Group Buy / EOI new generation DNS head units (RNS-510 alternative)

**Fatherless One** · 12-12-2013, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by wanxu

It's just a matter of time guys. All of us want it to be sooner than later, but it will be eventually a 100% working machine.

By the way, I've been talking to AS directly and they told me those are the functions of the unit, some of you asked about it, filtered by Sandy.

The functions of DNS810 is that

1. it has a big memory, CPU1.2G/RAM512RAM,dual core, it can only used in VW series,

2.Support HD 1080P video,suppoort MPEG2,MPEG4,AAC,MKV,MOV,ASF,ASX,TS,M2P,ALV,AVI,WMA ,APE,WMAP6,VP8 format,

3.Fully compatible with OEM Can-bus standards inluding TP2.0,BAP,DDP

4.Support OEM Air-con display

5.Support car door status display

6.Can display on-board diagnostics without connecting OBD box

7.Support tyre pressure monitoring systems.

8.Support car information show.

So any grand predictions on when this will actually happen? And with any reliability?

**DkN** · 12-12-2013, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by woweriux

I figured I'll post some pictures of the errors that I am getting. Been using the unit for about two weeks so have gotten pretty familiar with its quirks and bugs.

While playing music form the SD and using GPS navigation I inevitably get lock ups with one of the following errors:

or

Also, today it was 31F outside and I received the infamous white screen of death (for the third or fourth time now):

Warming the car up a bit and a key pull seemed to have fixed the issue for the rest of the ride.

Are you on the latest firmware? It should have fixed the out of memory issue, or so I thought.

At this stage it looks like that the monsun.exe crash is linked to white screen - AFAIK all those who had that error have seen the white screen issue.

Originally Posted by MountainBikeMike

Can someone help me out here?

Sorry could you explain a bit more? Do you not have the Skoda RNS-510 fascia to go with it? Or are you after changing the interface to Skoda green? The former can be found online or at your dealer while the latter can be done by going to aux-in, long pressing the middle of the far left of the screen, and using the options that appear on screen to change boot and loading screens. Hard button colour is set in menu -> display -> key color.

Originally Posted by Fatherless One

So any grand predictions on when this will actually happen? And with any reliability?

It already has all of those quoted features. The initial batch seem to have some production issues which the final release batch is meant to have fixed. They began production today, but I'm not inclined to jump straight in. I will wait for newer software and get a new sample unit to test with myself first. If it's as they promised and the production unit has no issues, I would expect a mid-January delivery.

Originally Posted by chillybone

I did do all this just like that and it didn't work I saw all the updates go through I'll try again then

Please confirm which updates you saw go through. MCU is the last update, after you see the white MPU update screen and reboot the unit. After the unit has booted into radio (you would go through calibration of the screen first), then insert the firmware SD again into the GPS slot. You will get an automatic popup window asking to update MCU, which you need to confirm, then it will say updating, and turn off the unit in a minute or two. If you did not get to this point you did not update the MCU. If you did, well your MCU should be updated...

**XQUIZT** · 12-12-2013, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by DkN

They began production today, but I'm not inclined to jump straight in. I will wait for newer software and get a new sample unit to test with myself first. If it's as they promised and the production unit has no issues, I would expect a mid-January delivery....

Another months wait.

Hopefully there is no one buying this as a Christmas present to themselves

**moda** · 12-12-2013, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by MountainBikeMike

Can someone help me out here?

???

Originally Posted by wanxu

It's just a matter of time guys. All of us want it to be sooner than later, but it will be eventually a 100% working machine.

By the way, I've been talking to AS directly and they told me those are the functions of the unit, some of you asked about it, filtered by Sandy.

The functions of DNS810 is that

1. it has a big memory, CPU1.2G/RAM512RAM,dual core, it can only used in VW series,

2.Support HD 1080P video,suppoort MPEG2,MPEG4,AAC,MKV,MOV,ASF,ASX,TS,M2P,ALV,AVI,WMA ,APE,WMAP6,VP8 format,

3.Fully compatible with OEM Can-bus standards inluding TP2.0,BAP,DDP

4.Support OEM Air-con display

5.Support car door status display

6.Can display on-board diagnostics without connecting OBD box

7.Support tyre pressure monitoring systems.

8.Support car information show.

Which is why I said play the waiting game. In ~3 or so months time, when it has full MFD support and is fully stable, it'll be a damn good value proposition. As it is right now (for me, it's fairly stable), it's missing some features and still has some bugs.

Retrofitting TPMS would be an interesting project though.

Originally Posted by DkN

Are you on the latest firmware? It should have fixed the out of memory issue, or so I thought.

At this stage it looks like that the monsun.exe crash is linked to white screen - AFAIK all those who had that error have seen the white screen issue.

Sorry could you explain a bit more? Do you not have the Skoda RNS-510 fascia to go with it? Or are you after changing the interface to Skoda green? The former can be found online or at your dealer while the latter can be done by going to aux-in, long pressing the middle of the far left of the screen, and using the options that appear on screen to change boot and loading screens. Hard button colour is set in menu -> display -> key color.

It already has all of those quoted features. The initial batch seem to have some production issues which the final release batch is meant to have fixed. They began production today, but I'm not inclined to jump straight in. I will wait for newer software and get a new sample unit to test with myself first. If it's as they promised and the production unit has no issues, I would expect a mid-January delivery.

Please confirm which updates you saw go through. MCU is the last update, after you see the white MPU update screen and reboot the unit. After the unit has booted into radio (you would go through calibration of the screen first), then insert the firmware SD again into the GPS slot. You will get an automatic popup window asking to update MCU, which you need to confirm, then it will say updating, and turn off the unit in a minute or two. If you did not get to this point you did not update the MCU. If you did, well your MCU should be updated...

Yea, I haven't had any memory/WinCE crashes and I haven't had the white screen issues either.

When you say production issues, you're talking about the whole bench flashing and white screen things, yea? If we've got working early batch units (touchwood) there should be no reason to need to swap them out for mass produced units, hey?

It's been pretty hot here (for NSW, anyways, ~35c ish in the sun) and haven't had any heat related issues.

Any news on the next firmware version?

**MountainBikeMike** · 12-12-2013, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by DkN

Sorry could you explain a bit more? Do you not have the Skoda RNS-510 fascia to go with it? Or are you after changing the interface to Skoda green? The former can be found online or at your dealer while the latter can be done by going to aux-in, long pressing the middle of the far left of the screen, and using the options that appear on screen to change boot and loading screens. Hard button colour is set in menu -> display -> key..

I got the color changing going first time running. When I drove the car ten mins later no lights were working at all. I tried to change it again and restart car and it didn't work still.

My pic was in reference to the fascia sorry. Ok so I'm not loosing my mind. Does the fascia replace the entire front or just fill in my gaps?

I also have no real instructions of what cable goes where included. The booklet provided doesn't show you much. I don't even know where to put the white antenna plug.

Can anyone remember which post/page has some instructions?

Also, not sure how to make the nav work. It trys to get me to locate the GPS files and I'm not sure which igo folder to use

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**moda** · 12-12-2013, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by MountainBikeMike

I got the color changing going first time running. When I drove the car ten mins later no lights were working at all. I tried to change it again and restart car and it didn't work still.

My pic was in reference to the fascia sorry. Ok so I'm not loosing my mind. Does the fascia replace the entire front or just fill in my gaps?

I also have no real instructions of what cable goes where included. The booklet provided doesn't show you much. I don't even know where to put the white antenna plug.

Can anyone remember which post/page has some instructions?

Also, not sure how to make the nav work. It trys to get me to locate the GPS files and I'm not sure which igo folder to use

Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk

Unit lights are triggered by the headlights. They have to be on.

Fascia covers the gaps, google image what the rns510 in either a golf or skoda looks like and you'll see.

It's pretty self explanatory, but yea, the book is useless. GPS attaches to the threaded port, fit the antenna where appropriate. The top of the unit has a pinout for the iPod/whatever. Radio antenna fits in the only one it would fit in. CAN harness fits in the only one it would fit in.

GPS file is in iGo -> Scroll to bottom using your finger swipe, it's the only .exe file.

**Muteki** · 12-12-2013, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by DkN

At this stage it looks like that the monsun.exe crash is linked to white screen - AFAIK all those who had that error have seen the white screen issue.

Hi Sandy,
I've updated to the latest firmware and when using the sd playback I have experienced the monsun.exe issue three times now. Have to turn the unit off then back on and it starts working again. However I haven't experienced the white screen yet.

The unit seems to emit some heat once driving for about 30 mins as warm air starts coming through my middle vents. Is this normal? Has anyone else experienced this?

**woweriux** · 13-12-2013, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by DkN

Are you on the latest firmware? It should have fixed the out of memory issue, or so I thought.

At this stage it looks like that the monsun.exe crash is linked to white screen - AFAIK all those who had that error have seen the white screen issue.

Yep, I have the firmware updates to the latest and "greatest":

As someone else mentioned, I also do not think that the white screen is linked to the memory issues. The white screen only pops up for me when it's very cold out. The monsun.exe memory issue happens only when GPS and the SD card are being used at the same time. I can petty much replicate the memory issue on demand, while the white screen only occurs during cold weather startups.

**MountainBikeMike** · 12-12-2013, 08:21 PM

Can someone help me out here?

**xxcynicxx** · 12-12-2013, 10:40 PM

Was about 24f yesterday morning. Took 30mins for the white screen to go away and be able to use my radio. On the latest firmware and all that. On the other hand, I have NOT had any monson errors since the update, no more can-bus issues where the whole radio starts chugging to a halt.

So other than the white screen, the unit seems to be working pretty damn well.