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[Android Head-Units] kwoodall:
Solved this myself. MTCDialer.apk ( https://github.com/f1xpl/MtcDialer ) will operate as a phone dialer on your head unit and redirect all calls through Bluetooth to your phone. On the head unit itself, I installed True Contacts (from the play store) and restored a .VCF backup of all my contacts. I then marked my favorites and told it to put selected contacts on the home screen (as icons).

So now I can dial via voice or a quick tap/confirm on an icon on my home screen.
[Android Head-Units] CadillacMike:
i am going to try this out, thanks for posting
[Android Head-Units] Andwat16:
Hi everyone. Is there an app out there when mobile is connected to android car head unit it can play music from mobile? Basically a media player and you can select to play through Bluetooth source? Thanks in advanced

Andy
[Android Head-Units] Norheim:
Tip on an app that you can select third,p apps you want to start at boot ?
[Android Head-Units] Andwat16:
I too am after getting my car launcher app to load first on boot up if anyone knows?

Total noob to all of this but acting like I do to the mrs haha
[Android Head-Units] montrey:
"Speeddial widget app" does it with any Dialer you prefer

Exactly! Using this for years on all my droid devices.

ScreenFilter allows you to go below "normal minimum" - perfect for me as i am very sensible with lights at night.

You won't be disappointed - feel free to ask if you don't find sth - it's got a ton of options ;)

Faster than my GPS activates and locks doesn't start my engine ;)

And a lot more than ANY music Player i know.

ES is 1 of my favourites as well because it comes with an inbuild FTP Server App for fast Transferring Stuff to ANY device.

And it's behaviour is what i like ;)

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Recommended:

Wifi Explorer to get the right parking lot at your favourite Diner/FastFood

RoboVPN To do stuff a little more "secure" while on Public Wifi's

Carly Only if you have MercedesBenz Car.
[Android Head-Units] KlaverBoer:
A couple of days ago i installed Favorite Contacts Widget Blur:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpsolutions.contacts

It works great. You can also implement that widget in Car Launcher Pro:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autolauncher.motorcar

I only have to press the Speed widget in Car Launcher and then press the contact i want to call.
[Android Head-Units] flipward:
I would also like something like this. My current bluetooth app that came pre-installed in my Android head unit is not that appealing. Also, whenever I play music via Spotify on my phone, the head unit does not display the music info on the screen.

Is there a bluetooth app that can do this? I hope someone can help me with this..

Thank you! ?
[Android Head-Units] Vampire_Dracula:
I use mainly:

- TuneIn for BBC World Service and more.

- Audible for my audiobooks,

- Google Play Music for my huge personal music collection stored for free on the cloud.

- Amazon Music.

- Google Maps, the main motivation for getting an Android HU.
[Android Head-Units] fleu:
Looking for this for ages. Love the car head unit. But this is something i haven't found yet. Using the unit as a Bluetooth speaker with no audio info and only skipping tracks is a disappointment.

Thanks in advance
[Android Head-Units] RogerClark:
Is anyone using Here WeGo (maps), with a GS Oreo unit? As I've got some strange problems where the turn by turn audio keeps breaking up.

I've tried changing the settings about whether the navigation app can mix or not etc, or whether the audio is "monitored", but nothing seems to make any difference.

Any ideas, whats going wrong.
[Android Head-Units] War-Rasta:
The thing is that's not the idea behind this stereo. The point of it is that you don't need to use your phone at all. If you want to use Spotify, Pandora, etc. just install it on the headunit and use it from there instead of streaming it from your phone via bluetooth. If you have mp3 files on your phone, copy them over to the head unit and play them from there (an SD card or a USB drive will work, or maybe connect the phone via USB and access it like a USB stick). That's where these stereos really shine. I see bluetooth streaming as a plan b for when somebody else in the car wants to play something that's only available on their phone; everything else I do on the headunit.

To me the whole point of having an Android headunit is that I can have the same apps I have on my phone so I don't have to use bluetooth. I just have my phone automatically turn on the hotspot when it connects to the stereo via bluetooth and then the stereo connects to the hotspot so it has internet access. I only use bluetooth for calls and that's it.
[Android Head-Units] TBM2:
Do you mean the crackling in the sound with the voice guidance?

I have that as well on my Daisaita Oreo unit and have not been able to solve it (yet).

Pity really as I think Here We Go navigation is quite good but this issue is so annoying that I am thinking of switching to something else.
[Android Head-Units] RogerClark:
Yes.

The same thing happens on my Xtrons Oreo unit. (Perhaps the Xtrons asn your Daisaita unit are the same hardware. PX5 "GS" )

Edit.

I just tried installing HERE WeGo on a Android 7 (Lineage ROM), phone and it worked fine.

I'll try installing it on another phone, which has a Lineage Oreo ROM in it, and see if the issue is Oreo or the head unit.

I agree, its an excellent navigation app, and I really like the voice guidance, where it tells you to turn "Now!" , but the crackling / fading of the voice navigation half way though the audio is annoying and makes it harder to use, especially if the radio or other audio us playing at the same time.

BTW. I tried looking in the settings, and changed various things to do with the mixing of the navigation audio, but it didn't seem to make any difference.

But I cant remember if it worked when the settings caused all other audio to stop completely when the HERE WeGo app was run.

Edit 2.

I tried installing it on my phone running Oreo, and it crashes during startup.

I message appears briefly on the screen but fades away in about 1/2 sec, so that its impossible to read it :(

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to get in contact with the company who produce this software.

I checked out their "blog", twitter and FB and its all just corporate marketing stuff, rather than engaging with users.

But I guess as its free, with no ad's or in-app purchases, there's not a lot we can do.

Bug fixing by decompiling and recompiling would be virtually impossible, as is very difficult to know quite why its doing this strange thing.
[Android Head-Units] variosteph:
Download Google tts from store and use it instead of Here voice. Don't use pico tts. Maybe youll have to boost the Volume in tts Settings. Youll get clear voice in Navigation. Only downside on my unit is, that the Volume of Music isnt lowered any more...
[Android Head-Units] RogerClark:
Thanks.... I'll try that.

I wonder if the problem is an incompatibility between the TTS in the App and in Oreo.

Can anyone else test HERE WeGo on another Oreo device, that's not a head unit? As it doesn't work at all on my phone with an unofficial Oreo ROM in it
[Android Head-Units] variosteph:
Here is working great on my mate 10 pro... But againe with tts, no way to download other speech files.
[Android Head-Units] TBM2:
Unfortunately that doesn't help.

Installed Google TTS and made that the system default but in Here I don't have an option to specify Google TTS.

I have switched to Google Maps now which doesn't have the problem.
[Android Head-Units] variosteph:
In Here maps youll have to use voice natural (Don't know the Name in Englisch) which is google tts, not the downloaded one from Here maps
[Android Head-Units] TBM2:
I was already using the English natural voice setting and just tried a few other natural voice languages to see if that makes a difference.

Doesn't help.

Thanks for trying to help, though. :)
[Android Head-Units] variosteph:
Youre welcome, using natural voice did the Trick for me...

:confused:
[Android Head-Units] RogerClark:
I've tried all the voices that have "Natural" in their name, but they don't seem to be using TTS.

Perhaps its the option with "Street names" that I need to select, as I presume that the pre-recorded speech could not be able to announce street names unless it was using TTS ??

OK.

I can confirm on my Xtrons (Oreo PX5 GS) unit, that selecting the voice option, which includes the words "street names" (Its the first item in the list for me), that this switches to an external TTS app.

Initially the TTS didn's sound very good, so I checked the TTS settings and it was set by default to "Pico TTS" even though Google TTS is installed.

(note I thought I may need to install Google TTS, but it seems to have been installed already on my Xtrons unit)

Google TTS seems to be better than "Pico TTS". Its still not as good quality as the non-TTS voices, but at least it doesn't crackle. !

BTW. I on my phone there are a number of different options for Google TTS, including "Intonation" and an option to "Amplify speech", but these options don't seem to be available on my head unit, even though I checked and the latest Google TTS seems to be installed.

(though I will double check in case there is an update)

BTW.

I noticed that it seemed to take quite a long time to get a GPS fix, as the unit does not have an Internet connection, so I changed the Location settings, to only use the satellites, as this stops it waiting for the Internet to time out multiple times.

I think this speeds up the time to get a GPS fix, however it keeps nagging me to switch it back on (no doubt because Google wants to get my location data whenever possible)

PPS. I changed my Google account settings to try to stop Google collecting all my location data (GPS tracks etc), but I don't know how much attention Google really pay to the privacy settings.. Especially as it keeps nagging me now I have selected the GPS satellites only option, and its not attempting to use WiFi etc
[Android Head-Units] variosteph:
Yes Youre right, its the voice with Street namens, my fault...
[Android Head-Units] RogerClark:
No worries.

I hope this helps other people use Here WeGo maps as it works well apart from the problem with the voice guidance
[Android Head-Units] TBM2:
Thanks guys. :)

Unfortunately, my main language is not available as a voice with streetnames but English will do as well.

Google Maps messed up badly yesterday with three very weird navigation mistakes - which I didn't expect from Google tbh - so I rather use Here WeGo instead.

Here maps seem to be more up-to-date in my area as well. All recent road changes are there.
[Android Head-Units] RogerClark:
I did some more testing using Google TTS and it works reasonably well. However I noticed that the Speed and Pitch and other settings, for Google TTS in the main Settings app are ignored.

I presume that Here WeGo is specifying the settings for TTS, which is a shame as the TTS is perhaps a bit too fast and it would be good to enable the option to make the TTS louder (so its louder than any music that is playing)

As at the moment the TTS seems a lot quiter than the music :(
[Android Head-Units] pedromsouza:
Hi, I have a winca/aikon s170 that came with android 6. It has a standard widget with play/stop/forward and name of song being played but it's too small. It works with bluetooth, radio and any other audio source.

OR... I'm looking for a better a2dp (bluetooth) app.

What do you recommend?
[Android Head-Units] CaddyRAV4:
Hi. Do you have a howto on the Tasker? Or is it not needed anymore when the unit is set to autosleep? (Android 8.0, Dasaita PX5)

My favourites so far:

FCC launcher. (Some bugs, but the layout is pretty.)

Spotify for the playlists..

Poweramp / Mediamonkey for offline music. (Havent desided yet..)

Google Maps.

Also looking for another a2dp app... I mean.. Even my original HU could show more than the songtitle when playing from bluetooth.. And the original HU lacks pretty much everything..
[Android Head-Units] Rataba:
Anyone use a different reverse camera app that can allow adjustable grids?
[Android Head-Units] woozie.2007:
for radio: xiialive pro(i don't use analog radio)

for music: poweramp

for video: mx player pro

for navigation: igo nextgen and waze

for ads: adaway(root)

fx for file explore(root)
[Android Head-Units] Sim08u:
Has anyone found an alternative way to playing Spotify? The stock one that's available on the play store isn't really user friendly or appropriate for a head unit...
[Android Head-Units] mcwieger:
- Overlays to run widgets over other apps, showing a speedometer and music controls over every app I choose.

- Ubiquity Music Widget, the music controls mentioned above.

- Sygic for offline maps.

- Pulsar for music playback: probably most lightweight music player on Android. Poweramp caused the unit to overheat.

- DAB-Z for DAB radio.
[Android Head-Units] o0k00l:
speedometer < which widget app are you using for this?
[Android Head-Units] mcwieger:
Drivers widget: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.opbyte.odometerwidget&hl=nl
[Android Head-Units] The Android Attorney:
I think you have to change the dpi of your unit for Spotify to work well.
[Android Head-Units] cleverdicky:
Malaysk rom

Nova launcher

MXPlayer pro - simple, plays anything and everything, streams over bt.

Igo next-gen (Russel Crow voice) cant stand nagging female voice with attitude !

Anyone know what happend to tablet talk? was going to try it for sms messages but no longer in play store.
[Android Head-Units] :
You found anything mate? I want to change that aswell
[Android Head-Units] Fatmonk8:
Anyone find anything that will mirror SMS, and possibly a way to reply using Google assistant?
[Android Head-Units] toni___18:
hi , anyone says a music player works for idrive bmw button? thanks
[Android Head-Units] crank.head:
If I receive a location pin on whatsapp how do I send to my android head unit of car?
[Android Head-Units] War-Rasta:
What I usually do is open it in Google Maps on my phone and save it as one of my Starred Places. Then I open Google Maps on my headunit and look it up in there. I haven't found a more appropriate way to do it and I don't know if there's a way to do the same for Waze since I don't use it much, but If anybody has a better way feel free t share it.
[Android Head-Units] crank.head:
OK so what I do is I have downloaded messanger lite on Android head unit. When I receive a location I share it to messanger to my Frnd or a mock profile and open the link from head unit.
[Android Head-Units] garoto:
Pushbullet is a great app for this purpose
[Android Head-Units] icedroid:
Join works great for this as well as a pop-up for text messages
[Android Head-Units] nile13mx5:
I'm looking for a couple of things:

1. A simple widget for Radio, allowing me to change station from the widget on the Home screen (the one that Joying PX-5) came with is ugly and small)

2. An automatic way to switch to home screen on boot-up instead of default Radio screen. The radio should continue playing, however.

For point #2 above, would a Tasker or Automate do the trick?
[Android Head-Units] wooldogsinc:
1 Pulse

2 Google Go

3 Amazon Music

4 Torque

5 Sygic

6 PC Radio

7 Netflix Prime

8 Agama Launcher

9 Solid Explorer

10 Penrite

11 Google News

12 Magisk

13 Lucky Patcher

14 YouTube Vanced

15 Google Home

16 Plex

17 Dab Z

18 Network Manager

19 Advanced Task Scheduler

20 SwiftKey

21 Find my Device

22 Google Keep

23 YouTube Kids

24 Flight Radar
[Android Head-Units] dagosjt:
Try FCC Launcher, you shoud find everything you want, and it's highly configurable.
[Android Head-Units] nile13mx5:
There are a lot of configurable launchers. Can it do what I'm looking for, specifically? Also can it leave y interface alone and not change it? I like old school Windows look with separate icons on uncluttered background. Really don't need my screen to look "pretty".
[Android Head-Units] dagosjt:
Yes, to have a better idea go to the app thread here:

https://xdaforums.com/android-auto/android-head-units/fcc-car-launcher-official-thread-t3639659

I can confirm you can have the exact configuration you want:

- Your home screen can have only icons plus the FM Radio widget. You can resize icons, use an icon pack, etc. Have a look at some user skin in the thread.

- The auto switch to home screen you ask for (don't remember now if it's a paid feature)

- The multimedia widget can integrate different players if you want, not only the FM Radio.

- And much more...

Simply you need to spend just a little more time than other launchers because having a lot of options you need to dig more. Try the free version
[Android Head-Units] nile13mx5:
Thank you!

Any quick synapses on what the free version doesn't do? Or does it bug you with ads?
[Android Head-Units] dagosjt:
Hello,

there are no ADS, simply if you want the paid features you can buy the full version via in-app purchase.

From Play Store description:

== Free features ==

- Support for app shortcuts, widgets and multiple home screens!

- Launch Google Voice by pushing Speech button on steering wheel (Speech function should be mapped to the button using built-in FlyAudio settings).

- Speedometer in notification bar.

- Autoadjustment of volume depending on speed (free version have only one speed limit available - 40 km/h).

- Change of speedometer's color in app's main window depending on speed.

- Launching FM radio in background.

- Calculation of distance travelled and average speed during a day and showing it in notification (may be incorrect, still experimental)

- Ability to set the app as a default launcher

- Information about the track on main screen

- Ability to set wallpaper (including live wallpaper)

== Paid PREMIUM features ==

All free features, and:

- Autoplay last player after sleep (FM Radio, PowerAmp, Spotify, Google Music and Neutron are supported).

- Advanced customizations of the FCC Launcher's appearance.

- Ability to assign text names to FM stations in player widget.

- Ability to make phone calls via connected phone's SIM-card (by Bluetooth). You can use most of third party speed dialers as well.

- Make phone calls via connected phone by saying "Ok, Google, call [name]"

- Decrease volume during voice input when FM radio is playing.

- Autoadjustment of volume depending on speed - all 3 custom speed limits are available (you can set speed limits values and an amount of volume adjustment)

- Sound notifications when reaching certain speed limits (two different sounds for two limits)

- Double click action can be assigned to Speech button, including app launch or MODE function (cycle through 3 apps).
[Android Head-Units] nile13mx5:
Thank you very much!

Reading through this, I think these two below paid features are essential to me , though I car try and see. Do I understand correctly that if I listen to audiobook and shut the car down re-staring the car will not result in audiobook resuming, instead Radio would Autoplay? If that's not the case, what do them mean by feature 1?:

- Autoplay last player after sleep (FM Radio, PowerAmp, Spotify, Google Music and Neutron are supported).

- Ability to make phone calls via connected phone's SIM-card (by Bluetooth). You can use most of third party speed dialers as well.
[Android Head-Units] dagosjt:
It's just an option. If you want last player automatically resume after sleep, you can set it. If you don't pay for the full version you can't.

In your example, listening an audiobook, shut down the car, and restarting with Radio, should be enough the free feature:

- Launching FM radio in background.

However I suggest you to try the free version and to have a look at its thread. I can assure the developer is very very friendly, I had a direct contact with him (via email), and he is very active on app thread and continuosly improving the app, so if you need further help be confident you'll have
[Android Head-Units] TheGrayWolf81:
I use Twilight in order to save my eyes when driving at night.

I've configured it so that it automatically turns on when the sun goes down. It applies a blue light filter and also dims the display so that I'm not blinded by a bright screen at night.
[Android Head-Units] nile13mx5:
Interestingly, I tried to install FCC launcher today, downloaded from Google Play Store. Got errors after download when installing. Twice. Any idea as to why?
[Android Head-Units] jrobbom5:
What were the errors?
[Android Head-Units] Sedhadi:
Hi

Every time I turn on my car with FCC as default launcher, radio starts playing despite unchecking the respective box in settings. Any idea how to fix it?
[Android Head-Units] Sedhadi:
I'm looking for a real-time tracking app so that I can locate my car (using my android phone) in case it's stolen (God forbid).

I tried out a bunch of apps and so far, Family Locator has been the closest to my requirement. However, its real-time tracking feature doesn't work and it updates the location in intervals of 10 minutes.

Any app suggestion?
[Android Head-Units] Sedhadi:
Any other launcher suggestions?
[Android Head-Units] I'mRonBurgandy?:
I like car launcher. It is similar to fcc launcher and looks great. It has a few less options than fcc and still works excellent.
[Android Head-Units] ahmed125448:
hi i need help , can anyone upload or give me like contains all applicàtions of androud head unit ,bcz i lost all after factory reset
[Android Head-Units] ByronMcDuffy7:
Strange times. My Atoto S8 Standard is cutting out when playing mp3's using the player. It then drops back to the opening screen a picks up the song again. Sometimes in the opening screen player, it drops out for a few seconds and then starts playing again. Overheating? CPU Overload? Any suggestions?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jhego:
I upgraded to Black Shadow and the ringtones that came with it seems reasonably loud. But when i import mp3 or wav files to the "My Ringtones" folder, it's barely audible. IS there a way to increase the volume? I miss most of my calls due to low ringtone volume so i have no choice but to use the one that comes with it. Note* My volume is already in max and when i was using WM5, the volume bar was only halfway and it was already loud. And the way the mp3 or wav was recorded, its in a good enough volume for the WM5 but not for the cooked one.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jhego:
anyone?:( :( :(
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] elivne:
maybe editing the REG looking for keys.

I noticed different volumes in different roms...

there are some "keys" in the registry you can try changing - be careful!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] GuestD1000:
You can edit your sound file with a sound editor to increase the master volume of the file. It's what I did previsouly, and it's very efficient!
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lohtse:
Simple question really

Which roms support or will allow xposed mod to work?????

We use it a lot on all are devices so need a compatible rom for the S6 but are aware there's issue with TouchWiz roms..

thank you

regards

Lohtse
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d2d2d2d2:
Very simple answer.

You cannot install Xposed on a Samsung Touchwiz ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S6, for the time being.

Which roms support Xposed? None as of yet.

If you are aware that there is an 'issue' with TW ROMs then surely you would have read that it is

not compatible with arm64

.