iDoing 10" Universal Single-DIN Android Head Unit: Full Install, Amp Fix and Mounting

0:00What's up guys, so I just picked up the I Doing single den.

0:04It's really popular to have a universal setup,

0:07a lot of questions.

0:08I mean, it's more applicable to multiple people.

0:10So definitely want to get, you know,

0:12reach out to a bigger audience.

0:15This is the iD thewing.

0:17So testing multiple brands.

0:19Remember, there's Joing, i thewing,

0:25Desaida, Atoto, Sakane. I've been making sure

0:25like the best quality ones are out

0:27and give you guys a lot of choices

0:28when it comes to, you know, different brands.

0:31This is their Universal Touchscreen DSP,

0:34, so it's gonna be, you know,

0:36it should sound pretty good.

0:38So let's, here is the unboxing of it.

0:41Nice foam, the good foam as I used to like to call it.

0:45It's not like styrofoam.

0:49We have a bunch of harnesses,

0:52and the unit is packaged very well,

0:55it is isolated, it is isolated.

0:58And you can check out that massive screen.

1:07drawing head unit right there is to a 10 inch is such a big difference you

1:15wouldn't think two inches is a big difference trust me it is a massive

1:21difference as anybody look at that so I'm gonna try to get it side-by-side so you

1:29guys can kind of see of course I guess it'd be better if I did like them like this

1:31Of course, I guess it'd be better

1:32if I did like something like this.

1:35Yeah.

1:37So, notice how it's a single dint,

1:40so it should apply to multiple cars

1:43because even though my car is a double dint layout,

1:46this should be able to

1:47to still fit, which is gonna be an interesting outlook.

1:50There's a little screen protector, which is nice.

1:54Here is the back of it.

1:57There is a SIM card's port, like a little opening,

2:01little opening, but it doesn't look like there's anything there. So it's just a

2:06kind of same with DTV. There's like little holes for it, but nothing

2:11there. GPS antenna is a little bit different and the warranty sticker right

2:20there and their quality control pass which is also very good you have two

2:26micro SD slots up here which is also awesome no DVD and CD like the double DIN

2:33No DVD and CD like the double dint variant that I use,

2:37but yeah, let's check out how you're doing.

2:40All right, so for the install,

2:42you have to remove your previous head unit.

2:45This could be OEM, this could be, I don't know,

2:48aftermarket, the process is usually the same.

2:51In this case, I'll just kind of go over what I do.

2:54I have to remove this screen,

2:57unplug any cables, put that somewhere safe,

3:04trim pieces. They're generally held up by clips. There's times where it could be held

3:12by two bolts on the side where you have to remove the dash, the dash, but like

3:16the glove box and try to get it from like the angles down here each side but for

3:22mya a case, it's just held by clips and generally they are just held by clips we're

3:26gonna reuse this piece because again we're dealing with a universal head

3:32I have some mounting points right here.

3:37Generally, it's pretty easy because all you need

3:40is a flat head or at most a 10 mil.

3:44But car manufacturers, they don't make it too difficult

3:50to disassemble because this is a piece

3:54that should be easily replaceable and serviceable.

3:57There you have it.

4:01And then disconnect all the harnesses and stuff like that.

4:05I'm gonna use a microfiber towel.

4:09To kind of place it underneath this.

4:12The reason why I do that is these brackets are very sharp,

4:16same with the bottom brackets.

4:18And that could easily scratch your interior,

4:21devalowing your car, which you definitely don't want.

4:24So just having it kind of a little cushion barrier

4:28is what I recommend.

4:30Now, remove any plugs you see.

4:35It would be the same for your car.

4:39There's just gonna be plugs everywhere

4:43and you just gotta disconnect every plug.

4:46Antennas included, et cetera. Now the great things with this head unit too

4:54is you can kind of, everything is generally labeled right here.

4:59So if you guys had a backup camera or anything like that,

5:05you can see what's connected to the backup camera.

5:07You know, headphones, not headphones headphones, but all the jacks.

5:17A lot of antennas up in here.

5:20And if you ever did this, done this install before,

5:23like, let's say you had a previous Android head unit,

5:29the GPS antenna and the wifi antenna are all the same.

5:40But so you'll be very familiar with this.

5:48So I removed the previous unit just like that.

5:51It was pretty quick and painless.

5:53there's a lot of harnesses still that I need to get to so this is harnesses that

5:59are I wired up so it works with the OEM harness

6:03so it works with the OEM harness, messy sometimes.

6:19There you have it.

6:25I still have some of my old harnesses in there

6:27for my other head units that I just kind of keep in there.

6:29So yeah, remove any kind of wiring

6:33and we're gonna start up on our new wiring,

6:36which is gonna be placed right here.

6:39So, check

6:41check it out.

6:42This is what comes with the iDoing.

6:44It has the USBs and universal stuff.

6:49Well, so we're just gonna open that.

6:57We have a microphone.

7:07um setup if you don't um have this kind of connection which is like their connection to

7:13plug in multiple of harness so what they do they generally sell is they have this one that goes

7:17into the back of the head unit and they have this kind of plug in the back they make this plug

7:23to make it hot swappable for let's say if they if you have an android head unit um like a Toyota

7:29or um Nissan or Ultima Kia Jeep they have like a hot shoe kind of thing where it goes

7:33they have like a hot shoe kind of thing

7:35where it goes into this plug

7:37and then it goes into your OEM harness.

7:40Everything is labeled here pretty nicely too.

7:43You have backup car, key one, key two,

7:51this is gonna be steering wheel control.

7:52So it is labeled in both English and I believe Chinese.

8:00Then you a have additional harnesses like the GPS,

8:03the Wi-Fi, the USBs, the subwoo ofr.

8:07All like the good plugs here,

8:10which plugs into the back of the unit.

8:13It's these things basically plug into the back.

8:17And let me kind of look at this.

8:20USB 2.0, USB 2.0, 1.1.

8:26Wow, it's nice.

8:27This one actually has three USBs.

8:31So if your car only had one or zero USBs,

8:34you'll be able to charge your head unit.

8:37You're not your head head unit,

8:37but you'll be able to charge your phone

8:40so much nicer.

8:41This really comes in handy

8:42when it comes to powering up accessories.

8:45Let's say you have a dash cam

8:49and you wanna have it hooked up to the USB.

8:51You wanna have your phone charging.

8:54Your car came with basically a built-in,

8:59in the center console area like my glove box.

9:02Like my glove box might have a USB

9:04or my center console armrest has a USB.

9:07You'll be able to accommodate all of that.

9:10So these plugs are kind of important, not very important.

9:14We got aux connection.

9:16I don't of use aux too much, TVs and microphones.

9:21a lot of things.

9:22Look at this, all these camera settings.

9:25So you can have multiple cameras, front cameras,

9:28side cameras, rear cameras,

9:32which is awesome to have that kind of flexibility.

9:36And you can also plug in your PlayStation,

9:38you know, your Super Nintendo and all that jazz in here too.

9:43With the composite cable, finishing it up,

9:47we do have the GPS antenna.

9:51This one's actually a little bit different.

9:53using a little like a little harness thing I guess this is kind of nice because if

10:00This is kind of nice because if you have something like this,

10:03it doesn't screw loose.

10:05The general style would be something like this.

10:09Both could be effective,

10:10but this would have a generally more secure

10:14and less error when it comes to installing the GPS antenna

10:18where you just kind of snap it in there.

10:20The wifi still retains the same,

10:22but the GPS, I've actually never seen this revision before.

10:27So we're just gonna give a quick plug in

10:29and there you go.

10:30it is actually really snug and it's held by a clip. So that's great too. That's

10:39actually awesome. If you're questioning like what kind of like all these ports

10:44right here these were the cables I was

10:47legitimately holding and if you break it down they even show you this

10:50what does what so a controls and see be controls the usb's we were talking about

11:01C controls the USB too.

11:03So there's one port that has one USB.

11:06C has two USBs,

11:09which you can plug in three for additional three.

11:11E is the RCAs, F is if you want tire pressure.

11:16The aux, the backup camera.

11:18So if you guys are wiring up a backup camera,

11:20you guys wanna look at G,

11:21which is gonna be this one right here.

11:25So this would be your backup camera.

11:27And I just wanna go over a little bit

11:29because it's definitely a topic

11:31that a lot of people like to ask.

11:33So you would plug in your backup camera here.

11:38And you would plug in,

11:40your OEM has a backup camera that has,

11:43generally it would be instead of this yellow wire,

11:46it would be like two wires.

11:48So you would have to adapt.

11:49I know this is just an example,

11:50but these two wires into an RCAA,

11:54and then you're good.

11:55So that would be for the video quality, the video.

11:57So you need to adapt it to have this kind of fitment,

12:00or you can just cut this and splice in like that.

12:03And what else you would need is another,

12:06when it comes to backup cameras,

12:08you would need to know when the car is in reverse.

12:11So this is the reverse camera.

12:13When I throw my car into a reverse,

12:16it's gonna beam the head unit.

12:17So, or a wire, like a wire or something like that.

12:21And you would need the reverse

12:23to get some kind of signal.

12:24So if your car doesn't have that kind of wiring,

12:27most cars do,

12:28even though the cars don't have backup cameras,

12:30you can even make it just a switch.

12:32So just put power,

12:33and then it automatically goes that reverse mode.

12:36You need to have a ground to power the negative side.

12:40And then this is a mic frivable, stuff like that.

12:45So there's that pretty self-explanatory.

12:49The head unit's gonna go something like,

12:50it's just gonna be awesome.

12:54I'm actually really feeling this single DIN

12:56because the double DIN variant,

12:57it was sitting a little bit higher.

12:59So it'd be like right here, blocking the vents.

13:02The single DIN variant,

13:03you can see it a little bit lower.

13:04And then because the,

13:06this does come with,

13:08already getting tangled.

13:09This does come with a little pivot mechanism.

13:12The pivot mechanism is even lower.

13:14So it's not in the middle,

13:15giving you greater access to maybe pivoting

13:20and stuff like that.

13:21this will increase your fitment drastically.

13:24And it will also help when it comes to sun glare.

13:28Cause some head units like this,

13:29this face on my car,

13:31kind of faces like this,

13:32reflecting off the windows more,

13:34reflecting off the maybe the sunroof

13:36cause I use a sunroof a lot.

13:38And having that,

13:39that little tilt adjustability,

13:40it's definitely nice.

13:44You can see the build quality

13:45on the back of the display.

13:47It is plastic.

13:49That's, it is what it is.

13:51It does make it nice when it comes to lightness.

13:54And it is kind of thick.

13:56You can see the silver paint around here.

13:58The metal, it's just plastic.

14:01As far as the screen,

14:04it feels like a glass.

14:05It doesn't feel super slick or anything,

14:06but I have the screen protector on it right now.

14:09So there's that.

14:11So we have all the cables,

14:12everything kind of laid out.

14:15The first thing I would do is

14:18try to have your station very clean,

14:21have your wiring ready.

14:24So I have my wiring ready.

14:26I have the Harness all wired and stuff like that.

14:29This is a Toyota of style.

14:35But if you want to wire like you can buy the your Nissan cable universal

14:40Like twist tie it or solder it wire. So it's just nice to have everything complete like this

14:45So I, I have the complete wiring at least for the most part like I have this is kind of kind of control power and audio and

14:55It should be enough to fire up the

14:58the system which is going to be nice. Like this plug right here this is going to be a steering wheel

15:00like this plug right here,

15:03actually doesn't use this wire,

15:06so I would have to wire this manually myself,

15:10which is not a big deal.

15:11It's just three wires.

15:12Black steering wheel minus steering wheel plus

15:15or still well,

15:180 to so there you get the ground,

15:20and that's the only thing who controls

15:21all these single wires.

15:22So yeah, I like five, ten buttons on my steering wheel

15:25and this controls all of that.

15:28Which is, the way it does that is because of resistance

15:31and it calculates that and does all that jazz.

15:36All right, so let's just get

15:37the unit to power up.

15:40I'm plugging in my 10 pin.

15:41This will be really applicable if you have a

15:45a Toyota or a Subaru because,

15:48but your process for any car would be the same.

15:51You have the main power wiring and stuff like that.

15:54And then you have all these accessories.

15:55Here comes like, this is like the back of camera video

15:58reverse in, brake in, antenna and stuff like that.

16:02I'm not gonna wire all that stuff right now,

16:04but I'm just wanna get,

16:07like all these wires I have right here, I don't,

16:09I'm not focusing on that.

16:10I'm just focusing on getting the unit to run

16:12and make sure it works before I dive deeper.

16:17So that's gonna be enough to get the unit to power up.

16:20Plug it to the back of the head unit.

16:23Now when you plug it back to the head unit,

16:25you can unplug your car.

16:27You should, when you're messing with anything electrical,

16:29you should definitely unplug your car.

16:34And then at this point,

16:35you should plug your car back on and test it.

16:39From my experience, I honestly don't unplug my car,

16:42but that's just how it is.

16:43It's, I leave the car power,

16:46the battery's still plugged in

16:48and now I can test the car.

16:50So to turn on the head unit,

16:52you just hit the power button

16:54or turn your key on to accessory.

16:58Turn off my headlights.

16:59But that's a good sign.

17:00You can see that when I turn on my headlights,

17:01the dimmer switching,

17:03the dimmer functionality is working.

17:06So this is Android P.

17:08I don't know what number that is a nine,

17:11Android Pi.

17:12I know Oreo was eight,

17:13so I guess OP would be Pi

17:16or whatever they call it nowadays.

17:20This would be a cold boot.

17:21So this is the first time the unit has been booting.

17:24It hasn't, it's not in sleep mode.

17:25Obviously it's an unplug that's been in a box

17:27for maybe a few days, few weeks.

17:32Wow, that's a really beautiful screen.

17:38Really liking that screen, that screen looks great.

17:42I'm looking at the viewing angles, looks fine.

17:45Colors aren't inverting.

17:46Let me see if I can get to the brightest, the brightness, it's not the brightness.

17:54I'm going to remove this.

17:56I would recommend if you would take this off at the very end, like when you, you're finishing

18:00at the very end,

18:02like when you're finishing installing it,

18:04but you know for the video's sake, I would put it on.

18:08So there's a screen protector within a screen protector.

18:10So there's another screen protector underneath this

18:13which is just attention to keeping

18:15the unit minty as possible.

18:18You could keep this screen protector on

18:22because it kinda fits more like the actual screen protector

18:25but there's like a hair in mine unfortunately.

18:28So I'm not gonna keep this screen protector on too.

18:33and remove the screen protector as well so there you go all screen protectors are off and

18:42Mm-hmm, there's still that kind of adhesive feel to it, but it looks great.

18:49Screen quality has increased even more, because I'm removing layers of plastic.

18:55So clarity has increased.

18:57So this is going to be a good test on how the unit looks.

19:00on how the unit looks.

19:03It looks like it's working, it's operational.

19:05You should check a check things like Wi-Fi

19:07because the Wi-Fi antenna was still plugged in.

19:09You can go to YouTube, things like that

19:14but or connect to your phone through Bluetooth.

19:16So I'm gonna connect it to Bluetooth.

19:21Yeah, let's connect the Bluetooth.

19:22Make sure it works.

19:25So, wow that's, yo, like the screen looks amazing amazing.

19:30Having a big screen even though the resolution is still 10,

19:331024 by 600, just having a big screen in the car is just,

19:40which looks good.

19:44So I'm trying to search for I-doing

19:46and it's popping up on my phone.

19:49So, A2 DP is the Bluetooth software.

20:01There you go.

20:02So I'm gonna play a-a-song.

20:05If you don't hear sound,

20:07usually there's a tone when you press on things

20:09so I don't even hear that sound right now.

20:12That generally means one or two things.

20:17I need a plug-in in my car, there's an amp.

20:21So even though I have the plug-in,

20:24like the plug-in play harness,

20:26there could be a it another step that I need to do

20:28on top of that.

20:30So I'm just going to put this down slowly.

20:34More microfiber towels right here would be really good.

20:39Or not taking off the screen protector, huh?

20:42So on certain cars that are powered by an amp,

20:46you would need to wire it.

20:56I'm running the pink wire, so in my car, this blue wire is like kind of going to nowhere.

21:17The pink wire, so on my car,

21:19this blue wire is kind of going to nowhere.

21:23It's getting no power, literally.

21:26So if I get this wire to get some kind of power,

21:29it should turn on my amp.

21:33Alright so you know how I had a bunch of these wires down here and I was talking about how

21:40my amp wasn't turned on because some cars have a factory amp.

21:44It could be a small one, my car has a small amp, this is not going to apply to most

21:48So you guys, I know this one, my car has the upgraded audio so it does have an amp.

21:57I know even the BRZs, the FRS, the TC's and all that stuff, they have their own little

22:00and all that stuff, they have their own little amp too.

22:04So in that case, I plugged in this little harness

22:08and you know how there was a bunch

22:09of little plugs back here?

22:11I basically plugged in one of the harnesses

22:13and then it has this thing called amp con

22:16and I specifically know that my amp wire,

22:22it is gonna be on this pin right here.

22:25So not this orange pin, but the one to the left of it.

22:29And consult your manual to see if your car is an amp,

22:31if you have no sound, then you want to go plug it in.

22:36Get the, basically this head unit

22:38is telling the amp to turn on

22:41because you don't want your amp on all the time

22:43because your battery will die.

22:44So that's why I did this solution.

22:49So you do need to know some experience,

22:51but I think for the most of you guys,

22:52I don't think you're gonna run into that amp issue.

22:55Mine's a little, my car's a little bit more advanced

22:57and it has that amp.

23:01So firing the car on.

23:05Let's play some Bluetooth.

23:09So you definitely wanna check out the audio

23:15the key tone on. What key, tone means is when every time you touch the screen or

23:19press a button it makes a noise. You can turn it off on the settings settings which I

23:23do because I find it kind of annoying. But here's like a song. I'm gonna hit play and

23:29it's playing. This is Marshmallow, I mean I think everyone knows this song. So it's

23:32This is Marshmallow, I mean,

23:34I think everyone knows this song.

23:37So it's working, you can check out the Wi-Fi.

23:40So this is kind of like the dry install,

23:42make sure it works before you do anything else,

23:46like plug everything else in, mount it.

23:49Then once it's on, you realize it doesn't work.

23:51So you definitely want to do a dry install.

23:53It's like I like to call it

23:54before you hardware mount everything.

23:57So the unit is working fine.

23:59And then you can add additional stuff,

24:01the additional wiring.

24:03Start with the essentials first like that,

24:04just that initial power cable.

24:09So I have the head unit in.

24:11So this is where you can do,

24:14I would plug everything else in like the USBs and etc.

24:18So, I'm gonna get down to that,

24:21backup cameras and so forth.

24:26So for me, I'm just gonna plug in the microphone,

24:34be showing you what the USB's are so all these have a little plug back

24:38here so thankfully you can't really screw it up because I mean if you force it

24:44maybe but one well only one pits fits one so you can kind of just dry it look at

24:50these little like little slots and then plug it in or remember we can read it

24:57just read the thing and it says remember it was C and D which is gonna be these

25:00which is gonna be these corner ones.

25:02So C is gonna be this one.

25:05These are USBs.

25:07So again, before the finale,

25:10I tucked all the wiring, not a tucker wiring,

25:12but I basically routed out wiring

25:14a USB under the glove box.

25:16So I have have one right there, I'm using an adapter

25:19and that's how the car is gonna kind of sit.

25:23I plugged everything in,

25:25but of course the screen's pretty massive

25:27and you can unplug it.

25:29There's these little twist screws right here.

25:33I don't know how good you, you guys can see that.

25:36I would unscrew it.

25:37This will loosen the screen a little bit.

25:41And then there are these little clips

25:43that hold the screen actually.

25:45And there's, I would recommend using

25:48some kind of tool to take that out.

25:51So, in my case, I'm just gonna use a flat head.

25:57And yout'll see these little clips right here.

26:01You can probably see a good angle.

26:05So it looks like this.

26:06There's one on each side, holding the screen, giving it basically a way to stay

26:16connected. Wow. Then we have the thing itself.

26:28Trying to figure out how I'm going to do this.

26:36It's definitely not easy plug the plug in there so I'm going to unplug it here so it's an IDE

26:49cable similar carrying a bunch of stuff and then I'm just going to kind of push everything

26:57back try and get the head unit kind of sit right there.

27:01I'm gonna see if I can use the OEM brackets

27:04from my head unit to mount right here.

27:08And, and somehow get away to mount onto the setup.

27:11The reason why I took off the screen

27:13is because when I put the bezel in,

27:15which is this piece right here,

27:22you can't have that screen in the way.

27:23So, now I can basically mock it up.

27:26Have the screen right here, which is nice.

27:30So have the unit kinda mounted up.

27:34The OEM brackets, they do kind of fit.

27:36I don't know how far it's gonna protrude.

27:39So I definitely want to take a look

27:40at how that's that's gonna look here.

27:43If it sits too low.

27:44I want it to sit as low as possible again.

27:47Your vents might be down here.

27:49Your vents might be on the side.

27:51Mine are on the top.

27:52So I want this to be as low as possible.

27:58There, there you go.

27:58it does fit with some convincing oh it's like right there so the

28:02What's some convincing?

28:03Oh, it's like right there.

28:05So the fitment is exactly how I would want it

28:08as low as possible.

28:10So with that being said,

28:12there's these two mounting screws that I have to screw on.

28:16Okay, gotta get this ribbon cable.

28:19Now this is kind of bad design

28:21because it's kind of hard to see

28:22this ribbon cable and plugging it in.

28:29Yeah, go, plugged it in.

28:32this wass you swoos can't type the wires back there as possibly low as I

28:46can go. Alright so wrapping it up this is how it looks like. It's

28:54massive. I need to do a mouse so you can kind of see the screen. It reminds

29:01me of a Tesla. Yeah that's it. Let me a test it a bit. See if

29:11bluetooth is hooked up. Everything's working the way it should. I miss having a

29:23nice screen like this. It's so big and it's very refreshing on what your interior

29:29looks like. Alright just finishing up. So make sure your car if you want video

29:34while you're driving it's under driving settings and it was off but I turned

29:38it to on so it allows me to watch video in the car. Alright so then

29:41now you can have like watching videos on your head unit and just show you the

29:47fitment on the back before we wrap this up you have to get pretty tight back in speck in there but you can kind of see the gap

29:55whether you can cover this up with something. Let me get it from the

30:01passenger side. this is how the passenger would see the car. The screen is so big it

30:06covers most gaps. It covers most gaps anyways but then if you go super far

30:11right, you start seeing like little cracks and crevices and that's gonna be up

30:18to you since it is a universal head unit to figure out a way to address. Whether you

30:24get another trim piece, you can get like a blackout trim just cover that whole

30:28area but overall this head unit see if I can get a good look looks great and sound quality

30:39with the DSP it's good I have no complaints yet I haven't test many Bluetooth quality I'm

30:46not sure about that I haven't tested all that but when I was playing Bluetooth it sounded

30:49good but of course you want to have actual like songs on a USB or some like a digital

30:54at to have the best experience when it comes to audio quality with all this

30:59stuff. Anyways guys, ask any questions below. This was like a install slash first

31:06impression of the unit. Give you guys a closer look of the iDoing DSP

31:10Android 9.0. Thank you guys for watching. See ya!

31:16Get it, Pikachu.

31:17Oh.

31:18Yeah.

31:19Yeah, get it, Pikachu.

31:22was good.

31:23Oh.

31:24Oh.

31:25Oh.

31:26Oh.

31:27Oh.

31:28Oh.

31:29Oh.

31:34Get it Pikachu.

31:36Oh, yeah, yeah, get it Pikachu.

31:40Was good.