

Best regards,

Michael
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] nrjdgn:
android 5 no news ?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
There was no news about 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 they just happened, so its a question of wait and see. I do know that both Kai Ge Le and Klyde have launches of quadcore RK3188 versions, scheduled for this month (apparently using exactly the same software), which suggests continued development of these headunits and may therefore also suggest Lollipop may be on the cards.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
I just had the weirdest crash. 2 times today. I have set Waze to use the phone speaker. Started to play music, switched back.to waze while music kept playing.

The music keeps playing while using Waze! Yay[emoji4]

After 10 minutes if driving. The whole unit locked up and made an incredible awful squeeking noise! And the screen faded to complete white. Very slowly.

I didn't know that the screen (or software) had 1 million shades of white.

These are serious crashes. After reboot. The unit could not bootup completely, it was almost finnished booting (I didn't touch anything) and crashed again! Aweful..

Is there a logfile somwhere I can check to see what's going on?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] leckig:
weird camera issue

Could anyone help identifying this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONpGx3EWVU&feature=youtu.be

At times the camera works fine, but more and more I get the above problem.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Siffion:
I'd be checking the power to the camera 1st
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] jimsiv:
Try to connect your camera's (-) ground to a better place. I had a similar problem and I connected the (-) of the camera to the (-) of my cigarette lighter
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] saidak:
Hi All,

I have been following this thread for a while now and have gone through all of its posts but could not find the answer although it could be that I was simply not reading it as I should, but here is my question.

Does anyone know who is the manufacturer of this unit (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Capa...LINE-2din-Car-DVD-GPS-Player/32241624324.html) online and attached image. The Aliexpress shop is Joying but there are others similar.

I was to contact the manufacturer to ask for a quote.

thanks

Edit: I think they are Pumpkin units but if Pumpkin is the manufacturer http://www.autopumpkin.com/pumpkin-...-3g-wifi-canbus-7-color-buttons-1024-600.html. But why are their prices so much more then the resellers, in my experience the manufacturer is able to give a bigger discount, case & proof Winlink

Edit2: is Pumpkin the only manufacturer or are there others? if others then please give me some names/contact details

thanks
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Karanso:
Can you spend modify System UI without Moon Symbol left side
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Malaysk:
Without Moon Symbol
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Seems like some sort of loose connection or something, have you checked all the wires ?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Karanso:
SUpERMaN :good::good::good::laugh:
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
There is no such thing as a "Pumpkin unit", Pumpkin are just re-sellers and they sell several types.

The unit is a JY or Joyous unit and they have been mentioned quite a bit in this thread, so youve definitely not been reading it "as you should" :)

A simple search of the Android units for sale on Aliexpress will reveal that there are several sellers of them on Aliexpress, including Joyous themselves - Joying are not the only ones selling them, have you not been reading Aliexpress "as you should" either ? ! :)
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Siffion:
Hi. Does anyone know an image that has Google voice search installed.

I Appreciate that I could download all and try however I'd thought I'd ask 1st.

What I'm finding is that if I install Google app from the play store, I receive errors on using.

There was an image I used before that had this and seemed to work fine

Cheers in advance
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] matekhr:
Can you remove the power symbol from the right side, too? :)

Thanks in advance.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] saidak:
Thanks for that.

you might be right that Joyous is the name, I actually read that but the issue is that they do not have that specific unit on their site which I believe is www.szjoyous.com!

They do however have it on their aliexpress shop http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...VD-Player-for-VW-with/710192_32250135866.html but as many companies have similar names on aliexpress I am not even sure it is their shop!

in any case, I'll keep on digging and reading :)
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Malaysk:
The latest official firmware from KGL

___________________________________________

Deceived in build.prop written

ro.build.id=JDQ39

ro.build.display.id=rk30sdk-eng 4.2.2 JDQ39 root.20150121.163912 test-keys

android 4.2.2 2015.01.21

damn.......:crying:
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] dcervi:
[MENTION=3590033]Malaysk[/MENTION] Is this latest KGL firmware for 800x480 or 1024x600 units?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Sorry to sound arrogant, but I AM right - Joyous IS the name, theres no might about it. The Aliexpress site you mention IS their site and its the only one with that EXACT name, the others have similar names (probably on purpose), but not the same name.

The companies that manufacture these units all have very, very slow and outdated Chinese sites, that rarely have have all their models on, its best to look at their Alibaba or Aliexpress sites as they have their full range on those sites and they load much, much faster.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
is anybody going to help me with my crashes? (or at least give it a try)

i read that firmwares are inter exchangeable, MCUs are not

i have a 1024 x 600 screen

is it ok to flash another firmware (other than KLD) and flash KLD-MCU afterwards?

i need to find a more stable firmware.

please anybody help
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Malaysk:
Radio in blue tones, from the firmware of 10 March 2015 for KYD, remade under all resolutions dpi.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] jkchr1s:
Since I miss my satellite radio, I have been working on a little project... first off, the interface is horrid and I'm far from finished, but I created an application that scrapes http://www.dogstarradio.com to get what's played on satellite radio the previous day, looks the song up in Spotify, and adds the tracks to a Spotify (Premium) playlist. (Spotify Premium is required for the required web APIs). The user interface is pretty much nonexistent at the moment, but the "sync" functionality is fully working.

https://github.com/jkchr1s/spotirius-android

I'm still working on making a sync service that runs in the background. Right now, it lets you add a channel, then go to the menu and hit "Sync" to push the tracks it finds to a playlist.

I'll post an APK once it gets more finalized, but I thought I'd share for those who want to play with it.

:)
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Marius B:
Hi guys !

Klyde tell me that exist and quad core model with 16gb memory.

Is ok this model . Exist rom changed for this model ?

Resolution is 800 x480 . Is ok ?!?

What to do ? What model to buy dual core or quad core ?

Thanks !
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] dougie175:
I know this will have already be covered somewhere, but I have tried searching and couldn't find the actual answer

Looking for a cheap camera to attach to my rear view mirror to use as a dash cam, but not sure what type I require. Can it be done with a USB camera like a webcam or does it need to give an AV out, not sure which input the unit can use to record video from?

What have others fitted, looking for a budget option, but still needs to record at reasonable quality in case I ever need to use it as evidence or something!

I had a search through ebay, all of the dash cams come with built in screens and memory, but I think all I need is a small webcam?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Siffion:
I use a USB WebCam Dougie. I found that some worked some didn't. Actually have a spare one here that works
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] dougie175:
I am guessing from your signature you are in the UK, you wanting to sell it? If not what model have you found that works?

No interest in audio just after a decent picture and something small and discreet that I can hide away
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Siffion:
Pm. Sent
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] mbarijfh:
Thanks, I will try that !
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
i think the unit is faulty indeed.

i have flashed 3 different firmwares, they all work for some while. after 10 to 15 minutes system begins to fail.

and when it fails, even hard reboots cannot fix it. (it keeps rebooting for ever, also from recovery menu reboot)

it cannot even boot fully to first ready state.

i posted a youtube link to a little movie i made tonight:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4dW2KHpNp8[/YOUTUBE]

i'm trying 1 other firmware (JY) tomorrow. if that doesn't work i'm sending the unit back.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] radiov:
Because I don't have enough documentation to do that in this unit and spent a lot of time searching and trying to intercept CAN bus messages using this headunit, I quit . I am satisfied with Viper4Android results. Now I understand why this subject 'subwoofer' never goes ahead. V4A solves it! :p
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
I dont think they do, I think what they tell you (as I ve mentioned several times before and which you would know if youd read recent posts), is that a quad core RK3188 version will be out very soon, scheduled for April.

As it is not released yet we cant confirm and no ROMs exist, but I ve been told the software will be the same for the quad core as for other models (although the partitioning must be different for 16Gb ROM versions).

Again as it is not out yet we dont know for certain whether there will be 800x480 models as well as 1024x600 versions.

What to do ? Wait till the quad cores are released and get one, or wait until someone on here gets one and see what they think.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] leckig:
I just did - I could not find any bad connection. I set the ignition to ACC, switcher to Reverse to force the cam to work and I pulled and shook each wire I could access, not even once I got that "bad signal" problem this time.

However, I noticed that this becomes noticeably hot to touch after a few minutes of car running. The single black wire comes from the cam and splits into two - signal and power.

Something else I noticed: I disconnected the negative wire from the car body but the cam continued to work just fine.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Yes, I know, thats why I ve said Viper4Android solves it in several posts :p

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I wouldnt go disconnecting the earth, even if it does work fine without it connected !
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] jimsiv:
Mine too was getting hot and I changed the cable with the one that was in the box with my KLD. The cable that I had from the previous owner of the car was faulty.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] leckig:
Besides the cable getting hot, did you have any trouble related to it?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] jimsiv:
Also I had no signal when I was turning on my right turn light and reverse. The cause was because I connected the ground cable with the ground of my back taillight! Then I connect the ground cable with the ground of my cigarette lighter and problem solved.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] ga!nusha:
it is so difficult to follow all the information... i wish we had our own category on xda...
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Its not such much difficult, it can just take a bit of time, most people dont take much time to read the thread or use the thread search function to find what they want, they just ask the question and then expect regular contributors to use the thread search to find the answer for them - theyre too lazy basically, I m sure the thread would be about a 50% smaller if you took out all the multiple posts of the same or similar questions that could quite easily be answered in 30 seconds if theyd bothered to search the thread.

It would be good if we had an Android headunits section on XDA, but even if one was started tomorrow, someone would have to go through the entire thread and move bits of it into different sections, it would take weeks and weeks, so having an Android headunits section would actually make bugger all difference to us, unfortunately. Weve been asking for over a year and not one mod has even bothered to reply so its highly unlikely to happen, at least not before Android auto is released.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] echudoba:
I just got a RK3188 about a week ago. This is the one I have.

w w w.ebay.com/itm/Pure-Android-4-4-OS-6-2-Double-2Din-Car-Stereo-GPS-Radio-DVD-Quad-core-1-6GHz-/171724022939?hash=item27fb8ca49b&vxp=mtr

Boot up time 25-30 seconds (27 most of the time).

S07

MCU MTCB-KLD-V2.22 1/15/2015

4.4.4_18032015

3.0.36+root@chun-VM #10 Thu Mar 5

Rk3188-eng4.4.4 18032015

Armv7 1.6GHz (x4)

1024MB

Flash is 8GB

Issues that I have had so far:

1.	HU hangs up during boot up. The spinning android emblem just stops. When it hangs nothing works, back up camera goes dead and I have to do a reset (front pin hole). Since I have changed the way I start my car. I turn the key straight to start the engine or just on and wait until the hu has booted and then start the engine. See starting the engine drops the power to the IGN ON line which may be glitching the boot up of the radio. So far three days without any hang ups. I need more time to prove this, the weather is also warmer now. Car sits outside.

2.	Typical android voice (OK Google) causes Google app to stop working. Second try works does work. Next try doesn’t.

3.	Another issue I have noticed is the Wi-Fi gets in a mode where it won't connect if you try to connect too many times to a weak signal and then switch back to a strong one. If you drive around and see new signals it seems to come out of it. A reset will not fix it, you have to move around or wait until the next day. I was just trying to connect to my home wifi which is a -60 in my car (fair signal on hu) and is not reliable. It takes about a -40 to work (good on the hu). As long as I leave it alone and just let it connect to my phone hotspot works great.

4.	DVD player won’t play any US region 1. Will read a DVD that I have burned ok. Does not give me any error, just spins for about 30 sec and program quits.

5.	Hooked audio only to the Vidin input for use with an aux jack. Will not work unless a video signal is present. Any work around on this???

6.	Typical AM radio has less sensitivity than the factory unit. Still useable, just gets noisy and fades where the other one did not.

I’m waiting on the seller for an updated rur to try a firmware update. I am not sure the rom’s available now will work with this hu. Would like to get more resolution on the screen and may fix these and other issues.

Any insight or comments on these issues appreciated.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
I think i found the cause of unit's crashing.

it seems to be heat-related somehow.

last night, with all the testing i did, in the end i couln't even let it boot properly. i called it a day and went to bed.

this morning stpped into my car and turned it on.

it ran flawless for about 10..12 minutes. then it crashed again.

again, hard reboot didn't help anymore.

i took the unit out to check the temperature but couldn't feel much heated parts on the housing.

but there's one thing that i find odd:

on the back there is a fan-hole, but there is no fan mounted in it.

instead, the hole is covered with some black plastic or rubber i think.

i attached a pic of the fan-hole.

there is a warranty-seal on the housing. i think i can fix it by placing a fan inside, but willt it void my warrenty?

sending it back to china would take 4 weeks, having it fixed at the store will take a week or so, then sending it back to me will take another 4 weeks.

my best guess is it will take another 9 weeks if i send it back.

any thoughts?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
it looks like your unit has the same housing as mine. with the same issues as i have.

except yours is quadcore, mine is dualcore , they're both KLD.

i visited your ebay url and took a look at the pictures. yours looks exact the same as mine on the back.

somehow i'm glad i'm not the only one who has these horrible system-crashes.

i think it's all heating related. i'm figuring out how to solve it.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] echudoba:
I don't think these are the same. My hang ups are when I first turn on the hu (cold). Your's are after you use it and heats up. You can not recover until it cools down. Seems like components are getting too hot because of a hardware defect. My opinion.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
with all the respect, i think i got my 'Klyde' 1 week earlier than Echudoba did ;)
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
I dont follow you - Klyde make 2 versions, the dual core and the just released quad core, so what difference does it make when you got yours make ?

Unless youre saying that youve got a quad core ?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] DJCannonball:
sorry. you mentioned Echudoba being the first with 'Klyde' i didn't cath you ment first Klyde with a quad-core cpu.

mine is dual-core.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] echudoba:
Did you get 2Gb RAM and 1026x600 resolution ?

800 x 480, 1Gb RAM, 8Gb ROM

On heat issues, I ran this on a bench for a couple of days and did not notice any heating up. Back heat sync barely warm to the touch. In fact the whole hu felt very close to room temp. In a car with hot sun and no ventilation could be a issue. The dash did get very hot from the sun one day in a close car and I had no issues with the hu. The real hot days are yet to come.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] clearchris:
I wasnt going to say anything unless I had a problem, but it seems its happening for some units already. The last picture I saw of the inside of a KLD, I was actually impresed. There were tantalum capacitors (orange rectangles) on the board. When I opened mine, there were no tantalums, instead were some cheap electrolytic SMT caps with bad printing on top. Now this may have worked for a while with a fan, but I doubt this will work for long when it starts getting hot.

The good news is i think there is still a plug for the fan on the board. The bad news is that I dont think i can read all the printing on the caps.

What seller did you get yours from?

What you do depends on your skill level and what you think is actually wrong.

Here are some pics of the inside of my eonon kld. You can see the white 3 pin suspected fan plug and the caps with bad printing.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Yes, I checked the listing you posted and edited my post.

Klydes normally have a fan, DJCannonballs' does not and that maybe the cause of the overheating.

Overheating hasnt been reported before, but you are the first with a quadcore RK3188 unit - RK3188s are known to overheat more than RK3066s, although as I said, usually only when overclocked (and if the overheating is sorted with a fan/heatsink they run fine overclocked). No reason to suspect yours will overheat and DJCannonball is the first with that (possible) problem, but out of interest, does yours have a fan in the housing ?

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Ah, so yours hasnt got a fan either ? Wonder when they stopped putting them in ?

Has yours overheated as well then ?

At least it should be easy to sort with a fan and a heatsink for good measure.

Mine has, I got it October.

IIRC KGLs never had a fan.

EDIT: checked where my fan is plugged in, pic attached - the socket you mention is for headphone jack audio in on my Klyde, [MENTION=2942402]echudoba[/MENTION], I notice yours does not have this, if the motherboard is the same (and it should be as the SoM is behind the screen on Klydes), then youd need to attach a lead here to get audio in via headphone jack.

I remember your concerns about burnt caps, but this is related to the processor on the SoM, not the caps.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] echudoba:
No fan, just black cardboard cover over the holes.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] CARRisma:
Have you received it yet? Does it work?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
I get the impression youre still worried about the whole booster thing ? !

Just buy an antenna booster, but avoid the cylindrical shaped power injectors.

Antenna boosters DO work, theyve been around for like 80 years or more !

Seriously mate, just get yourself a booster, even if if you were sent a power injector instead (unlikely now you know about them and that you dont need one) then you could just send it back (postage paid) for a refund cos its not as described.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] mrniceguy1437:
Hey guys, I got my Klyde unit a few weeks ago and this thread is full of tons of great info!

I wanted to share a new launcher released today called Automate. It's in beta atm but seems great for these units, especially if you're using google music and maps a lot. The app is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitspice.automate , you need to join to be at group to use it.. Feel free to also hop over to G+ to give input there since this is in early development.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Read my reply to clearchris's post about this and yourll see that I mentioned the audio in and edited his pic to show where the fan connector is, it isnt masked by the TV card, its actually to the right of it, it looks like it masks it because the wire loops underneath the TV card and then back out again :)

Ah, ok fair enough.

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Dead link, not found error, mistake in the url ?

You got a dual core or a quad core ?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Its on the previous page to this !! Lol

No writing on fan indicating power etc will edit post in a few mins - just removing the fan . . .

. . . 12v as expected, picture below:
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] typos1:
Yes, but its only page away !! :)

Pic added to previous post, gives voltage and ampage, no direction on it, but when someone fits one they can work that out if they cant tell from the pic. They can gauge the size from the fan housing on the back panel.