So I found that some Android HU made in 2021 have the Factory Settings removed / locked. You cant get to the F.S from the System Info screen. So far I have not found a work around to this. As I understand it some of the Factory Settings were moved to other menus.
If you have a Fast boot with a MCU RL78C NCHHWY and Framework PX6-userdebug 9 PQ2A then you may have issues with Fast-Boot. This is what I found out. You do not need to root.
In Settings / User Settings (Old menu called Car Settings are gone!) Find Sleep Time: 8H 16H 24H 64H OR 1H 6H so on... Select 24H. Then find a setting called Sleep mode Off or On. Make sure it is "ON". Save and reboot. Give the unit 3 or 5 minutes for all settings to load again and save. You may need to Reboot again. Don't change the Sleep settings again for at least 2 reboots so that will have time to save.
That should fix the Fast-Boot issue. It should remember most settings like Play Audio and Volume. If not, and you find another way to fix Fast-Boot let me know, please.
Note: If you find that your HU reboots in a loop after 8 hours of sitting, unused, then your HU may have issues with Fast-Booting. You may try turning off allow background apps, hope that helps.
Roger
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I got an update yesterday which was pretty small in size, around ~40 - 50 MB. The Android version was not updated to 7.1.2 so I presumed it was the monthly security patch and not the OTA beta. I'm on Project Fi and experienced my phone dying with 20 - 30% battery remaining with the Nougat update a couple of months ago. But today my phone died with more than 50% of battery remaining in the middle of the day. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem after the recent update?
So I just finished chatting with Google support person and asked them to raise a bug for this but they insist that I keep my phone in safe mode for at least a day and do a factory data reset before escalating this issue.
Here's the email that I got:
Hi sleekstrike,
Thank you for contacting Google Support Team.
As per our chat conversation, I'm sending you this followup email. Most phone and tablet batteries will drain quickly as the device is used more often or more intensively. If you feel your battery is draining too quickly, we need to determine if this is due to normal usage or due to a faulty battery. Below are some steps and tips that may help determine and resolve the issue.
You can also check out our Tips for making your battery last YouTube video.
Step 1: Restart your device.
Restarting your phone will clear temporary files and may resolve any app-related issues.
Hold the Power button until a menu appears prompting you to power down the device. When the device powers off completely, press and hold the Power button until your device powers on again. Step 2: Check for system updates for your device.
Downloading and installing system updates for your device can help prevent and resolve issues with your device.
Go to "Settings" > scroll down to "System" > touch About phone (or tablet) > touch System updates. If a system update is available, download it. Step 3: Check for apps updates on the Play Store.
Downloading and installing available app updates will ensure that the app is working as intended, which includes fixes for bugs and issues on previous versions.
Open the Google Play Store app. Touch the Play Store icon > touch My Apps to view your downloaded apps. Apps with available updates are labeled "Update." It's recommended that you select Update All, but you can individually choose which apps you want to update. Step 4: Settings adjustments and other actions.
a) Use the Recent Apps button to close unused apps that may still be running.
The Recent Apps button is the third touch button at the bottom of your device that looks like two rectangles on top of each other. When you touch the Recent Apps button, you can swipe left or right on an app to dismiss it. Some Android users are not aware that apps on the Recent Apps list are running in the background and may be contributing to memory and battery consumption. b) Temporarily turn off features not in use.
Location services and GPS: Settings > Location access > Turn off access to your location. Bluetooth: Settings > Wireless & networks > Slide the Bluetooth switch to Off. c) Use Airplane mode in low/no coverage areas if you cannot use or don't plan to use data over your mobile network.
Settings > Wireless & networks > More… > select Airplane mode. Although mobile network connection is disabled in airplane mode, Wi-Fi can be re-enabled: Settings > Wireless & networks > Slide the Wi-Fi switch to On. d) Enable auto brightness.
Settings > Display > Brightness > select Auto e) Reduce the delay before the screen goes to sleep. The screen is often the biggest drain on the battery, and this step will reduce drain when the screen is not in use.
Settings > Display > Sleep > Set small time frame (such as 1 min or less) f) Minimize use of graphic or memory intensive apps when you need to conserve battery. This could include video streaming, gaming, or camera use.
g) If you know you are going to use intensive features more than usual, such as when traveling, plan in advance.
Plug in your charge cable while using GPS navigation in your car, if able. Carry around your USB cable and plug into USB ports to charge, if able. Bring a backup battery for your device when taking many photos and videos, if possible. h) Disable application notifications from apps that are giving you unwanted or too many notifications.
Settings > Apps > touch the specific app > uncheck Show notifications Touch the Back button (curved arrow toward the bottom left of the screen) and repeat as necessary for other apps. i) If you're using a tablet and have multiple user profiles, switch to unused profiles and (similar to step a) use the Recent Apps button to close all the apps open on that profile.
Alternatively, you can delete unused tablet user profiles: Settings > Users > touch the trash can to the right of the profile you wish to delete. The main user profile can't be deleted. If your battery still drains unusually fast after going through all the above basic steps, try Steps 5-7 below.
Step 5: Use the Battery settings.
Visit our Manage battery life help article. Check battery level & usage details of your device to determine if any unused features or third-party installed apps are draining the battery quickly. Step 6: Enable safe mode on your device.
In safe mode, all third-party applications will be disabled. This can help pinpoint issues caused by third-party installed apps. To restart your device in safe mode:
Ensure your device's screen is on, then press & hold the Power button. Touch & hold the Power off option in the dialog box. Touch OK in the following dialog to start safe mode. To exit safe mode, turn your device off and on again. It's recommended that you try safe mode for a few hours or up to a full day, if able. If your battery continues to drain abnormally quickly while in safe mode, try Step 7 below.
Step 7: Reset your device to factory settings.
If your device continues to drain quickly, resetting the device to factory settings may resolve the issue. Resetting your device to factory settings will erase all local data on your device. Backup of your personal local data (pictures, music and video files) is recommended.
To backup personal data on your device To reset your device to factory settings After resetting your device to factory settings, continue to use your device normally to determine if your battery issue is resolved.
If your battery issue was resolved during these steps, great! You can help other customers with similar battery issues if you reply to this email to let us know which step best resolved your battery issue.
If your issue was not resolved and your battery still drains abnormally fast, call us or reply to this email and reference that you already went through all of our Battery Drain troubleshooting steps.
If you have any more questions, please reply to this email. I'm happy to help!
Thanks! Kiara S The Google Support Team
This is their initial steps they want you to try before they do anything. If you bought the phone through the google store they will replace it even if it's out of warranty. At least they did for me. All I had to do was call them back and tell them I followed these steps and the issue was still happening.
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sleekstrike said:
I got an update yesterday which was pretty small in size, around ~40 - 50 MB. The Android version was not updated to 7.1.2 so I presumed it was the monthly security patch and not the OTA beta. I'm on Project Fi and experienced my phone dying with 20 - 30% battery remaining with the Nougat update a couple of months ago. But today my phone died with more than 50% of battery remaining in the middle of the day. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem after the recent update?
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It's not the update- It's your battery getting worse. Keep working with Google until they send you a replacement, back up all your data, and transfer it to your replacement phone when it arrives. In order to simplify restoring to the new phone disable password/pin/fingerprint first before making a backup on your current phone. Good luck.
Hi,
I have an android head unit (rk3066), which has an option to shutdown between 30 seconds to 2 hours after the ACC has been turned off. This is great, but I would really like this to be 24 hours, so that I don't have to wait for it to boot every time I get in the car.
Surely this is a setting stored in a file somewhere that can be edited? I already have root access, so just need to find it and change it? - does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done?
Another option would just be for it to stay on permanently - never turn off, just stay in sleep mode, I would be fine with that too - but I can't find an app or setting that would prevent shutdowns either. An idea of this would be great too.
Regards,
Henry
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eldite said:
Hi,
I have an android head unit (rk3066), which has an option to shutdown between 30 seconds to 2 hours after the ACC has been turned off. This is great, but I would really like this to be 24 hours, so that I don't have to wait for it to boot every time I get in the car.
Surely this is a setting stored in a file somewhere that can be edited? I already have root access, so just need to find it and change it? - does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done?
Another option would just be for it to stay on permanently - never turn off, just stay in sleep mode, I would be fine with that too - but I can't find an app or setting that would prevent shutdowns either. An idea of this would be great too.
Regards,
Henry
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eldite said:
Hi,
I have an android head unit (rk3066), which has an option to shutdown between 30 seconds to 2 hours after the ACC has been turned off. This is great, but I would really like this to be 24 hours, so that I don't have to wait for it to boot every time I get in the car.
Surely this is a setting stored in a file somewhere that can be edited? I already have root access, so just need to find it and change it? - does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done?
Another option would just be for it to stay on permanently - never turn off, just stay in sleep mode, I would be fine with that too - but I can't find an app or setting that would prevent shutdowns either. An idea of this would be great too.
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Be careful in what you wish (stay on permanently). Your head unit is not a phone. The fact that it wants to shut down is most probably because the MCU firmware can't switch off the amplifier. It means that the unit will drain 40 - 100 mA draining your battery in 20 -70 hours, even though the Android part might be in sleep mode.
I do not know your unit, but it could as well be a property being set, like many of these units do with their settings. So go into a terminal app and execute the command "getprop > /sdcard/getprop.txt" and check what is written to the file. Maybe it contains some useful info. Note that the written text file will contain unix linefeeds so if you are a windows user, you can't use notepad. Use notepad++ or so.
surfer63 said:
Be careful in what you wish (stay on permanently). Your head unit is not a phone. The fact that it wants to shut down is most probably because the MCU firmware can't switch off the amplifier. It means that the unit will drain 40 - 100 mA draining your battery in 20 -70 hours, even though the Android part might be in sleep mode.
I do not know your unit, but it could as well be a property being set, like many of these units do with their settings. So go into a terminal app and execute the command "getprop > /sdcard/getprop.txt" and check what is written to the file. Maybe it contains some useful info. Note that the written text file will contain unix linefeeds so if you are a windows user, you can't use notepad. Use notepad++ or so.
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We understand the consequences but is there anyway for us to set that? An apk? This option had been taken out and we can't set it... if you know how or at least know any dev which is working on this, please point us to him.
thanks
eldite said:
Hi,
I have an android head unit (rk3066), which has an option to shutdown between 30 seconds to 2 hours after the ACC has been turned off. This is great, but I would really like this to be 24 hours, so that I don't have to wait for it to boot every time I get in the car.
Surely this is a setting stored in a file somewhere that can be edited? I already have root access, so just need to find it and change it? - does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done?
Another option would just be for it to stay on permanently - never turn off, just stay in sleep mode, I would be fine with that too - but I can't find an app or setting that would prevent shutdowns either. An idea of this would be great too.
Regards,
Henry
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Hi guys
I´m looking for this to, does anyone have a solution ?
tks
me too
Usually for that the head units have a sleep mode which sets the hu in a hybernation mode with less energy consumption.
Yes, I know, the problem is the maximum standby time is just 1 hour which is not much. I need more, like 1 or even 2 days. And I don't care about battery drainage.
Hi all,
Long story short, I messed up my headunit by fiddling with some settings. I selected Spotify to be a navigation app accidentally and now the system changed the Spotify sound behaviour to work only on the navigation-volume channel. As this is inconvenient when using navigation software next to spotify, it also changes the system (overall) volume when spotify is not active. It's just messed up.
So, I truly hope that I someone can help me, or show me how to reset the spotify audio settings back to default. I already tried:
- Uninstalling Spotify and reinstalling.
- Going through all the settings everywhere, there is nothing I can change it with.
- Reset (apparently this only resets some CAR menu settings and app shortcuts on the homescreen but it doesn't really reset to factory default.
As an alternative, how can I reset to factory default? I tried to find it but I can't, looked everywhere even in the secret system menu.
Tried to reset it with the reset button on the front panel but this only seems to reboot the device.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Ben
Device specs:
Hizpo Android Head Unit for Astra H.
Android 8.1
The Android part is heavily modified so it is lacking some standard options and has a CAR menu with some additional options.
KMKaine said:
Hi all,
Long story short, I messed up my headunit by fiddling with some settings. I selected Spotify to be a navigation app accidentally and now the system changed the Spotify sound behaviour to work only on the navigation-volume channel. As this is inconvenient when using navigation software next to spotify, it also changes the system (overall) volume when spotify is not active. It's just messed up.
So, I truly hope that I someone can help me, or show me how to reset the spotify audio settings back to default. I already tried:
- Uninstalling Spotify and reinstalling.
- Going through all the settings everywhere, there is nothing I can change it with.
- Reset (apparently this only resets some CAR menu settings and app shortcuts on the homescreen but it doesn't really reset to factory default.
As an alternative, how can I reset to factory default? I tried to find it but I can't, looked everywhere even in the secret system menu.
Tried to reset it with the reset button on the front panel but this only seems to reboot the device.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Ben
Device specs:
Hizpo Android Head Unit for Astra H.
Android 8.1
The Android part is heavily modified so it is lacking some standard options and has a CAR menu with some additional options.
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I can't really speak to your problem but a word of caution, I just did the factory restore on my head unit and now the navigation that came with it is gone. Which is why I just registered to see if smarter folks than me can help me figure out how to get it back among some other issues.
Thanks for your note Hicksvilleshick, I send you a private message. I don't mind losing the 'default' navigation as I replace it with a different one. I hope someone can help me with this issue
Solution:
For those headunits without any apparent reset to factory default options in the menu here is the solution.
In my Hizpo Android 8.1 unit I could only reset settings in the 'Car info' menu, this resulted in resetting the car info menu and it's home screen items to default. It did not clear any other settings like wifi, bluetooth or other systeem deep settings. In my case it was not sufficient.
Also the reset button in the SD card slot did not seem to do anything initially when pressing this short or long or with other buttons combined.
Word of caution:
- Assume all data on the device gets wiped. Back-up important stuff.
- Remove de SD card for safety and otherwise the reset might hang on that.
- If it comes delivered with nav software, assume you will lose this install / application. There are other fine free alternatives (that are probably better too) like Navmii, Here (we go), both with offline map support (after downloading) or Waze, Google Maps with online map support.
- After the factory reset all settings, accounts and stuff have to be redownloaded, geconfigured and resetup.
And now the instructions:
- Remove SD card. (Otherwise the reset hangs on the card)
- Press RST button shortly with a paperclip for instance (Behind SD card slot cover in my case).
- Keep tapping the screen with 5 fingers. In the upperleft corner in small text you can see the status.
- It will eventually switch to a sort of round halo with the text; 'resetting'
- After a longer boot it will come back as a factory fresh device.
Hope that helps anyone.
Cheers!
I’m new to this formus, and I’m not sure if I should post here or not, so sorry in advance.
I just purchased and installed my 10inch android 10 head unit (system version v11.1.1)
MCU: Ts9.4.3
I managed to install it on my Honda Civic 2018 and it works great. However I noticed one issue, when ever I turn on the light, or change the gears, it shows a notification that doors are open even though its closed.
I tried everything in the setting but I couldn’t find something that turns off this.
I was wondering if its possible to fix this issue or just turn it off the feature completely.
thanks in advance!
Not MTCD/E, requested mod moves to Android head units forum.
Try searching for your MCU version, or part of it to find appropriate threads, they may also hold your answer.
I managed to fix the issue after I played with the setting.
I believe this issue happened because when I installed the screen, the doors were open, and it stored this information.
To fix this issue for Android 10, Ts9. You have to delete the “stored info”.
This can be done by going to the setting> Car Setting>extra setting (passcode 123456) - this worked for my screen > app memery (click on system apps memery)
I changed more setting on that menu but I think this one that fixed it.
I turned the car off for about 3 hours then when I turned it on it was fixed.
Snake9999 said:
I managed to fix the issue after I played with the setting.
I believe this issue happened because when I installed the screen, the doors were open, and it stored this information.
To fix this issue for Android 10, Ts9. You have to delete the “stored info”.
This can be done by going to the setting> Car Setting>extra setting (passcode 123456) - this worked for my screen > app memery (click on system apps memery)
I changed more setting on that menu but I think this one that fixed it.
I turned the car off for about 3 hours then when I turned it on it was fixed.
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I managed to fix the door option. however, for some reason I caused the bluetooth app to stop working, I can play music anymore on the headhunt through bluetooth. It seems like it deleted the information everything I close the app.
I tried resetting factory setting but it didn't fix it.
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Hello!
Same problem with the doors. Did you solve that?
Hi, I have recently purchased and installed a Android headunit from this seller: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100..._list.0.0.30e679d2JBVDmT&gatewayAdapt=glo2nld. Everything works well, except for the sleep mode. It seems that the headunit does not go to sleep went the car is turned off. I have seen videos about a sleep mode setting which i can't find in the settings. Where would this setting be or does this headunit not consume much power when the car is turned off? I cant find it either in the factory settings tab or the "other" settings tab.
After a long search I have found the solution, its in factory settings > engineer test debugging > password is 26959910 then direct shutdown mode has to be selected.
I was going to update to that new firmware, but if there is no sleep settings yet I will stay on 1.70. Radio is working fine at this time.