[Q] Car/Nav Mode w/o official car kit - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

Anyone know how to put android into car mode with out having the car mount kit. I have a plain GPS mount that will hold my HD2 but it wont activate the car mode.
Basically can the UI be rotated to landscape?

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How´s the Navi Panel supposed to work?

No matter what i do, i can´t get the Navi Panel automatically start when i connect it with my car charger..
Settings are set to " Open Panel if device is in Car Mode " and yes, i got the original Charger CC C200.
Any suggestions / solutions?
I´m getting annoyed more and more by things like this which should work out of the box!
i think it's suppose to work with the car kit not the car charger......

Car Kit Question

Hey,
Perhaps not exactly in the right topic but I wanted to ask how you use car kits with android on hd2. Is there option that when I put phone into car kit it would recognize it and run car home automaticly? Is there option to put my Igo into car home panel? And the phone seems to go idling with blackscreen even if its charging on the car kit, how to change that? Using Mdeejay 2.6 and original hd2 car kit.
Thank you in advance if you point me to the right direction
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the route 66 navigation program that comes with desire z build is frankly crap. is there anyway to change the shortcut on the car panel to run another program such as CoPilot?
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[Q] HTC WP7 Car Upgrade Kit an extra option for WP7?

Can this option be added to HD2? it has the magnetic sensor to see what I'm talking about check this link
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=222078
an extra option for WP7?
I have the HD2 car kit and it does not turn on the car panel is there an app for that?
a link to the HD2 car kit mount
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=188277&phone=188954

MK809IV RK3229 + PIONEER DA100 touchscreen

Help using touchscreen on my Pioneer DA100 Car stereo so I can use it to control my MK809IV
I have everything connected up and when I touch the android button on the pioneer CarPlay video I can see the MK809IV screen on my car stereo and tested running a few basic apps and everything works.
I need to use the touch screen and I have seen people using it on YouTube and having it automatically boot into android. The stereo has a horrible interface called “AppRadio”
I’ve saw 3 or 4 different apps that promise to allow me to do it but I need a little help as the following things may or may not be true. It’s connected via HDMI cable and Audio works fine.
1. I need to use the touch screen on my Pioneer Da 100 stereo to control the 809mkIV
2. When it boots I would like the MK809IV to boot to a more simplified car mode with google maps, Spotify etc on the home screen
3. Do I need to root it? What apps should I use I have seen many ARlauncher, ARTliberator etc etc
Any help appreciated hugely

Generic PC based Android Auto?

Hi all,
I have an old school CarPC that I'm looking to refresh with Android Auto. The system in my car has a head unit and a somewhat unintegrated GPS system (separate screen from the headunit, which has no screen at all, only dumb controls). The way it works presently is my CarPC video is tied into the GPS screen and the audio is tied into the headunit Aux input.
You can see some of the details here if itnerested:
CarPC with stock Nav - RX8Club.com
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What I'm looking for really is any hardware device that:
1) can run Android Auto
2) outputs video to VGA
2) accepts a USB controller for capacitive touch screen
3) accepts a USB controller for Car2PC/Aux input -- devices like these allow a standard audio jack plug into the Aux port, and then ALSO enables steering controls to work (volume, next/previous track, voice control prompt)
4) accepts a standard jack microphone
5) not critical but ideally accepts a radio antenna to integrate OTA radio signal into Android Auto
I *think* raspberry PI is my best option at this point, but it seems like it doesn't have all of the kinks worked out as of yet. If there is something I could install on the bare metal of my car PC, I think that'd be most ideal.
I'll appreciate any expertise on this!

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