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Review on πŸš— In Dash Navigation Car Stereo Radio for Toyota RAV4 2006-2012, 7" HD Touchscreen Android 10.0 Double Din DVD Player with Bluetooth, Carplay, Rear View Camera, 32G SD Card, 3.5mm Mic by William Sanchez

Revainrating 4 out of 5

A worthy device for its price

I like the device. I added a bluetooth OBD port and it works fine. I loaded a hundred MP3s onto an SD card and put it in SD card slot #2. MP3 files are easy to browse, no problems with MP3 files in the root folder that I had with some traditional USB MP3 car stereos. The equalizer is crazy, it has bass restoration features, the sound is very customizable. The included reversing camera has an excellent picture. I would recommend that you mount the camera squarely on the back of your car so the small lines that overlay on the screen line up with the parking spots. I need to install Sling but it doesn't load a video when I select a channel. Music Revain installed and working fine. The steering wheel control sometimes doesn't work without restarting, don't know what's going on there. For navigation I set Google Maps as the default app and didn't look at the default navigation app, it might be ok but Google Maps has improved the navigation app, why switch when it works. The device did not come with a USB camera, I contacted the seller and asked which USB camera to use. The seller couldn't tell me straight away but did some research and sent me a USB DVR to try out. The camera they sent is a bit bulky but works very well. The camera has a built-in SD card for storing recordings. The picture is good (720p). The camera comes with an APK file that you need to download first and then connect. You can add date, time, speed and GPS coordinates to the video. The dash cam app also has features like sea departure warning and collision warning. The last major point I have to address is that the unit makes a strange low frequency noise when plugged into the RCA connectors. I use high quality Stinger RCAs and they never made any noise on my last head unit. This happens regardless of whether the engine is running or not, at first it's quiet, but after 10 or 20 seconds of charging the noise starts. I'll update this if I can find a solution. This could be adding high and low level adapters to the speaker outputs. It's not perfect, but it's pretty amazing to use Android as a car stereo. In the end it exceeded my expectations. The seller should offer this device with OBD bluetooth dongle and dash cam. This is a pretty complete package with the addition of these two items.

Pros
  • New in my collection
Cons
  • For a long time