Hello everyone,
about a year ago I installed an RK3188 car radio in my Alfa Romeo 159.
From day one the performance of the radio was very bad. Especially when I just started the car.
Recently I learned there are upgrades available. Would this work on my device?
Current Radio:
From aliexpress:
Quad Core Android 5.1.1 Car DVD GPS for Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon Spider Brera with Mirror-link BT Wifi Radio
RS-6007C1
MTCD_KGL_V1.92a_5
Oct 13 2016 10:49:02
Android: 5.1.1
Upgrade:
From aliexpress:
WITSON Octa-Core +4GB RAM +32GB Flash PX5 Coreboard For Android DVD (Android 5.1 A5XXX upgrade to Android 6.0 B5XXX directly
Thanks!
Hello geertjan88,
I have upgraded last week my alfa 159 android HU (MTCDE KGL MCU firmware 2.47 and Android 5.1.1) to Witson PX5 4Gb + 32Gb Android 6.0.1.
The result is nice! New board much faster.
Attention for radio. On antenna input no phantom supply for antenna amplifier (in PX3 5.1.1. neither).
Have good project!
Hello Geertjan,
Did you already upgrade your alfa 159 HU? If so, did you experience any issues? Or was it more or less plug and play. I have the same unit (1gb android 5.1.1) which is really slow. A new unit with android 8.0 one will cost approx. 300€
Brera16 said:
Hello Geertjan,
Did you already upgrade your alfa 159 HU? If so, did you experience any issues? Or was it more or less plug and play. I have the same unit (1gb android 5.1.1) which is really slow. A new unit with android 8.0 one will cost approx. 300€
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Yes I have.
The screws from the px-5 board do not align correctly with the unit. So it was some fiddling to get it fit correctly. There is some tension on the px-5 board but it is working as it should.
Improvements:
Bootup time is shortened drastically
Device is immediately ready to use
Device feels really snappy and fast
Multiple apps running at the same time, no issue at all
Steering wheel buttons now work!! (didn't work before)
Problems:
WiFi does not always auto connect, have to go into settings and connect from there.
All and all, best 100 dollar i've spend in years.
Thanks (bedankt ) !
Ok I am new here so not sure if I am providing the right information I've got a Samsung S7 I tried A Samsung A5 a Samsung J1 I can't mirror any of them to my head unit with my USB cable with the easy connection app I tried different USB cables I'm wondering if it's a program or Hardware issue I have an Android head unit running Android 6.0.1 quad core R16 MCU version VW(5.3.19 config RDS BC6 color NODVD.TDA7719.TDA7786 system version V7.3.1_20170413.135746._TW2-1VT
I purchased this item from Amazon it was advertise as Android 7.0.1 I've tried to contact the manufacturer customer service with no help I'm wondering if I need to update my MCU version or firmware so I can mirror my s7 to my head unit if anybody can help please let me know
Anyone knowing if there is a upgrade board for MTCC / MTCB Units?
For the MTCD Units there is the 4g / 32 Gb PX 5 Upgrade board.
So i would like to know if anyone knows if there is such an upgrade board for other Radios? ( My friend is running MTCC-KLD6 )
Thank you
Doubt it.
No.
I installed an Android head unit in my wife's VW some 3 or 4 years ago.
Most features work just fine but there are three problems.
The RDS AF (auto follow) does not work even though box is checked. So as we drive out of the area of one transmitter in a network the radio does not automatically retune.
There is a small battery drain when the keys are removed from the car so after a 2 or 3 week holiday the battery is flat.
The boot time is very slow
Can these problems be solved with an update?
Thanks
diacong
The system info is:-
Model number S07
MCU Version MTCB-KGL-V2.55 May 19 2015
Android version 4.4.4_28032016
Kernel version 3.0.36+
[email protected] #777
Wed Mar 23
Build number rk3188-eng4.4.4 28032016
CPU ARM Cortex-A9 @1.6GHz (x4)
Memory 1024MB
As title says, Cpuz under "device" tells me my unit is Rk3188; under "soc" tells me it's a 3066..
I wish to update my rom, but I'm not sure anymore which version to choose !
Yet it's a quad core, so it shoud be a 3188.. Yet I wonder why the cpuz showing a 3066 !
Can someone help me on this?
Here are the images:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=15148&pictureid=58063
https://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=15148&pictureid=58064
Did you get any further info since?
I've just installed my new "PX6" unit which should use a hexacore RK3399 but CPU-Z is reporting it as RK3066, indeed with 6 cores. You probably know already that the RK3066 is only dual core.
Device model is rk3399 but I'm guessing the manufacturer can put anything there.
Edit: I've seen on another forum that they may be using the older RK3066 PCB so it's likely that's it's reporting wrongly because of that.