Ice... so.anyone found a decent Android gps HU?

im happy with my Xtrons Unit, i bought the most expensive one that would fit (i.e. latest hardware & software)

www.xtrons.co.uk for details

i bought it direct, and i manged to get them to discount me about £50 off

just make sure you get at least 7.1 android with as much RAM and ROM as possible as it makes a big difference
 
I have a Pumpkin android 9 unit, it isn't bad, I got it for 197 on amazon when they were doing a flash sale but it's generally around 230. Have no real issues with it other than the bluetooth is a bit crud, i get some distortion when listening to music on high volume so i just changed to using my phone as a hotspot and having spotify on the unit itself!
 
akaFonzie said:
I have a Pumpkin android 9 unit, it isn't bad, I got it for 197 on amazon when they were doing a flash sale but it's generally around 230. Have no real issues with it other than the bluetooth is a bit crud, i get some distortion when listening to music on high volume so i just changed to using my phone as a hotspot and having spotify on the unit itself!
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i dont get any of that with my unit
 
I had a eonon in my Focus, worked fine. GPS worked great as did bluetooth etc. Need to buy another for the replacement car.
 
if your'e using bluetooth from a phone , to the h/u, with android auto, my understanding was that the audio is re-encoded by the phone, maybe transferred at effectively ~160Kb/s mp3 quality, then decoded on the head unit, so you have lots of audio quality degradation, versus running spotify, say, on the head-unit, with no 'losses'

You can try and use a better (near) lossless codec on the phone, or, maybe have it bitstreamed (ie you do no transcoding) to improve bluetooth.

(some earlier thread discussions if you search xtrons)
 
jpaul said:
You can try and use a better (near) lossless codec on the phone, or, maybe have it bitstreamed (ie you do no transcoding) to improve bluetooth.
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I think that is probably the issue to be honest, when I looked into it I did try and reset the codec on my phone but from what I recall Samsung phones (at least my S10e) will just reset the codec when you leave the menu because it obviously knows best. When I was able to select a different one there were some improvement in quality, once I read about the codec resetting itself whenever it felt like it I just moved to using Spotify on the HU itself!
 
Functional (mostly), but not great. You get what you pay for and the units with good sound quality etc are many times more expensive.
 
Anyone heard of the Daisata units? They seem to have everything going! I would rather a unit be able to mirror my phone as I have everything set up on it and these units seem to do that. They are a bit expensive though.
 
I have eonon HU in my car aswell, only drawback I have and hope most Android ICE companies start throwing in more ram into the unit as the update time is slow and delayed, inputting a post code is also quite delayed too.
 
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