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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
OMG .. Its me again !!!

Suggestion:

Please consider moving the screen designer DELETE item "Cross" to the LEFT of the display, keeping the EDIT icon on the RIGHT.

I have lost count of how many times I have slipped when moving a (highly customized) Widget to the EDIT icon, and it has ended up on the DELETE icon, and has Gone.

Its a P.I.T.A. to have to re-create all these setting in again in a heavily customized replacement Widget.

Some time ago I had suggested that the DELETE has a pop-up confirmation Y/N to delete.

This would require some extra programming, whereas moving the delete to the opposite side of the screen, would help prevent accidental Deletion, without the programming of the confirmation pop-up, (which would then not really be so necessary)
[Android Head-Units] jun81:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Exactly same issues
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I see a similar issue with the Player Widget. ( but reversed ?)

In the switched order (checkbox checked), the Top line does scroll if the text is too long, but when it has scrolled to the point where the last character in the text appears on the right, it immediately jumps back to displaying the start of the text... it should either wait a few seconds before it jumps/refreshes, or, after a gap, start scrolling the text again, entering from the right.

If the swap artist/title checkbox is unchecked, it does not scroll at all.

COSMETIC : Not as important as some of the more Functions Bugs -
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
So on that basis, it seems that the top line will always scroll if the text overflows, and the bottom line will not. I had not noticed the missing a bit of text because it jumps straight back. I think the best option would be for it to continue scrolling until its 50% of the way off the screen (or to put it another way, 50% of the line is now blank). Then the text should start scrolling again with the remained of the original text continuing to scroll off.

I agree though that functionality bugs are more important. I'd be keen to have the text working again for instance ;)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I can't reproduce this on my PX5 device :(

Everything works there.

Can you record a LogCat log?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Thanks for checking .. There was someone else who confirmed they were getting exactly the same issue.

So far, I have not Rooted my unit .. the last unit I rooted Bricked.

Could it be a FCC setting that is incorrect in our units ?

FCC has got so complex, there are so many setting .. and I do not have the experience with FCC to remember them all.

Seem to recall something about an option for forcing a "BacK" , in connection with the steering wheel controls ????

Maybe wait to see if other report the same issue.

If they don't, I will get into it further...

I have got a lot of time invested in setting up FCC.

Is the backup-restore now reliable ?

ie If I were to completely Uninstall, and then re-install, and then just set up a very simple switching between Power-amp & Radio, could I later restore all my screens & configured widgets, getting back to where I was before the backup ?
[Android Head-Units] jun81:
Everything was working 2beta before.

Could be due to new features implementation.

I can try do a cat log later after work maybe 12hrs later.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
If you don't have root don't do it. I will try to reproduce it again. Maybe you can record a short video?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
A video I can do....

Give me a day or 2. Each time I start FCC, it seems to behave differently :)

So let me get a consistent set of things to Record, that have some logic to them, and I will get it to you.

The needing to start the radio twice, if the current player is playing, or just once if it is pause, seems to have gone away with the latest update... so that is working OK now.

Still have the scroll issue, where it jumps back as soon as the last character comes in from the left, if the text is longer than the box.

Another strange one I saw tonight, with the Notifications and their Artwork.

If there is a notification with artwork when a player changes song, the correct artwork displays in the Notification. (GOOD).

But if the next song selected does not have any artwork, it display the last song's artwork (instead of a Blank artwork).

Also, the adding of Radio Station names and Artwork is buggy.

Having created a new entry, with Frequency, Title and selected artwork, and saved it... the artwork does not save the 1st time, You have to back out, select that saved Station, and see the artwork is missing, and then add it in again, and save. Then it is OK.

Almost as if the new Radio station has to be saved first and exited from, and then recalled BEFORE an artwork can be added to it ???

Hopefully you can reproduce that one... should be obvious quite quickly if it is a widespread bug.
[Android Head-Units] acmegr:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

can you please check if there is compatibility issue?

Thank you!
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I don't understand exactly what processor your device has, however it seems to be not a Rockchip device (so it is probably not supported)
[Android Head-Units] acmegr:
Is there another way to overcome this? For example can I create somehow a shortcut and have the radio app like any other app? I don't mind using it as an app and not having it totally integrated into your shortcuts.

Thanks!
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Don't you have this FM radio shortcut in All Apps list? Do you have it in any other third party launcher?
[Android Head-Units] acmegr:
In the default UI there is an icon like all other apps but when I go to see all the apps, even in the default UI, I cant find this app again.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This means that this is not a real shortcut but some fake shortcut available only in default UI. Such icons cannot be accessed from third party launchers without deep integration with particular type of Head Unit.
[Android Head-Units] LJ1981:
I have this same issue. I have Rockchip px5 mtce unit. Sometimes it doesn't even help selecting radio again. It just keeps turning Spotify back on even after trying to turn radio on for ten times. Restarting fcc helps for that.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Is there a CHANGE LOG anywhere, that indicates what has been changed/fixed in each Beta.

Each day I go to test something there is a new Update (Not complaining - far from it) and FCC seems to operate differently... it's difficult to determine what has changed, or what runs for a time and then stops working.

I re-boot after every Update, but it still seems the longer I run FCC without a re-boot, the more Audio Player things in it seize up & stop working.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
My Radio keeps wanting to re-start and run PoweAmp , even after a re-boot. !!! Go figure

You might also try the app "APPKILLER" ... if you run that to kill all the accumulated apps running in the background, and then re-boot -- you should be starting off again from a know reference point each time. so you can better determine what is happening.

Like you, I am finding that if things start to go wrong in FCC, then starting FCC, or better still "The above", can often restore better operation (for a while).

FCC is amazingly complex, and I have great admiration of SpeedFire, for developing such a complex app, (especially as I believe it was his 1st App .. talk about jumping in at the deep end !!).

With all the changes, tweaks to design, and additions, it is not at all surprising that there will be numerous interacting modules that may need to be re-worked, to get a 100% stable App.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
In the latest beta I tried to fix FM radio again. Please check.
[Android Head-Units] LJ1981:
Radio seems to be working now!

There is now another problem which occurred with this beta:

After sleep launcher doesn't startup automatically. After pressing home button of the device or Swc button assigned to it, launcher starts. This doesn't happen if I turn off acc and wait for like 20 seconds and turn acc back on. Only happens if device stays sleeping for like 5 minutes or more.

When launcher doesn't start radio app is shown and radio is on. With full reboot of the device launcher starts every time.

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[Android Head-Units] LJ1981:
Also noticed that speedometer widget is not working. Only - flashing. Other apps and fcc launcher on statusbar shows correct speed. Tried rebooting and removing and replacing the widget. Still not working.

Should I try with fresh install? I installed on top of previous version.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
No. This seems to be a bug. I will look into it.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
I am still having issues with Players, including Radio.

Maybe it is the way I am using FCC... I do not have any QuickPlayers defined, and am relying on the 4th QuickPlayer position to represent the current player, whose App I have started.

I have the Player Widget displaying the name of the current player(4th quickplayer)

A few symptoms of what appears to be going wrong. or not working as expected.

(1) After a Re-Boot, things are reasonably stable... but RADIO always does not display "RADIO" .. instead it displays the last Player that did display.

(2) Selecting between Radio & PowerAmp is hit and miss, with radio often only running for a second, before returning to PowerAmp.

What is strange is that after a few selections, it beings to work correctly for a time, and then further selection causes the selection process to lock up, and a re-boot is needed.

My GUT feeling is that if when selecting radio, if the Player Widget was able to update to refleect that the Radio was now the current player, it might not want to keep switching back to the previous player.

Another strange thing.. making Radio Station descriptions and artwork. It would seems that artwork cannot be added and saved at the time the Radio station is first defined. it has to be created and saved first, and then edited to add the artwork. The whole creation and save process seems to be flawed, as when saving, it jumps out of the Radio definition menu option, and completely out of any FCC setup menu.

lastly, when displaying artwork, if the song changes, and there is not an artwork (or radio station artwork), for the new sing/station, it keeps on dis0laying the old artwork, which is now the wrong artwork. maybe it should display the default artwork ?

I am hoping that if some of the above issues were fixed, in doing so, some of the stability might be restored in other areas.

The concern is, that as FCC is used, it seems to deteriorate in its working, so that after a time, the system needs a complete re-boot to regain original operation.

Also, there are occasions when FCC is being used, that it Cashes the HU altogether, and it then tries to re-boot, often hanging, and requiring a full manual re-boot to operate again.

(I now have a Restart FCC Icon on the Home Screen, I need it so often !!)
[Android Head-Units] LJ1981:
Do you mean Speedometer and Launcher not starting after sleep I mentioned in earlier post or only the speedometer?

I'm going to check with another launcher later today and if the launcher bug exists with that also, then there must be something wrong with my headunit software.
[Android Head-Units] aalmans:
Has someone been able to reproduce this? I even did a head unit factory reset and a clean install of FCCCar Launcher. Same issues.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

After 2 hours of playing with FCC in the garage, I think I might have some idea why I am having issues.

If I go back to the Player Widget just having the 3 defined players, and select them with the widget, all seems to work fine - and I can either display all 3 players names or Icons on the Widget, or just the current one..

What I was doing in the past, was selecting no players for all 3 defined players, and then relying on the current player to be the 4th player, displaying its name/icon on the widget. I then got issues when I started a different 4th player, and the widget had issue realizing that the 4th Player had changed.

When it is set to display to have 3 defined Players, and display all their 3 names, all is OK. Start a 4th player, and that gets displayed as a 4th player in the list.

But then that 4th player has been added -- the widget has problems if a new 4th player is started.

Basically, selection of the Player works fine if the Widget is being used to select them, but gets mixed up if the players are changed outside of the widget.

I also see issues where the Artwork stops updating , and requires FCC to be re-started to work again.

If I have notifications running, showing Notification Artwork, sometimes the Notification Artwork does not match the players artwork on a song change, but then re-sync to the same two artworks on the next song change.

Hopefully you can reproduce this, and figure out what may be going wrong in the code.

For the time being, I'll run with just the 3 defined Players, and see if all works in a stable manner for the next few days.

Note: IF I make the RADIO one of those 3 players, and select it with the Widget, then there appears to be NO Radio issues !!!

Hope this helps ..... :confused:
[Android Head-Units] jun81:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Have attached a cat log regarding this issue in the latest beta

player list

1. fm radio

2. poweramp

3. spotify

issues:

- radio selected unit switch straight to poweramp (radio does not play)

- radio selected and playing but switches to playing music in poweramp shortly (radio plays)

- spotify experiencing same issues poweramp started instead

- spotify does not start when selected.
[Android Head-Units] LJ1981:
I managed to figure out the problem with launcher not starting after sleep. If unit enters sleep with radio playing and launcher in front, the unit starts after sleep with radio app in front and the launcher doesn't activate. Launcher is on in background but doesn't get activated before I press home button. After this automated applications set in fcc settings start.

If I have Spotify playing or radio app off when unit enters sleep, launcher gets activated after sleep and automated applications start automatically.

Also noticed that with latest beta the trip data is messed up showing something like over two million km/h for average speed and reset doesn't work.
[Android Head-Units] piercedpanda:
Dear [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

My weather widget is still not working.

Do you know if there are still problems with it?

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Dear [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

My weather widget is still not working.

Do you know if there are still problems with it?
[Android Head-Units] JSZESZE:
Since the most recent updates. The MiniMap randomly is shown on pages I never had it on. I even deleted all my pages and started over thinking there may have been blank widgets or something I added whole making the layout. I attached a photo. It always pops up in the same place. Mostly when the car starts. Or when I go into an app and then back out to the home screen.

Is there a place to download old versions. My setup was very stable a few versions back
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Breakthrough

BREAKTHROUGH !!

Wanted to share this, as it might now have been obvious to users, that you can have Multiple copies of the same Widget on your page, each one configured differently, and they Interact !!!

Because of this discover, and making use of it :-

I've got FCC working with a new layout, and it appears to be now dealing with Players with a 100% Working solution.

Before, I was using the Player widget, but relying on the 4th player, and selecting from outside the widget, the player that I wanted the widget to display.

Note: Two copies of the Player Widget running.

(1) In the center, displaying the Artwork, and another in the top right, displaying the Song/Artist.

ie You can have two Instances of the Widget running, with differing configurations, and they interact correctly.

(2) The Players are separate Apps, that can be started from this Menu screen.

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The New layout relies on being able to have multiple instances of the widget, and lets the widget start/control what player is playing.

IN order to have more than the 3 Quickplayers, I have two Instances of the Player Name widget, each with 3 defined players, (and importantly, the 4th auto one disabled)

The 6 players display across the bottom, and now these is no need to have the Players, as Apps on the Menu.

What is FANTASTIC, is that the selection is now done by the widget, selecting any one of the 6 players along the bottom, the widget KNOWS which is is the selected player, and updates the Artwork Player Widget as well as the Song/Artist Player Widget.

The only display feature that could be improved, in the display of Text or Player Controls on the Artwork. It would be nice is both could be selected to have a dark outline, or a back shadow, so the Text/control would be clearer to see on the artwork background.

Not a problem when artwork is dark, but on a white background artwork, the white text for the Player Controls will not be visible !!

(Note: One could make the Controls a separate instance of the widget, and place them off the Artwork, but it would be nice if text on artwork could have a contrasting outline or shadow.

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Also note the FCC Restart Icon on the main menu. Really necessary when changing anything in FCC, as often re-stating FCC fixes issues when you have edited widgets etc...

You cannot Re-Start FCC too many time !!!! - if in doubt - Re-Start !!

Another very neat app to have available is the one in the Bottom Right Corner.

It calls up Google, that listens to the Music you are playing, and then Identifies the Song/artist etc. Especially good when listening to Radio that does not have digital information about what is playing.

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I thought I had this problem today .. but found that it was being caused by having the MiniMap selected on another Page.

This seemed to cause the MinMap to randomly pop up and disappear on other Pages.

Once I went to the page that had the MiniMap permanently displaying, and closed it on that page, it stopped randomly popping up on other pages.
[Android Head-Units] JSZESZE:
Yes. I figured this out. But I have a setup that relies on the screensaver page to be a full screen mini map.

It was never an issue before
[Android Head-Units] kornholio788:
Mentioned this before and I know others have as well so just bumping it up. Any chance to allow Spotify to put icons on our home screens? I'd love to have an icon to my favorite and my daughters favorite playlists right on the screen. Works well with most other launchers. Sadly not with FCC. Any chance we could get some spotify goodies to work?
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
I have just installed the latest beta, and the current speed widget seems to be broken. Its just showing a flashing - where the speed is normally displayed.

On a related note I know that you can set speed warnings with the colour changing based on the threshold you set. It would be good if you could have this warning change the colour of the speed limit widget as well.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Hi all.

I was pretty busy updating my PC with a bit faster processor and memory (so it can improve building times).

Here is a quick Release 3.108:

- MiniMap dissapear fix

- FM Radio fix

- Streetname widget fix

- Speedometer widget fix

- Updated translations
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Thanks .. looks like you have been busy ......;)
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Looking good :)
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
- MiniMap dissapear fix -- Confirmed

- FM Radio fix -- Confirmed

- Streetname widget fix --- Confirmed

- Speedometer widget fix (not yet driven)

Switching between players is now very much improved, and the past loss of detecting notifications appears to be less frequent :)

Switching between players becomes significantly more stable ( new artwork updates etc), if the current player is 1st paused, before selecting a different player.

Since the old player has to eventually be paused by the new player starting to play, would it be possible for FCC to actively Pause the current player before attempting to switch to a different player. (Talking about the Player widget changing players).

One think I have noticed in the past, and it is still happening, is that PowerAmp seems to have a mind of it's own, and often wants to take over as the Player, when other players are selected. I think this is a PowerAmp thing, but it does make it appear that FCC is not switching correctly.

Even if Poweramp is KILLED, it can still seem to re-start when switching players between to other players .. very strange. Cannot see any settings in PowerAmp that might intentionally cause this.

When switching players, if one switches to Radio first, and then to the 2nd player, it seems to work correctly 100% of the time. (Radio working very well now )

If one Pauses the current player, it also seems to switch players reliably.

FCC only seems to get randomly confused, if you select another Player when the current player is already playing, (especially Poweramp) and then things seem to get locked up, artwork stops updating (Artist & Songs may or may not stop updating), and the only way to get it all working again is to re-start FFC.

(useful to have a Re-Start FFC button on the menu !!!)

Noted: If I have Notifications on, they often stop working when the above happens, but the Notifications are still present if I do a PULL DOWN to view system Notifications,,. so it is as if FFC looses the ability to see notifications ?? (re-start of FCC fixes that, till the next time it starts to fail)

That being said, this (to me) seems to be the best Beta so far, with respect to switching between players... :) VERY HAPPY ... thanks SpeedFire :)
[Android Head-Units] jun81:
Are you using any custom rom?
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
No, standard Eonon GA2170B (with it's original ROM, so not Rooted)

PowerAmp is registered, non-Beta. Maybe I'll try the beta soon.

For the time being, I am considering removing PowerAmp, because if it is a Poweramp issue, it is confusing itself with any FCC issues.

To be honest, since most of the time I have the USB Music player set to 100% Random, almost any simple Music Player will suffice for me -- I do not need the complexities of Poweramp.

PoweAmp "enhanced sound" processing sounds very nice, but it severely messes up Google Assistant, so I tend not to use it.

With this latest Beta Release, FCC is looking pretty good to me :)
[Android Head-Units] jun81:
Yes FCC seems more stable!

Did not have much issues with poweramp over here. KLD.

Maybe someone can confirm this issue?