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[Android Head-Units] TYourdog:
ATOTO A6Y

I just very quickly tested the restarts and so far it's performing perfectly.. I installed over my most current install, restarted using the Restart FCC button, turned off car and waited about 5 minutes and turned back on; it does it's initial start up but after that it looks great. When starting it shows FCC splash screen, does my autostart programs, and then lands on the home page after the 1st start up, before it would Restart about 4 or 5 times and then finally get to the home screen. Also before if I were to open any app after first powering on unit and then press the Home button, it would restart (4-5 times) initially every boot then it would act properly allowing me to open and press home button without anymore restarts; now it seems to be perfect from the start.

I'll do more testing later but for now looking good!

I asked the question a while back but may have been lost through all of the other requests.. I have my screen automatically go to Page 1 after 30 seconds when it is night time, the only problem I'm having with that is even if it is on my Page 3 which has the mini map(with a route active) it still goes back to Page 1; could you set an additional option to prevent that in the settings (if route set using mini map and on that screen, do not go to default page?)

Thank you again!
[Android Head-Units] peleakan:
I tried twice to leave a rate and a comment but they are not visible in the public section. It seems to be kept as private comment.

I missed something?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I reproduced this issue. It happens on cold boots only.

And, unfortunately, I can't do anything with it. It happens because System Widget sub-system loads long enough on cold boot. FCC Launcher is widget based, but widgets work not in the FCC Launcher's process but in the System Widget process. So quicker initialization is out of control of the launcher.

When launcher is simply restarted - widgets are initialized instantly for me (because System Widget process is already initialized and ready).
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Thanks for looking and for the detailed reply, but I am not understanding how your reply relates to the 2 issues.

Its NOT the speed that widget reload/populate that is the issue . That takes as long as it has to take, and is not what I was reporting as an issue.

The two issues are:

(1) FCC widgets initially loading with default parameters, and then later updating to the correct ones.

( Not critical, just cosmetically wrong, and probably easily corrected with a sort)

This seems to be associated with the order that the user creates the widgets, and if user later edited ones that were created earlier.

Hence the suggestion of a SORT widgets and their parameters, so that all parameters for a given widgets are sorted to be located together, with the actual widget declaration.

(2) The Unique issue with the compass, where if there is a compass on two different pages, with different Card Graphics, after a cold boot, they end up with the same Card Graphic.

both user defined Compass. (same happens to the pointer) .... but this is the only widget I have yet found that gets corrupted in this way.

This is just plain WRONG, and is probably a symptom of some code logic error.

Please also consider adding the suggested "Widget Loading" POP-UP while they are loading, so it is clear when they have finished loading (on other pages), and the system is ready for user interaction.

By far the most critical thing to fix is the corruption/change of the Compass widgets parameters after a cold-boot.

(have not noticed this happening to any other widgets, since you fixed the Database overwrite bug)
[Android Head-Units] roydestroy:
Can I ask if it is possible when deactivating the minimap not to have that dot showing at the top of the screen?
[Android Head-Units] Salvo-x:
Hello

SpeedFire, I encountered a problem after the new update, I disappeared the application icons on the top of the right panel, and you can not set them again, you can fix.

Thank you
[Android Head-Units] nokian95ita:
After this update no results: randomly when I go back to home by clicking home button it restart to splash screen. I am on 8227l device.

Can I suggest a new function: in the player widget by clicking the button from the player list implementing the ability to home the player.

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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I see this issue of the Home Button restarting to Splash Screen (and have seen this happen for every version tried) on the Roadlover Allwinner (RL-YZGHC801) (T3-A7 [1024 x 600] MMC Android 6.0) 2GB RAM, 32GB ROM (Not Rooted), ever since I installed FCC on it. (over a year ago)

The Allwinner is a unit I am not serious about using, but have loaded FCC on it for Music etc at work, and to help beta test the Allwinner units with FCC.

Issue is not present on my Car's Eonon Px5 unit :)
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

I took some time today to look at my FCC backup file, mainly to see

(1) If I could see how easy it would be sort "widget_pref.xml" by Widget number. (in hope this would make widgets load without showing default incorrect parameters during the loading period)

(2) To look at the images in folder "app.pics"

Two things struck me as potentially being issues

(1) In "widget_pref.xml" one of my Compass widgets had corrupted characters in Primary Text

<string name="widget_primary_text_449">⁴</string>

⁴ in this post on forum is really hex E2 81 B4 in the xml file

<string name="neutron_track">True Love Ways☆☆☆</string>

☆☆☆ is really a number of non-text Hex characters, so for the Neutron Player, the Track info is not being correctly extracted, and those odd extra Hex characters may cause issues in the Player Widget ??

(2) In "app.pics" there were images for just about every widget I have ever created for over a year, even if those widgets had been deleted.

Also, for the Compass widget that keep reverting back to the wrong Card Png, there was no backup image there of the original correct card png, which may explain the COMPASS widget corruption I am experiencing.

The fact that deleted widget images are still retained, might be an issue, especially if a deleted widget number id is used again for a new widget..

I am going to try deleting all my Compass widgets, and then creating them fresh again, to see if that fixes the issue.

.=====================

After some testing - The BUG with the Compass looks like:-

If you have more than one Compass, and more than one have Custom pngs. then, after a re-boot, all Compass widgets with Custom Pngs, all change to the SAME pngs

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[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

I think I have found the reason:-

In backup Folder app_pics

The Compass Background is stored as "widget_compass_custom_Background_.png" missing the Widget ID

should be, for example "widget_compass_custom_Background_423.png" ( for widget 423)

Same for the Arrow

The Compass Arrow is stored as "widget_compass_custom_arrow_.png" missing the Widget ID

should be, for example "widget_compass_custom_arrow_423.png" ( for widget 423)

So, if there are two Compass Widgets, (with custom backgrounds * arrows) say 423, and 444 there should be 4 stored images

"widget_compass_custom_background_423.png"

"widget_compass_custom_arrow_423.png"

"widget_compass_custom_background_444.png"

"widget_compass_custom_arrow_444.png"

and not just the current

"widget_compass_custom_background_.png"

"widget_compass_custom_arrow_.png"

If this is really what is causing the issue, it should be an easy fix now the cause has been identified. :)
[Android Head-Units] SharkysRacing:
Hello started having issues with the launcher. Its been SUPER laggy last few weeks. I did a update and now its HORRIBLE. The FM radio radio plays for a few minutes then stops. I have to go back to home. And click on the radio app again and it will work. If i leave the FM radio app it quicks. Also the volume will randomly go and and down. Then out of no where will turn full blast to 30. A few minutes ago it went to 30 and i couldnt turn it down. Had to hit the reset button. When it reloaded the volume was back on 2. Also lately if i try and go to settings. I just get a black screen. Then back to home screen
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Might help anyone trying to help you if you provided some basic information : ie

(a) What Head Unit you have ( Model, Android Version etc)

(b) What version were you running before the issues you report

(c) What version you are running now. (Updated to what version, from where ? Forum or Play Store)

(d) If FM Radio is still working ok, what Player is not, and did you recently update that player

(e) etc

Are you sure you still have the right Device setting . ie Px5, Allwinner, etc etc maybe that got changed when you did the update .
[Android Head-Units] okij:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]: I just saw on the Play Store that FCC Car Launcher now has a rating of 4.1 stars, in comparison to only ~3.7 stars about two weeks ago. :)

The 4+ stars rating is well deserved, considering the hard work you put into it to make it faster, more stable and more compatible to different devices.

Keep up the good work! :good:

For all users on this thread who like FCC and haven't rated it yet, please do so. If rating doesn't work for you for some reason (some users reported this), then at least please up-vote or down-vote some existing reviews accordingly. Unfortunately there are still some outdated bad reviews about bugs that have been fixed in the meanwhile.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Anyone have any idea why some of us are unable to enter rating / reviews ??
[Android Head-Units] SharkysRacing:
Fcc: 3.361

Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Manufacture: ALPS

Model EVB-3561

Got the FM radio update from here. Dont recall the numbers. I know the old icon was blue and the new one is red. Ha ha ha.

Updated the radio app and its been fine. Uninstalled Sygic. About a week later FCC showed a update on the play store. After update. Its been going crazy.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
What I would do in your situation is:

(1) Backup your FCC settings (to SD -- currently backup to Google Drive does not seem to work)

(2) Uninstall FCC and Re-boot.

(3) Go back a few weeks in the Forum, and download a version was about 3-4 weeks ago.

(4) Install that version

(5) Make sure Radio etc are working

(6) Then restore your FCC settings from your backup, or just re-build your pages if they were not too complex.

Then if you feel so inclined, you can update to later version of FCC from downloads from the forum.

If a later version makes your issue come back, then report that, and while waiting for it to be fixed, go back to step (1) and re-unstall the least version of FCC that worked for you,

Note: If you know your current version, you can go back reading SpeedFire- 's posts where he talks about uploading Version to the Play Store, and figure out and get the Previous version to the one you recently updated to. that caused your issues.

You might consider turning OFF auto-updates of Apps so you can better control and know when other apps are updating on your device,

You can also get prior version of FCC from

https://m.apkpure.com/fcc-car-launcher/ru.speedfire.flycontrolcenter/versions

(Which might be easier than going back and reading a mass of posts)

If you updated about a week ago, you probably have 3.361 (2020-3-5)

Try installing the previous version 3.358 (2020-2-12)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I created compass widget with an assumption that user will use one custom compass widget at maximum. And even if he will use several custom compass widgets they will have the same custom background and arrow.

It seems that you want to use several custom compass widgets with different backgrounds.

Here is the version which may help you: FCC 3.361 v3

You can assign different custom backgrounds. BUT the custom arrow will always be the same (if not - too many resources will be spent on rotating different bitmaps with a high frequency).

Let me know if it works for you or not.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Can you try this version? FCC 3.361 v3
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Yes. Thank you everyone for your support!

Really appreciate your responses and marks. This motivates!
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Ref: FCC 3.361 V3

Thanks for fixing the Custom Compass issue in this latest version of FCC :good:

---------- Post added at 12:06 ---------- Previous post was at 11:53 ----------

Works Great -- many thanks... Same custom "BIG" Arrow is fine.

FYI: I have FCC running in an "OLD car", and the head unit is placed very low, where they use to fit the AM/FM radio, way down below the vents, and vent controls

Because of this, one has to look down to a place quite low, and that means you cannot look at the head unit at the same time as looking at the road.

Also my head unit does not have a very high contrast display.

So, looks at the head unit have to be restricted to a quick glance while driving, so it is good for the display to have easy to read, high contrast graphics, and most of the control done with the steering wheel controls.

FCC is ideal for this as it is so highly customizable, and has really put a new lease of life into my 1987 Nissan maxima !!

FCC is the best thing that has happened to my car in the last 30 years !!!

Touching any compass toggles between the two Compass pages, (nice and big Buttons while driving), and also can select between the two screens with the Steering wheel controls.
[Android Head-Units] jukk:
Has anyone else had trouble with GPS not starting (getting any satellites) lately after turning on the unit? There has never been any trouble with this since I bought the device half a year ago. GPS has been up and running within a minute, usually only a few seconds. But since last week it happens that sometimes when starting the car GPS doesn't work at all. It could take 15 minutes or more before GPS starts working (and then I've tried rebooting and everything). It started maybe a little more than a week ago and has happened maybe three or four times now. I haven't done any other changes than updated apps through playstore. I have the latest official release of FCC. I'm only writing this because I saw that there were some support for GPS widgets in previous version. I don't know if it is a coincidence or not.
[Android Head-Units] bajoseph04:
I was running the latest playstore beta on my car head unit and was wondering why the minimap widget was not updating the location yesterday. Never thought it could be due to FCC. So didn't check it with any other maps like google map / sygic so can't be very sure. Upgraded to the XDA version FCC 3.361 v3 today but haven't tested it yet. I should be able to test it again tomorrow.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I have not seen any signs of the GPS satellites not working when running FCC.

When the GPS Sat satellite widget was added, I put it on my Home Page, (next to the Wfifi /BT widget.

I have my GPS Satellite widget touch activate a GPS Status app, and I always see the FCC Widgets (within less than a minute) display the correct number of satellites, that match that of the Satellite Status app.

I have not taken that much note of it, as it seems to run fine, but I assume it might take longer to acquire Satellites from a re-boot, as opposed to just coming out of sleep ??

I also believe that it can take longer if the Satellite signal is weak - ie you are starting a journey from an underground Car Garage etc.

Maybe install one of the many Free Satellite Status apps, that will display the signal strength of the acquiring/acquired satellites.

However, my Samsung J3 cellphone,( NOT running FCC) sometimes doe NOT ever see Satellites, when coming out of Power Save mode. and when this happens, it does need a re-boot
[Android Head-Units] dmandic:
Hello Speedfire,

I think that this launcher is great, and this is the reason that I decided to purchase Premium.

I have PX6 4GB, 32GB Android 9 device (Asottu/Uniway) for Hyundai Tucson 2015. I installed latest FCC launcher from Play, and when I wanted to purchase Premium from Headunit, there were some error regarding billing not possible at time. I didn't want to wait, so I installed FCC on my phone and purchased from phone, convinced that Premium licence will transfer on Headunit FCC. Unfortunately, it didn't happened [emoji853].

Later I searched forum and I have found that there were other cases of users unable to purchase Premium. I thought that this is some problem introduced in latest version, I uninstalled and tried few past versions (up to 355), still not luck. When I try to purchase Premium from Headunit, it shows old error: Error: Billing service unavailable on device, and my Premium licence is not recognized. If course, same Google account that I made purchase from phone is on Headunit. I tried installing FCC on tablet, and there was automatic recognition of licence.

Do you have some solution?

Thanks,

Dario
[Android Head-Units] skkrilec:
Hi, can anyone tell me how to make music app autohide after wake up?.

Another thing, how and where can i download streetmaps to show street names in mini map?

Thank u.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is probably because of the conflict with a Satellite widget (even if it wasn't put on your home screen).

Everyone who has issues with GPS please install this version and remove all Satellite widgets:

FCC 3.361 v4

Please comment if this helped or not.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This looks like you don't have the latest Google Services or Play Store app on your device.

It is always better to purchase from the head unit itself.

If you won't be able to solve the issue send me PM with order# and payment date for a refund.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Does 3.361 v4 still have the Satellite Widget available and has anything changed in V4 after v3 to fix any potential issues.

I am running v3, and all is well -- If I update to v4 (or later) , will I loose the ability to have a Satellite Widget ?

I very much like the Satellite widget -- always good to know the GPS is seeing Satellites !!!
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Satellite widget will continue to work as in previous version. Here I added a check - if no satellite widget is on home screen Launcher doesn't load an additional locationManager component (required for satellite count) and continue to use just a FusedLocation.

If satellite widget is on screen both components will be loaded (they seems to have a conflict on some devices).
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Thanks for that info .. sounds good.

Any resolution of the Google Drive , FCC Backup issue. ?

Is it a widespread issue, or has something just done wrong / failed with my particular setup. ?

ie Does Google backup still work for you ??
[Android Head-Units] swyner:
FYI google drive backup works for me. Android 9 running all versions including the latest FCC. running a PX6 board
[Android Head-Units] ric69:
Hi,

Sometimes music widget switch to radio when listening power amp or stock player. Power amp is still playing his song, and I see widget and popup searching FM . Px30 Hal9k mod v4 / FCC playstore version

That's the second time it happens, if I give logcat now (2 hours later) will it help?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Many thanks for the feedback -- just to confirm, we are talking about FCC's backup of it's settings to Google Drive.

The Google Drive apps works fine on my head unit, it's just the ability of FCC to backup & restore (or even to See the backups for restore ) FCC's internal settings backup to Google Drive that is failing for me.
[Android Head-Units] swyner:
Yes. The backup starts and completes and I see it on google drive
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Then this is a mystery for me.

It stopped working on my head unit about 3 weeks ago, at the time that Google announced that they were changing Google Drive to use "Storage" instead of "Backups" for backups,

I just tried it again.. just hangs when trying to talk to the Google drive.

I also tried my "test" Allwinner head unit. That also use to work till about 2-3 weeks ago, now it also cannot FCC backup / restore the FCC settings to Google Drive.

Both work fine when backing up & restoring to SD card.

Maybe there is a difference between Google Drive in the USA vs Canada ?? (or elsewhere)

Anyone in the USA able to backup & restore FCC settings to Google Drive (From within FCC) ?? Desperation is setting in !!!

FYI: When I go to Google Drive (on PC), on the opening MY Drive page, at the top, for the past 2-3 weeks, there has been the message

"Backups have moved. You can now manage and view your device and apps under storage. Lean More"

"Lean More" is the link to an explanation about what has changed.
[Android Head-Units] bajoseph04:
As soon as I installed this version, the mini map was showing the exact location. Haven't driven the car yet but I believe your fix has worked. I had not put the satellite widget on my screen so do you suggest I shouldn't put the widget at all?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This would be a good test for my assumption.

1) Try to drive without satellite widget

2) If everything works try to add it
[Android Head-Units] jukk:
It didn't seem to solve my issue. Maybe I have a hardware problem (antenna cable came loose or something; need to check). It takes a long time (5-10 minutes) and finally I get about 5 satellites connected. When the sky is clear I get more (in the past up to 17).
[Android Head-Units] swyner:
Do you have another android app that can detect satellites? There are quite a few you can download to get a non FCC widget comparison

---------- Post added at 07:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:59 PM ----------

Do you have another android app that can detect satellites? There are quite a few you can download to get a non FCC widget comparison
[Android Head-Units] jukk:
Yes, there is an app that came installed with the unit (Settings, Car, Navigation). It shows satellite strength for individual satellites.
[Android Head-Units] nokian95ita:
I installed the v4 I like how it work but the problem born when I click the home button. It restart via splash screen

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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
If the device can lock onto at least one satellite, most likely it's NOT a software issue. far more likely its a low signal issue, or less likely, but still possible, and interference issue.

Try you Cellphone in the car at the same time, and see if both experience similar issues.

Run a Satellite status app on both, and compare signal strengths.

Note: The status typically shows S/N ratio, the higher the better.

So even if the signal is "OK", if the Noise is high (interference), then its like having a weak signal (low Signal/NOISE ratio ) !!!

So try with and without engine running, and see how the S/N ratio changes .. Hopefully, running the engine does NOT change the readings.

---------- Post added at 17:42 ---------- Previous post was at 17:17 ----------

@SpeedFire-

Is this relevant to FCC ??
[Android Head-Units] bajoseph04:
Can anyone please let me know whether steering control in FCC support all android head units or is it specific to few models? My Android head unit has Mediatek MT3561 running Android 6.0 (shows fake android 9.0) and has 2GB RAM and 32GB internal memory. I would like to assign the steering wheel native voice control button for google assistant or Alexa. I removed the mapping from the head unit settings and then tried to use the FCC setting to assign the button but looks like it doesn't recognize. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
[Android Head-Units] jhony benitez:
Now I can connect odb adapter but widgets don't show any value, any help to solve it please? (Or link to find it , I can't see any reference to this on this forum..)

Any help is welcome!

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[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is device specific and one of the hardest part to implement.

Steering wheel control is implemented for Rockchip devices (and maybe AllWinner if I'm not mistaken). MTK is not supported.