I realized that my Atoto S8 has absolutely no compass or other navigation sensor apart from gps. Is this typical in other units? When driving I notice Maps/Waze can get very confused at times what direction I'm actually pointing. On GPs test I get like 3m accuracy too. Pity, seems like such a missing feature.
I don't know ANY head unit manufacturer who uses magnets for compass direction. Too undependable and too many complications with internal shielding. If you want a magnetic compass you are best served by getting one of those dash mount bubble compasses.
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I have a few apps that rely on an accurate compass (Geocaching, etc.). Not only is my Epic clueless as to the true heading, but it doesn't rotate as I do. In other words, if I'm facing east and turn around, the phone still reads east.
I know there are issues with the GPS, but I wonder if I have something else going on.
There is a separate magnetometer sensor, so the main compass functions that way. And most apps that show compass bearing use that.
Some apps may not align automatically by the compass bearing.
Make sure your magnetic compass is calibrated.
"Wave your phone around in a figure 8 pattern 4-5 times"
Thanks. I'm a dummy. I've never did the figure eight dance long enough. I figured you did it for a while and then hit OK. I continued until the prompt disappeared and it appears to be better.
Last night I installed an Autosion Px3 Android head unit. The install was relatively easy considering a total lack of directions. After all is said and done I notice that my interior lights won't come on when the doors are opened. I checked my actual dash switch and it's in the correct position to allow the lights to turn on. My radio acknowledges when the doors are opened as well (little car with door opened shows up on screen) so I'm guessing it's some kind of function integration failure? I parsed the settings and couldn't find anything except swap functions in the CANBUS settings. Does anyone have any experience or other insight on a solution for this? Thanks! Vehicle is a 2013 GMC Sierra 2500HD.
Hello everyone,
Been reading for many years this great forum. Now I've decided to make a post, as I could not find any relevant thread about my issue.
I have a VW Tiguan, with factory parking sensors installed and some weeks ago I installed an Android head unit. It is a Chinese brand called Eunavi with Android 9.
The unit is quite good for the money (it is called Eunavi 2 din 9'' Android 8.1 9.0 TDA7851 Car Radio Stereo for AliExpress), but I come up to the following issue:
Before installation of the unit, I had the LCD car stereo that came with the car by VW. When I was putting the reverse gear, the LCD screen would come on and display the parking sensors for front and back. This specific screen would stay ON, until either the parking brake would be turned on (meaning: the car is parked) or the speed of the car would be over say 10km/hour (meaning: the car is unparked and going).
The new android headunit now, does not work like this. When the reverse gear is on, the parking sensor screen is also turned on. But all the other conditions are not considered, so when you are simply trying to park or unpark, you are only able to see the sensors screen only when in reverse gear and not if you are going forth.
My car has this parking system also working with the push of button that is enabled with the reverse gear and goes off the way I mentioned.
Do you know if I would be able to connect the cable for the reverse gear from the unit to that specific button?
Or, even better, Is there any other way to programmatically add the specific conditions to that parking sensors screen of the unit?
Kind regards,
Panagiotis
Hi, Could you please tell me did you ever managed to fix this issue and how? I have a same problem.
Me too, but with aftermarket parking sensors. I can't connect them to android unit display. Reverse camera works fine.
Pretty much what the title states. I bought a Sofia Joying unit in 2017, it's been a mixed bag. My buttons and volume knob are starting to fail, so rather than deal with Joying's nightmare of service on an item out of warranty anyway, I may as well just replace it. I dealt with many "quirks" on this product because it was pretty unique in 2017 when I purchased it, and I'm curious if any of the newer models have solved it.
- Capacitive button units are in the wild and have been when I bought my Sofia one, maybe that's something I should explore but has anyone else used units that have them?
- ****ty wi-fi reception. No 5ghz. I could never connect to the house from in my driveway.
- CPU overheating/throttling. I didn't want to crack it open for a heatsink/fan/etc. Too much babysitting. Poor performance/crashing/etc from this.
- Poor GPS performance. I don't wish to mount the GPS antenna outside the vehicle. Yes, that's majority of the reason I have issues in this space, but it's odd that my phone can be in a bag under the seat and get GPS just fine, but this dash unit needs an antenna for that.
- Brightness controls that work. The Joying unit uses a low-end panel and I imagine most do, but the issue is that it's not bright enough during the day and not dim enough at night. The Darker app helped but the backlight was always full blast. Distracting and hard to see.
So, to the users of newer units, did the landscape address any of these issues?
Hi,
I have a joying head unit (uis7862 6GB+128GB 10'1 " 1920x1200) The unit is mounted in a VW tiguan and uses the harness with canbox.
I do not have nor do I intend to have a reversing camera.
The problem is that there is no way to disable the reverse camera mode. When I put car in reverse, the black screen and a small graphic with the car and parking sensors is displayed. When I drive forward, the front parking sensors trigger a large car graphic with the parking sensors indicators on it.
I would like to disable the rear view camera but keep the parking sensors functional when reversing.
In the car settings there is a "cancel the reverse into the front view" option which looks promising. - however, this option does not work, and its setting resets to off every time the device goes to sleep.
Joying recommended cutting the orange cable between the canbox and the unit. This indeed causes the reversing camera mode to not display. However, the parking sensor graphic does not display either.
The problem is that the rear parking sensors are not triggering the car graphics to appear. The sensors do work, however, as can be seen in the graphic, when both the front and rear sensors are triggered at the same time.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem. Ideally, the rear sensors should trigger the same graphics as the front ones.
Marek.