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show off your in car nexus 7 2013 home screen.

I want to start a thread to see how everyone is setting up their in car home screens. looking at others home screens may help give ideas to other forum members whom are not satisfied with their current setup. Please give detail such as what launcher plus any widgets, apps, or tasks you may be using.

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Heres mine, Im using invisible widget to access the "Icons". Using an app which ides the nav bar, and also using nova prime!

BurningCanine said:
Heres mine, Im using invisible widget to access the "Icons". Using an app which ides the nav bar, and also using nova prime!
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I saw yours and I like how simple it is. Is there any way you can pm me your zw file for the home Screen.
I was also looking at digital car. It's a nice interface but this is Still in alpha, so some features do not function, the way I would like them to. .

butwhydoitalk2u said:
I saw yours and I like how simple it is. Is there any way you can pm me your zw file for the home Screen.
I was also looking at digital car. It's a nice interface but this is Still in alpha, so some features do not function, the way I would like them to. .
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I am working on a file that includes all of the apps and icons that people would generally use. I should start a thread seeing what apps people mostly use during the car installation. I like how simple it is, and it would be cool if i can find a way to scroll to a different setup with different apps.

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I am working on a file that includes all of the apps and icons that people would generally use. I should start a thread seeing what apps people mostly use during the car installation. I like how simple it is, and it would be cool if i can find a way to scroll to a different setup with different apps.
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It would be interesting to have certain "buttons" to show a popup, probably can do that via popup widget and zooper. it would be nice to able to press another buttkn and switch to a dedicated "homescreen, with apps for that particular function. For example, if I press map, it shows a window with waze and the other side a larger compass and a minutes til hom /work widget, or if I press music it takes me to a page that has my music app (musix) and on the side a visualizer of sorts Or a scrollable music library which will play a song if it is selected. And with the changing home screen the wallpaper changes along with it. It would even be cool to have something like aviate app from yahoo that changes with the time of day or even the weather. Just brainstorming.
I know there is a general thread on in car installs but it goes between 2 devices with different hardwares And different roms/options available But a dedicated thread of apps and widgets or an all around theme will probably be beneficial to all since most the time they are both interchangeable.

butwhydoitalk2u said:
It would be interesting to have certain "buttons" to show a popup, probably can do that via popup widget and zooper. it would be nice to able to press another buttkn and switch to a dedicated "homescreen, with apps for that particular function. For example, if I press map, it shows a window with waze and the other side a larger compass and a minutes til hom /work widget, or if I press music it takes me to a page that has my music app (musix) and on the side a visualizer of sorts Or a scrollable music library which will play a song if it is selected. And with the changing home screen the wallpaper changes along with it. It would even be cool to have something like aviate app from yahoo that changes with the time of day or even the weather. Just brainstorming.
I know there is a general thread on in car installs but it goes between 2 devices with different hardwares And different roms/options available But a dedicated thread of apps and widgets or an all around theme will probably be beneficial to all since most the time they are both interchangeable.
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I wish i was better at coding and app development because i think it would be cool to implement such a theme or app like this, users could choose color schemes crop their own logos, choose what apps to run. And it would create an overlay for them.

My tablet was out of service...I somehow fried the motherboard with a faulty OTG cable. Thought I'd update on how the home screen looks. Still have not installed it into the car.

butwhydoitalk2u said:
View attachment 3232529My tablet was out of service...I somehow fried the motherboard with a faulty OTG cable. Thought I'd update on how the home screen looks. Still have not installed it into the car.
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Can you tell me what that top left widget is? How did you make this home screen? What launcher is this?
Dave

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onepuff, what theme is that? I like it. cookie are those physical buttons at the bottom or screen buttons? I am starting to miss forward/back especially when I want to change a song and I don't have pandora in the forefront.
Dave

It's just a wallpaper with transparent Zooper widgets. Same guy that did the one in OP's post did the main design. I just played with it in photoshop. He had some icons for things. I just made text for everything to make it simpler for me to change.

heres my homescreen, made in photoshop, invisible buttons via desktop visulazer , and nova launcher
http://imageshack.com/a/img924/4691/aDBv7s.jpg

moiloon said:
heres my homescreen, made in photoshop, invisible buttons via desktop visulazer , and nova launcher
http://imageshack.com/a/img924/4691/aDBv7s.jpg
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I did the same! (buttons, photoshop, nova)

RR 7.1.2

G35 tablet install
G35x 2005 2013 nexus 7

Alfa Romeo GT
Qi charging and BT audio sound
Bonus my car
Enviado desde mi Nexus 5 mediante Tapatalk

Here is my updated Homescreen
https://youtu.be/d8KqejvybwY

BMW e90 10.25inch screen - android 9 (Help customize it!)

Hi all,
This is my first thread in android head units. And it was a long time ago I was busy with custom roms on phones (Sony xperia) :crying:
But I just bought and installed a Android 9.0 BMW e90 unit in my car
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After a week I thought the software should become much better to really enjou the device.
So I make up a list and maybe with the help off others I can get them fixed with apps or actual coding.
- idrive button should work in apps like Google maps/Spotify it only works in the Apps the softwarebuilder created
- when I am in main UI and use idrive button I cannot move from big tiles to sidebar. And if I am on sidebar I can't move to big tiles?
- when I open phone menu my sounds from Spotify or any other music app goes silent. Even when there is no intend to make a call
- you should be able to progam idrive buttons. Like opening Spotify if I push idrive media button.
- Configure steering wheel buttons (example: Speech button on steering wheel I want to launch Google assistent) < now my phone and car are answering on "ok google" at the sime time
- can't the unit switch audio input? Like when I listen FM radio on BMW unit. And android unit receives call it will change input to aux?
- Android is last updated on 2018! That's pretty long time ago. Can we update this ourselves?
Maybe some topic are really easy to answer with it's not possible or there are already apps to do this. Let me know and on each topic I will give a status/update. Hope you can give me input otherwise I would love to get help on how to do this myself. Or where to look.

I would also like to see more activity regarding the BMW units!
Regards another Snapdragon user

BluntP6 said:
I would also like to see more activity regarding the BMW units!
Regards another Snapdragon user
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Try here:
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1639676
there are few guys with Snapdragon units.

seaman5705 said:
Try here:
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1639676
there are few guys with Snapdragon units.
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Thnx, My first review is that's a lot off talk about latest version but nothing about changing things yourself.
If we wait on our suppliers with updates it would take years. Haha mine said after the weekend I have update.. and then still it was the same haha.

I also have this headunit. Works pretty well except for navi instructions, when google maps speechs the background music is pretty garbled and with a lot of noises. Any hint?

guap said:
I also have this headunit. Works pretty well except for navi instructions, when google maps speechs the background music is pretty garbled and with a lot of noises. Any hint?
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I have the same system, but for an E93 (8,8"). I also had these noises on google maps, but after playing with some settings (under factory settings, aux, rear camera etc.) the noises stopped. maybe it was just a reboot after that.
BTW: I have tried different apps from the playstore to reboot the device directly, without success. Does anyone have a solution that?

Technolo-G said:
I have the same system, but for an E93 (8,8"). I also had these noises on google maps, but after playing with some settings (under factory settings, aux, rear camera etc.) the noises stopped. maybe it was just a reboot after that.
BTW: I have tried different apps from the playstore to reboot the device directly, without success. Does anyone have a solution that?
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For rebooting without root install a Terminal emulator and enter "reboot", all ready made apps require root.
For my rooted device i`m using "Simple reboot" from Play store.
Chri

Technolo-G said:
I have the same system, but for an E93 (8,8"). I also had these noises on google maps, but after playing with some settings (under factory settings, aux, rear camera etc.) the noises stopped. maybe it was just a reboot after that.
BTW: I have tried different apps from the playstore to reboot the device directly, without success. Does anyone have a solution that?
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not a solution, but a workaround: boot the unit, start the proprietary mediaplayer, close it, then une google maps and/or your music player. Works like a charm and no background noise. You can set a tasker profile to do the procedure.

Headunit opens recent apps instead of launcher when i start the car, why?

Hi there, so, I have this annoying problem i've been trying to solve for few days now with no luck, hoping someone here got some ideas what could be wrong
the headunit is cheapo chinese seicane H521K model number 8227L_demo running android 8.1
everything stock except launcher, i have tried few launchers like car launcher free, nova launcher carwebguru etc and now fcc launcher(this one imma gonna keep, got the paid version and i like it), same problem with any launcher except the stock launcher that i dont like too much
so when i start the car, or turn key to 1 position and the unit wakes from sleep/hibernate/whatever state that thing is in, it shows me recent apps screen instead of launcher homescreen and i have no idea why
i have set fcc launcher as default from android settings and launcher settings
so far i have tried factory reset and install nothing but the launcher, tried reboot from factory settings menu, tried completely powering off by disconnecting battery and rebooting
disconnecting battery or rebooting from menu always boots to the launcher home screen as supposed to, the first time, but simply turning the car key to off/on greets me with recent apps screen instead of homescreen so i guess sleep/waking up from sleep is messing something up
below is picture of the screen i'm talking about
any suggestions are welcome as i'm losing hope with this thing, been googling and trying different things for few days now with no luck
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Pretty sure I just fitted the same HU in my car yesterday and I've noticed it doing this a couple times. Interested to see if this is a simple fix or something more in depth. I'm using AGAMA launcher btw.

I don't own one of those HU but on mine there's a toggle in the factory settings menu to restore previous state on restart. I have no idea how it would be worded on your unit or if it would even have it but it worth checking.

I have the same issue. Have you found a solution for this problem?

I had a similar issue. I noticed that it was happening once I connect to wifi. Thankfuly, the dealer has replaced the unit with another one (different firmware version). So it seems more a software issue.

Easy fix:
Start the car,after HU displays recent apps,don't go for close all button,close every app manually,by sliding or pressing the x btn for every app singly,go To factory setting,and choose reboot.

Atlas-Design said:
Easy fix:
Start the car,after HU displays recent apps,don't go for close all button,close every app manually,by sliding or pressing the x btn for every app singly,go To factory setting,and choose reboot.
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This will give you one clean start...the minute you run any apps after that you're back to square one.

Hello,
same problem with my Witson PX5 Android 9. Sometimes it opens recent apps instead of the launcher.
Any ideas?

Having this same issue very annoying.

No fix for this yet?

Cytoplasm said:
No fix for this yet?
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It's very moody...sometimes it goes straight to radio, sometimes to Agama(my launcher).
I tried putting Agama in the Auto launch section of factory settings, but that only works after a reboot, not hibernation.
I also tried to launch things from Agama, but of course that assumes Agama is running - which I find not to be the case every time.
I think it boils down to Android killing the background apps when going into hibernation despite have power to RAM and MCU.

Lol close every app individually instead of close all then reboot ..

DKee009 said:
Lol close every app individually instead of close all then reboot ..
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Did you not read that this only works ONCE....you suggesting someone to do this EVERY day.

Do you have fix for that? I have the same problem with Junsun V3 pro and its very annoying with own launcher :C

I have same problem with Agama. Any suggestions? Has anyone tried the Automate app to overcome the problem?

Thanks, I can't find that option but will continue to look for it.

To have Agama start after both Reboot or a normal startup, you need to tick the small box at the bottom of the 'Autostart' screen in Agama

How can I autorun a system app on startup

I have an android headunit that heavily relies on the stock launcher called "launcher3.apk" I can only assume that in the background it loads other libraries or functions at the same time, the launcher itself sucks you can't even put a Icon or widget on it lets alone customise anything and I prefer Nova Launcher however if you do not at least load the stock launcher first then go back to Nova launcher other related applications do not work such as the equilizer app or Bluetooth app. Is there any way of either making the system launcher appear in the app drawer like other applications so I can use a regular auto launcher app, or is there a auto run app that also allows you to select a system app not listed in the app drawer because I have tried every one I can find in the app store and they all only let you choose apps listed in the drawer which this app is not listed, I have to manually launch it.
I look forward to your reply, I really need to be able to do this. Any help will be greatly appreciated
Regards
Mick

Hi Everyone,
Just an update to say I have figured out how to do it in case anyone else is looking for a way in future, this is what I did.
I made the Default Launcher to Nova Launcher and Downloaded a program called "Automate" from the play store.
I then in the settings of automate made sure it runs at startup.
I then made a new Flow that went a little like this with arrows connecting the blocks.
Flow Start.
Recieve Broadcast: _ BOOT_COMPLETE
START APP "com.android.launcher3"
Delay 2 Seconds
Start APP "com.teslacoilsw.launcher"
then connect the flow back to the top with an arrow so it doesnt run once only and stop and started it running and rebooted to test it.
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this worked brilliantly. because it only had a 2 second delay you dont even see the factory launcher3 pop up so just runs in the background as I wanted meaning the EQ settings and bluetooth settinsg work as they should.

benmic92 said:
Hi Everyone,
Just an update to say I have figured out how to do it in case anyone else is looking for a way in future, this is what I did.
I made the Default Launcher to Nova Launcher and Downloaded a program called "Automate" from the play store.
I then in the settings of automate made sure it runs at startup.
I then made a new Flow that went a little like this with arrows connecting the blocks.
Flow Start.
Recieve Broadcast: _ BOOT_COMPLETE
START APP "com.android.launcher3"
Delay 2 Seconds
Start APP "com.teslacoilsw.launcher"
then connect the flow back to the top with an arrow so it doesnt run once only and stop and started it running and rebooted to test it.
this worked brilliantly. because it only had a 2 second delay you dont even see the factory launcher3 pop up so just runs in the background as I wanted meaning the EQ settings and bluetooth settinsg work as they should.
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I use Agama launcher, which allows you to automatically start Apps on Rebooting the head unit. However, I need it to run the app on Startup (ie, when booting). Any thoughts on how this can be achieved

carroamer said:
I use Agama launcher, which allows you to automatically start Apps on Rebooting the head unit. However, I need it to run the app on Startup (ie, when booting). Any thoughts on how this can be achieved
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If Agama starts apps after reboot and you want to start an app after reboot what's your question?

Maybe you should have a look on
AppSwitcher - smart SWC launcher (for Junsun, Xtrons and similar devices) incl. autostart
AppSwitcher SWC (Steering Wheel Control) app launcher Stay focused on the street and don't touch the head units display to switch between apps. Support the development of this free app via ko-fi.com/appswitcher Please note: This app is...
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TorstenH said:
If Agama starts apps after reboot and you want to start an app after reboot what's your question?
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There is a difference between unit booting and rebooting. However to avoid confusion, where I mentioned 'booting', substitute 'Startup'

TorstenH said:
Maybe you should have a look on
AppSwitcher - smart SWC launcher (for Junsun, Xtrons and similar devices) incl. autostart
AppSwitcher SWC (Steering Wheel Control) app launcher Stay focused on the street and don't touch the head units display to switch between apps. Support the development of this free app via ko-fi.com/appswitcher Please note: This app is...
forum.xda-developers.com
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Does that app autostart after a normal start, or only after reboot? Think I read somewhere, that Android won't autostart apps these days (with normal start, or boot). Hence, very few apps promising this feature.

carroamer said:
Does that app autostart after a normal start, or only after reboot? Think I read somewhere, that Android won't autostart apps these days (with normal start, or boot). Hence, very few apps promising this feature.
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It starts after boot, reboot and sleep on Junsun V1 pro if setup done as described.

Widgets Disabling after every boot

Hi Gurus, need some help from you all here. I've recently installed an Android Head Unit and loaded it with FCC launcher. After placing all the widgets nicely, I turned off the engine and left it overnight. When I started up my car the following morning, all my widgets failed to load. Initially I thought it might be an issue with the launcher app so I uninstalled and installed Nova launcher. Widgets worked again, but when I turned off the car and turned on again, all the widgets didn't load again. It seems like there's something in the boot sequence that is stopping the widgets from loading. Would any of you have such an experience? Need some expert help here please

kel28 said:
Hi Gurus, need some help from you all here. I've recently installed an Android Head Unit and loaded it with FCC launcher. After placing all the widgets nicely, I turned off the engine and left it overnight. When I started up my car the following morning, all my widgets failed to load. Initially I thought it might be an issue with the launcher app so I uninstalled and installed Nova launcher. Widgets worked again, but when I turned off the car and turned on again, all the widgets didn't load again. It seems like there's something in the boot sequence that is stopping the widgets from loading. Would any of you have such an experience? Need some expert help here please
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This is a known issue and relates to the accessibility settings.
These units "forget" the given rights once they are in deep sleep. They are not persisted.
If you check them after rebooting, you can see that they are disabled.
Even the trick to use Tasker does not work, as you run into the same issue.
To check if one could help, check the accessibility settings, check the app rights and may be do some screenshots from the access. settings.

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This is a known issue and relates to the accessibility settings.
These units "forget" the given rights once they are in deep sleep. They are not persisted.
If you check them after rebooting, you can see that they are disabled.
Even the trick to use Tasker does not work, as you run into the same issue.
To check if one could help, check the accessibility settings, check the app rights and may be do some screenshots from the access. settings.
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Thanks! I'm away from my car now, will try to get those screenshots later. I've checked the app rights and enabled every single one of them, but the widgets still don't work...

Like this?
rigattoni said:
This is a known issue and relates to the accessibility settings.
These units "forget" the given rights once they are in deep sleep. They are not persisted.
If you check them after rebooting, you can see that they are disabled.
Even the trick to use Tasker does not work, as you run into the same issue.
To check if one could help, check the accessibility settings, check the app rights and may be do some screenshots from the access. settings.
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Well... this is not what I asked for.
Accessibility settings is the one I need.
kel28 said:
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rigattoni said:
Well... this is not what I asked for.
Accessibility settings is the one I need.
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This?

kel28 said:
This?
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It would be really nice if you would reduce the size of your pictures.
Yes this is the page.
What you can see: Even Nova has no accessibility rights. If you now switch this settings to ON for Nova and then reboot the unit, you will see that the setting is rejected.
The same happens with Fcc, which is even not installed on your device.
For getting this work around your unit needs to get rooted and some additional SW needs to get installed as Tasker and Security Settings app... and at least any app which is able to start an app when booting up as Fcc.

Thanks for the quick response! I took it from my phone and immediately uploaded to the forum so apologies if it's big
I've switched the settings to ON, rebooted and the settings remained in ON position, but the widget still disappears (I reinstalled and placed the widget on the launcher again).
Is there a thread where I can read up the steps to set up the work around solution? Thank you so much for your help!

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Thanks for the quick response! I took it from my phone and immediately uploaded to the forum so apologies if it's big
I've switched the settings to ON, rebooted and the settings remained in ON position, but the widget still disappears (I reinstalled and placed the widget on the launcher again).
Is there a thread where I can read up the steps to set up the work around solution? Thank you so much for your help!
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Which widgets are you talking about?
Show some pictures with activated widgets and give some information where the widgets are from... May be add them just instead of embedding them into the text.

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Which widgets are you talking about?
Show some pictures with activated widgets and give some information where the widgets are from... May be add them just instead of embedding them into the text.
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Typically any widget that displays information on the launcher home. I've uninstalled and installed this Weather app again just to show u how it's supposed to look when it works... Once I restart, the widget just disappears and I can't add it back from the widget list. I can only put it back on the launcher if I go through the whole process of uninstall and install again...

Bump... anyone else can help?