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I've been running this head unit that I purchased from ebay for almost 3 months, close but like a week away. It's kinda ok, but still kind of junky for what I paid for it. I clipped the hinges off, so the screen would stay open all the time. I didn't want the motor burning out and the screen getting stuck inside. Every time you turn your vehicle off, it shuts off, when you turn your vehicle on, it comes on. Even if you turn your key back to ACC so it stays running, as soon as you turn the vehicle on, it restarts the HU. I even tried running the red wire straight to the battery, same thing, then I attached the red to the yellow and straight out to the battery. It stayed on when the vehicle was off, but when I put the key back it and started the vehicle it would still restart the HU. It's like restarting your phone every time you used a different app. That's what it feels like any way. I'd turn off the vehicle and pull the key and leave the HU running, and then run into the store real quick, come back out and turn on the vehicle and the HU will restart.
The other issue is that it lost GPS signal almost a week ago. I've tried google maps, the system app speedometer and several other GPS apps and it's gone. I double checked the wire from the HU to the antenna on the roof and everything looks fine. I even factory reset it twice to see if that would fix the GPS.
I have contacted the seller several times about the things that are wrong with it, and they just give me one sentence replies that aren't even answers and the return period is over. Overall, it does what it's supposed to. the baked in apps work good enough. The car dvr is limited, but it works. the audio player is fine, no issues at all with it. Bluetooth and phone connections are good. I just really need GPS, that's the main reason I got it. Wifi is horrible. It will not connect to a source outside of a 5 ft. range and that's with an external antenna.
Any help or suggestions or comments, anything would be appreciated. What make and model is this HU? Is there a way to root it or to install a custom rom? Any way to fix the GPS? Thank you my friends, I really appreciate it. I've been a member of this site for many years, and I know that when you guys want to help, you will.
I love when I can stump you guys. You all think you're like know it all geniuses, but now and then I throw something at you that leaves you dumbfounded. This is one of those times. I win.
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I love when I can stump you guys. You all think you're like know it all geniuses, but now and then I throw something at you that leaves you dumbfounded. This is one of those times. I win.
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That kind of attitude isn't going to make anyone want to help you is it.
You haven't provided enough information about your unit for anyone to be able to even attempt to help you, more information is required, such as is it px3 or 5, is it mtcb or d/e. Best thing to do is take a screenshot of your about page on your device, the one that tells you the build number etc...
For your boot issue, if it's wired correctly check factory settings (pass may be 126, if not you'll have to search), somewhere in there is an option for auto power off.
GPS, try another antenna? Is the antenna inside or outside, does the GPS test app find any satellites? Is GPS enabled etc?
More info will help, the attitude won't, these forums also have a wealth of information, searching and reading thoroughly will often find you what you need. Yeah reading a 100 page thread is soul destroying but sometimes it has to be done to find what your looking for
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Has anyone got the radioshack digitraveller working with the tomtom 2 navigation software?
What settings are you using? I have tried NMEA 0183v2 driver and NMEA 0183v2 : 4800 and the light comes on but it just sits there and doesn't get a fix
Cheers
Neil
tomtom gps or nmea at 4800 will work, I used mine today, however it takes a loooooooooooooooong time to get first fix, make sure under settings/connections/beam, that the box to accept all incoming beams is switched off, also if you have the driver for the folding keyboard in rom, it will need disabling after EVERY boot or it will snatch the com port and tomtom wont work. Go to tomtom properties, go to gps and look to see if a signal is being looked for, you will see a line of dots from the dish icon running left to right.
WOOHOO!!
Its working now, it just took AGES to get a fix, drove round in the car for about 15mins then it found some. So I setup tomtom to take me home, which it did, but I noticed the voice prompts were quite late, ie. i would turn the corner, then it would say "Turn Left.." after i had gone round it.
Also now I have just got back, exited tomtom, nothing is running gps not plugged in, and the phone is CRAWLING!! there is about 15mb of mem free so no probs there...
This is in WM2003 4.0.11, would PPC2002 be any better? less resource hungry maybe ?
I'm not too bothered about using WM2003 anymore, it seems more trouble than its worth at the moment... especially seen as it has soft reset its-self a couple of times... just waiting for my new SD card to erase spontaniously (sp?) now :roll:
I went back to 2002, I had far to many problems with wm2003, its up to you, but at least give it a try as I find it far more stable. By the way, did your sd card have a hardware switch to prevent erasure, I seem to remember you thought it lacked that feature when you ordered it.
No the SD card has no lock on it thats kind of whats worrying me about WM2003, don't really want it blanking the card when i'm out somewhere because i'd have no maps then so GPS would be useless :roll:
I think I'll try it on PPC2002 later, until a more stable version of WM2003 is around.
Cheers
I have found that if you use external power with the digitraveler but have no batteries in the unit, you have to wait for ages for the gps to lock on, however if you make sure that batteries are present it reduces the initialisation times dramatically. Maybe it stores an almanac and needs a little power to keep the memory, I dont really know, but try it and see if you get the same results as me. In tomtom when starting up without batteries I get one sat then wait ages for another, when batteries are left the unit it finds lots almost immediately then gets a 3d lock a little while later.
Been playing around with it a bit more today, put PPC2002 back on everything seems to run better... might just be because its a fresh install.
At the moment I'm running it just off batteries, and it does say GPS fix unreliable sometimes but I'll see what happens with power cable connected to it aswell.
I want to try and sort it out so that I can put the XDA into some sort of car cradle, and it will link up the GPS receiver, charge the XDA, output voice prompts to the Aux-In on my car stereo.
Would be awesome if it works, but i'm just a bit worried about the sturdyness of the xda when its in the cradle, I don't want to go breaking the connector on the pcb or anything because the phone is rocking around too much...
Cheers
Hi folks,
Another quick one... You've probably seen I want to try to disable the phone driver on my BA...
...Can anyone suggest a method I might be able to kill some of the lighting on the BA? Ideally I'd like to turn off the status-LED in the top right corner, and the green and red call buttons too (or any combination if they're not _all_ possible)?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rob.
On the new WM5 ROM's there is an option to leave bluetooth on but turn off the phone "Start -> Settings -> System -> Power -> Wireless"
It's abit of a pain to get to if you want to keep turning the phone on and off all the time, but the option is there till a better solution comes along.
Very handy for long drives using TomTom without anyone calling you. :wink:
As for the lights, I'm not sure the flashy lights really use that much battery? Or do you have some other reason?
Hey Percz,
Thanks for your reply...
Interesting info about the WM5 ROM...
To be honest I've been out of the XDA thing for a while; but I've just decided I want to sort my setup out properly now; as part of that I did start to look at the Wiki for WM5 stuff the other night; but it looks like there's going to be hours to catch up on (I couldn't even decide which ROM was going to be best for me to try), and I don't want to risk having a flaky OS and being unable to revert... I'd love for somone to be able to honestly correct me and tell me that it's quite straightforward to select and upgrade to a *solid* WM5 ROM?
Basically I'm going to be using the PDA for Sat Nav 95% of the time now; maybe the occasional other task but rarely. That's why I want to disable the phone - it's not got a SIM card in it, so having to keep hitting cancel when the phone-dialogue pops-up and then switch to flight-mode is getting to be a pain (I use speaker-mounts so would prefer to eliminate any chance of GSM traffic radio interference on the speaker if it's going to be quite simple to do); and killing the lights would be nice too because they're not really required anymore and a bit of a distraction in a dark-car.
Thanks again and regards,
Rob.
Hmmmm...
Foolishly enough, I somehow hadn't noticed that the thing stays in flight-mode after a soft-reset once its set? I guess the short-of-average day fiddlin with pootas at work has got me looking for problems that aren't really there.
Having to set it once after each hard-reset is something I think I can live with *sigh* heheh
Still, I'd very much like to kill at least some of the lights... Mainly the green and red call buttons, I'd like to lose the status LED too really; so there's no needless glare of lights in the car at night; but I guess it's sort-of useful as an 'at-a-glance' charging-status indicator...
Thanks again,
Rob.
You know you could do what I do with my GPS unit.... Masking tape! :lol:
Seriously, it works and doesn't require any hacking.
If it was me, I would leave a SIM in the phone and just disable the Phone in the option i mentioned, saves alot of hassel that way. Plus you have a spare SIM 'just in case', or add TomTom Travel later on.
Just a question though, why not buy a dedicated TomTom unit? They do a neat little unit that's about pocket size now, they advertise it for motorbikes but it's really quite neat for walking around high streets with it in your hand.
Percz said:
You know you could do what I do with my GPS unit.... Masking tape! :lol:
Seriously, it works and doesn't require any hacking.
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If it was me, I would leave a SIM in the phone and just disable the Phone in the option i mentioned, saves alot of hassel that way. Plus you have a spare SIM 'just in case', or add TomTom Travel later on.
Just a question though, why not buy a dedicated TomTom unit? They do a neat little unit that's about pocket size now, they advertise it for motorbikes but it's really quite neat for walking around high streets with it in your hand.
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Having a SIM in there would be useful for the TomTom extras of course... Something to keep in mind certainly. For the time being I'll just use Flight Mode to keep the thing from nagging me - Going back to your mention of WM5 (and slightly OT); how've you found the ROM you're running in terms of general stability and feature(/bugs) - particularly with TomTom, but in general too - any headaches? - would you recommend the upgrade to someone who wants to use the device as I do?
In terms of having a dedicated navigation device; I do quite like some of the units available, but the next time I'm investing a chunk in my sat nav setup will be to either install my long overdue CarPC or maybe even swap-out the Centre Console in my car for a double-DIN version so I can install Audi OEM nav (CarPC being a bit wobbly)... I just want to get the PDA to a 'tidy' solution until that point (I guess towards the end of summer).
Thanks again,
Rob.
Hello everyone, I've searched all over for an answer to this one with no joy.
I've had my stock Orange locked Diamond for almost two years now, and towards the end of a family break I dropped it.
Now it won't switch on beyond an initial buzz, and none of the mini USB chargers or pc cables will persuade it to charge.
The problem is that I used it to take all the photos during the family break, and now can't access them.
Now I read the reply about "jump" charging the battery and will be giving that a go, but can the memory chip be accessed independantly to offload the contents?
I should add that for quite a while before, the phone picked up and dropped the usb connection when connected with a frequency of about 3 - 5 seconds, which was very annoying.
Many thanks in advance
Luke
Little update
Hello all, thank you for reading about my plight.
Well I managed to charge the battery, and I think the phone switches on, as the volume controls make the appropriate sounds. However the screen is black, and even under heavy sun I can't see anything, so it's not just the backlighting that's gone.
The pc doesn't notice it when I connect, so I can't get in that way, unless someone can point me to how to chop up a cable and hardwire a data connection "upstream" of the mini-USB socket? (I'm hoping it's just the connector which is dead)
Otherwise, is there a combination of hardware buttons that will switch on bluetooth? I dropped it when it was in airplane mode. I had BT explorer checked, so if I can get BT on, I should be able to browse the phone with the pc? Please confirm.
Looking forward to reading your suggestions
Cheers
Luke
ps now I've discovered the limitations of a fixed memory; if the card were removable, all this wouldn't be an issue.
Your solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657514
Thanks, I'll give it a try
Hi, thanks for the tip, I guess I have nothing to lose.
I've just found an appropriate screwdriver so here goes.
I saw that thread, but as one of the symptoms involved actually being able to read something on the screen, I didn't pay that much attention.
News soon.
Cheers
Luke
ok let me know.. best of luck
OMG it worked!
Hi, fantastic tutorial.
It took me several attempts to realise that when you say "chip" you mean circuit board.
Pressing and pressing gave no joy, but further investigation showed that I could slip the screwdriver underneath the loose connector and engage it from there.
Yes bad design on HTC's part, there should be some sort of physical lock, or at least a block underneath that pushes the connector into its socket.
However nice the phone was, the WM6 bugs & glitches were annoying, the USB connection still doing that really annoying thing of connecting and disconnecting every few seconds, so it's going to be hard to retrieve the photos; GRRR!
Does anyone know of a program that can block send files from the phone, either over wifi or bluetooth??
Anyway, many many thanks Siddharthsai, at least it's up and running. I doubt I'll be using it much now, despite that superb screen, my insurance replaced it with a Desire, and I have to say I'm impressed with my new toy
Oh yes, where's the command for auto screen lock? It's annoying me.
Many thanks again
Luke
Getting there
OK so thanks to Diamond tweak I was able to stop the screen locking every 5 seconds.
The USB problem is mechanical; I forced the phone down onto its mini USB plug really hard and it stayed connected. Thanks to SuperCopier 2 I was able to dump the contents before my hand got cramp
Yippee.
So I've got TomTom on the diamond, but no on-board nav on the Desire. My diamond might just end up relegated to being the permanent in car nav unit.
Anyone got a fix for the dodgy USB problem? I've tried all 3 of my mini-usb cables, but they do all happen to be HTC oem.
I guess that's why the micro USB has been adopted.
Thanks
Luke
Hey there!
Recently I bought a Pixel 4 XL and I am loving it. However when it arrived, the 2X camera wouldn't work, and portrait mode neither. Luckily after disabling an app to get my SIM working on this AT&T Pixel, the 2X camera started working back. The problem is that today it stopped working again, and repeating the process of disabling the app didn't solve any problem. I know for sure the camera isn't broken as I took photos with it recently and I want to know how to get this working again.
Thanks in advance
I would force stop camera and gallery and wipe data on those two as well and reboot and see if anything was different. If not I would remove my accounts from the phone then factory reset.. Delete everything and maybe even do it two times just for the hell of it. I would use stock recovery and do this selecting "factory reset" with volumes keys and power button then reboot system afterwards. If nothing changed I'd sell it and I'd be honest online and explain my story and all. I'd pay the difference on a Google factory unlocked model Coral so that when I had any issues down the road I would be bootloader unlocked and I could then fastbood stock images and everything would be fine and dandy. I would also blast whoever sold me the AT&T 4XL that had a carrier encrypted bootloader lock on it on all social media networks, Ebay, Amazon and Swappa. Maybe then pee in a large bottle, like a 2 liter empty bottle and pop the top back on and keep going until it's full capacity screwing the lid on afterwards every time and leaving it some place where it could get maxium sunlight and decent heat like in a field by my house outside. Then I'd investigate them and try and find out anything and everything about them. All y'all need is a name and head over to Facebook and start searching and reading... When MY 2 LITER bottle wasfull I would GPS their address at some odd hour and try and figure out what vehicle belongs to them.. You could run vin and or license plates to see and make sure you have the correct vehicle. You definitely don't want to do this to an innocent person. Then once iz sure I had the proper vehicle I would dump the entire urine bottle in their vent where the defrost is, on outside of their front window where the dashboard is and walk away tossing the 2 liter either in the dumpster nearby or possibly in a trash bag and in a fire once I got home.
I had this done to me once by some punk neighbor in sone apartments I stayed in about twenty yrs ago and me and my gf had to sell her new high dollar sports car because regardless of what we did to do to eliminate the odor it didn't work. It was a goner, a TOTAL LOSS!!! Smelled like a truck stop urinal in the middle of nowhere that hasn't been cleaned in twenty years. I'm totally kidding. I wouldn't do this. Not at age 42. Now back in my teens and or twenties, idk, but not now. I would make sure it was known best I could. Write a few reviews on seller online. Shoot me the address I'll write one up for him to help you out.
While I'm not going to do such craziness this would be sufficient revenge I believe for selling me a carrier locked fairly new expensive Pixel and not telling me. The ole urine in the vent ruin the car maneuver. A one time thing that would cover almost anything anyone did wrong to you in about a minutes time max. Hopefully this made you laugh op and also anyone else who may read it. That is why I'm commenting it. Please don't ban me mods. Again I'm totally kidding. I'm too old for things like this now. Haha!!!I'd sure write reviews about him though online. Hook him up with some fantastic reviews from serval made up characters about how he lied and did this to me.
Hey,
fisrt sorry for tanking so long to answer. I did that but nothing. Sometimes both rear cameras stopp working and the only fix is factory reset, which only brings back the main camera, telephoto still doesn't work.
Yeah it wasn't great that he sold me a locked bootloader, but I mean I can live that and I pay really cheap, 170$ and phone is in perfect shape. Here in Europe the same phone is well over 350$, so I wasn't going to pay all that much for a 2 year old phone. Also I am researching a way to unlock it and I am confident. When I succed I may post a guide here on how to unlock.
However the seller was very kind, when I talk to him about the camera not working, as I know how to fix phones, I said to him if he could refound about 14$ to buy a new camera module. And surely after 5 minutes he refound 15$ to me, so I bought a new camera module and waiting for it to arrive.
Also very funny the history lol .
Hello all,
So I finally mange to find the issue.
As i didn't want to return the phone, I talk with the seller and he sent me 15$ to buy a new camera module and I would change them myself.
To open the phone is easy, at least for me. I saw a few videos online and followed the ifixit guide.
The funny part starts now, when I was going to disconnect the camera module(which have 2 conectors, 1 per camera) I found something interesting. One of the cables wasn't conected to the motherboard.
So when I connect it and test the phone, the camera started to work as it should.
I still don't know how this happened, the phone was never open before (I know because there is adhesive on some conectors, so if you remove them, when you glue them back they aren't perfect).
It would also be very strange for that to disconnect by it's own, because the cable is secure in place by a shield which don't allow the cable to move(or at least, that is what it should do).
Anyway, the problem now is fix. So if one of your cameras don't work, or work sometimes and them stop working, you should consider opening the phone and check the camera conector, It may have disconnected from the socket.
i got this problem too, portrait mode & zoom not working.
0xJ said:
i got this problem too, portrait mode & zoom not working.
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Download the bsg gcam mod go into your gcam settings on "photo modes session config" and set interface to pixel 3
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Download the bsg gcam mod go into your gcam settings on "photo modes session config" and set interface to pixel 3
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thanks for the reply, but I have been fixed it by disconnect the camera module and connect it again
Quick question for anyone interested in speculating. I recently noticed my bluetooth galaxy smartwatch was disconnecting at unusually close range. I do not and have not ever used wifi on the watch itself.
I noticed while driving the bluetooth will disconnect and reconnect if the phone is in the seat but when I put it in the tray under the radio it works fine. Sometime it will work laying on the seat for some time and then disconnect. Overall it's intermittent.
I have also noticed, trouble pairing with headphones and speakers and disconnects even at less than 3ft. I had a disconnect with the phone in my pocket and watch on my wrist. The only constant with any device is the extremely limited range. I'd say 15ft max consistently. I can leave it on my desk and it will disconnect at the exact same distance when I walk away every time.
I connected the smart watch to another phone and had no range issues. I have reset bluetooth, network, wiped bluetooth app cache, went nuclear and factory reset in twrp. Tested again and problem is exactly the same.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem software related to me. If anyone can recommend something I can try that I may be missing I'd appreciate it. I rely on bluetooth so I had to replace the device already but I'd like to save the phone if possible. I haven't had it very long.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestion.
My theory is bluetooth antenna disconnected.
I watched the JRE video (so I'm an expert now) and in it you can see two antenna wires, one black and one white. Both located under the camera flash board. This is exactly where I have to hold the right ear cup of my headphones if I want them to connect at all.
Anyway, I reached out to a local repair shop and the guy I spoke too was unaware asus made phones. I described my situation and he also suggested that the antenna may be disconnected or damaged. He said he would do the job if he can find all the parts. He told me he went to a site called rounded and they had the parts. I checked also and they have both antenna and the back cover. He said he wouldn't want to do the job unless he had the back glass in case it breaks.
Unfortunately, he told me he would call me back but I haven't heard anything. I'll keep trying until I find someone willing to do the work.
My favorite quote from the guy I spoke to:
" Wow, there is a lot to this phone, I'll have to call you back."