Stay away from Eonon radios

[glassjoe]

Originally Posted by Joshdub

For those of you with nav,

How did you hook it up for illumination? I only have a single illumination wire in my harness when I think I should have two.

Also, is it too bright for anyone else at night? Mine doesn't dim. Maybe this is from not having the illumination wires hooked up.

I did notice there is no "auto" option for screen brightness, but you can always adjust the brightness control from 0-20 to your liking on the GA6166X. Find a sweet spot and see if it works in both conditions. Due to the angle of the unit installed, the max brightness setting is almost a must during the daytime so an auto-detection feature to adjust between day/night could be useful.

[OrangeFurious]

Originally Posted by glassjoe

I did notice there is no "auto" option for screen brightness, but you can always adjust the brightness control from 0-20 to your liking on the GA6166X. Find a sweet spot and see if it works in both conditions. Due to the angle of the unit installed, the max brightness setting is almost a must during the daytime so an auto-detection feature to adjust between day/night could be useful.

I'm curious if it's a perception issue or if there's differences in build quality - I see a small but inconsequential difference in brightness between full dim and full bright. Always usable, but I wish it was brighter with more contrast.

[glassjoe]

Originally Posted by OrangeFurious

I'm curious if it's a perception issue or if there's differences in build quality - I see a small but inconsequential difference in brightness between full dim and full bright. Always usable, but I wish it was brighter with more contrast.

Yea, the difference between 0-20 on the brightness scale is minimal.

[OrangeFurious]

Anyone seeing icons disappear? I have a handful of icons (Settings, Netflix, EQ) that do not appear on any of my screens. The apps are installed and I can launch them indirectly, but after sorting my layout they disappeared. Android quirk I'm unfamiliar with?

[glassjoe]

Originally Posted by OrangeFurious

Anyone seeing icons disappear? I have a handful of icons (Settings, Netflix, EQ) that do not appear on any of my screens. The apps are installed and I can launch them indirectly, but after sorting my layout they disappeared. Android quirk I'm unfamiliar with?

The first day the home screen widgets (clock and current app) went missing but I rebooted the unit and they were back without any further issues. Google Maps was giving me some trouble trying to connect to my wifi hotspot, but I just closed that app individually and restarted it and that fixed it too.

[Joshdub]

Typically with Android you don't need apps on the home screens, but it looks like whatever versions this is (this is not vanilla 5.0), it does allow us to move them off the home screens. You'res is probably bugged. This ROM is poorly written/designed. I hope someone writes us a new one

[itsbrokeagain]

Put the new GA6150 in my girls car today. Quality is nice and Bluetooth works for the phone but not hotspotting for navigation or even streaming music from my phone. Partly to blame is Nougat (7.0) glitches not working with 5.1.1. pair the gf's iPhone 6 and her hotspot hooks up no problems, Waze works fine etc. Still can't do BT music tho.

For once it seems ive lost this battle until Nougat has its bugs resolved.

[Joshdub]

My girlfriend and I are running 7.0 (Nexus 6 and Moto g4) and we have no problems with connectivity. The hotspot and Bluetooth connects instantly. Oddly I cannot teather internet to the headunt via Bluetooth.

[itsbrokeagain]

Originally Posted by Joshdub

My girlfriend and I are running 7.0 (Nexus 6 and Moto g4) and we have no problems with connectivity. The hotspot and Bluetooth connects instantly. Oddly I cannot teather internet to the headunt via Bluetooth.

Hmmm. Well I contacted Eonon, perhaps it's in the settings.

[OrangeFurious]

Eonon recommended a software update for my unit. Anecdotal but it seems to have improved my BT performance. Their instructions are below.

Originally Posted by Eonon

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwO...ew?usp=sharing

Instructions:
Firstly please write down the system information and all the data of the factory settings of your unit.
It is very important to record these data before upgrade.

1). Extract it and copy "update.img" to a blank SD card formatted as FAT32.
2). Power Off the head unit
3). Insert the SD card to the GPS SD SLOT (yes, it should be GPS slot)
4). Enter Settings----About machine，click System updates
5). The head unit detect the upgrade software, and then click confirm to upgrade it.(Click the "Wipe data and format flash!" icon)

Attention: Please do not power off and do not take out of SD card during update. It may take 5 minutes for update, so please pay more
patience on it. And please follow the way to update it strictly.