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Originally Posted by OrangeFurious
Did you ever make a decision? I'm in almost the exact same boat, though I do have Nav w/ DSP.
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I pulled the trigger on the GA5166X. I ordered it from Eonon directly via Ebay and it came with the extension harness and backup camera for like $410 shipped. Not a bad deal.
My main reason for choosing it over the other one was that it supports 32GB USB/SD cards and I have a lot of music I want on hand. The windows version only supports 16GB and looks like it has USB or SD, not both. The Android version is supposed to be more stable and adds more features too.
I contacted Eonon and you can't play video on rear monitors and still listen to music on the front. No dual zone there. Ah well kids will live. Just gonna get them tablets for the car for those long trips.
So far I haven't had the time to do the install.
I did install the backup camera, which involved me drilling a 1/2" hole behind the license plate to run the wires, moving the license plate holder down by putting the screws through the plastic instead of the metal holes (with the camera above the license plate, the hatch lid hit the camera, even with it mounted as far down as possible on the plate), drilling two small holes at the top of the license plate to mount the camera, fiahing the video lead through the rubber conduit in the tailgate, and splicing the power to the camera into the reverse light wiring.
That took me about 2 hours to do, and is likely the longest part of the install. The video wire is just chilling in the spare tire well atm. I'll run that when I run the extension harness to the amp/canbus in the trunk. I just want to do all of that in one run.
There is an external mic for the bluetooth, even though it has an internal mic. I'll probably test the internal and external to see which works best (or good enough) before installing that. There's also a GPS antenna to run and a wifi antenna to run. I'm going to run a rca to 3.5mm aux in, in the same location I have my aux now. I'm going to put a usb extension in the ash tray as well, since both USB (front dash cam DVR and general) ports are behind the deck. Both SD cards (nav and general) are on the deck itself.
So I'm doing a little more work than necessary, but I want access to all inputs up front. That also reminds me, I should have ordered the usb extension and 3.5mm rca cord ahead of time, but I got busy and forgot. Either way, those will be easy to add later.
I'm doing the install tomorrow.