Xtrons PB86UNVP issues - Google maps & audio quality - Android Head-Units

Hi,
After some advice on here I bought an Xtrons PB86UNVP, which I'm pretty happy with for the most part. There a just a couple of kinks I'd like to work out. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it!
First - Google maps crashes with "system ui has stopped". This only happens if navigation is running, but the Google Maps app is not currently on screen and a navigation instruction is given (e.g. "turn right"). If Google Maps is on-screen at the time, it's fine. I did update Google maps from the Play store, so maybe that introduced the issue? I would prefer to fix though rather than downgrade the app!
Second - Bluetooth and radio both have a distortion to the sound quality. The same distortion isn't there for audio played via Google Play Music on the unit itself.
I went into the developer settings menu and found what look like input levels and adjusted them, but no joy...
Also the sound sometimes drops out on Bluetooth. Can anyone help with that?

I think I have sidestepped the Google Maps problem by switching to Here WeGo maps. I'm also planning on giving TomTom Go a whirl.
Would still like to hear about potential fixes for the distortion on radio & bluetooth.

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roooted Incredibe w/Froyo, navigation speech stops music

I am new to the forums so hello everyone!
I am also new to the whole rooting business, but after much research have rooted my incredible and installed froyo. I noticed though when I am listening to music and running the navigation program, whenever its telling me a direction, it stops the music and I have to manually go back to the player and unpause it.
Before updating, it would mute the music (while the song still progressed), say the directions, and then unmute the music automatically. Does anyone know what could be causing this issue or if it is a setting I just need to change?
Thank you and glad to be here!
Same issue with a UK Desire and no resolution yet I'm afraid. Does it with Google Maps and Copilot.
I'm having this issue too. Does anyone know a way around it?

Bluetooth issues

I have some really weird and annoying issues with bluetooth audio on my Note 3:
1 - Basically whenever the screen turns on or off, the blutooth audio will cut off for few seconds then come back.
2 - When I use it for google map turn by turn navigation, the first seconds of the voices always get cut off, so if the direction is long, I'll hear the end. And if it's short, I won't hear anything.
Anyone else has similar issues? If so any solutions? It's driving me nuts and I'm not even sure if it's the Note 3 issue or Android 4.3. My Note 2 has been working flawlessly with the same setup for the past year. My note 3 is running AT&T stock ROM, rooted and unlocked, froze some bloatware with TB, my bluetooth headset is Jaybird Bluebuds X. thanks for any suggestions!
I had this with my old HTC EVO 3D and my pluggin BT FM Radio device. I thought it was that but my Note 3 works perfect. Nothing like what you described for me.
ItsMeOk said:
I had this with my old HTC EVO 3D and my pluggin BT FM Radio device. I thought it was that but my Note 3 works perfect. Nothing like what you described for me.
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Which version of the note 3 are you using? is it rooted with custom rom or everything stock?
I just deleted all system & user app cache from Titanium Backup, this seems to have solved the first issue. But I still miss first few seconds of spoken direction from google navigation with my bluetooth headset. I'm tempted to do a factory reset now...
UPDATE: I did more testing and have found out more. it seems to only occur during audio stream switching. If no music or audiobook(I use different apps for them) is playing, there is no sound cut off. but if either the music or audiobook is playing, first few seconds of audio from any notification or google voice navigation is cut off.
shinew said:
I have some really weird and annoying issues with bluetooth audio on my Note 3:
1 - Basically whenever the screen turns on or off, the blutooth audio will cut off for few seconds then come back.
2 - When I use it for google map turn by turn navigation, the first seconds of the voices always get cut off, so if the direction is long, I'll hear the end. And if it's short, I won't hear anything.
Anyone else has similar issues? If so any solutions? It's driving me nuts and I'm not even sure if it's the Note 3 issue or Android 4.3. My Note 2 has been working flawlessly with the same setup for the past year. My note 3 is running AT&T stock ROM, rooted and unlocked, froze some bloatware with TB, my bluetooth headset is Jaybird Bluebuds X. thanks for any suggestions!
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Well, that's better than the Bluetooth on my Note 3 LoL. On my Note the voice on the other end is muted every now and then when calling with a Mercedes carkit. (Comander). And... when streaming music to a high end apt-x dongle (HTC car A100) I get some gaps in the music
Never ever had any problems with the same configuration with a gazillion other Android phones
Firmware: international J7
For my note too, MJ7 rom , I have BT- streaming music and sometimes is starts jitterining and cut outs some times, it note my bt car radio that was problem, cause my friends xperja j work flawlessly. Shame with mi6 rom too before it got updated.
This is very annoying for the most expensive and best phone available!
Same on you samsung!
please if you find a solution contact me!
Thanks for this info. I'm choosing between the Note 2 and Note 3 and will go APTX exclusively. Worrying that it cuts out like that.
When it works, what about the actual audio quality with APTX? Have you listened to high resolution FLAC files, and can you tell a difference with the Note3 and APTX on?
having the same problem, really sucks
hi, i having same problem where when i play native default music player and google map at the same time, first seconds of the voices always get cut off, here what i try using apps
music player
MX player, Poweramp player, and native default music player
map navigation
google map and waze
so if try it with native music player, or Poweramp, and google map or waze, first seconds of the voices gets cut off. all the combination would not work,
but if i try mx player and google map or waze, it works fine, but no songs information will display on the car screen, ie singer, alubm, etc wrong show on the car screen, and music control on forward and back etc, but it work, i don't know how to fix this? anyone have find solution ?
shinew said:
I have some really weird and annoying issues with bluetooth audio on my Note 3:
1 - Basically whenever the screen turns on or off, the blutooth audio will cut off for few seconds then come back.
2 - When I use it for google map turn by turn navigation, the first seconds of the voices always get cut off, so if the direction is long, I'll hear the end. And if it's short, I won't hear anything.
Anyone else has similar issues? If so any solutions? It's driving me nuts and I'm not even sure if it's the Note 3 issue or Android 4.3. My Note 2 has been working flawlessly with the same setup for the past year. My note 3 is running AT&T stock ROM, rooted and unlocked, froze some bloatware with TB, my bluetooth headset is Jaybird Bluebuds X. thanks for any suggestions!
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I have the EXACT same problem...no solution yet unfortunately...Ive never had it not working on any other device...my Galaxy s3 it worked flawlessly!!!!!
yan1000 said:
hi, i having same problem where when i play native default music player and google map at the same time, first seconds of the voices always get cut off, here what i try using apps
music player
MX player, Poweramp player, and native default music player
map navigation
google map and waze
so if try it with native music player, or Poweramp, and google map or waze, first seconds of the voices gets cut off. all the combination would not work,
but if i try mx player and google map or waze, it works fine, but no songs information will display on the car screen, ie singer, alubm, etc wrong show on the car screen, and music control on forward and back etc, but it work, i don't know how to fix this? anyone have find solution ?
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Dirtylarry11 said:
I have the EXACT same problem...no solution yet unfortunately...Ive never had it not working on any other device...my Galaxy s3 it worked flawlessly!!!!!
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I've tried both custom & stock rom based on several variant of the 4.3 roms, they all have this issue so eventually i just gave up.
The good news is that I'm running on Kitkat 4.4.2 now, both rooted and stock seem to have fixed the issue, bluetooth audio switching is extremely fast(along with everything else) and no cut off.
hope the new kitkat will fix it
hope the new kitkat will fix it, i'm waiting for the t-mobile to release it, hopefully soon, also i tested on the samsung mega 4.2, it works perfectly, so it just 4.3 version , thanks for the information.

Issue with Joying Sound

Hi all. I purchased this Joying device - JY-UL135N2 2GB Unit ( https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M670UWI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) a week ago, and installed it yesterday. Overall the unit is performing OK, but I am having an issue with the sound FX coming from apps. I can hear sound from the radio, from phone calls, from apps such as TuneIn and Google Play Music - but I can not hear any sounds coming from Google Search (ie the "OK Google" acknowledgment sound) or Google Maps (voice navigation).
I tried installing the latest version of the system update here - https://www.carjoying.com/Joying-blog/59.html - and it did not fix my problem. I tried goofing around in the settings and installing volume control apps from Google Play, but nothing I do seems to allow me to hear sounds from non-media apps, while media apps work fine. It is really strange to be because I have been using Android forever and a day, and from my experience all of these things should be in the same volume group (media).
Does anyone have any ideas here? I contacted Joying but since it is the middle of Chinese New Year they have an auto-reply that they won't be answering emails until February.
Update with dec 8 update. This has solved my google sound issue.
I already applied the January update. Do I need to apply both? They don't roll them up?
Just to eliminate it, I rolled back to Dec 8 update. Still no sound in any of the Google branded text to speech apps. I have sound in seemingly every other app, except google ones - this includes other text to speech apps like Sygic and other assistant apps... Only Google.Now, Google Maps, and Android Auto have no sound.

New Apps

Hello, new to forum. I tried searching but I have several questions that I can’t quite pinpoint so decided to just ask.
Recently purchased a cheap Android head unit off eBay for my suburban. Immediately after install I was disappointed and frustrated trying to figure everything out, but now I’m thinking it’s not user error but more of a software issue or a settings issue I’m not familiar with.
I’ll get straight to it.
Once installed I had no sound through Bluetooth, usb, or any installed app (YouTube, Apple Music, etc).
I found that the radio app did work, and after tinkering with some settings I got Bluetooth working (not sure what I did, think I was in the equalizer car settings). Well the next day I drove it for the first time and after a few minutes sound went out again. Switched to radio and works fine. So I did a full factory reset, and now it’s really screwy.
Now, Bluetooth only plays if I open the radio app. Radio does not work at all, the app opens and acts frozen, but if I hit play on my phone I get my music. If I open the Bluetooth app, sound cuts off. Music still shows playing on my phone, and when i reopen the radio app it pauses on the phone, I hit play and sound comes back. Still no sound through YouTube or any other music source, BUT voice turn by turn works through google maps.
I’ve tried doing a factory reset multiple times now (yes the full reset).
I tried downloading a new launcher, started with the carwebguru which resulted for some reason music only playing when the radio app was open, if I went back to the home screen or changed apps sound cut out. So I deleted it and downloaded FCC and it’s back to the way it was, Bluetooth plays through the radio app, and I can now switch back to other apps and music continues playing until I reopen another app that plays sound.
So, does this sound like this is a settings issue, hardware issue, or app issue? If it’s an app issue, what are some good apps to replace them with? I see a ton of fm radio apps but not sure if they’ll work, not really any Bluetooth apps, and I use Apple Music on my iPhone and have it downloaded on the stereo (although it doesn’t have sound, either).
Thanks!
Update. After playing around with some settings, I’m feel like I’m getting somewhere but not fixing the issue.
I went under the factory settings from car settings. Radio settings were set to NXP6851 and I changed it to FM Inside.
After doing so, the radio app works flawless but Bluetooth no longer plays through the radio app. Still no sound from YouTube or Apple Music.
So I set it back to the NXP6851 and sure enough, radio app is frozen and Bluetooth plays from my phone through the radio app.
I made a test phone call and Bluetooth works, but only through the radio app. If I open the Bluetooth app all sounds shut off.
Now, after playing around with it, I found that I can get the internal apps to play sound if I do the following: open radio, play music through my phone, back to home screen and open an app (Apple Music is what I used) and hit the play button. It stopped the music from my phone and started playing through the app!
I was excited as all hell, but it only played for maybe 5 minutes then the sound shut off again. Cleared all apps and sure enough, again the same process let me play music through the apps but only produce sound for a few minutes (not even one song).
Still messing with it. Anybody have any advice?
Thanks!
Figured it out. Not sure why but there’s an app called “mode” with two arrows in a circle. Hit it once and now everything works as it should. If i hit it again it goes back to just the radio working.

Head unit audio problem

Hi, I just got a android head unit and can't figure if it's something wrong or just a setting I can't find.
When I have an audio app running, like radio or music, and then start a nav app(specifically OSAMD) everything is fine. The music plays while nav is working. The problem is when the nav app interupts the audio with voice alerts, the music audio never comes back on. Have to go to the music app and audio comes back the switch back to the nav app. On next alert it does it all over again.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Hi again,
Can no one help with this?
Nobody else have this problem?
what's the Unit, What's the Nav app and are you using Android Auto or Carplay or Native App? If this is AA/CP this is normal when using Native Music. If this is all Native I suggest to try switching to a different Nav App and see if it makes a difference.
I can tell you on mine Waze and Goggle Maps will properly interrupt then return to music with both spotify and VLC.
AA/CP does exactly what you described, unless you play music through AA/CP.
This is the first one I have had. It's from amazon the brand says Podofo. It's android 9.1
I'm using Osamd navagation app. They say the app should return the music but it does not. Not sure what AA/CP is, maybe android auto. I'm not using that just the built in launcher and tried a couple other launchers with no luck. I'll try google or waze and see if they are any different.

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