[MTCB Software Development] craigowen:
Radio Questions

Hi,

I'd just like to thank everyone especially Malaysk for the ROMs and apk mods.

I've been through the full thread and can't find an answer to the following, so please don't flame me if I've missed a post.

I've got a RK3066 1024x600 Erisin connected to a VW Passat B6 using the canbus interface for data from the car.

Here are some things that I've noticed:

1) A new problem since installing the ROM. I have the time interval before shutting down after losing ACC power to 10 minutes.

If I switch off the car and wait over 10 minutes then turn back on, the radio powers up through the boot screen and if the radio was playing when it shut down it restarts and the sound comes out of the speakers.

If I wait less than 10 minutes the radio screen is displayed but only hiss comes out of the speakers. I have to press one of the pre-set channel buttons for radio audio to come out of the speakers. Adjusting the volume knob only changes the volume of the hiss.

I've tried the other radio apk options from the radio/music/etc thread and it made no difference.

With the original ROM the radio always started playing audio correctly when the ignition was switched on.

2) RDS has been covered mentioning that AF doesn't work and the preset buttons are linked to frequency not RDS names. Is this something that is too complicated to fix - to link the preset buttons to RDS channels instead of frequencies? Then when pressing a preset button the radio would tune to the FM frequency that is strongest for that RDS ident. - This is very important in UK where the FM frequency changes regularly during a journey on national channels such as BBC 1/2/3/4.

3) RDS additional information appears on the screen, and then disappears etc. Is there a way to get the information to stay on the screen until new data is sent to replace it rather than it blanking out regularly?

4) The VW (highline) dashboard when used with the OEM radio could switch between showing car data (MFD) and RDS information via a canbus feed. With the android radio connected the FM data is sent to the screen, not RDS but another feature is then introduced. The up button on the stalk with the VW radio allowed the driver to switch back to MFD mode, now the up and down buttons move between presets and there is no-way to change back to MFD mode using the controls on the car. The only way is to unplug the android turn the ignition on, choose MFD then plug the android back in again.

5) A really nice feature of the OEM VW radio was to enable the radio to be switched on by pressing the on button whilst the ignition was off. Doing so powered the radio on for an hour without the key being in the ACC position. Is this something that could be included on the 3066 hardware?

6) Thanks for adding all the extra options for working with a USB 3G dongle. Is it feasable to include an option to tether over USB (or bluetooth) to an Android of iPhone. I know that this has been answered in the past by several people saying use the wifi, but I find that the wifi tethering to an iPhone only works occasionally and I regularly have to delete the connection and re-type the wifi password to get it to connect.

7) While I'm asking questions, would there be any way to add a favourites function the the bluetooth to show only a small selection of the contacts on the phone?

Sorry if any of these questions are in the wrong thread, but they aren't to do with the look and feel of apps so I thought that it was better to put them in the ROM thread.

Thanks for the updates, they really improve the radio.

Cheers

Craig