[FYT Android Head Units] InElement:
Just wanted to report in with my experience so far: Picked up an EKIY KK5, which randomly comes with either a 7862 or 7862S — mine is an 7862S, which I'm very happy to see. Pretty good experience with customer service so far all things considered — they answer questions, provided (somewhat janky) instructions, and the unit itself seems to have come with a pretty complete set of cables and accessories.

Unit is responsive, reliable/stable so far, boots fast on startup, and the wireless Android Auto functionality works well. Just did a road-trip over the weekend and everything worked perfectly. Screen is bright on my QLED unit, but the viewing angles are unfortunately so-so leading to a loss of 10-20% brightness when viewing from my drivers' seat. Not great, but it works. 🤷‍♂️

One quibble with my particular package: The camera provided seems to have a relatively narrow field of view (maybe about 120-130º?) rather a fisheye-like 170º and I cannot see my bumper, which is something I was hoping for given the tight urban parking spaces I'm regularly encountering. It's fine, but be aware of this if you're buying a camera-included package — make sure you know what kind of field of view you'd prefer, and make sure to ask the seller what kind of camera they're providing. (Cameras are cheap on AX, so this shouldn't be a dealbreaker for anyone.)

So far an 8/10 experience — some jank and oddities in the experience, but actually much less than I was expecting, and I'd recommend the upgrade to anyone mulling it over to bring some life into an old car.

Some questions to throw to the crowd:

My unit comes with an on-screen floating software home button, the kind you see iPhone users with broken screens use. Can I turn it off? I can't find anything in accessibility settings to do so. I really don't need this button, it just adds visual clutter to the screen.

Can I turn the lines off on my backup camera? My unit seems to only let me adjust the line angles by tapping on the screen while in reverse, but they're unfortunately just not very good. (The lines are clearly inserted by software, not by the camera itself.)

I'd like to seamlessly use data for both Android Auto and the system itself. Is that possible? Right now, when I boot into Android Auto, the hotspot is interrupted — and vice versa, when leaving Android Auto, I'm forced to reconnect again later when returning to it if I've chosen to connect to my hotspot. I understand why this happens at the technical level — Android Auto uses a hotspot to project the UI — but I'm wondering if there's any way to make the experience more... graceful. Using an additional 4G sim card is a costly option here, so ideally I'd just like my unit to grab data from my phone all the time.

There seems to be an option to change when the LED lights are activated — "time control" and "small light control" are the options. I don't quite understand how these work — can I configure the times? What is "small light control"?

Is it just me, or is the radio app pretty janky? I can't actually get it to scan for channels, and none of the RDS stuff shows up properly. I can manually tune into a station and it works fine, but past that the radio seems to have trouble scanning for stations, saving them, labelling them, etc. — it just scans for a while, hits a bunch of static, and eventually gives up. The RDS labels are incomplete — one of my stations got labelled "Mix" and another got labeled "The", for instance, and I don't see song names pop up at all.

My car comes with a built-in microphone just above the roof on the drivers' side — the OEM radio uses this microphone, which suggests it is already part of the wiring harness. Is it possible to use it with my FYT unit rather than the built-in mic or the reseller-provided external mic?