[Nexus 7 (2013) General] BurningCanine:
Hello all, I am new to this forum. I brought my thread over here because on the forums I post on normally for my car they seem to have 0 interest in the subject. My goal is to receive help from you guys, as well as maybe help any of you out! So to start off with a little history of the car. The car is a 2004 Mustang with non-mach stereo. I Currently have a single din radio and 2 amps (1 for door speakers, other for 2 12" subs), and all upgraded speakers and wiring. I have always wanted a touch screen radio and navigation, so that i did not have to use my phone the whole time while driving. I was looking into pioneers and alpine double dins, but for the features i wanted i couldn't justify spending 1200 bucks. So that left me at the same place i started at. I started browsing tablet installs when i discovered one of the guys i follow on instagram put a Ipad Mini into his dash. This really got me thinking about what i could do, so after about 6 months of juggling the idea, and doing some heavy research about which tablet to use and which Roms were best for in-car installation i found the Nexus 7. And that Triggered this build, which i will regularly update as the build goes on.

So to start off this is the list of stuff that i will need or have acquired, acquired is marked with blue, and will also have the price and total at the end. Items that have unknown prices are ones that i have not decided what to get or cant find what i want.

Need/Have:

- Nexus 7 2013 (32gb) (115.00 - Staples)

- Timurs Rom (28.94 - Donation)

- Clarion EQS746 (54.49 - Amazon)

- Behringer UCA202 USB DAC (29.99 - Amazon)

- 2X DC-DC Converter Module 12V To 5V 3A 15W Double USB Output Power Adapter (11.99 Ebay)

- USB Hub - Powered (unknown)

- Back-Up Camera (16.87 - Ebay)

- Easy Cap (Unknown)

- FM transmitter (Unknown)

- PlexiGlass (21.99 - Lowes)

- RCA Cables (6.99 - Radioshack)

- Right Angle OTG Cable Adapter (4.99 - Amazon)

- OTG Cable with Power (3.99 - Amazon)

- Micro USB to USB (6.98 - Amazon) Need this to connect the right angle to the OTG cable

- Metra 95-5026 Double DIN Installation Kit (9.29 - Amazon) Need this for parts of the mounting method

- Metra 70-5520 Wiring Harness (4.49 - Amazon) This is to connect power

- Hard Snap on Case (4.29 - Amazon) Part of Mounting Method

Total Price: $320.20

This list is for stuff previous to nexus 7 install/as well as some apps for in dash installation:

Hifonics Hfi1000.1d (129.99 - Amazon)

Hifonics ZRX600.4 (93.00 - Amazon)

LI12D4 - Incriminator Audio 12" x 2 (508.00 - Amazon)

Beautiful Widgets Pro (3.63 - Play Store)

Tasker (2.99 - Play Store)

Nova Launcher Prime (4.00 - Play Store)

GMD Auto Hide Pro (2.49 - Play Store)

Total Price: $744.10 - Most of this is tied up up in speakers/amps.

I chose Timurs rom because of the dedicated support forums, and the amount of followers behind the build, This rom allows for fixed installation, which is most likely what ill be doing. It enables OTG so i can hook up a USB hub to it, and have access to back up camera, music storage, and also play audio through the DAC.

As far as mounting method for the tablet will be doing away with the radio completely and putting the tablet in its place like so (Imagine it behind the bezel lol)

For mounting I stumbled upon different ways that people have accomplished and didnt like any of them, most of them stayed out of the bezel, and the ones that were in the bezel were fixed and was not easy to remove.... then i found this build, i loved the idea of having it fixed, but then again easily removable if need be!

Subaru In-Car Install - Mounting

So that is when i started to build this!

It is pretty messy looking right now, but i will be painting it black so that it will blend with the case, and look like it is meant to be their.

I have a bunch of parts coming in the mail this week, that is the only thing that is holding up the In-Car process of the build.

I had a bunch of free time yesterday so i decided to start working on the UI for the tablet. I found a build that someone had done in a BMW that i really liked, and they even posted their PSD file for it. I began Chopping it to meet my own personal needs and build, and came up with this!

On the Tablet side, i just used it as a background and created invisible widgets that were placed onto the "Icon" and directly linked to the corresponding app. After i got all of that worked out, and added some widgets to the screen and removed the navigation bad i decided to work with tasker a little bit. I wanted the device to stimulate when power is off to key, and when power is on to key. So i created two different profiles and added task to each, they are as follows.

Power ON:

Airplane Mode - Disabled

Display Timeout - 23hrs

Display Brightness - 158

Popup - Welcome Back

Media Volume - Level 14 of 15

Bluetooth - ON

GPS - On

Wifi - On

Auto Sync - On

Power OFF:

Popup - Booting into Low Power Mode

Display Timeout - 15s

Wait 10s

Bluetooth - Off

Auto-Sync - Off

Wifi - Off

Music - Stop

Airplane Mode - On

TaskKill - Chrome/Maps/Pandora/Spotify/PowerAmp

Go Home

Some Video Action

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I will update this regularly, if you have any questions comments or anything else please post below in fact i encourage it!

Also i am looking for ideas to install a Female input AUX into my Center Console for a factory look into the EQ, anyone know how?