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[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Nope :(

I had it today on Q short journey where it was just showing the time from earlier in the day, I didn't restart it, but when I went out later and drove it sorted it self out.

I'm assuming you get some sort of notification from the system when the device wakes up and you use that to set the clock , but for some reason you missing that notification, maybe the app wakes up after the notification, or maybe it wakes up and gets it before the system had updated the time to the correct one. If it's the latter maybe you could try starting a timer and reset the clock from system after a couple of seconds?

I guess you could have a thread permenantly running that just sleeps and check the clock is in sync every minute, and sorts it out if it's not. Might be overkill in most cases, but would catch the issue when it does happen.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
3.052 beta:

- Split screen (multi-window) support for Android 8.0+ devices. You will need to create a separate screen for multi window mode but it works!

Here is a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDDNOxrBr0
[Android Head-Units] KoolMoeDee KMD:
Yep. Its quite frustrating cause I've got everything on google music.

It would be great if it could be incorporated into the app or if there is another app we can have running in the background which picks up the steering wheel commends and translates them to NEXT/PREVIOUS for google music.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
A couple of question.

1) Do you have a root? If yes, please write a LogCat log and video while switching tracks from steering wheel buttons.

2) Have you tried to enable Media Button switch option for Google Music (I don't remember how exactly I called it) in FCC's wheel button settings?
[Android Head-Units] Julian75ts:
Hi..

Hi!i'm Sorry but every time i turn the Key on(i use instant boot)the map doesn't update and i Need to fully restart my Joying radio?

Very annoying
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Is this still the case on the latest versions of the app? Have you tried them?
[Android Head-Units] Julian75ts:
Reply..

Yes.. i updated.. but same issue?
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Thanks you for the splitscreen works great.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Version 3.053 is uploaded with.. notifications:

- Animated notifications for music tracks!

Now you can see what track is playing even if you're outside FCC Launcher.

Currently there are almost no options (you can disable notifications or choose to show them only in other apps) but I will add more.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

The notifications shows only station name :) i see only notifications when change a channel.

Dont see the artist and track name.

BTW Nice
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Which player do you use? Notification should show what Player widget shows.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION] MyTuner free It works with the player of fcc. I can skip see artist and number and see album art

But the notifications It only shows the channel name .
[Android Head-Units] KoolMoeDee KMD:
Hi Speedfire,

So No not rooted

Yeah I did try to enable that option but it still didn't work unfortunately.

Im in a Toyota Aurion with a Joying installed

Im happy to help with anything else if it would help the situation.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
My assumption - your wheel buttons are not resistive and they don't send Broadcast to the Android system (because in other case my button interception mode would detect them). So, probably, media switching is performed directly by your MCU unit (I don't know how exactly because they still need to interact with android somehow if they work in other third party players).

The only option here is to get a LogCat log and try to find some android commands there or ask on your device's forum for a solution. Launcher just can't detect any switching event, therefore it can't help.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] How would you feel about a quick way to update the speed limit where its not been set on a road?

I'm thinking that if you tap the speed limit icon when its got a dash in the middle of it, it pops up with a set of the standard speeds limits nice and big so you can see them and tap them easily when driving. Just click the one thats right and it can update OSM with the right speed limit.

That way, its nice and easy to update the data where its missing.

Ben
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Well, it will require deep examination of OSM API (that part which is required for sending information to the OSM).

I will write it down but this is not a priority now.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Good to be added to the (I expect very long) list of things to do :) I'm sure I will come up with some more things for you soon ;)

I'll have a look into updating my local roads manually via the OSM website for the moment.

Thanks

Ben
[Android Head-Units] banksc:
My experience is that the entire interface is locked up when this occurs, not limited to the clock. My music widget doesn't change, nor does my OBD widget showing engine temp.
[Android Head-Units] vassandrei:
Loving the pop up when songs change!! Excellent feature and very tastefully done graphic! Only thing is it’s quite laggy at the moment and often will not appear in time for the song change (I’ll only see the last few frames of the animation and not see what song just came up )
[Android Head-Units] stewartie4:
Hi I am a big fan of the launcher, in fact it is the ONLY launcher that I know of that integrates with the built in radio tuner at all (seriously big props for that).

However even after paying for the pro version I have had to stop using the launcher due to the buggyness of its main selling point (the player widget).

There is a noticeable lag when switching tracks which I have narrowed down to loading the album art. When the station album art is a big file, the entire interface locks up while it is loading, when spotify album art is loading the same thing happens. Switching multiple stations or songs rapidly also causes this to happen, it seems the loading is done in sequence so if you skip 10 songs quickly, the widget tries to load and display 10 album art in quick succession causing lag.

This lag would be fine if the widget worked consistently after that, however it does not. It often does not update when spotify is switched on, keeping the play button as "Play", the album art as the radio station and the title greyed out as if nothing is playing. Tapping the play button switches to the radio.

Other times the album art of spotify will show, but the title will still be the radio station.

Other times it works perfectly for a few songs, until i switch to the radio, after which is ceases to work again.

If this player widget was fixed it would make FCC car launcher hands down the best car launcher. As it stands though I've had to go back to car launcher pro.
[Android Head-Units] KoolMoeDee KMD:
Yeah this is a strange and confusing one cause aps like Poweramp etc work straight away without intervention.

Thanks for providing your input. I'll see if I can get a logger installed so I can see what's actually happening.

Cheers
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Thank you for your feedback. I see this issues too and I have plans too rewrite this part of code entirely. I will let you know when it's done.

Which OS version do you have? 4.4 or 5+?
[Android Head-Units] Xorit:
That plays in the right area here.

My posted logs earlier in this thread show, that the FCC service is beeing killed by system, because it doesn't respond after wake up - maybe locks itself up due to the device sleep and not sleeping itself?

[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] -> since another user with no whitelisting ( :) ) has the widget lockup or ui lockup better say, it might be worth a dig in the logs :confused:

Since you have a MTCD urself now, you should be able to reproduce it.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Bug report for you [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

Having Finally got a reliable mobile data connection (had use a wifi dongle in the end) I can now see road names and speed limits correctly. However the speed limits are always shown in KPH, even though I have the convert to MPH selected.

Out of interest what's the caching policy for that downloaded data?

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Are the default theme files available as image files? I'd like to have a go at making a custom one, but its always nicer to start with something :) Having said that graphics are not my thing so I suspect I won;t end up with anything amazing.

Has anybody else created any custom themes they would be willing to share?
[Android Head-Units] yves31:
FCC launcher is great, much better than other launchers.

Two issues of new version 3.053 on my unit, PX3 1GB running android 7.1.2. MCU is MTCD-HA-V2.52:

1. Bluetooth widget not responding with status always connected. It used to work in earlier versions 3.03x. Wifi widget is always working.

2. Radio RDS not shown in Audio widget. Music player and BT audio work well with title/artist info.

These are minor issues and fixes are appreciated.
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
I have a USB DVR camera and am using the stick DVR app on my px5 MTCD unit (no other app works). It's a bit basic but more or less does the job. You start it and hit record, then on swale up / fast boot it should (and most of the time does) start auto recording. When it's recording it out the text "rec" in the status bar.

Ideally I'd love it if FCC can make sure it's recording and start it if it's not (somebody mentioned tasker can start it - never used it so don't know what it does, but I assume that means FCC could also send some trigger in the same way to start it recording)

Alternatively (or as well) it would be nice if you can have an icon that could be displayed if the "rec" is in the status bar. Then I could easily see if it's not recording and start it manually. The icon could open the dvr app if you click it for a bonus :)

This could actually be quiet nice if more generic to take other bits from the status bar and display them as well, e.g, if you have wifi etc.

At the moment I have to go to the first screen and then pull down the status bar just to see if it's recording (or open the app) both of which I will forget, and that will be the time I need the footage because something will have happened :)
[Android Head-Units] stewartie4:
Thanks very much for the reply, that is very reassuring to hear I appreciate all your hard work!

I'm on Android 8 Rockchip PX5
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Let me know which particular Tasker command works. It will help significantly
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
I have never used tasker, but has asked the question of the person who mentioned in in a post, and will have a look to install and see if its obvious.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Everyone on beta channel.

Please check the latest version 3.054 beta and tell me how it works in terms of overall performance and widget freezing.
[Android Head-Units] Smess1210:
Thanks for all your work [MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION].

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but the speedometer doesn't work after soft restart, the only way to get it back online is a system reboot on my pumpkin device running lollipop 6. (This has always been the case, not just with latest flurry of beta updates.)

Have I missed something? I know there was some chat some time ago on this thread about the speedo...

As a side note the speedometer and speed limit will only ever display km/h it would be handy if the mp/h functioned too as I'm in the uk but it's not the end of the world.....
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Hi all,

Actually there were a LOT of performance improvements done in the latest BETA 3.055.

I really hope that it will solve some of the most mentioned issues. Please test and report on its performance.

This version is posted to the beta channel.

Direct link: 3.055 beta
[Android Head-Units] Xorit:
Havent checked the version but updated yesterday..

nope, still freezing widgets.

Performance is good though.

If this went live today, I will report tomorrow.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
3.055 is a new version and according to first tests it is much better.
[Android Head-Units] hollifm:
Any way to integrate Amazon Music player into the radio interface

Great launch. Just purchased my head unit and this was one of my first installs.

Question: Can you integrate your multi widget to add in Amazon music as a player option?

Thank you in advance.
[Android Head-Units] Xorit:
Installed yesterday afternoon - This morning widgets where frozen again.

The clock, at least for me, is working the past versions. It's just the widgets being frozen. (And music popup in newer ones)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
To be 100% sure please completely restart your device next time and then see if this issue still exists.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION].

Overall performance is good. Widgets are not freeze anymore in last beta.

Can you add mytuner pro . When posible.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appgeneration.itunerpro
[Android Head-Units] Xorit:
Still freeze for me :/ did a restart tho
[Android Head-Units] PatrickRiccardo:
Just want to chip in and say thanks for this launcher.. Happely bought pro version! Everything works well on my px5 unit, and whatever else you keep on improving is just bonuses for me :D
[Android Head-Units] HatManSan:
This transforms my PX5 unit and I am really impressed so I too, have bought the pro version. Only thing I am missing over CWG is the ability to scroll up and down apps i have on the home page. Also can the number of drop locations be changed. Sometimes I find myself having to put a widget of to the left or right of where i actually want it. Are there any additional themes available?

Brilliant.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Thank you! I would appreciate if you could also leave your feedback in Play Store :)

Thanks again.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Thank you!

Scrolling apps is hard to implement because our launcher is based on a widget concept. The only option here is to develop some new type of widget with a scrolling list of apps in it. Doesn't seem as an easy thing to do but I will think about it.

Regarding widget grid - you can change grid settings and increase current 6 x 10 grid to for example 12 x 20
[Android Head-Units] Smess1210:
Speedometer widgets are still freezing for me until I reboot system even with 3.055.

Current speed flashes between 0 and - and speed limit stays as -.

This happens to the stand alone widgets and also in minimap, could this be a permissions problem at my end?

Everything else appears to be working well, thanks again for the great work.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Blinking zero in Speedometer means that GPS signal is absent. Do you have a GPS signal in third party apps in that moment?
[Android Head-Units] PatrickRiccardo:
Will do!
[Android Head-Units] Smess1210:
Yes, the GPS monitor app shows a good connection.....
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Ok, that means that the issue is most probably on the Launcher's side. I will try to reproduce this on my device.
[Android Head-Units] cyverboy2:
Hey guys,

is there an option to place a URL-shortcut on FCC? I want to create direct shortcuts to my favorite spotify playlists!

Unfortunately hitting "Add to home screen" in Spotify only a shortcut on the native launcher will be created, not in FCC :(
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I will look at it!
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] I know you have lots to do as we keep giving you good ideas to implement, but if you can find time to have a look at the bug I mentioned the other day with the speed limit not displaying in MPH even when that option is ticked it would be appreciated, I'm kind of assuming it's an easy one to tick off the list. Apologies if it's not :)
[Android Head-Units] asujithdr:
Dialer does not work

Hi SpeedFire,

I cannot get the in built dialer to work, failed communication with BT. Tried v1, v2, v3 and v3b experimental, no luck. Mine is Joying android oreo, 4Gb 32Gb, rockchip PX5. I think it has BT 4.0. Can you please help. I really love to a dialer other than the stock BT dialer which is buggy and has no option of favourites or speed dial. My belief is that FCC has an inbuilt BT dialer which does not open up the stock dialer on calling.

Thanks.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Show me the video what you're trying to do. FCC's BT integration is done to call to contacts via FCC's contact widgets or via "Ok Google call..."
[Android Head-Units] cyverboy2:
Works fine for me! No widget freezes at all, stable as usual. Sleep mode still works fine, no whitelisting neccessary at all!

My device updates from Google Now to Google Assistant, now the "OK Google call ..." is not working anymore :( In Google Assistant I did not found a way to change the dialer yet, could you pls take a look at this?
[Android Head-Units] rigattoni:
[MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION]

I think i found the problem with not updating widgets as clock, WiFi and BT:

It only happens if you start the unit in reverse gear. This is reproducible on my side. If the car is in neutral, or 1. gear, all widgets are updated as expected.
[Android Head-Units] HatManSan:
Am I doing something wrong? The music playing widget shows FM, SD and USB but not DAB app. When playing CD's, yes I still do the default does not show any CD data evening from bought ones. Advice gratefully received. Thanks you (Premium Owner)

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Thank you. I think I did that under FCC options but found the Apps drawer was all to hell in that icons were tiny.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Regarding Dab try using a Dab+ app.

https://xdaforums.com/android-auto/...alzoulous-modded-version-com-t3609608/page127

Its developer had intention to integrate it with FCC Launcher and made some good progress. I however cannot check the results myself as I don't have Dab.

Regarding CD I will look, probably I just forgot about this good old technology :)
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Interesting. I shall try this and see if its the same for me also.

>> Checked and starting the car in reverse doe not cause the clock to be out of sync for me. And I always start my car in Neutral, and the fast boot means its always booted before I can get it into reverse, so pretty sure thats not connected to the issues I was having.

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Last update was in June, so if any progress is being made for FCC integration its not yet been released. I am eagerly awaiting it :)

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I wanted to check how often data is used vs information cached.

I did a 200 Mile round trip today and was on the Sygic (off line maps) app all the way. My data usage for the trip was around 46Mb. Now I know some of that will be the traffic information from sygic, but I would be interested to know about the policy for data.

I have a widget to show the speed limit, and the road name. Each of those widgets are on 2 screens. I assume that each widget doe not download its own information, and thus its not using twice as much data because I have them replicated?

I would expect that if FCC is not being displayed, it would not be downloading data, but I think that assumption is wrong and it is continuously using data, as even my short journeys to work seem to use a couple of Mb of data.

What caching is used to save having to query OSM for the speed limits and street names? I see the option is selected to be internal plus OSM on the lookup. Is there an internal database I can download?

I know that 45Mb is not considered a lot of data these days, but as I have an iPhone and the unit will not connect to it via a wifi hotspot I have had to get a separate connection and have used a pre pay SIM card, which charges a penny per Mb, so it quickly mounts up, and I'd like to keep it as cheap as possible :)
[Android Head-Units] banksc:
I have freezes even though I have a PDK transmission...I cannot even start the car in reverse. :eek:
[Android Head-Units] HatManSan:
Excellent news. Many thanks. I am grateful you take the time to make these things in the first place. Cheers
[Android Head-Units] Xorit:
In reverse the unit switches to PDC/rearview which is an app - maybe its the foreground app, which lets FCC work correctly in the background?
[Android Head-Units] derschnelle:
As a joying PX5-user, how do I get the brightness-widget to work? I think I read somewhere that it is possible with these devices.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Is Joying so different from other PX5 devices? On my PX5 it works. I hope you use the latest version from Play Market.

If it still doesn't work I need system apks from your Joying device (root is required).
[Android Head-Units] derschnelle:
Well I tried the version from your beta channel and nothing happens when I switch the brightness widget.

Maybe I am doing something wrong?
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
You can't do anything wrong. This means I need all apks from your /system/app/ folder.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Btw, is it a Sofia unit? Newer Sofia units are not supported unfortunately. Their developers made a super closed firmware which is hard to integrate with.
[Android Head-Units] JSZESZE:
I keep getting a pop-up notification that no Bluetooth device is selected.

Any thoughts on what would cause it.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is from OBD2 widget. Select Bluetooth device in OBD2 widget settings.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
New beta:

- Added actions on click to TripCombined widget

- Fixed speedlimits in MPH and improved speed limits stability for all

- New notifications can show time every X minutes
[Android Head-Units] derschnelle:
I will look for the apks today afternoon.

It's an octacore ARM CPU, so no Sofia I guess :).
[Android Head-Units] cyverboy2:
Here we go, newest DAB+ App is available, should work with FCC now :)

Link to post
[Android Head-Units] Ben.suffolk:
Just installed the update and its still showing my speed limit in KPH (Tried a full reboot of the HU as well). I will take it for a drive shortly, so it might be that it needs to refresh the data or something. Will let you know if that resolves it.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Please check that it is in MPH in MiniMaps options. I tried this on London's location updates and it showed speed limits in MPH. What is your location?
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Sinds this week. In my country we have Google assistent. The button Google voice in fcc works with Google voice.

Is there a way to have the voice button floating on evry app. ? I ask becauce my wheelbuttons dont work. When no time is also good but then i meer to install a other app.

And can you please intergrade mytuner It works now also with fcc but only gives the station name not the Artis and number .
[Android Head-Units] Julian75ts:
Issue

Fcc Launcher Ask me to update Google play services but i can't!at the end of the download i cani see error -504!

So no minimap??
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
New beta 3.060:

- A2DP integration for PX5 (and other Rockchips). This time it required deep integration and seems to work now.

- Volume on start is now set BEFORE player is started

- Other fixes
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I must use the latest Google Services in my app so it is compatible with the newest devices. Generally these services can be updated via Google Play but on older devices (like OSs 4.2.2) this can be an issue. I don't really know how to deal with it - this is mostly on Google's side to keep updating its Services on all OSs and devices.
[Android Head-Units] Julian75ts:
Ok.. but i'm on Android 6.0.1 with all updates installed!

Joying Sofia board.. this issue happens with the latest version of your launcher , not before!

?