Hi.
I recently bought a 9210S android head unit.
The wifi is SHOCKINGLY bad. It wont pick up any close wifi and to connect it to my phones hotspot wifi, the phone litrally has to be leaning againt the unit and is extremely slow. It has done this since new (2 months)
I have taken the radio apart to look at the circuit board to see if there is an obvious wifi antenna but cant find it. I have attached the photos of the board, could someone pinpoint the wifi chip or antenna on it? Many thanks.
Failing that, can I connect some other wifi device to it like a USB wifi adapter (which I have) but how do I install drivers onto an Android unit?
Daz.
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Hello! I purchased a Pumpkin 6.95 Inch Quad-core Android 4.4 Kitkat Double Din stereo (RK3188 Cortex A9 Quad Core 1.6GHz RAM: DDR3 1GB Nand Memory: 8GB).
I have been having a lot of issues with the wifi connection. I use a Verizon Jetpack MiFi 5510L for my wifi. The stereo finds the jetpack but when I click connect it just hangs or sometimes it says connecting and then nothing happens. Also sometimes it will say the Jetpack is not within range. I have had it connect a couple times flawlessly but most of the time it doesn't want to connect which is really throwing me off as to what the problem might be.
Observation - Pumpkin sent me an update for the unit which I installed. Once installed I was able to connect to the stereo. When I went to install my apps, google requests that I update its services in order to install the apps. When I did this I noticed that the wifi signal bars colors had changed. When you swipe the top of the screen you get those options for "speed, wifi, settings, amp etc.", the wifi bars were orange originally when connected. After google services update, the wifi bars are now white. I have been able to connect to the wifi after the google service update but not 100% of the time. Im wondering if I should not do the update but then I wont be able to take advantage of the good play services. This is just an observation I have noticed when trying to troubleshoot.
Hopefully someone has had some what of the same experience as I had who knows the answer to this. Really enjoy the stereo but the wifi working would make it awesome.
Thanks
Unfortunately these units just have horrible wifi, and I have found nothing that will fix it. There is a mention of some fix involving adding a fan but that isnt something I want or really can do.
FYI the orange is when you have lost internet connection due to weak wifi connection. ( you can and will still loss/not have connection when its white but won't be because of weak wifi signal but lame radio in unit)
Sorry
Are there any other units i can look into that have good wifi capabilities?
engeseb said:
Are there any other units i can look into that have good wifi capabilities?
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After I modded the wifi antenna cable in my carjoying unit with an actual jack, so I can could use any external wifi antenna I wanted, the wifi on my carjoying.com unit is at least as good or better than my Samsung Galaxy S4. And before doing the mod with the wifi coax just sticking out the back, is was not really that bad to begin with and almost as good as the Galaxy.
The main benefit of using an external antenna is that you can use some coax and move the antenna out of the dash so its not getting blocked.
Bought a joying. Hoping this won't have the issue I have been having. Thanks for the info. If anyone wants to buy a pumpkin, let me know.
Will it? I'm having GPS problems, it jumps all over the place even when Im sitting still, telling me Im moving when Im really not, telling me Im someplace other than where I am and even fails altogether and loses my position. I replaced the antenna, relocated the antenna but neither of these solutions work. Joying wants me to upgrade to Android 6 but Im doubting this is going to work. I dont want to send my unit in for hardware work but if I have to I will... in the mean time, will a USB receiver work?
I got my 10.1" unit and decided I was going to do something about the abysmal wireless reception these units have (I set up a WAP in my garage next to my car because it couldn't get a good signal to the router on the other side of the wall for my 7" unit). I connected up my new HU to power and tested, sure enough the wireless reception was garbage. I decided to fix that.
I popped off the lid, de-soldered the existing excuse for an antenna, and replaced it with a pigtail I had laying around. The pigtail was intended to be used in a desktop using a mini pcie card in it, so I chopped the connector off the end and stripped it down in similar fashion to the OE cable. I popped the hole next to the GPS antenna out with a screwdriver and the new RSMA connector fit perfectly. I put a reasonably large antenna on the unit and not only could I see the router from a house on the other side of the street and down a plot, but I was able to connect and pull internet through it.
I could put a smaller antenna on the connector and install it as is, but I intend to use an extension cable like this to get better signal from somewhere besides the radio slot of my car.
Next up: Heatsinks and a fan!
You got my hopes up there. Thought you were going to talk about the RADIO reception.
Unfortunately, the only thing I can imagine needing the wifi for is for hooking up an rpi I use for dashcam at a distance of 2 feet.
luciusfox said:
You got my hopes up there. Thought you were going to talk about the RADIO reception.
Unfortunately, the only thing I can imagine needing the wifi for is for hooking up an rpi I use for dashcam at a distance of 2 feet.
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I used extension cable from the head unit to under my fibreglass roof on my campervan and then from the extension cable, wired 8 metres long cable running under the roof.
Now I get much better reception with that than with my decorational amplified shark fin antenna Both AM and FM pull now weaker stations.
Unless I am mistaken this will improve bluetooth reception (usually they share an antenna and are in the same chip). There have been times when my phone has been passed to someone in the back seat and bluetooth audio started cutting out. For radio reception you may consider some kind of FM pre-amp? I have never used one, and generally broadcast radio is a last resort for me (commercials can be atrocious where I live, sometimes I prefer silence...), but it may help you.
Brilliant idea. I use the WiFi to connect to a USB 3G dongle for Waze & Google maps traffic data, and the wifi is terrible even with the dongle 2-3 feet from the head unit. Already done my fan mod, so wifi antenna will be next.
BTW bluetooth is also 2.4GHz so make sense to share the antenna. Home or office wifi is often the reason why phone headsets don't work well in these environments, especially with multiple access points not correctly configured.
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/Getting-a-better-Wireless-Network-Signal/td-p/3170334
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Brilliant idea. I use the WiFi to connect to a USB 3G dongle for Waze & Google maps traffic data, and the wifi is terrible even with the dongle 2-3 feet from the head unit. Already done my fan mod, so wifi antenna will be next.
BTW bluetooth is also 2.4GHz so make sense to share the antenna. Home or office wifi is often the reason why phone headsets don't work well in these environments, especially with multiple access points not correctly configured.
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/Getting-a-better-Wireless-Network-Signal/td-p/3170334
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Which 3g dongle are you using?
It's similar to this one. I only have 500MB VirginMedia Data SIM for £5 per month, so didn't bother with 4G dongle. This is plenty for Waze Traffic !!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HSDPA-USB-STICK-SIM-Modem-7-2MBPS-3G-Wireless-USB-Dongle-TF-Card-Adapter-Win-7-8/161578239488?epid=1689886176&hash=item259ed04600:g:LNMAAOSw-W5UyEy4
Nice modification dude! That's actually pretty cool. I'm pretty sure that this should also improve the bluetooth reception of the unit. Have you noticed any difference in that?
Thanks for sharing! :good::good:
-Murf
Odd, mine pulls signal from my neighborhood, and I can connect in my separated garage through three wall. I haven't done any modification to it.
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Wonder what it will do with this mod?
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I think they have bad quality control in their factory.
I have a Sofia 3GR model with good WiFi reception. Now I have a PX5 with very bad WiFi reception. I put them next to each other and the PX5 is just terrible compared to the Sofia 3GR.
So it seems to vary per unit: again, bad quality control.
Maybe it is the soldering itself, or some damaging heat effect from the soldering or bad connections? Who knows.
Morning all
Bought a new work van which come with a sony double din headunit and the bluetooth was useless kept dropping the connection while driving, So before i crashed into the back of someone to keep reconnecting it i bought a new headunit, The one in the link below.
https://ebay.co.uk/itm/9-Android-8-...lf-Touran-Caddy-Jetta-EOS-Sharan/142821418704
So far so good apart from a few issues
The torque app does not pair with my OBD2 dongle but works fine streaming from my phone using the amazon music app
The wifi is next to useless and very slow, I can see my home wifi network and can connect to it, Then it disconnects straight away, The aerial symbol shows a maximum strength signal then shows the empty aerial signal with zero strength
Using my mobile in the van as a wifi hotspot works ok but is very slow and pretty much unusable
The canbus decoder is wired wrong i think, I open the drivers door and it shows on the headunit as the passenger door is open and vice versa, The passenger side sliding door shows as the correct door open as does the boot
Have bought the DAB+ add on box but will not be fitting that until this weekend possibly if i can sort out the above issues
Front and rear cameras are also on order for reversing and dashcam useage, again these are not going to be fitted for the same reason
Other than that its a good headunit but can the issues above be sorted out or send it back and get the xtrons one as it's exactly the same?????
I have uploaded pictures to my google drive of,
Whats in the box
Headunit fitted in the dadhboard
Headunit showing different screens
Headunit specs android version, memory, kernel etc etc
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1BNqfitMlJSrCySuVWI4ncMUDB6KUSES9
This is the xtrons one would it be any better or would it suffer from the same issues??
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XTRONS-9...613935?hash=item1ca766c2ef:g:uJIAAOSwRChayxq7
Any help on the above issues would be appreciated as i am still in the time frame for sending it back via paypal if its not fixable
I bought the head unit for my Passat b7, seems like a good unit but my iPhone 7 keeps disconnecting or even not connected at all to the phone, also my mobile WLAN connection seems sometimes working sometimes not.
Hi Guys,
I recently bought an Erisin ES9162B.
The car is BMW E46 Facelift and had the original navigation in it, so I had to buy an extension cable that goes from the trunk to the central console.
When I connected everything, the head unit does not find all FM station. It finds the national ones, but I have to manually stop on an FM station if I want it to play. However, the reception goes wild when I start driving - every 2 secs, I am loosing the reception to the radio, which leads me to believe there is a problem with the antenna.
Could someone point me on what the problem might be?
As per the attached file, I have connected only 1 USB (23), big cables (17), FM antenna (20), GPS antenna (18) and Wi-Fi antenna (19).
I have read that there might be a loose connection and I have to open up the head unit, but please someone tell me whether I have to connect something else first, because I do not want to open up the unit itself yet. It's still new :crying: