I bought this factory refurbished head unit from Crutchfield. It works, but the user interface is complete garbage, and the functionality is humorous at best.
This device has so much potential and so many features that it SHOULD be an amazing head unit, but I feel like maybe the team that developed the firmware dropped the ball bigtime when it comes to Android phone support. It strikes me as funny that an android-based device would have so much trouble integrating with android devices.
Long story short, I have a copy of their latest firmware, but hacking these sorts of things is a bit new to me. I'd really like to pick this ROM apart and try to improve it, but don't know where to begin.
I am able to extract the system image and manipulate whatever is in it. See attached. If there are any other developers out there with an interest in these head units I'd love to hear some feedback on where to start and what can be done. Kenwood does not seem apt to improve upon this unit (as is evident by the consistently horrible product reviews on any site that contains reviews).
http://www.kenwood.com/usa/car/excelon/dnn992/support.html?model=DNN992
Factory v1.2.0 image is available at link above
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Hello friend, I'm looking into modifying Android head units myself and just found your post. You may want to ask the same question over here....
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-auto
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I'm working on a project for work, and I'm not sure if the product I'm looking exists, at least yet anyways. I'll tell you what I'm looking to do, and hopefully the community can let me know if this kind of device is out yet, or if it will be released soon.
I work at a hospital and I primarily provide training and support to Physicians for our Electronic Medical Record. One of our challenges has been getting physicians engaged and interested in learning about upgrades/changes/optimization and such pertaining to our medical record. We may fix a problem that they've been complaining about for a year...but then it's very difficult to let them all know that it's been fixed without tracking each of them down to tell them. We're not talking about a dozen physicians either, it's probably closer to 400 or so.
I spoke with a few other people and we came up with the idea of basically creating an electronic bulletin board that can be wall mounted in the doctors lounge, and they can use it to look at recent tip sheets, patch notes, lesson plans, etc, that we post about our EMR. I'd also like to add some links to the more reputable medical journals, so they can use it for something more than just reading our tip sheets.
I feel that Android would be the best platform for what we're trying to do, especially since it makes it easy to share and email items to accounts, that way if a Doc doesn't have time to review it in the lounge, they can at least email the document to themselves for later review.
I'm looking for an All-in-one device, a flat panel touchscreen display running android, and the display needs to be between 32 and 50 inches.
If I could get it done for 1500 or less, that would be great, although I pretty much have the approval to use up to 5000 in capital. I know there are several devices coming out that are integrated with Google TV, but few if any of the ones I've seen have a capacitive touch screen.
Does anyone know of a current or upcoming device that could meet my needs?
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Being a big fan of Android, I really do hate to say this, but I don't know you're going to find what you're looking for. From what I've seen lately, there have been fairly successful pilot deployments of iPads + AppleTV touchscreen bulletin boards in the medical sector, but without some serious serious hacking, I don't think you're going to see this in the Android arena. I don't think I've even seen any android device larger than 11" screens... On the plus side, that does sound like a new break-in type of market if any of the major product ODMs are paying attention
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What about this!? asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101
hey guys, I'm in the market for a quality android TV device and have never really looked into them before. seemingly/surprisingly no one has asked this before in this forum so I humbly ask, which ones make the cut and also are there any to avoid?
I plan on getting one for someone as a gift for Christmas so for me this is kind of urgent. I have found similar articles that can answer this on Google but I fully intend on rooting so while I may compromise on the ease of or availability of rooting, I'd prefer not to get one that is a locked up Kremlin and will still weigh in all options.
I am most impressed with GeekBox so far which appears to be brand new on the market and as such, lacks meritable reviews. there is one a couple clicks away from this thread but it is oriented on specs and I am gravely concerned about it's ability to keep cool -- it's small size and internals suggest there is no active cooling system which leads to me believe it'll manage heat by throttling. I am no expert on android TV devices but it is abundantly clear fans are the market standard and totally necessary (especially with 4k)
I value no opinions greater than those of us here on XDA, the rooting authority.
Hi,
Your question is so extensive, there are too many boxes on the market, that can be acceptable for your conditions(4k, heatsinking)
So you should find more addtional settings for box: form-factor, OS, brand named or OEM, price and etc.
I've bought a car and it has an Erisin head unit MTCD_LM_V1.91_1 A-MEDIA AUTO(1024x600 W) with android 5.1.1. It works ok-ish for the most part, it seems a bit sluggish and gmaps is near impossible to use (which seems to be a common issue from what I was able to discover here), but it works really nice with the buttons on the wheel and it's pretty neat to have an android system inside a car. I've looked around here for some ideas on how I could improve the performance and possibly upgrade the thing, but I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed and a bit confused so I've decided that I'll ask for some help.
1. What can I update? I've found this thread which seems to contain an image for a 1.98 version for LM variant. What exactly would I be updating with that and would it even be worth it to update? And I've also found thishttps://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72622240&postcount=2 thread which seems to have android OS updates but I have no clue on whether or not these can even be applied on my unit.
2. Can the updates be performed with the unit in the car or do I need some special tools? Are there any newbie friendly guides? I've only rooted/changed OS's on old android phones so this seems like a whole new ball game.
3. Is rooting and then replacing google maps with version 9.46.2 still the only viable solution to fixing the gmaps hanging issue?
Not sure about all your specs,I am guessing it it only has 1 gig memory and possible px3 processor. I don't think you will see a lot of improvement you are looking for with updating the rom or other applications.. a couple of custom roms available but the system is limited in performance due to the memory. The best upgrade I have done is to upgrade the core board, a world of difference. very easy but you will need to remove the headunit to do it. Try the custom roms and if you are still not happy take a look at this
https://www.amazon.com/T-One-Android-Stereo-Navigation-Upgrade/dp/B07CH38SQH
Thanks for the help. I've forgot to check my specs but it does seem fairly weak. I'll see about ordering a new board, though I'm really bad at hardware stuff, the pics do seem like it's plug'n'play though.
Hello friends,
windows phone is dead. Now millions of good and partially excellent pieces of hardware will be trashed in a short period of time, because software support is degrading rapidly. Think about the poisenous waste and the valuable raw materials. I'm not, but my girl friend's phone is affected as well.
Can that be true? - During the last years, several times messages popped up stating "install android on a windows phone is possible". Soem may have been fake, some more serious.
https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/08/05/install-android-on-lumia/
https://www.wpinternals.net/index.php/downloads
Shouldn't it be possible to port something like lineageOS to (most of current) windows phones, as by now there is a serious necessity to do so? Of course, this is an awful lot of work, which may not be possible to be done for free. But what about a bounty on that purpose? I'd be willing to set up such a bounty and manage it, but I do need some advice before, so here are my first questions:
Is there a fair chance for that project in general? Or is it bare nonsense?
Is "bountysource.com" the most recommended platform for that project - or is there a better choice?
I guess, there are "classes" of windows phones (generations / processor families / whatever). Do some make more sense to be covered by the project - or can we expect to find a solution for really every winPhone?
Which final goal can be achieved? What makes sense? My idea:
- MUST HAVE: touch screen, telephone, wifi, mic, speakers, headphone, SD support, GPS
- NICE TO HAVE: bluetooth, position/acceleration sensor, ambient light sensor
- OPTIONAL: UKW radio, magnetic sensor
Does somebody have a more appealing name than "AOWinP"? (-;
Bthw: We could provide two win phones as a loan to devs who do not own one.
These are my 2cts, hope more knowledgeable people will join in and share their thoughts.
Greetings from Berlin,
Wolf
Hi everyone,
Like most people I've been aware of the news articles about Goggle and Apple tracking peoples activity on their smartphones for a long time (not to mention the other app companies), that combined with a lack of a real need for the capabilities of a smartphone means I've stuck with old fashioned "dumb" phones and until recently I've been content with them.
That changed during the long lockdowns, I became aware for the first time of some of the alternative privacy focused OS's that were out there. I also found some of the Chinese rugged phones and even after the the initial "ooh shiny" reaction faded I still liked the idea of them and as my current phone seems to be dieing I thought I'd look if any of these privacy OS's were compatible with any of the rugged smartphones. That turned into a real rabbit hole that I'm still trying to find my way out of.
Could any of the kind souls here take pity on a bewildered, bamboozled and quite frankly utterly and completely lost idiot and maybe suggest either a device compatible with any of these OS's or something that could be tinkered to work?
I don't feel I know enough on this subject to narrow down what I want in the OS other than I would like to run one or two google apps on it. I know this might defeat the point of degoogleing the phone but they are just apps for public transport in my area.
As for the hardware, as I haven't used a smartphone before I can't really say much about what I'm looking for. The only things I really want would be a a minimum of a 6 inch, decent enough CPU, ram ect that using it dosen't make me feel like I'm pulling out my hair and a camera that can take at least an OKish picture and a large battery.
I apologize if this post reads like I'm a choosy beggar, I really want to find a combination that works but I just seem to be getting myself more and more confused.
Many thanks for taking the time to read this post
The phone's Android version should be Android 8+ thus it's Project Treble enabled, means you are able to flash GSI ROMs.
That was one option I was looking into but some sources seemed to say it couldn't be done on Mediatek powered devices as the company doesn't release their drivers. If thats wrong it would certanly be an easy option.
You may look inside here:
Complete List of Lineage OS Supported Devices | KrispiTech 2023
Here you will find a list of every single Android smartphone and tablet that currently has official support for the popular custom ROM Lineage OS.
krispitech.com
Thanks for the suggestion and link jwoegerbauer, I'll have a look and see if theirs anything that fits.