[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] kaween:
Choices, choices, it becomes harder with every read.

Hello guys. I need some honest advise because I can't make out the forest for the trees anymore.

And please understand, I'm not here to cause trouble or to troll. I really need some honest advise.

I foremost apologize for potentially contaminating this thread, be sure that is not my intention at all.

I've been reading up on this side of the forum since its creation, and what I saw was a bunch various people who were very happy with a device that is probably the strongest of the lot in terms of hardware on the current market.

I myself had bought an AN21-U, but out of pure interest I kept reading this thread too regularly.

My AN21-U died on me after just 4 weeks of troublefree use, and the original seller is sadly one of those sellers that will have nothing to do with you when you get into serious hardware troubles. So be it, no point in sobbing about that bad choice, time to move on.

But I want avoid a second bad choice. Hence I'm here asking for help.

Basically I dismissed the Huifei first time around because it would mean (a lot of) extra work to make it fit my dashboard as my clearance is not big enough, and the dashboard itself is PAINTED, so to widen that opening I would have to rework the dash, do a new paintjob on it .... the works. I had already done a 1din->2din conversion of my original dashboard 2 years ago as the car had no 2din slot originally, it was a pain to get it to look "factory made" but it turned out perfekt in the end.

The idea of having to destroy all that work to fit the Huifei ... nope, couldn't get myself to do it.

Now, suddenly the nice people at android-caraudio come up with a proposal to build a Huifei into a case with a smaller front, excluding that problem and permitting the choice to go with the Huifei to replace the broken Thongai.

I went into "happy happy" mode, and THEN I looked at this thread which I had ignored the last couple of weeks as my AN21 went to crap and I was trying to debug the situation.

Now I suddenly see all kinds of issues being reported. WTF happened ? I see issues gallore, unstable Wifi with version X, unstable radio with version Y, uncompatibility with BT ... Basically everything my AN21-U had no issues with (until it died. :rolleyes:). Also, a lot of the extra apps written for the Huifei's (Gala SDVC function, 3th party SWC function) have always worked on the AN21-U out-of-the-box. So maybe I'm still better of with a new Thongai as these kind of issues do not exist on that side of the forum.

I'm not going to ask "should I buy this Huifei unit" because that is my decission alone.

What I will ask is, are there people here who if they had known they would face issue X or Y with their Huifei, and had known that another, somewhat weaker android 4 Unit would NOT have those issues, now say:"If I had known about this, I would not have bought this device" ?

No need to elaborate if you don't feel like it, just a simple yes or no is good enough, but if your answer is "no", please indiciate "why not" in a couple of words. If you don't want to mess up this nice thread with this basically off-topic question, just send me a personal message.

Thank you all who're willing to help me out with my decission.

Best wishes to you all.