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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
adb is the interface for remote control. It can be used when you connect notebook via usb to your head unit. But it is difficult to setup and use it for someone who don't know about it.

Therefore wiping user data from a recovery is probably the easiest way for you now.
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Ah, thanks for explaining. Yes sounds like I will have to try factory reset first. Just have to figure out how... Anyone have experience with the latest Hizpo units with Android 10?

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Thank you for the detailed description.

I've tried to assign logos but still don't see any crash. But I've found another bug with Radio logos (default logo was not applied).

Please try this version: FCC 3.362 v11

If it still crashes for you please send me your FCC backup in private message.
[Android Head-Units] whitewolf8111:
Yes, I do have radio station logos set in FCC... one for almost every station in my area. I think around 15 of them.

Is the FM radio app the one it consistently crashes on, or is it totally random which app it crashes on? (sorry if I missed that info somewhere)

I was going to maybe question DABz?? Or are the other people without DABz that are still having crashes?

I only have Amazon Music installed right now... and of course the stock FM app.

I'm still pretty much on all stock settings for the ROM.
[Android Head-Units] okij:
Thanks for the test version, but unfortunately it still crashes like before.

I made the following observation: When I have no logos assigned to the radio stations in FCC, then FCC doesn't crash when I switch the different radio stations via widget. But it still crashes when switching from a different player to the radio, even when no logos are assigned.

I just sent you a private message with my FCC backup, a new logcat from testing v11 (the latest crashes being recorded with no logos assigned) and the radio station logos of our local WDR stations that I normally have assigned in FCC (just in case you need them, since they are just ordinary PNG files.)

It is always the FM radio app that FCC crashes on.

I don't think that it has to do with DAB-Z, since I also can provoke FCC crashing by having GoneMad Music Player running and then switching to FM radio. I just double-checked this.
[Android Head-Units] jrobbom5:
I was going to give this launcher a try today, but the description on Google Play says that it is for PX3/PX5 head units. Will it work on a PX6 unit?
[Android Head-Units] yuukiw:
just try the free version to see if it works?
[Android Head-Units] Dac0908:
It works, no worries
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I reproduced the issue on your backup (which is very good!), but still need to understand its cause.
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
Guys, and especially [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION], I've asked a few times but it gets lost on the forum. Can the mini map be turned into a widget? It would be of great benefit I'm sure to more than myself.
[Android Head-Units] whitewolf8111:
I'm pretty sure no. It would be kind of nice though.
[Android Head-Units] okij:
This is great! :good: At least it's a first step to fix those crashes. :fingers-crossed:

I now tried the new ability of the Hal9k Mod v4.0.2 to display logos of radio stations, as is described in the changelog:

(Side note: for frequencies lower than 100 MHz, the file name must not have a leading "0", so e.g. 88.80 Mhz translates to 8880.png.)

With this I can see the logos of the radio stations in the toast messages that the Hal9k Mod displays when changing the FM radio stations. Theoretically they are also shown in media widgets (e.g. the Agama launcher now displays the station logos), but the FCC player widget currently only shows the radio logos which are set in FCC itself.

Could you let the FCC player widget display the station logos which it receives by broadcast intent (like from other media players), at least as a new option of FCC? So far this will only work with Hal9k Mod v4.0.2, but it seems to be a clean integration of the station logos, so IMHO it should be supported in FCC too.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Ref: Vector Skins

How does one change the COLOR of an existing Skin on a page full of widgets ?

I am finding with Vector Skins, the color is a lot less saturated, and is therefore almost totally non-existent.

Attached are screens hots of the same Home page, one with BitMap rendered skin & other with Vector rendered skins.

The Vector one lacks any significant color saturation - how can this be adjusted.

Note: The SKIN seemed to have got lost in the VECTOR screen capture.

These is a skin there on the display, but the blue color is very dark & unsaturated in color.

(its not as bad as the screen shot indicates, )

BITMAP - - - - - - - VECTOR
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Please check that your accent color is blue and not black for example. It can be changed now in FCC Settings - Display - Accent color
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Update: still have the FCC black screen of death. Have tried all methods I have been able to find to try to get the unit into recovery mode without any success.

Have reached out to the seller but no reply yet. Hope to hear from them soon

Man, this is frustrating. Sorry to say but, I am really starting to regret installing this launcher.

And please, please keep coming with suggestions how to get out of this mess.

This what happens:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/psbKsN3y7JbxX2r18

And by the way, it's this model:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_d9EkWzo

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[Android Head-Units] TYourdog:
Try:

- Remove SD card. (Otherwise the reset hangs on the card)

- Press RST button shortly with a paperclip for instance (Behind SD card slot cover in my case).

- Keep tapping the screen with 5 fingers. In the upperleft corner in small text you can see the status.

- It will eventually switch to a sort of round halo with the text; 'resetting'

- After a longer boot it will come back as a factory fresh device.

Found at this link: https://xdaforums.com/android-auto/android-head-units/hizpo-headunit-issue-t3919164/amp/
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] Thanks :)
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried it now but it doesn't seem to work on my device :(

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This version is just to fix the crash: FCC 3.362 v12
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Sorry for that. This is the first case ever of such kind.

How to go into recovery on my Rockchip device (just checked).

1. Long push Reset button with a paper clip UNTIL YOU SEE THE BACKLIGHT OF BUTTONS IS ON.

2. Then (very important) quickly release a reset button, push it again (shortly) and release again.

Device will load in recovery mode.
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
When I long push reset it just stays off all the time no backlight comes on until I release and the it boots up all the way. And if I short press reset it just reboots.

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
You seems to have a PX5 device which all (until this case) work fine with the Launcher and have a correct behavior on brightness and probably have the same procedures how to get to a recovery.

It seems that your device was significantly modified by the manufacturer and probably breached some PX5 requirements.

What I can suggest:

1. The most obvious - ask your seller how to enter into recovery mode. He should know for sure.

2. If it was because of brightness adjustment - then you should be able to tap the same place where the brightness icon was and the Launcher will increase brightness (but you say it doesn't work).

3. We may suggest that head unit producer incorrectly changed a "low brightness" mode and "screen off" mode in its settings. Normally if the screen is off any tap on it should switch it on (this is a default PX5 behavior). But this doesn't work as well, right?

4. You can try to connect a USB mouse to your device and try to tap the same "brightness widget". Yes it will be difficult without seeing it but theoretically possible.
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Thanks for suggestions:

1. Yes, Working hard to get help from Ossuret store on AliExpress where I bought it. But they require a video showing the problem. I've tried emailing, shared links and sprend but they need it on WeChat wich I don't have and when I tried to install it need a friend with wechat to verify but In Sweden noone uses it so... I'm starting to think the seller is just stalling trying to wear me out. But then they don't know who they re dealing with.

2. Yep tried tapping that area without working. But I think the screen that is active now is the radio. Maybe unit defaults to this after the reset-reboot. Have of course tried to press home button and then the area but not working. I think your buy arrow may be partly covering the sun icon. Looked like this when it worked. This making it hard to press it.

3. Nope tapping on the black screen doesn't activate it. But the screen seems responsive since I can change radio channels by randomly tapping on the screen. As I ssid,: seems as if it boots up into active radio when I press reset.

4. Ok, will try this.

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is a good suggestion. Can you tap Home button first (to go to the Launcher's home page)?
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Tried that many times thinking I can get FCC screen and try to tap area of the sun icon, but not sure it activates FCC any more. Almost as if it's stuck on radio behind the black screen. Maybe FCC crashes because of the screen error?

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[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
What you can try if the volume knob can be pressed to mute and long press for switching the screen off.

There are 2 different ways dependent on the factory of the device:

Press the volume knob until the button light is flashing. Release the knob and wait if the unit boots into recovery.

Press the volume knob until the button light is flashing. Release the knob for a short time and short press it again. Release immediately.

It always takes some seconds until the recovery is up.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is very odd. I don't think it crashes. It shouldn't. Try a Back button.

Another option: you should also have a brightness icon (and then seekbar) in your top status bar. It could be difficult to find it, but you can try.
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
Hi Speedfire, can you confirm the below for me please? Thank you!

Guys, and especially [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION], I've asked a few times but it gets lost on the forum. Can the mini map be turned into a widget? It would be of great benefit I'm sure to more than myself.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
There is no need to ask this every 2 days....

...and on top: You should ask the right person. speedfire or Speedfire are both wrong.
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Have tried back button and then tried tapping the sun icon area with no success.

Before turning black the status bar shows for maybe one second but not enough time to get into brightness menus etc

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[Android Head-Units] tonimontoia:
sorry but I understand this feature accent color you can show me with a photo thanks
[Android Head-Units] okij:
Thanks a lot! :)

I just tested it and can confirm that it fixes the crash but only as long as I don't have logos assigned to the stations in FCC. :silly:

For testing purposes (and because the logos that I set in the Hal9k Mod settings aren't shown in the widget yet) I assigned the PNG files to the stations again in FCC and got crashes again, please see attached logcat file.

I think that for FCC users with Hal9k Mod >= 4.0.2 the best solution would be if the FCC player widget could be configured to not show the station logos that are assigned in FCC but the station logos that are assigned in Hal9k Mod, as I suggested here yesterday. IMHO (though I'm not a developer) this should be easy to integrate, since the FCC player widget then only has to work the same for the FM Radio as for all other players which transmit title, track and album art information via broadcast intent. (I hope that it's this easy. :fingers-crossed:)
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
I ask because I don't get a response though? I asked a few months ago also, again no response as it gets lost. How else will I get an answer, I am happy to follow a correct procedure if there is one? I saw [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] online, so it seemed a good time to get a response. Some people ask 20 questions a day and other people's requests or suggestions just get lost, you must see this?

Cheers
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
No it can't
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
That's a shame as it means I can't use it in my screen design. Thanks for the response though ?
[Android Head-Units] okij:
Why can't you use it in your screen design?

Just configure the map size and position to cover the area that you wanted to place the map widget on and voilà, there you are.
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
Because FCC runs crazy slow on my device so I have moved to Nova launcher which runs fast and perfectly. But I still want to use widgets that Speedfire- has designed so well, which all work in Nova except the mini map isn't a widget I can use.

FCC shows the FCC "arrow" for 2 seconds every time I change apps or return to the home screen, it's not streamlined enough for me at the moment
[Android Head-Units] okij:
Have you already tried FCC 3.362v9 or newer? Since this version the memory consumption was lowered considerably, so it may run better on your lower-end device.

If this doesn't work, I'm afraid that you won't be happy with FCC Launcher on your current device. However, it's nothing you can blame FCC or [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] for, because a) the FCC widgets are designed to be used in FCC itself and not in other launchers, the same applies to the MiniMap and b) Google doesn't allow to use Google Maps in a widget. If Google would allow it then for sure you could find many map widgets on the Play Store or elsewhere.

Another option for you might be to try the MiniMap - Floating resizable map by Flyview, which you can find here on XDA and here on Play Store. This also is not a widget but a floating map similar to that in FCC, but it should have a lower memory profile since it's not a fully developed launcher like FCC.
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
Yeah I've tried a few different apps and the newer versions of FCC, just think Nova does a slightly faster job for me. I'm not blaming anyone for anything, was just basically asking if a good feature could be a widget, no more no less. I've paid for both launcher apps so was hoping to use the best of both, but no worries if not.
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
IT'S ALIVE!!!

Somehow I finally managed to press the screen brightness settings correctly and turned it on.

Big sigh of relief!

Don't think I dare try FCC in a while until this bug has been eliminated :).

Stock launcher for now it is.

One good thing came out of this at least. I got to solder up connectors in the harness to connect the unit to an external 12v battery. Will also be able to use them to attach an extra button to get ACC even with key turned off

Thanks all for help and advice!View attachment 4990953

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Good! Congratulations.

Btw, what have you seen on the screen when you turned on the brightness? Radio app?
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Thanks! Yes radio app was running. Seems as if this software defaults to it when rebooted.

Wil l the FCC version in play store be fixed so it doesn't kill the screen? if so I may try it again :)

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
You can try v12 beta posted here recently. I also added the following: when Back button is pressed 3 times quickly Launcher closes and brightness sets to 100%.
[Android Head-Units] Tuborg68:
Hmm, I'll have to see how brave I feel... Think I need to lock my wounds and run stock for a while.

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[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Ok first time I had a strange black screen for 30sec and freeze in FCC (v12 beta) . Settings were working but CPU was 100% I think

Probem arrived when I inserted sdcard on 2nd slot with some media / wallpapers/ apk (its sdcard reserved to updates mcu etc.)

I had to reboot and now all is fine
[Android Head-Units] Dac0908:
That's it. Great :)

Except its not blue but gray and black, camera made it look like that.

View attachment 4991171
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
99.999999999% sure that the answer is NO, it will never be a standard portable "widget"
[Android Head-Units] mr_shaba:
I have installed and set up FCC Launcher on my car HU and it works really great. But for some resons the original Google Maps isn't shown in the apps panel/view. It is installed and working, as I can start it with a button on the stearing wheel.

I tested the launcher on my smartphone and there Google Maps is shown as installed app.

What could be the reason that it is not shown in the launcher on the cars head unit?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I think that finally the crash is fixed.

I have also added support for radio logos in /Pictures/Radio/ folder (I support them directly, no need in Ha9lk mod notifications).

Please check: FCC 3.362 v13
[Android Head-Units] whitewolf8111:
I replied to you too HERE, but it must have got lost in the forum :silly:
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Thx radio logos are working great but we need to assign only 1 frequency for each radio. If you change country it will be wrong with RDS no?

With GMradio from here

Logos are detected automatically (I'm not sure if its updated automatically with RDS)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Probably yes. What do you suggest?
[Android Head-Units] okij:
As always, thank you! :)

I only tested it shortly and didn't see a crash again, but so far I didn't set logos in FCC again for testing. Still have to try this. Edit: I also couldn't make FCC crash with some radio logos set in FCC, which is good.

However, the logos in /Pictures/Radio/ are not correctly shown in v13. No matter which radio station I set, I always see the same logo ("WDR 3"). Edit: I now set two logos in FCC again for testing. They are shown in the player widget when the according radio station is selected, but if I select a station with no logo in FCC assigned, always the last used logo remains in the player widget, so there's something wrong here.

Could you please have a look after this?

Also, wouldn't it be better to use the logos that the Hal9k Mod radio app broadcasts via intent? Then it would also work with the other FM station sets (A, B, ...) that the Hal9k Mod supports.

As far as I understand it, this should work like with any other media player app that broadcasts album art.
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
I don't know how Herb77 did to make logos appear. But with GMradio and hal9k's notifications, I can see stations and logos in popup notification. If you could check how to "match" with FCC too, it would be great
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Double post sorry . Just to show screenshot
[Android Head-Units] Super_paulie:
But you're not the app developer?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
1) Make sure that FCC Launcher has permission to access your External storage

2) Hal9k does not broadcast this data as far as I can see (I don't see any data in notification panel). Do you know any intents he uses?
[Android Head-Units] whitewolf8111:
No, but that doesn't mean that I'm not familiar with the app and been using it and almost every beta and alpha for the last year and a half! :)
[Android Head-Units] okij:
The logos for the Hal9k Mod 4.0.2 have to be on the internal memory, as [MENTION=5092263]Hal9k_[/MENTION] has written in the changelog:

That's where I put the logos.

I just did a test and made a Pictures/Radio folder with the logos on the external memory, but even with this FCC doesn't find or use them.

Of course I've granted memory access permission to FCC in System Settings -> Apps. I don't see a special permission for external memory there, but as I've written above, that shouldn't be needed anyway.

According to the Hal9k's changelog, the Mod 4.0.2 sends media information to third-party widgets:

I can only assume that this is done via the usual broacast intents, like other media players use them too. Yes, there is no notification in the notification panel, there is only a toast message when the FM radio station is changed.

Hal9k posted a screenshot here on his Mod 4 thread on 4pda.ru which shows Agama launcher that now displays the radio station logos when used under Mod 4.0.2 (see attachment).

If Agama doesn't get the data from broadcast intents, then maybe it fetches this data from the notification toast that Mod 4.0.2 shows upon FM station change?

It would be best if you and [MENTION=5092263]Hal9k_[/MENTION] could talk about this directly with each other, so he can give you some infos how it's implemented.
[Android Head-Units] Murali01:
Hi, one of the best car launcher. Just one question. Is it possible to have navigation option in minimap, so users dont have to open and stay on Google map or any other app. Having a digital speedometer and navigation side by side will help drivers....
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Any chance of getting a User Defined Custom Artwork Mask for the Player Widget implemented (similar to what you did for the user defined Compass widget) ?

Got a lot of "At home time" these days where I could perfect such a mask for my FCC Install :)
[Android Head-Units] SharkysRacing:
Why is Bluetooth settings unavailable??