[Android Head-Units] submarinerfan:
no it could not

I have neither the time, the knowledge nor the inclination to do so but am perfectly willing to pay someone for doing it

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OK - missing features/my issues with this unit -

FM tuner interface just isn't very nice or functional - maybe just a personal thing but I find it "too busy" there is too much information trying to be crammed onto a small screen

I don't want or need a tuner bar/scale but cannot find a tuner app that doesn't have this

when RDS works (which isn't very often) the info/font is far too small to read at a glance

AF just simply doesn't work, I have a very good aerial on my vehicle but the FM tuner is quite poor and doesn't lock on to signals very well - for comparison I migrated to this unit from a pioneer android auto double din and the FM tuner on that worked FLAWLESSLY and never dropped the signal, this unit drops the signal on various FM stations to the point where it becomes unusable. To attempt to mitigate this I replaced my stock aerial with a superior one but it made no difference. To clarify, the aerial on my vehicle is on the roof so there are no reception issues

whenever I make bluetooth calls, and listen to music with the music player app, there is a terrible "hissing" noise in the background, like when I used to listen to poorly recorded cassettes back in the 70's and 80's. My unit is connected to an external amp so I do not know if this is part of the problem, but it shouldn't be - again, this was never an issue with my pioneer or the parrot asteroid I had a couple of years ago

the music player app animates the artwork, I presume this is to try and make it look a revolving vinyl? again, this may be a personal gripe but I am not 10 years old and therefore do not think it "cool" - it is also distracting when driving. I am aware that there are plenty of other music player apps out there but I wanted to keep this unit as uncluttered as possible

the music player app tag info is too small and cannot be read at a glance - again, this might be a personal thing

there is no speed volume control, in that the current playing volume increases with the relative speed of the vehicle and no app available that will add this - I understand this is a feature included as standard on some custom ROM's

even with the supplied antenna connected the WIFI signal reception is very poor, even when my vehicle is parked directly outside my property and approx 7metres from my router with only a window in the way. Moving the antenna outside the vehicle mitigates this somewhat but this is not an ideal solution

please be aware, I am not trying to do this unit down, in most respects it is very good but just not where it matters (to me)

this is the 3rd android head unit i have owned in the last 6 years and the issues I have mentioned above have been present on 2 of them - I have mentioned that I owned a parrot asteroid smart, that unit was excellent and the best I have owned until parrot/google pulled support for it to the point that what made it useful as an in-dash multi media unit now makes it useless for that very reason, the navigation apps on it no longer work so it is now just a music player. When I had it there was an app that did the speed volume, the on-screen gestures for skipping tracks and controlling the volume worked on both the music player and the tuner which meant no taking your eyes off the road while you "aimed" for a volume button/knob and the interfaces for the music player and the tuner were brilliant in that there was nothing unnecessary shoe-horned onto the screen, you got a nicely sized artwork and LARGE tag text on the music player, and the scrolling RDS info with the station name on the tuner. It was simple, clear and very good - screenshots below

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[IMG="music player"]https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/cmsdata/reviews/3498848/Asteroid_Smart_Music.JPG[/IMG]

back to this unit, I have recently added a DAB tuner box to try and mitigate the very poor FM one supplied. It is very good when used with the dab-z app, and the interface just shows the station logo/artwork and the text that is broadcast from the station - which can be adjusted so as to be read at a glance

I have also tried about 15 different music player apps before settling on foobar2000 - again the interface is the cleanest I have seen with just the tag artwork and fairly large tag text though I still get the "hiss" I mentioned earlier

I replaced a high end pioneer with this unit (AVH-X8700BT) but as the pioneer was a resistive touchscreen it didn't always work on first press (important when driving) but the interfaces weren't cluttered and the FM tuner worked FLAWLESSLY even with weak FM stations. It also didn't "hiss" when playing music or making bluetooth calls, but the bluetooth had started to get a bit "flaky" when in use and I do not know for sure if a recent (unwanted) update to my mobile phone has caused this

I have no interest in using this unit for surfing the web, looking at social media platforms, watching youtube or some such, I have various PC's and tablets in my home for that and in my opinion this shouldn't be done in a vehicle anyway. My requirements for my vehicle are that it plays music and shows the information in a clear, concise and uncluttered fashion. I would also like to listen to the radio without it constantly dropping the signal while I drive around. Navigation is a bonus, as is OBDII scanning/information. TPMS would be nice as well so I am looking into kits for that. Speed sensitive volume is a must as far as I am concerned, the very basic factory unit I replaced has this so why can't it be done on this android unit?

I must also admit that when looking into purchasing another android headunit I had done my research and settled on a PX5 unit - with the express intent of flashing a custom ROM onto it to give me the features that I require, unfortunately for me it wasn't until after having taken delivery and installed the unit that I discovered the MCU was CSN and not MTCE by which time it was too late to return it. I only hope that a custom ROM will be available soon