DNS series head unit (new generation dual core RNS-510 alternative)

**MountainBikeMike** · 26-12-2013, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by cpkk

Tap the screen where the crosshairs to go through the calibration process.

First time it only went through a couple cycles. This time Ive been through at least 30 cycles, it doesnt finish :/

Originally Posted by kwalsh24

The unit works great, as long as you aren't trying to multi task. Once you bring in the GPS and try to do SD playback the unit starts to act out. GPS will work fine, but SD playback comes to a crawl, takes literally 2 to 3 minutes to advance to the next track, even the menu selections can start to delay trying to select a different input option.

I wonder if these issues are more related to the old windows ce platform not being a true multi tasking operating system.

Its like having windows XP running on a brand new system. The operating system doesn't know what to do with the resources so you're limited with what the operating system can do vs what the hardware is capable of. Toss windows 7 on there and the system comes to life, as the operating system was designed to work with the hardware.

I bet this unit would fly on a android based platform vs a dated windows platform.

I agree. To be honest, the first 10 days I had the unit, hardly any bugs mentioned here came up. It was running fast and stable and just generally worked. Now after 2-3 weeks, its a major crawl, buttons are completely unresponsive, my firmware wont update properly now...

**Justjuice** · 26-12-2013, 07:24 PM

So I just updated the unit and all went well. I had the unit powered down and started my ignition and noticed that I still had the update sd in as the coloured text popped up again. My mind just instinctively told my hand to turn the ignition off and now I can't start the unit anymore. All I get is a white screen with vertical coloured lines and nothing else. I've tried disconnecting from the canbus and pulling the radio fuse for over 10 seconds but they didn't help. Unit won't boot up into any normal mode. Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?

**MountainBikeMike** · 26-12-2013, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Justjuice

So I just updated the unit and all went well. I had the unit powered down and started my ignition and noticed that I still had the update sd in as the coloured text popped up again. My mind just instinctively told my hand to turn the ignition off and now I can't start the unit anymore. All I get is a white screen with vertical coloured lines and nothing else. I've tried disconnecting from the canbus and pulling the radio fuse for over 10 seconds but they didn't help. Unit won't boot up into any normal mode. Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?

You pulled it as it was installing again. You had to wait..

I assume if you try the normal update procedure from scratch it will work. I.e. start unit with Sd in, and see what happens

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**Justjuice** · 26-12-2013, 09:31 PM

No. No combination of anything I tried has had any effect on the unit

**swyner** · 27-12-2013, 09:39 AM

It's been a couple cold days with replacement "production" unit and no sign of cold white screen of death!! Looks like AS did find the problem and want others to know this. Will continue to report as its to remain cold here for a bit.

**xxcynicxx** · 27-12-2013, 10:06 AM

Thanks swyner, that's what I was waiting for. Guess I need to figure out how to ship this thing back.

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**moda** · 27-12-2013, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by swyner

It's been a couple cold days with replacement "production" unit and no sign of cold white screen of death!! Looks like AS did find the problem and want others to know this. Will continue to report as its to remain cold here for a bit.

Good to hear

is the bt audio quality any better? Used a2dp in my eonon unit in my prado today and it's crystal clear... The DNS should be like that or better, strange.

I've left my car parked out in the sun (no covered garage sigh) over the Christmas break, here's hoping it works fine when I get back haha.

Originally Posted by Justjuice

No. No combination of anything I tried has had any effect on the unit

Honestly, it sounds like you've bricked the unit, killing power to it when flashing. Give Sandy a bell and see what's what.

**swyner** · 27-12-2013, 12:34 PM

I haven't tried the bt yet but honestly my old unit sounded ok just not loud enough as already discussed. The quality was fine. I will check more things tomorrow.

**DkN** · 27-12-2013, 08:39 PM

The unit having issues multi-tasking is definitely not normal, it's not a WinCE issue as it wasn't a problem with the ANS and that only had 128MB RAM. I am told that there has been another fix for multi-task lagging, and I'm expecting firmware within the next day or so.

They still could not replicate the monsun.exe error. Maybe it will get fixed by the lagging fix, maybe not - if not, can those able to replicate it detail exactly how it can be replicated, if GPS must be running in the background to cause it, and exactly what file it is playing when this error comes up - that would help track the issue down. If the same thing cannot be replicated on another machine it may be related to the hardware issue.