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

[moda]

As I said they have not found a solution to changing songs in SD with nav running in the foreground. They're working on it but I'm looking to switch to Sygic, which does not have this issue.

The temporary workaround for now is to keep navigation running in the background (there will still be audio directions). Or, when the song is about to change, minimise navigation (by pressing the nav button) and bring the navigation back to the foreground after the song changes.



No, new CAN-Bus is still being tuned software-wise has not been implemented in the firmware. If you mean the audio menu in the MFD has disappeared, you just need to clear fault codes with VCDS and it should come back next time you start the car. The fault code does come back since it is not an OEM unit but for some reason the code clearing fixes the issue. I'm unsure why that happens occasionally yet, I think it used to happen due to the unit freezing on startup (which is now resolved), about when the car's CAN-Bus starts looking for MFD audio compatibility.

Hrm ok, fair enough.

The audio menu still shows up, but it's frozen. It shows '106.9 FM1' (ie my default radio station). Stays like that, regardless of whether I change the station, or input source. Haven't got any fault codes showing up, but probably worth doing a sweep with VCDS and having a gander anyways.

Not really fussed, I don't really use the audio menu, probably a funny software gremlin somewhere, and it'll get fixed when we move to the new canbus chip anyways *shrugs*

In my quick testing of using SD (FLAC files) with iGo Primo, works fine, as I said, still ~5s of lag between changing tracks, which I can deal with lo, but there was minimal lag between adjusting the volume (which was my biggest issue with it before).... so yea.

Either way I don't really use SD much, prefer to just throw on my iPhone and do it that way, so it's never been much of an issue for me (asides from the slowdown in adjusting volume which happened regardless of input source).

[fashionimage]

Good to hear, I will attempt to update the firmware on my unit this week, My unit shipped with the December firmware. Can Anyone confirm if this firmware fixed the iPod issue, correct ID tags the ability to use playlists and the ability to see all your music on the iPod (some of my music does not show up)

[moda]

Good to hear, I will attempt to update the firmware on my unit this week, My unit shipped with the December firmware. Can Anyone confirm if this firmware fixed the iPod issue, correct ID tags the ability to use playlists and the ability to see all your music on the iPod (some of my music does not show up)

New firmware is so much better than the December one haha.

Various iPod playback bugs aren't really fixed, supposedly they will be once the full ID3 tagging system gets implemented, though. All my music shows up, though, and ID tags are displayed properly, just not when you select music from your iPod, only via the headunit. When selecting music through the iPod, half the time nothing shows up, and half the time it gets the album and artist right but not the track name :p

[fashionimage]

@moda thanks!!! I like to dock my iPod and not mess with it, if I want to play directly from it I use the aux in
Can you see your playlists with the new firmware? ... Can't wait to upgrade!

[moda]

So, had this interesting error today, no idea what it means:





Playing music via SD (FLAC, ~1hour long single track album ~500mb or so) with Nav ontop. Unit locked up, had to soft reboot it. Before it, SD playback was working fine, pretty quick, and after the crash its now all slow. Ugh.

Edit: oh, and before you ask, I had stopped at my destination when I took those photos, the unit had just frozen :p (inb4 why are you taking photos with 2 hands at 75kmph :p)

Also, bluetooth is completely ****ed. No ****ing idea why, because it worked perfectly in the May software. Grrr.

Phone connected via iPod connection and playing that way (also happens with SD, and with Nav running), connected to BT, phone will ring, unit will pause music and then start playing it again straight away, doesnt show BT screen like it should, then if you answer via the phone (due to the way iphones work) audio is routed to the phone instead of the unit, or if you go to the units BT menu while the phone is ringing, and answer via that, audio is routed to BT on the phone side, but music continues to play on the headunit instead of the phone. Dafuq?

So the only way to get it to work properly is, before you get a call, go into the BT menu, which pauses the music, and then initiate a phone call. Which is retarded.

What used to happen was if you got a call, the unit would pause music, switch to BT screen (would switch to BT screen even if you had Nav running), then when you hung up, it would play music from where it paused, and if you had Nav running, would switch back to that screen.

Hopefully its just a software bug, but it basically makes the BT function useless. Very irritating.

/littlebitcranky

@moda thanks!!! I like to dock my iPod and not mess with it, if I want to play directly from it I use the aux in
Can you see your playlists with the new firmware? ... Can't wait to upgrade!

iPod playback hasn't really changed much, so its still fairly limited. No playlists, still just composers/artist/album/genre. No ****ing idea why composers is an option, who the hell uses that?

[moda]

Getting this error too:



Lovely.

[Goobz]

Hmmm.... Might hold off on flashing this one...

[moda]

Hmmm.... Might hold off on flashing this one...

Could be just my unit though, dunno. You can always downgrade the firmware anyways :p

Oh yea, and SD/Nav playback is still useless. I thought it was fine the other day when I tested it, but actually using it, when a track finishes, it just sits there doing nothing for 5 minutes until you switch Nav to the background, then it progresses to the next track. May be that i'm playing back FLAC files though?

Sigh.

[fashionimage]

ok guys flashed to the new firmware and now no gps and I can't set the path the unit does not see the exe file just a bunch of folders.
please help

Thanks

[moda]

ok guys flashed to the new firmware and now no gps and I can't set the path the unit does not see the exe file just a bunch of folders.
please help

Thanks

Scroll with your fingers (swipe) :p