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[Android Head-Units] RoninDusette:
For those that have issues with the sound stopping when your reverse camera goes into action, there is a setting either in Advanced settings or the system settings (not the android settings. One of the non native ones.). It's called Reverse Mute or something to that extent. Turn that off and reset. If that doesn't work after you switch that setting off disconnect your car battery overnight) or for a few hours least. That should do it. It has some sort of volitile memory that will keep it asleep but never let it fully power off. It usually works for me.

Also, after a reflash, update, or full reset, LEAVE IT ON FOR A WHILE. On the Russian forums I found this out; when it first boots after a factory reset, update, or flash, it's installing and provisioning all/most of the apk files in /system/priv-apps or whatever the path is..... It's also building out the database tables (sqlite to be exact) and stopping through is a surefire way to give you a hard time. Especially on the lower end px3 models. I usually let it chill for at least 30 minutes and don't even touch it. Sometimes an hour.

Fwiw I'm going to do a massive writeup on these damn things soon as I have discovered a lot and am an engineer by trade. Weeks and weeks worth of reading and fiddling and screwing with it. Short of doing either a hardware or software fix for the funky wifi stuff (actually going to do the usb hub reset script tonight to see if it works on my device), it will be lengthy and full of info, tips, caveats, and whatever else I have learned along the way. The tesla style hu is by far nowhere near as common and we need more writeups and, well, f*** it... I can't die with this knowledge. Haha
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Anxiously awaiting...I like new things to try.
[Android Head-Units] Cliffhanger68:
I have a ticket with Phoenix. They told me to turn off the Soft Reverse option, which was off by default. I only turned it on to try to fix my issue. Nothing helps. It would be nice to have a decent manual.

Also, shouldn't my phone ring thru the unit, allowing me to answer it there? Also, text messages?

Thanks,
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
huys, where can I find the original customer.xml for my ford focus?
[Android Head-Units] Velatropa24:
If you want, I can send you my one. Not sure if it's relevant to yours though. I got 2013 ford focus titanium sedan, r/h steering, android 7.1.1
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
uhm I don't know... My car is a 2015 ford focus ST.. you steer is on the right? so the uk steering?
[Android Head-Units] l33boy:
I find that changing your customer number gives slightly different flavours.. I originally had soft reverse off and the volume halved when reverse was selected, when I switched it on the volume stayed at full.

Changed to customer number 5 and the volume went off completely when I reversed with soft option off... changed back to customer 4 and I'm back to half volume with soft off... go figure.

Also, when I try to use the album art broadcast in customer 5... it doesn't work... customer 4 and it works flawlessly.
[Android Head-Units] RoninDusette:
It's not the soft reverse option. Soft reverse is for vehicles that use the canbus to determine when it's in reverse. Turn that off. If your car didn't come with a stock backup cam, then you will need to supply power from something that has 12v only when in reverse.; hook the power lead to one of the reverse light power wires. It's a switched 12v hot lead that only comes on when in reverse. Easy, straightforward, and anyone can do it. That will be part of my ongoing writeup.

If you are running a newer car with a can bus then the use the option you were talking about and tie the hot lead for it from the deck to the power for your camera {please use the inline fuse). The canbus tells the hu to turn on the hot lead, it powers up the camera and shows the reverse cam view. The best part is that you don't have to be in reverse to power it. You can open the cam app on the hu and have it running all day. That's how the front and right cameras work.

What I was talking about is an option called reverse mute or reverse sound with either on/off... Of its set to off, your sound is off when in reverse. Set that to on, go back to the main screen, wait 5 minutes, then use an app called simple reset to hard power cycle the deck. What's happening is you chanfe the setting and it had to wait in line for a minute to write to that table in its database. That's how it retains your settings. Then hard cycling the hu obviously restarts the sqlite service. You could do this from the terminal, but it's easier to just reset it or unhook the battery for an hour. Them when you reboot your sound should stay on. If it's quiet, adjust an option called sound attenuation. That controls how loud audio will be when another sound comes in (Gmail notifications, phone call, and also the backup cam).
[Android Head-Units] Velatropa24:
Not UK, but same concept
[Android Head-Units] RoninDusette:
I'll tell you right now that once you go messing with the ui num and ui style you are gonna have a bad time mostly. The customer number changes how the hu communicates with everything. The customer.xml files just sets the options available to you. They are all compiled in there but may or likely will not work on your car. General consensus says customer 2 for gm is what you will want and pick the ui num for your vehicle and you cna change the style and have it working... Still not very forgiving if you get it wrong. My advice is do not change either one, but root it (via the Russian or Phoenix or whatever for your ride) and set up a different launcher. If you want to use torque or obdlink, forget about doing it via Bluetooth. It doesn't work, just get obd2 to usb. I'll get into that later.

As for getting the customer.xml file for your ride, you don't need the original. Just get a known good one that matches your firmware version and the ui num and style options you need. A lot of it starts there. Those are config files and a big part of how Java apps do their voodoo. Just get your mcu, app version and find closest one you can from anyone and edit it to make it match your fw. Save, wait 5 mins, hard reboot and you should be fine worst caae is you have to factory reset it, but it will keep that file unless you do a update_force.img flash. Then it resets your database and replaces all of the apks that get installed fresh with whatever that img has bundled in its fw. They aren't regular android fw files. They are specific to the mcu and its main board. Usually rockchip px3 or px5 variations. I'll expound more later tomorrow. It's late and I gotta go to work. I look forward to helping us get this info out there. I'm very verbose (... Just a little) and plan on providing everything I can.
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
yes ok, it was an example to understand better.

well, I can change it after the overwrite...
[Android Head-Units] l33boy:
Or just tie your reverse cam to a permanent 12v supply (that switches on/offwith the ignition) like I did. Camera stays on all the time and I can record from it.
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
I also look forward to this.
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Did you fix the radio signal issue?. The only thing that I appreciate of Rhino, they at least called me and did troubleshooting via phone and video. I did ask Phoenix a general question the other day about a radio and they gave me a ticket[emoji38].
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
If you look closely at their ticket it was probably immediately closed too!
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Yes! Thank goodness we have the forums.
[Android Head-Units] ShIvADeSt:
Lol, man. Better look canbus.apk and eventcenter.apk code. There is a lot of if then else with customer_id, which stored at your original customer.xml. If you will use customer.xml from another car, You will get serious problem with Air control. I need to keep 2 branches of firmware for Android 7.1.1 because Tundras LO and HI car with Air protocol BNR with AC works ONLY with customer 2/4, but Tundra HI Hi with Simple protocol must use CustomerID = 13.

Also Android 4.4.4 keep car_id at customer.xml, so with other file you can lose you car from settings.
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Do you have a copy of your factory xml.? I want to compare some values.
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
I've never copied it, where is it located?
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Just insert a USB flashdrive in the vehicle , go to your settings and hit the export settings at the bottom of the screen. Your factory xml will be saved in the USB. You can either share me the complete files or you can open the factory.xml log with notepad and pasted here in the thread using the code tag. Thank you I really appreciate it.
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Thank you!
[Android Head-Units] RoninDusette:
It's not the file. It's the config. I've used files from everywhere. You just need to set the customer number and have it match your fw version and make sure it has the ui num and style for your ride. That's it. It's just a config file. No more, no less. I know there is more to the whole, but it starts with that config. I've pull mine and others fw apart and decompressed, recompiled, and deodexed that whole thing many times over the last year. Put it this way, I'm more familiar with how it works than I ever, ever wanted to be.

Edit: let me rephrase. The file itself is not special per se. It just need to be configured for your vehicle. It's not car specific, just year make model trim specific.
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
You two should compare notes... [MENTION=9875668]ShIvADeSt[/MENTION] is probably one of the most knowledgeable people (besides the original developer) on these radios you'll find.

He even makes a pretty nice custom firmware with additional features.
[Android Head-Units] RoninDusette:
However you want to do it, but I don't like things drawing power directly from the ignition. My cruze has it on the reverse light right now because when I first put it in I was too lazy to pull the deck out again. Ideally I want to do it the right way so it can be controlled and powered from the deck, which is the correct way to do it. I will probably do it this weekend. About to test fit my knockoff Recaro seats so I may as well run the wire while I'm in there.

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Word. I'm really just going to post everything I know to be true and that works with screenshots and writeups and update it as times goes and we learn more. We can call it The Book of Tesla. Hahaha.
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Have you checked out the 4PDA topic on this? There is a lot of information over there too.

Are you working with a 7.1.1 based radio? It would be great to have some updated information on those as they differ in some ways from the 4.4.4 radios.
[Android Head-Units] Cliffhanger68:
Haven't been able to pull the unit yet but I did solve the music muting in reverse issue. I spoke with another RAM owner and his factory unit mutes when he goes in reverse so that the reverse alarm can sound thru the speakers. So I went to the settings> advanced> parking sound <on>. Now my sound is not muted. Yay!
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Thank you, I guess I will also try this tweak [emoji38].
[Android Head-Units] Velatropa24:
May be you can help me with my problem, mr. engineer?

See, I hide the system ui bars and use full screen immersive mode. However, google maps does not display correctly in navigation mode.

The search bar does not collapse like on other devices, and it hangs roughly 1/5 of the way down the screen from the top (exactly the size of the nav bar which I hide). It really worsens my full screen navigation experience.

I believe the google maps program uses my px3's system ui to build it's layout.

I tried to reduce the size of my system ui bar from 52 to 18 in framework-res.apk, however I got a brick when I tried to replace my existing framework-res.apk with my modified one.

On my 2nd attempt, I first copied my modified framework-res.apk into /system, then gave it the rw-r-r permissions via chmod 644, then moved it to the right location, replacing the existing framework-res.apk

Result = another brick.

Is there any other known way that I can solve this issue? All I want is full screen navigation. But I only want google maps as all the others I don't like. I like yandex navigation to, but unfortunately it is inapplicable to my location.
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
I can confirm this..."parking sound" is the correct setting.
[Android Head-Units] ShIvADeSt:
You are so funny :) Customer number is not depending by FW version. And never has been. Bind of Customer number + Air Supplier ID + Car ID is used to select fitted code (service) of Canbus.apk or CarAir.apk to control HVAC/Car states.

And if You "Mister IKnowAllAboutTesla" don't ever have problems with incorrect Customer Number, so it means, that ALL your cars have similar HVAC logic. You can think what You want, but it doesn't change reality - not all customer.xml can be applied to any car.
[Android Head-Units] Cliffhanger68:
Thanks for confirming this. Phoenix did respond to me, although it was after I had figured it out. lol

I'll update about the radio reception asa I have a chance to take the unit out.

Thanks to all for the input!
[Android Head-Units] Cliffhanger68:
!!!UPDATE!!!

I removed the unit to check out the antenna issue. I had my antenna hooked to the mustard yellow connector because that was the one that fit(it must have been the satellite connector). Phoenix suggested I use the other connector, the white one, which was difficult to get plugged in, but the radio works fine now.
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Well I'm still interested...maybe you'll change your mind. Understand that a language barrier may have exacerbated this exchange as well (maybe).
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
This ^^, I also think the language barrier played a role here. I cleaned the original and quoted posts.
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Well, I sent my Tesla Unit to Rhino to start the exchange process. Fortunately, I kept my stock HVAC controls and also I bought months ago a stock uconnect radio as a backup - the original one had the ram logo freeze issue. It feels weird but at the same satisfying to see everything in my truck is working as it needs to be. Missing the big screen though :(
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
I'm trying to help someone who recently purchased one of these radios used. His radio appears to boot up just fine, but after a 10-60 seconds the screen goes blank and "fades out" from his description. Has anyone run across this issue before?
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
No, I haven't. It looks like must be a hardware issue though.

Overall, these units are not quality built- at least the ones sold by Rhino. I noticed when I removed my unit last week it smelled like burned rubber. The unit itself was unusually hot and I think my board was starting to fry. I had to let it cool for at least 10 min before packing and sent that thing back to Rhino.
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Yikes!
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
yeap. TBH now that I recall all my issues around the blower not shutting down, I remember to start noticing a funny smell once this started. Once I pulled out the unit for the last time, I smell the back of my unit and it didn't smell good. Now that I have my all my stock unit back, I haven't noticed this smell again.
[Android Head-Units] Cliffhanger68:
I would tend to agree with you about the quality aspect. They are all made in China, using the same hardware, just sold under different names. Mine is having more issues now with the screen not showing the reverse camera image for nearly 10 seconds sometimes and when I'm playing music and then open Maps the music studders for several seconds. I'm afraid to keep it if the hardware can't handle it now. With time the performance will only deteriorate. I think I'll be returning it for a refund, which is sad because I really wanted to like the unit. If I hadn't paid what I paid for it it wouldn't bother me so much.:(
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
So I actually have noticed from pictures that there may actually be a new and/or more manufacturers of these radios. I've been seeing some units that look very different recently, specifically units coming from Rhino Radios.

The 3 button Ram Truck versions are a good example. I previously thought these were an upgrade but I'm beginning to think they are lower quality clones (something the Chinese are known for). Rhino radios are selling "10.4 inch" screens that are closer to 9.4" and have a black boarder) bezel in what should be usable screen area.

I'd have to see one up close to be sure...
[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Totally agree with both of you. I also see they are 2 types - one and 3 buttons units. Rhino only sells the 3 buttons one, while Phoenix sells both. I choose Rhino, because these were cheaper than phoenix back in March- like 70 bucks less with shipping included. I did my research (not good enough as you can see:D) but I remember I saw this video from phoneix which shows the 3 button unti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDH6h0UW_eQ&t=21s and realized all the units were coming from the same China manufacturer - which I don't think is the case.
[Android Head-Units] lupetto222:
Guys I have a tesla style kirinavi px3 2giga of ram with android 6.0.4 after 15min which is running it disconnects the WiFi and crashes the system remains black screen and you have to reset it. I tried to restore the factory settings but I didn't solve it. Can I put some alternative roms?

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[Android Head-Units] Mr. Clown:
Hi there, I think someone already mentioned you probably have a hardware issue and that your unit might be overheating causing the crash.
[Android Head-Units] Cliffhanger68:
I solved all the issues with my unit! I'm sending it back and getting a refund. Got tired of dealing with all the issues I was having with it. I love the concept but the hardware definitely is substandard.
[Android Head-Units] lupetto222:
I did some tests and not using WiFi but using a USB flash drive in tethering mode does not crash .... I will update you

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[Android Head-Units] big_daddys_house:
Good morning everyone!

If Anyone is interested in getting the one button version straight from the manufacturer (this is where I purchased mine) I have had it for over a year and pretty much zero problems with it. I have a 2014 Ram 1500 but just search your car. Side note: I researched this radio for months before going this route. It is shipping from China and it will take a really long 30 days before you receive it.

Hope this helps [emoji5]

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[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
hi guys!

I have a question for you: did anyone buy the usb dongle for andorid auto or apple carplay?

I use everyday the mirro link but i'd like to see it in full screen, not in a little part of our huge screen; the question is: while using it, other page of the radio are usable or I'm bound to use only app of my phone screen?
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Other apps on the phone and the radio are useable. For example, I can listen to music on the radio in the background while using navigation from my phone mirrored to the screen of the radio.
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
ok but my questions was a few different: I hope to use other tabs while using android auto. I just bought an usb dongle, then I'm going to use it instead of mirror link with easy connection.

For example, go to home or radio tab and come back to android auto in full screen
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Maybe. I don't use Android auto by itself as it doesn't display full screen. It will display the mirror full screen though. So you could just open Android Auto on your phone and do what you are describing.
[Android Head-Units] big_daddys_house:
Didn't you get your android auto to render full-screen?
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
It worked once but I can't replicate it. It essentially stretched to fit the screen but I don't know how to force it.

Google is releasing an Android Auto update this summer, hopefully the add options to fix this.
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
android HU are not compatible with android auto.. then without this dongle you can mirror the phone and open the app standalone on the phone. then, a little little interface cause the mirro display the entire phone in a portion of the radio screen
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
You can set it to mirror OR Android Auto (AA). These are compatible using the CarlinKit dongles. Mirror gives you full screen AA, Using AA alone through the dongle gives you AA with black bars on top and bottom of the AA window.
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
Really? I never saw AA full screen without dongle... Picture? Then I bought dongle for nothing?

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[Android Head-Units] lupetto222:
My kirinavi tesla style mounts this version rkpx3-eng 6.0.4 ktu84q 860b_chhwy_f114-td is there an update or alternative rom?

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[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
You need the dongle.
[Android Head-Units] compta5:
i have a 2014 Ford Focus. With 4.4.4 OS, i recently updated it with the update with all the themes. Now my Bluetooth microphone doesn’t work. The microphone works because i downloaded a google app and used the voice function to search for something and it picks up my voice perfect. But my Bluetooth I have to be 2 inches away from the micro phone for the other people to hear me. I researched this and a fix would be changing the elimination parameter but I don’t have that option on mine. Any thoughts?
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Try changing the setting under "Bluetooth module" and restart, but take note of what it is currently set to before changing it.

Mine in my Ram truck is set to this...

Your 4.4.4 should have a similar setting.
[Android Head-Units] compta5:
thanks for the reply, i've tried that. its currently set to the BC6. no luck.
[Android Head-Units] MOE653:
I'm thinking of buying AA carlinkit dongle

is it worth it ?
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
I've just bought it. It's arriving tomorrow I hope

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[Android Head-Units] MOE653:
Tell me about it when it arrives please
[Android Head-Units] big_daddys_house:
That's funny our opinions are completely different. I say if you have an Android phone then no, it is not worth spending the money on the dongle. Because everything your phone can do that head unit can. However if you have an Apple phone it's pretty much a necessity. So I do not have one because I have an Android phone.

I guess it's really kind of a yes and no answer [emoji5]
[Android Head-Units] marcus82:
I need AA for 2 reasons :

1 for messages, call etc more quick then ugly Bluetooth app

2 cause our GPS of HU is pretty bad and slow

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[Android Head-Units] MOE653:
These are literally the reasons why I'm thinking of buying it
[Android Head-Units] ramathorn1982:
Just used it with phone mirror for a 3000+ mile trip using Waze and YouTube the whole time. Worked perfectly and responds very well to "ok Google" searches...it also means you don't need to worry about a wifi hotspot for Nav updates on real time conditions.
[Android Head-Units] big_daddys_house:
I use mysms for texting. It stinks up your phone to their service so any time I get a text on my phone it goes straight to my head unit. strange your guys GPS doesn't work very well. mine works flawlessly and I use waze for navigation.

Do you guys have the three-button model? I only ask because it seems like everybody's having different problems with a three-button model....

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Well said sir.