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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Try using this image as a test.. I know this one works
[Android Head-Units] herobkse:
Hi SpeedFire,

I just update to this version today and I have always bugs:

- Changing skins cannot be done with pre-addition of Setting and Application shotcut

- Everything on launcher is invisible : wifi & GPS shotcut, Music player...

- When I uninstall and install again the launcher, nothing change. It does not ask me to select HU type (rockchip of FlyAudio as before)

There is any way to clean completely the launcher to install again ? Or can I download the old version that I had not any problem ?

Thank you for your support.

Best regards,
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Can you show me the video of installation process? It's very interesting.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Merry Christmas to you and your family, and a special thanks for all the hard work and the massive amount of your time you have taken to give us FCC.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Wow! Thank you so much!

Merry Christmas to you Scopesys (great respect for all your hard beta testing work) and to all other great users of our app. We are making it better together.

P.S. Nice pic with FCC label ;)
[Android Head-Units] amxandy:
I would also like to thank you for your hard work on this launcher. It must be very difficult to develop this with all the different rom's and mcu's available, not to mention the different hardware. That being said, no post is made without making a request... I have been looking for different skins for the launcher and haven't seen any. Is there any way to add a few skins or allow a skin editor feature?
[Android Head-Units] ZeroZorro:
In addition to this: is there a place where people share their setups? I am not looking for an easy way and know hardware makes it difficult to export and share setups, but I would like to see what's possible and could use some inspiration ;)
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Bug Report: Beta 3.155 and earlier for some time.

IF listening to Music (or maybe not), if Google app is started, FCC starts tuning the FM Radio !!

Does not happen with other Browsers, ie Chrome or Firefox.

Does not happen if Launcher is NOT FCC (ie default launcher)

Attached is a Video, with audio commentary, showing this happening.

I have used the Google Identify Muisc to identify playing music in both FM Radio, as well as other players in the past with FCC, and it has always worked correctly.

Now, more recently it is tuning the FM Radio.

( Tried both px5 & px5+ -- normally I use px5+)

This is NOT happening on my ALLWINNER test unit.

Even simpler test : If music is playing, and the APP Google is started (from View Apps) , FM Radio gets selected & tuned.

Uninstalled Google, and re-installed Google-- still happens
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I sometimes attach my FCC Backup.

The main issue I find with restoring a backup onto a different unit, is that the apps on the original unit may not be installed on the new unit. FCC has cached the Icons etc in the backup, so the screens restore fully populated with the original icons, but if the app is missing, obviously nothing happens when you click on them.

With the above limitations, I have been able to FCC backup my Px5 unit, and restore to a AllWinner P3-T3 unit.

Its a work in progress, and a bit messy, as I ahve lots of extra stuff on the FCC screens for beta testing etc, and trying out other apps, but attached is my current FCC Backup.

WARNING: If you want to try it, remember to backup YOUR current FCC settings, so you can go back to your setup !!

Remove the ZIP of the end of the attached backup file to be able to have FCC restore it. (Just added the Zip so it could be an attachment in the forum)

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Currently, still a bug with Backup.

Backup to Google Drive -- now always gives a file error popup (did not a few versions ago)

Backupup to SD, does not give error, but also says it is backup up to google drive.
[Android Head-Units] r_james_s:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Been using your fantastic app for a little while on my PX5 Xtrons and it's great! I'm on version 3.130 and need to upgrade.

However. I haven't found any such option, so I'd like to make a feature request:

Is it possible to hide the on-screen volume slider in all or selected apps? The reason is that I sometimes turn the screen off so it's not distracting, but when I change the volume from the knob on the unit or steering wheel, the screen comes back on.

Many thanks!
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Volume control indicator is controlled by your head unit (its system files) not by the launcher, unfortunately.

Theoretically I can make custom FCC actions for volume up / down without visual indication (at least for Rockchip devices) and you can try to assign these actions to your buttons / knobs.
[Android Head-Units] r_james_s:
That's a shame. I suppose the only way to do it would be with a custom ROM then?

I'm not 100% sure how the custom actions would work, sounds like it could be potentially unreliable for some apps. Also I haven't managed to get the wheelkey assignment working yet.

Merry Christmas!
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Have you been able to reproduce starting Google selecting and tuning the FM Radio issue. ?

The impression I got when beta testing over the past 6 months, is that when working on the Player Widget some time ago before the many re-designs, a lot of effort was put into getting the FM Radio to function reliably, despite all the other, now discovered issues.

I still find that when The Player Widget does not update as expected, temporarily changing to the FM Radio often fixes the issue.

So, I am wondering if some of those earlier FIXES to make the FM radio work, despite other now fixed design issues, if those maybe now redundant fixes, are causing the Radio issue I now see.

It's difficult to imagine why starting Google, would cause the FM radio to tune multiple times, but you can clearly see it doing so in the video I recently posted when I reported the apparent bug.
[Android Head-Units] herobkse:
Hi SpeedFire,

I'm newbie and I don't know how to record the installation process. But can you give me a link to download the old version. I'd like to downgrade to do some test.

Thanks.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I had no chance to test it so far. Maybe I will do it tonight. Anyway thanks for reporting this bug.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Just tried a new clean install of 3.156 .. same issue.

It's Christmas Eve, and tomorrow is Christmas....

Have a break .... it's been a busy year ..... Nothing that cannot wait---

( For me, I'll just not use Google Music Search for the time being)

Apart from Google Music Search & Poweramp .. FCC (for me) has improved enormously over the past 6 months .. I'm more than happy...

Thank you ---
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
3.157 is uploaded:

- FM Radio frequency changing bug is fixed
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

FANTASTIC ,,, so a Happy Christmas to me as well !!!

IF you have a quick moment, can you briefly tell me what was causing it ...

(It will be some time before Google Play has the update available for download)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This was just a stupid mistake in the process of refactoring the code and making it more multiplatform compatible. When setVolume function executed the function setNextFreq executed as well (it was copy pasted as an example of new structure and I didn't delete the function itself) [emoji3]
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is relatively simple if you have a Rockchip device and native wheel button re-binding works with your device.

Go to FCC Settings -> System -> Wheel buttons -> Native button re-binding (1st option) -> Try to bind Volume-Up button and set a Short click action "VOL+" to it.

The same for Volume-Down button.

FCC's "VOL+" and "VOL-" functions are 'silent' and should work in all apps.
[Android Head-Units] Salvo-x:
Happy Holidays to all
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Thanks ... it was very strange to be happening.

Hope you had a good Christmas Day -- mine is just starting :)

Updated to 3.157 and great -- confirm that the FM Radio changing Freq bug is fixed.

Unfortunately, when I did a complete uninstall, and re-install, I discovered that in 3.157, it would not restore my settings backup. Backups that previous version would restore.

When restoring, it seems to crash FCC at the start of the Widget restore, so FCC restarts, and almost nothing is restored - virtually blank pages.

Had to go back a few versions, uninstall & install the older version .. Restore settings backup, and then update to 3.157.

At 3.157, I know I cannot restore settings backups.

Also, seeing some new issues.. may have been there before, but are definatly in 3.157.

Spotify: Next/previuous song: Text updates, but FCC Notification only displays and animates if Artwork changes. If the next/previous song has same artwork as the current, no FCC Notification.. but Widget Artist & Song does update.

GUESS: Some bug in an optimization, that detects it does not need to update Artwork for new song, if same as current.. but then does not run Animated Notification ??

Also, when switching players, typically Widget does not sync with the Play/Pause state of the selected player. -- then have to go into the player, and tell it to RUN -- then the widget syncs.

Also, when selecting a Quickplayer, does not always switch the selected color to the new player.

Typically selecting FM Radio always works, and shows selected, and then selecting the required Quickplayer, selects it first time.

Also, sometimes the CONTROLS do not display on the Artwork in the Player Widget, and FCC needs to be restarted to get them back.

The cause of some of these Bugs might be obvious to you, once pointed out .. If anything is not clear, let me know if a Video will help, and I'll make one.

Sorry to throw so many at you at once.. I was up till 3am last night, 8pm - 3am, trying to get FCC reinstalled and running again after I found out that I could not restore settings to the 3.157 version .. ALL GOOD FUN .. accepted nature of being a Beta Tester :)

Really appreciate how much more difficult Beta Testing would have been, if you had not implemented the Backup-Restore -- that was a very good move to have done, when you did. :)

Added: Just did some more testing and found that some above issues go away when I turn OFF the FCC animated Notifications -- still cannot Restore
[Android Head-Units] liahe:
Hello [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION], thanks for this great launcher. I have a unit with Allwinner R16. After the last changes the integration is much better.

Here are some topics when I set up FCC Launcher as Allwinner:

The multimedia widget integrates perfectly with the Radio app and with the standard player. But the screen brightness does not work with the Widget and it does not adjust automatically either, it just does not interact with the brightness of my device. Although if I set FCC as Rockchip, the brightness level works manually with widget and automatically with speed, but the multimedia widget does not interact with the radio application or with the standard player.

On the volume control, it only works if I set the launcher as a tablet. I can use the volume widget and it also adjusts the volume automatically depending on the speed, but the integration of the multimedia widget with the radio and the standard player does not work and the automatic brightness does not work either.

I hope you help my comments to improve this wonderful launcher.

If you need any proof, tell me.

I have version 3.156 installed
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Hi. AllWinner integration just started. You're right that only FM Radio and Standard player are integrated currently. I still need to find out how to change brightness.

Thanks for a tip that volume can be controlled using standard android way. I will include it.
[Android Head-Units] liahe:
I do not know if I have not explained myself well. If I set the launcher as Rockchip the brightness control works perfectly (Widget an automatic control). I hope this information helps you.

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I do not know if I have not explained myself well. If I set the launcher as Rockchip the brightness control works perfectly (Widget an automatic control). I hope this information helps you.
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Would it be possible to fix the background to the page?

Just now the content of the page moves up/down on swiping and the background stays as is. I would like to have different background settings for my 3rd screen. That needs that the background moves with the apps on the page.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Being able to select the Background on a Page-by-Page basis would be something that I might use, but thinking about it, it raises a question.

If such a change was made, or other changes possibly, how compatible would a Settings backup be, if it was made with an older version, and then one tried to restore to a newer APP version that had theses additional features.

It is staring to look like backups might only be 100% restore-able to the version that the backup was made on. This is fine, if this is the rule going forward, and is known to be the case.

ie

(1) backup app

(2) Backup setting, with name referencing the app version.

(3) Update App

Then if you want to do a Clean Install

(1) Backup settings, with name referencing the new app version

(2) Uninstall app

(3) Reboot / clear cache

(4) Re-Install app

(5) Restore version specific Settings backup

Then if things go wrong, you can always re-install the older version with its matching settings backup.

If this really is the correct way to go to be 100% sure that backup-restore works when updating APP version, then maybe it would a good idea to automatically include the APP version in the 1st part of the default backup file name... ie Date_Time_Version_
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
The issue with backup&restore should be written on a second paper.

Additional page settings should be independant from a restore of older versions if there are no changes in the data structure.

On top SpeedFire- would be able to use default values for not included settings.

This should be the best way to minimize restore issues.
[Android Head-Units] D882228:
I am on the latest beta version. During set up I did not get a notification to allow binding of widgets and now I cannot add fcc widgets. Is there a way in the settings to fix this?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Whatever is decided is fine with me. I was just pointing out that the current version may not be able restore a previous version's backup .. it does not populate any widgets, and leaves you with a defective installation, as someone else has now also reported.

The procedure I outlined, should at least give Beta testers some protection from updates failing, and give them the ability to go back to a previous version, with a working previous settings backup.

Difficult if Playstore now a later version, and you have not made a backup (saved/exported ) the APK for yourself.

It is a process that I will start adopting

, so that I can reliably recover, should anything go wrong .. its not difficult, or time consuming, and it gives me an independent way to fix and recover.

What other's choose to do is up to them

-- I am only letting others know of the potential problem, and offering a solution if they want it.

[MENTION=2534110]rigattoni[/MENTION] Yes, agreed, in an ideal world --

But this is a Beta World, and FCC is in a constant state of Development & Improvement .. not everything is 100% yet -- but thanks to the effort and hard work by [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] , its getting there faster than any other APP currently being supported on the PlayStore :)

Offhand, I cannot think of another App that is potential as Complex as FCC, or that is required to work with so many other Apps, on multiple platforms.

Even "Android Studio", that is obviously very complex, does not have to deal with the constantly updates of Apps that it needs to tightly integrate with.

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] You are a Miracle Worker :)

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[MENTION=2534110]rigattoni[/MENTION]

You appear to recognize certain potential programming limitations and complexities.. I must assume you have a programming background ... Cool
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Was playing with FCC again today, and switching between Quickplayers with the Player Widget CONTROL.

What I found was that if I Pause the current player 1st, with the WIDGET Control, before selecting a different Player, the switch between the players ran a lot more reliably, and the selected player started playing, and was in-sync with the Control's PLAY/PAUSE control.

If I did not pause the 1st Quickplayer, very often the next selected QUickplayer was out-of-sync with the Pay/Pause control, and it required going into the player itself, and starting the player to play from within the App to sync it's control back up with the Widget Control.

Since when switching players, you effectively want the current player to pause/stop, would it make sense to have the Player WIdget CONTROL AUTOMATICALLY send a pause to the current player, before switching to the new selected Quickplayer. ?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Just restart Launcher or your device once
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
New version is uploaded (3.158):

AllWinner: native Sound and Brightness support is added
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
3.159:

- Amazon Music album arts support is added
[Android Head-Units] tonimontoia:
to when you system Bluetooth icon that does not work thanks
[Android Head-Units] jostor4713:
Hi all. A great work this launcher, thanks [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]. Just one question, the sides of my screen are darker than stock launcher. I have hidden FCC side panels, I do not know if it will be related. If I use stock launcher the screen lights up well, if I use FCC I get dark sides, using the same wallpaper.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Looks strange. Maybe FCC's autobrightness function decreases backlight to the lower levels than in stock launcher. You can disable it in settings or adjust auto-brightness levels. The other option to test is to put brightness widget to your home screen and test it with higher brightness.
[Android Head-Units] jostor4713:
I have automatic brightness disabled but I will try to change values ​​and observe results. As soon as I can, I'll send a photo.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Big "THANK YOU" - greatly appreciated :)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Real thanks should go to Idledev who made enormous efforts for providing me with an access to Amazon Music (added to his family plan and even created and verified a new separate account for me). The remaining part from my side was relatively easy.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Then an extra big thanks to Idledev as well .. :)
[Android Head-Units] Idledev:
Glad I could help! :)
[Android Head-Units] tebukan:
Hello there. happy New Year. Is there an improvement on the bluetooth icon? Because it's passive.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Ref ALLWINNER

(a) Should I expect Amazon Music album art to work (does not on mine) :(

(b) Should I expect the the FCC Brightness Widget to work (Does not on mine), :(

although the FCC Volume Widget now works since 3.158 :)

PX5

No Amazon Music Album Artwork displays

Attached is Video, showing lack of Amazon Music Artwork, as well as Spotify Artwork being one Artwork behind. It is always 1 artwork behind on the FCC notifications, and randomly FCC will go into a mode where the Displayed Artwork is 1 artwork behind, at other times(after a restart), it may run displaying the correct artwork, but even then, the FCC Notification is always 1 artwork behind.

Sometimes the FCC Notificatiosn stop altogether, and the artwork does not update, but switching to say FM RADIO, and the FCC Notification then works correctly with FM RADIO.

This is demonstrated in the attached Video.

When I made the video, FCC did not act quite the same as when I was testing.. hence the pause & surprise in the Commentary .. bit it still was not working correctly, but just in a slightly different way as before... ( go figure ! )

As far as the Amazon Music Artwork not displaying, Version Amazon Music 15.19.4.apk (just to make sure is same one that Speedfire- tested with)

The Video MP4 - Split into 2 parts. Each part is compressed as Zip file
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Hm. No. I use Amazon Music 8.0.2 OTA (#210) Last updated: Dec 26, 2018.

Downloaded from here: https://www.apkmonk.com/app/com.amazon.mp3/

Update: I just installed 15.19.4 and album arts work with this version as well. Maybe I uploaded the wrong version of my app to Play Market?

Please check this direct link for my current FCC version: FCC Launcher 3.159
[Android Head-Units] Xorit:
Tested this today real quick and sadly at least for me it's not working.

It was sometime before, around the late ver. 2's but stopped with the various changes to the player widget.

Is this new method you are using supported on Android 6?

Cuz that would be the reason that it's not working, as I'm still on it :)

-> Restarted the device 2 times

-> Amazon music is started by a screen widget - playlist started, switch back to FCC -> blank album art.

Am I doing something wrong or do I have to activate something? - I have never redone nor backup/restore upon an update tho.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Here is a video of how album arts work with Amazon Music on my device.

Please check this direct link for my current FCC version: FCC Launcher 3.159
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Tried both FCC ver 3.159 from Play Store as well as the one from your Google Drive.

NEITHER install as a fresh install. Neither did 3.158

The only way I can get these later versions to install, is to initially install 3.155, and then update.

If I install 3.155, it installs as expected, and I can restore saved settings.

If I then update to 3.159 it installs, but I then cannot restore settings.. Widgets do not restore their locations, and I end up with either a Blank FCC, or a FCC that cannot run.

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Please can you verify that you can do a clean install of 3.159 to an actual Px5 Hardware unit...

I would not want to ask or suggest than anyone else tries a fresh install of 3.159, for fear that they will end up in the same non-functioning situation I am now in..

I get a GUT FEELING that the later version of FCC do not enable FCC to "bind widgets", hence the failure to do a fresh Install, or do a restore of saved settings.

If it is an update, the Binding of Widgets is already enabled ???

Just a feeling... I do not see the option to Bind Widgets appear in later version when I install, but I see it in say 1.155 which installs fine
[Android Head-Units] jostor4713:
Hi. I have taken pictures with a method mentioned by Scopesys, placing a white paper in front of the screen (thank you very much). It can be seen that in FCC desk both sides have no lighting. I've tried changing all the brightness options but it's still the same.

Launcher Stock https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-knzdlEHvtRGMDSUvbZz6OTy8u1EuRFv

Fcc Desktop 1 https://drive.google.com/open?id=19HH2eJm8FF2vQMMBGtW96_XNUGiAE9m7

Fcc desktop 2 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SqN7D42lwjlp8vhigIs63yeHTzhbeZ5r