I've recently had to say farewell to my Full Android Head Unit, because of a new car. I've always liked Android head units because of their high degree of configuratibility and freedom of choice.
My factory installed head unit supports AA, but the AA interface lacks any configuration. I really dislike the huge player controls when playing some music. This might not be such a problem in portrait mode, but in landscape mode they are ominous present.
Is there a way to minimize or to hide them and if not, at least a way to make them transparent? I'd really like to see the full album art when a song is playing instead of a big control overlay.
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I bit the bullet this weekend and actually purchased a HD7 after noticing the bargain basement price of £380 for the phone on O2 PAYG.
Windows phone 7 is pretty cool except that microsoft and/or HTC forgot that this phone sits on your desk in Landscape mode.
What Microsoft need to is enable these changes and it'd be a pretty good phone.
1. enable the start screen to rotate to landscape and scroll horizontally through the tiles.
2. enable zune player to rotate to landscape including the radio.
3. enable the lock screen to convert to landscape if on charge and enable the proximity sensor to flick the screen on to show the current time when you get closer to it.
4. enable custom colour selection of the Accent colour (color for US). (i personally dislike most of the options)
5. enable custom ringers
6. when we touch the top let us turn on and off different connectivity options or a shortcut to the settings - I don't need or want a live tile for this but having to scroll constantly to find settings is hell.
7. make the volume level more visible - volume across the screen not vertically.
8. enable bookmark on zune. I may have video or music that i want to continue where I left off from if I play something else. In fact I do.
What HTC need to do is
1. pump up the volume on the phone. it's got more speakers than the hd2 but so much quieter and this phone is supposed to be a multimedia phone.
2. optional install of your htc font - I fell in love with your font on the desire hd.
3. speed up your notes application launch time. I love the notic board but it took a while to open it when I needed it today.
I'm sure there's many more things but this'll do to start with.
I believe MS has done a tremendous job In WP7. Sure, there are shortcomings with every first release of new operating systems, however, many of these will no doubt be addressed at some point in its' further development.
I've had the HD7 for a few days - it shows good promise and I've decided to stick with it for as long as possible. A few rough edges but it's got what it takes to be a solid and robust operating system that I believe most would easily adopt.
Thanks for the input. When you mention volume. How is the ringer volume and text message volume?
ratchetjaw said:
Thanks for the input. When you mention volume. How is the ringer volume and text message volume?
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awful, but the range of tones is appalling tbh and they are all very tinny so it doesn't help. Also the volume being centralised means if you adjust the volume in a game or in the zune player, the ringer gets changed also.
frontieruk said:
awful, but the range of tones is appalling tbh and they are all very tinny so it doesn't help. Also the volume being centralised means if you adjust the volume in a game or in the zune player, the ringer gets changed also.
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Oh okay that's no good. Thanks for the info. Is the vibrate strong at least?
ratchetjaw said:
Oh okay that's no good. Thanks for the info. Is the vibrate strong at least?
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yeah do tell, the vibe on the HD2 is pretty bad compared to the TP2
I noticed recently that navigation cutoff my stock music player and restore the music differently than what I can remember.before it used to lower the volume then cutoff, announce the navigation alerts, and bring back the volume of the music nicely. Now, it chops off the music announce the navigation alert, then resume the music at full volume, fade into a lower volume and back up in full volume. I tried clearing the days for both music and navigation, disabling cm sound settings for sound focus, tried all the options in the stock music player settings regarding to sound focus. Can announce do a small test for me?
I'm using cm6 nightly 203, the latest car home from the market, the latest navigation from the market, and the stock music player from the nightly.
Sent from my Nexus One
Similarly I have noticed that when listening to Pandora while using the navigation, the music will cut off for a navigation announcement but then the music will not resume. I have to physically press play to resume Pandora playback.
Very annoying
Yeah, that's always been the case with pandora. I believe it's more of pandora's bad implementation rather than android. Hopefully pandora will implement the resume on their next version.
Sent from my Nexus One
Looking for a usable version of Digital Car. Here is a youtube video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZFDSDnzSk
I've tried going to the google+ community and joining it to get the test version but it appears all versions have been removed from the Play Store.
Anybody have a copy?
Works fine for me when I follow the instructions. I'm installing it on my phone right now.
It's working on my end as well now. Odd....stupid internetz.
Its best https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nezdroid.cardashdroid
Tried quite a few of these apps for my dashboard tablet, and nothing beats proper setup with a regular launcher, xposed for optimizing UI and navigation with GravityBox and Gel Settings. As an example, added custom keys, so easily can change music track when outside player.
As music player i got fond of Poweramp for quite a few reasons, but mostly because of the swipe actions, so it's easy to change track without looking.
Tasker used to change some basic settings.
Dimblocker, to make sure screen doesn't dim while car is started.
Installed overlay, to put some floating widgets, as when i open Google maps for navigation, then i have poweramp widget floating top right.
Just listed some basic tweaks here, but point is that you can make a very nice setup without these in-car-apps.
Sadly Navbar xposed module isn't updated for Lillipop, which also added some nice features, but made workaround with GravityBox instead.
Hi all,
Is there any audio app that correctly displays album artwork on a lanscape head unit?
I have a Ford which like most cars has a landscape screen, but android auto seems to be designed to run on a vertical device when it comes to music, i.e. it x shows the middle part of the album art only.
I'm debating resizing all of my artwork to have the cover art all in the middle of a black box so it shows right, but that's a real faf.
Any ideas?
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I use BlackPlayer.
Is there a way to do this on an unrooted phone? None of the RV-friendly navigation apps work natively in AA but Id really rather have them display on the trucks display than have to take my eyes off the road to look at the phone.