9" Android Radio Install Review
06-07-2016, 12:03 AM
#76
Instructor
I didn't get mine from Seicane, but it was pretty similar. My installer did it, and got power from the reverse light. Really, you can get it from anywhere because the screen switches automatically to that input even if gets constant power.
06-07-2016, 10:07 AM
#77
Thanks hgupta!
Have you had any luck installing other boot animations? Right now I have one that shows android. I want to change it to the revolving porsche logo. The inbuilt boot animation app does not have an easy import option. I downloaded the zip file of the animation to the download folder, and on the app, i tapped "import from external drive" and typed /mnt/sdcard/Download/Porsche.zip" and it does nothing.
Am I doing something wrong?
Have you had any luck installing other boot animations? Right now I have one that shows android. I want to change it to the revolving porsche logo. The inbuilt boot animation app does not have an easy import option. I downloaded the zip file of the animation to the download folder, and on the app, i tapped "import from external drive" and typed /mnt/sdcard/Download/Porsche.zip" and it does nothing.
Am I doing something wrong?
06-07-2016, 10:09 AM
#78
The Seicane is a bluetooth master. Pairing to slave device settings are in the phone dialer app. This is somewhat logical since most of the time its a phone you are pairing to for calls HFP (but it also supports music stream A2DP). The Seicance should be able to host to multiple slave devices simultaneously, but I have not tried. Phone, iPod, ODBII, etc..
The android bluetooth slave settings on the Seicane are not accessible. I can only think of a couple use cases where you might even need the slave settings: 1) Play to a bluetooth headset or external speaker. 2) connect android wear watch maybe. In this one way its unlike a tablet, and more like a home receiver. Im sure they could not customize the android settings menu to do whats needed.
The android bluetooth slave settings on the Seicane are not accessible. I can only think of a couple use cases where you might even need the slave settings: 1) Play to a bluetooth headset or external speaker. 2) connect android wear watch maybe. In this one way its unlike a tablet, and more like a home receiver. Im sure they could not customize the android settings menu to do whats needed.
06-07-2016, 12:21 PM
#79
Instructor
Thanks hgupta!
Have you had any luck installing other boot animations? Right now I have one that shows android. I want to change it to the revolving porsche logo. The inbuilt boot animation app does not have an easy import option. I downloaded the zip file of the animation to the download folder, and on the app, i tapped "import from external drive" and typed /mnt/sdcard/Download/Porsche.zip" and it does nothing.
Am I doing something wrong?
Have you had any luck installing other boot animations? Right now I have one that shows android. I want to change it to the revolving porsche logo. The inbuilt boot animation app does not have an easy import option. I downloaded the zip file of the animation to the download folder, and on the app, i tapped "import from external drive" and typed /mnt/sdcard/Download/Porsche.zip" and it does nothing.
Am I doing something wrong?
06-07-2016, 12:37 PM
#81
Instructor
Thanks Morris. I have a wifi odbII connector now and I would actually like to use bluetooth instead so I can connect to a wifi network while using Torque. Do I just use the phone app to connect to the bluetooth obdii adapter? Do you see any problem with just leaving the adapter there 24/7?
Yes, you use the bluetooth (phone) app to make the bluetooth ODB2 connection. Wifi can only connect to one device at a time, so intentionally did not get any other wifi adapters for use in my car.
06-07-2016, 04:31 PM
#82
I leave my bluetooth ODB2 adapter hooked up all the time. So far, no issues. I know others have Torque launch at boot, so it should be fine.
Yes, you use the bluetooth (phone) app to make the bluetooth ODB2 connection. Wifi can only connect to one device at a time, so intentionally did not get any other wifi adapters for use in my car.
Yes, you use the bluetooth (phone) app to make the bluetooth ODB2 connection. Wifi can only connect to one device at a time, so intentionally did not get any other wifi adapters for use in my car.
Also, how do you get the app to start at boot?
06-07-2016, 07:07 PM
#83
Instructor
I think there is a setting, but for me, to get it to torque to boot, I used tasker to detect bluetooth connection. If it detects the ODB2 bluetooth connection, it starts Torque. That way, Torque does not start up and consume resources when the ODB2 is not plugged in.
You can also have tasker open specific apps that require wifi. for example, spotify and waze once the wifi hotspot connections.
06-07-2016, 10:33 PM
#84
Instructor
Just installed Widgets for Torque so that they are on my homescreen. They also automatically start Torque if it isn't already running.
06-08-2016, 11:56 AM
#85
Instructor
I am also curious about developer settings menu and extra settings options. I don't know the code to access it.
06-09-2016, 10:47 AM
#86
Instructor
Thread Starter
Great suggestions on Tasker. Its a amazing app for the technically minded. I didnt know about the tasker widgets - looks cool.
Support gave me the super secure password: 123456
Support gave me the super secure password: 123456
06-09-2016, 12:23 PM
#87
Instructor
Tasker and widgets are the reason I switched from iPhone. My phone does awesome stuff that I could only dream of when I was with Apple.
Still struggling with Bluetooth audio streaming from my phone. Inconsistently connections.
06-09-2016, 06:04 PM
#88
Instructor
Couldn't get this code to work with the developer options, but it was helpful for extra settings. I only played with it for a few minutes, but I got RDS working on the radio, and now station name and song title appears on the screen!
06-09-2016, 06:08 PM
#89
Instructor
And my AM radio comes in clean after setting it to US.!
06-10-2016, 12:11 AM
#90
Instructor
Thread Starter
They responded to my 4 emails within 24 hours. try 8888 for developer options. I cant remember if that worked.
My 'old' S5 has occasional issues with streaming to it. My wife's new Nexus works fine. Now that I have MiFi, I just stopped steaming. Let me know if you figure it out.
Thanks!
My 'old' S5 has occasional issues with streaming to it. My wife's new Nexus works fine. Now that I have MiFi, I just stopped steaming. Let me know if you figure it out.
Thanks!
