DiggeR wrote:Now what I've secured is Timurs 2012, all the replacement parts/info panel move kit, a power supply, OTG-Y cable, usb hub and the Behringer USBDAC. Am I better off getting an FSL-21 to connect it to the head unit from the DAC or just wire direct?
Thoughts?
Personally I'm using BT audio to my headunit. Aside from a slight delay in sync for movies, it works and sounds great. More than adequate for music, navigation and so forth. As a bonus, the titles of music and movies gets shown on the headunit display for that extra bling factor.
DiggeR wrote:Also looking for any vids/pics of what people have running as far as skins etc as well. Looking into a way to get the bootloader to auto boot when power is connected too (rather than go to charger and need power button interaction if it's gone flat). Any suggestions?
You can see my WIP video for some ideas
here. It's in the car now, but I haven't shot a new video yet. The car spends the vast majority of time in Torque Pro (appears when I turn on the car). I use the headunit to control the tablet via BT for play/pause/skip music which simply goes from album to album by itself. I only switch back to the home screen to bring up navigation as required, but don't need to have the traditional skinned menu on my display.
As for power, you can modify the fastboot settings so that the tablet always turns on when power is applied, even when completely flat (when completely flat, there will be a necessary period of charging of about an hour before it will actually commence boot).
- Get your tablet into Download Mode.
- Connect to a PC with a USB cable and install the Android SDK so you can get the adb and fastboot tools.
- At a command prompt/terminal, issue the command
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fastboot getvar all
and you will get some variables returned. One of them is "off-mode-charge" which should be set to "1" by default.
- Change this setting to zero using the command:
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fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0
Now your tablet will automatically turn on and boot (if sufficient charge is available in the battery) when external power is applied.
I was going to procrastinate, but I put it off...