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

[moda]

Ok, tried SD today.

Works pretty well.

FLAC playback is supported (yay), but it doesn't read ID3/Metadata tags. ALAC (Apple lossless) doesn't work, though.

I've found that music playback is paused (???) when you engage reverse/reversing camera starts. Not sure why. It could be something in my settings, though? In the secret menu I have OPS turned off, Back on, and reverse volume level set to current.

[Justjuice]

I dunno, mines been working pretty fine so far, but i've just been driving around listening to the radio haha. iPod is being a bit funny with the not charging (seems to me to be a software bug, power pin is being turned off on playback, bizare), but yea.

Will see on the weekend with my big road trip (~1,000km) how it goes. I think i'll probably just load up music on an SD card and use that, and have my phone charging via 30pin. Annoying, but I dunno what else to do.

Picked mine up from the post office today and got it installed a few hours ago.

I havent had a chance to thoroughly test yet but it seems to be going good like modas (this is without a sd card, hopefully I can test that next week when mine arrives - ebay )

I've noticed a couple bugs similar to others that have been posted but the first thing (and I'm surprised no one has picked up on this) is that its not a capacitive touch screen, still resistive. Unless I read that wrong initially, I was expecting it to work like a modern smart phone instead of my old rcd unit. It seems more sensitive and better than my stock unit, was just thinking it would be different is all.

Overall the unit seems very quick, definitely faster than my stock one. I thought the resolution would be a bit iffy but looks great. Radio quality is good but I’ve only tested on Nova and Edge which is notoriously bad. It did drop out a couple times on Edge (no issues with Nova) and then it showed a weird scramble of letters and symbols but fine after I went from Nova back to Edge.

I opted to get the digital tv add on and so far using a standard pair of bunny ears I've only got the sh*tty channels but I've ordered a slightly better antenna (the unit comes with a double antenna output) which I'm hoping will help pick up normal Aussie digital channels (7,9 10 etc), wont know for a few weeks.

Ok so the issues I’ll try to add to the google doc that haven’t already been mentioned, which are very basic compared to some of the others I’ve noticed but..

*On radio mode when I press ‘extras’ it scans through the frequencies
*I forget what its called but theres an option for internet browsing, when you go to enter a different URL a keyboard pops up, but its way too small to use. I don’t know how to get internet working on this yet but it seems like a cool feature, any thoughts?
*I’ve got a two door golf not a four door, there was no option for a two door when selecting my car type (for the door open monitor)
*the GPS doesn’t like roundabouts. Mine is a little slow on 90 degree corners but roundabouts seem to confuse it a bit. I can try to upload a video if you guys wanna see what I mean. I’ve never had a GPS unit before so I don’t know if they all act that way, but I wouldn’t have thought so.

Oh I have a question, does it matter which way I face the GPS receiver? It’s currently sitting upside down with the cable 90 degrees from the unit so its sideways when you think about it, will that affect how it picks up its signal?

Also I have a sub installed, done in a shop and I was wanting to hook it up the proper way to the unit. This is what I found when I removed my current unit Looking at the cables that came with it I noticed that there is only one cable for the sub but looks like two cables coming from my amp. I’m not sure what the existing converter does but its wired directly into my canbus cables. I have a separate sub gain control knob but guessing that for optimal use I can just unplug it and control everything through the head unit?

It was a hot day today and the unit was working fine. Our winters do get pretty cold so wondering if I’ll encounter problems down the track but in the heat its not getting those weird scrambles others have noticed. Software version is

[xxcynicxx]

Oh wow. The first post definitely used to say it was a capacitive touch screen..... One of the big things I was looking forward to and disappointed by when I received the unit.

[chillybone]

True the unit needs to be more resistant or durable to climate changes.during the same day I can have 15 degree nights and 60 degree days and cold puts a white screen of death up every day it's 18 degree Fahrenheit or below.

[swyner]

Picked mine up from the post office today and got it installed a few hours ago.

I havent had a chance to thoroughly test yet but it seems to be going good like modas (this is without a sd card, hopefully I can test that next week when mine arrives - ebay )

I've noticed a couple bugs similar to others that have been posted but the first thing (and I'm surprised no one has picked up on this) is that its not a capacitive touch screen, still resistive. Unless I read that wrong initially, I was expecting it to work like a modern smart phone instead of my old rcd unit. It seems more sensitive and better than my stock unit, was just thinking it would be different is all.

Overall the unit seems very quick, definitely faster than my stock one. I thought the resolution would be a bit iffy but looks great. Radio quality is good but I’ve only tested on Nova and Edge which is notoriously bad. It did drop out a couple times on Edge (no issues with Nova) and then it showed a weird scramble of letters and symbols but fine after I went from Nova back to Edge.

This was the RDS issue I mentioned on the spreadsheet....weird characters show up then "clears" up and displays the correct stuff.

Oh I have a question, does it matter which way I face the GPS receiver? It’s currently sitting upside down with the cable 90 degrees from the unit so its sideways when you think about it, will that affect how it picks up its signal?

Shouldn't but I have always had mine facing up (ie the flat bottom is down and curved part facing up

Also I have a sub installed, done in a shop and I was wanting to hook it up the proper way to the unit. This is what I found when I removed my current unit Looking at the cables that came with it I noticed that there is only one cable for the sub but looks like two cables coming from my amp. I’m not sure what the existing converter does but its wired directly into my canbus cables. I have a separate sub gain control knob but guessing that for optimal use I can just unplug it and control everything through the head unit?

This is a line out converter to go from speaker wire to RCA. This is no longer needed since the DNS has a low level RCA Sub out, although it's just one RCA wire (not stereo Left and Right). As another member has done, you can get a splitter to go from one to two (male single into the DNS out and then it would provide female RCA left and right). Then plug an RCA cable from this directly to your amp sub input.

[Goobz]

I checked my unit last night and the warranty sticker has been cut too. Im definitely going to need some reassurance from Sandy that my warranty wont be affected...

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[raymondtrudeau]

I checked my unit last night and the warranty sticker has been cut too. Im definitely going to need some reassurance from Sandy that my warranty wont be affected...

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Is as cutting the sticker on purpose?

[Goobz]

Yeah its like someone has run a razor blade along the gap where the top panel comes off. I'd say to sort the can bus issue just before they were sent out as someone previously mentioned. Its a bit weak that they couldn't crack it to replace the sticker though. If someones warranty claim gets rejected bt AS because of it (especially considering how buggy these things are) I wouldn't want to be Sandy. It puts him in a pretty horrible position.

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[kwalsh24]

Oh wow. The first post definitely used to say it was a capacitive touch screen..... One of the big things I was looking forward to and disappointed by when I received the unit.

You know, I was wondering that myself. I didn't take the screen protector off of my unit (to avoit any marks or anything to void returns) so I just thought that perhaps that was causing the screen to not act like a capacitive screen. That's a rip off right there as that's one reason why I bought this unit. So really its using the ans screen.

Wonder if the prerelease units are being made and nnot using finalized hardware, like the screen

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[XQUIZT]

Wonder if the prerelease units are being made and nnot using finalized hardware, like the screen

Highly doubt it mate. Normally hardware revisions are deemed a new series/generation.