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Review on Hikity Android Stereo Bluetooth Connection by Charles Barney

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Android car radio installation

cold start takes 28 seconds. Hot Boot: When the IGN signal is on, the power consumption is about 6W, regardless of whether the radio is on, the screen is folded or not: the Android tablet is always active and illuminated. The home screen will appear within 1 second and the last used screen will appear after 6 seconds. The sound turns on at a default volume that you can adjust. With IGN off, the battery drain slowly decreases from 0.5A to 10mA in about a minute. Android version 10.1 Display 1024 x 600 pixels Internal memory: 12 GB Date and time provided by GPS settings” to import your car settings is not supported in this model. The right-most case has a small, undocumented flap that temptingly looks like a microSD card slot. I put one in and it quickly fell onto the back of the unit, a beast that has to be shaken out. This feature should apply to higher models. Music: 🔸️ Music in your U disk is fully integrated. 🔸️ Good thing this is an Android radio because you probably want to download your favorite music app. Resident advertising (three songs are already loaded in memory). They appear to play simultaneously with Bluetooth media; I still have to do some math. 🔸️ The "Songs" menu and searches within it are displayed in alphabetical order, but nothing else. There are no sorting options. 🔸️ "Search" only searches for song titles, literally: with capital letters! The default input keyboard is a terrible Android system, gray on gray with small letters! 🔸️ "Genre" doesn't exist. remove to reveal the frame locking slots. 🔸️ Due to the protruding parts of the dashboard, you may need to attach the bracket further than standard. I had to modify the bracket with punched holes. See photo. Cable definitions and (colors): 🔸️"AMP CONT"(rol?) (Y) On the volume control settings screen, there is no button to turn on the external amplifier. 🔸️KEY 1 (BR/BK) and KEY 2 (O/ BK) are inputs from steering wheel control buttons and can be assigned to different radio functions. 🔸️ "ILLUM" or ILL (O) from +12V light switch for lighting at night. The light is blue, the worst choice for cabin lighting.🔸️"BACK" (BR) supplies power to the rear camera.🔸️ "ACC" or IGN (R) switch +12V turns on the power input🔸️"BATT" (Y) main power input, supports radio clock operation; connect to always hot +12V. Be sure to add a 5A fuse! 🔸️ "GND" (BK) grounding of the body. 🔸️ "ANT.CONT" power supply of the radio antenna. 🔸️ L OUT and R OUT: Output low-level audio to an external amplifier or recorder. Your transmission doesn't have a wire going to the reverse switch. I think the rear camera display is activated when an expanding image is detected.🔸️In addition to the USB port on the front, there is an additional one on the cable on the back. GPS Navigation:🔸️To download your first navigation map, a 40MB area map. You can also download much larger maps.🔸️The contrast of the displayed map image is very low. I'll have a hard time seeing it in daylight. 🔸️ The GPS signal processing is amazing, delivering the highest resolution I've ever seen on a consumer device, less than a meter. https://www.joyingauto.com/blog/post/ might be helpful.

Pros
  • FM radio and Bluetooth
Cons
  • old