iDoing Android Head Unit: 2012–2015 WRX Software Tour & Built-in CarPlay

0:00What's up guys today? We're going to be taking a look at the new Android head unit redesign for the Subaru WRX

0:05But this will apply to most all iDoing head units core. So whether you get universal

0:10You get specifically tailored for your vehicle for I say a Mazda an older Subaru to Yoda tundra, etc

0:16It's gonna have a very similar user interface to this. So let's go check it out right here

0:22Now definitely something you can tell is the design is looking really let me get that light for you guys

0:28So you can see that the design is really nice

0:32Really actually the way it's designed is it has a front glass right here, and it's really durable

0:38They call it 2.5 D or 3 just check out this video of them testing it showing it how durable the screen is

0:46So the screen is actually very durable similar to what you see on there like a really high-end phone like Gorilla glass

0:51This is what it's kind of kind of used to

0:53Now let's the head unit right off the bat you can tell it's a really bright screen

1:00But you can turn on your headlights. So at night time like this right now

1:04It's 5 o'clock, but it's still pretty dark because it's so smoky here in California right now

1:08But when you turn on the headlights, you see how the whole screen dims

1:13And it's looking good. Let me try to make it so you guys can really focus on the video

1:18So the surroundings are gonna be a little bit darker

1:20But we're gonna be really primarily focusing on the user interface that iDoing has provided because I think a really interesting take

1:27Is this got this head unit has the user interface is a lot different than what I'm used to and that's really cool about what they're

1:34Doing with software wise so hardware wise they might be very similar nowadays, but they're their software wise

1:39It's it's they've been stepping it up

1:41So you can change the UI right off the bat and I'll show you guys that in a second

1:44Let's look at this general one. Now. This is the one that I picked

1:47It's like a fourth UI you can pick you have your calendar your navigation

1:52Music again blue two-picture ox and so forth. So only those six cards or there's even more right here

1:58But you can see how like it's so well baked in it looks very clean

2:02This icon right here is you're allowed to turn off your screen

2:06So when you're driving your city, let's say you're going you're going ham on the freeway or whatever

2:11You're tacking corners. You definitely want to have less distractions

2:15So having a button right there to just clean everything that's a huge plus now to turn it back on you can hit any of

2:21these buttons or

2:23The touchscreen itself and you can see it turns on this window icon looking thing

2:27This is an Android head unit. So there is apps

2:30So if you have use it use Google Play Store or you know, just download any kind of APK

2:35You'll be, fine here if you want to play classic plans or whatever any kind of game

2:40You know ingi your birds etc. You can play that on this because it has the full Play Store

2:44You can download all that while really nice is something like colors. This is called z-link this head unit

2:50It's very unique compared to others. It's because it has built-in Apple CarPlay now

2:54I haven't tested this specifically but I'll show you a video right here of Apple CarPlay working on this head unit

3:00It's awesome having a built-in all you have to do is plug the usb in and then

3:05Use or make sure you use your official Apple iPhone lighting cable

3:09And then you should have Apple CarPlay, which is a huge plus and a huge step forward for just Android head units out there

3:16Have everything built-in now. I have an Android myself because I have an Android

3:21I use something called auto play. You just buy this adapter, which I'll link below. It's not very expensive

3:27It's like 50 bucks if you want to have Android auto, so you can spend a little bit more if you're gonna use it for Android auto

3:32Now going through the

3:34Icon we can go through every single icon, but I don't think you really need that

3:39Controls is this is pretty important if you want to set up your

3:43Stereo control so if you want to see the serial controls, I can set up everything here, which is really nice

3:48I'll show you guys how to set up real quick

3:50So when I press up you see how it like actually little like change the screen volume up volume up

3:56volume down

3:57volume down next and

4:00You just kind of set up there. It's really intuitive and easy

4:05And I'm just so pressing the button here holding the button down and then I pick the setting

4:11So this one's gonna be sourced because we'll just use mode and for this talk thing will use GPS

4:17When you're finished you press that check mark and now I should have yep serial controls. I'm

4:30Easy connect

4:32This allows you to basically mirror your phone screen

4:36So you like if you don't have internet or a hotspot you can use your phone

4:40To

4:43To show that so let me demonstrate that real quick for you guys

4:46I mean I do I condone this doing you when you're driving and stuff like that

4:53Maybe it's not the best idea, but I just plugged in my note 8

4:58And it's already reading some stuff right there turn on sitting

5:03Okay, I guess it's the first time I ever did this so I have to turn a few things on

5:14This is I should allow you such a tracking and BAM

5:19the screens on

5:21So when you're driving and you know because some people not everyone has tethering on their phone you can mirror it like this

5:29That way this does have Wi-Fi, but let's say you like to watch

5:33You know, it's the screens mirrored. You can also still control it here

5:38So this video is playing here over here you can be driving if there is no kind of n, Annie's not saying hey

5:44You're not allowed to do that. You shouldn't be able to do that. You're driving. This is the car

5:47This is something that yeah, people can abuse but let's say if I'm driving and we're doing a road trip for six hours

5:54People want to watch YouTube they can do that and they can still get entertained. This is a infotainment state

6:00System so it's kind of on you if you're driving you're watching YouTube. That's obviously pretty distracting

6:06You know, it's up to you

6:09You're a grown person

6:10So I'm gonna unplug that and then

6:13We'll go through that more of the icons. So that was the circle is connect

6:18There's also the EQ if you want to see how the EQ looks like that

6:21I have mine set to soft and pretty much flat around the everything. That's how I like it

6:26You can also choose fade and stuff like that

6:30Let's see what else any

6:32GPS they have built in for GPS. Let's say you don't have a phone

6:36You can still have GPS similar to a tom tom. Tom similar to you know a

6:41Garmin you're not gonna have any issues with needing data to run

6:46GPS it's something like similar to an OEM unit actually my Subaru

6:52The original head unit had a user interface very similar to something like this right here

6:59And you can pick out your route and all that stuff like that and you can see this is yeah

7:03This is no data hooked up to it right now and it has that ability which is really nice

7:09Yeah, it's really nice

7:11So it's this is the first time it's loaded and it's actually really smooth

7:16This is an octa-core processor all the specs and stuff like that. I'll post it below

7:21But that's for my user interface. This is a 3d map and

7:25I'm able to you know rotate and all that goodness

7:28Without having any issues

7:31Now going through the app some more there's operation guides testers this

7:35Z-link that's what you want to use for Apple CarPlay like I mentioned earlier

7:40Radio, which is also very important now. Let's go to settings because this is what's kind of blown me away

7:45Most Android head units. I've been dealing with have the traditional like Android Oreo

7:52user settings now what this right here is it's very

7:56There's a skin on top of it make it very more more refined, which is awesome. Look at that

8:03There's there's Wi-Fi data usage device. Everything has its own icon and it's very clean

8:10In under general definitely something you want to check out press any key to start break wire auto net start navigation

8:26Fahrenheit or you know United States

8:28Backup camera it does have a backup camera. It's compatible and you can mirror the image or anything like that

8:35Also, if you want to mute the audio when you're reversing some people like it when you reverse you when you throw in a reverse

8:40It turns off the sound so that you can focus

8:45All this goodness right here lantern settings you can change your color of your

8:51your thingy look at that oh

8:54Pretty cool pretty cool

8:57I'm gonna keep mine to red

9:00Because it just matches my car more

9:03Mixing scales there's so many options. Look at that. There's so many options

9:09Even has door driver door position

9:12now

9:14There's also a factory which I'll show you the password here

9:17This is where all the cool cool stuff is in there now give me a second before I show you that and then here is

9:23Information regarding like backups and accounts if you want to link up your Google play your ways account stuff like that

9:30And you also have your system develop a options and like that that everything's pretty much

9:36You can change a lot

9:39Now for the Android version we have running 8.0

9:42Px5

9:43This is a bunch of mumbo jumbo that some of you might not understand, but here are the specs for those who are interested

9:49Yes

9:51All this information right there for you guys

9:56Now there's some serial MAC address, you know you guys can hunt me down and take the head unit

10:00But I'm not gonna borrow that out that whatever you guys want to do with that

10:05Now for factory settings

10:07I'm gonna show you guys it after I get the password so under factory you have all this password stuff

10:13I'm gonna tell you guys the password right now. It's gonna be three three six eight

10:17So there's three six eight confirm and you're gonna get additional settings the sleepmost setting is

10:23How long do you want to keep this thing on standby? I keep it on standby?

10:27So when I turn it on and off it just instantly turns on that's really convenient. Of course

10:31Of course, it's gonna take some more power

10:33But if you drive your car every day or at least one thing you'll be for perfectly fine

10:37I'll write a display and stuff like that. I don't know too much about that

10:40I think that if you have parking sensors in your car, you can have it display which my car

10:46I don't have anything equipped with that same with reverse parking light and stuff like reverse parking, line, all that stuff

10:51You can turn on the lines. You probably have seen the lines USB error

10:55Detection see most of this stuff is kind of like really advanced where you're just like I just keep it off

11:01I just keep it on default, but it's nice to know that's there

11:05MCU panel is

11:07If you want to keep these lights on

11:09Of course, I want to allow myself to download install any app. This is what that allow it does

11:15If you have a CAN bus system, you can change the way your car locks

11:19So it shows you which doors locked this car doesn't have any of that information on there

11:24So I don't have any of that. It just keeps look all this information AC information, of course

11:28I don't have the CAN bus, but if your car did you can have that kind of functionality and you can play with it

11:34Boot screen logo. That's also a really interesting one if you want to change it minds of Subaru

11:39Remember this head unit is it could be universal not this particular one

11:43But just generally in Android head units you can change your badge and all that

11:47So if you want to be kind of fancy when you turn your car on and you want to be a I don't know a Brembo break or

11:54You know, there's like a probably like, you know, there's Subaru. There's Yama

11:59I don't even know what this is, but this I mean, there's like this one's like a freaking perfume bottle or

12:06But I don't see Lamborghini or anything like that, but there's Cadillac and all that stuff which is it's fun

12:12You can change that volume balance settings and all this stuff. There's just so much

12:16Of course, you would generally want to keep this to default as USB 2.0 right now. You don't want 1.1

12:20The resolution is 1024 by 600

12:25And all this stuff can be looked at I don't want to show you too much

12:28I want to show you the cool stuff. So home launcher select. This has built in

12:34UI changes. I have it zero three the password

12:37It's gonna be 1818. I'm just gonna show you guys that

12:41So right now I'm on zero three. That's how let's see how zero four. It looks like to check how that looks like

12:47We go back to home and boom

12:50Now this is definitely more, you know, bronzy cool

12:53You still have that off-screen which is nice. It's a good touch

12:57But this is kind of like your user interfaces

13:00Music is just gonna be what kind of music you have stored in here

13:02So if you have mp3's or you if you plug in a USB, you can adjust it there radio Bluetooth music video player settings

13:09So this is one of the UI. Let's go to the next one

13:12We can click this button right here and hopefully we should be able to go back again

13:16Let's put. Put the password in an 1818. Oh

13:22This is the factory password the factory password is 3368

13:26So they were here and then we had to change the launcher selection that one's 1818

13:34So let's go to UI 05. Boom. Let's check out. It looks like

13:43What do you think of this one camera woman? I like the blue. Yeah, the blue is really nice

13:51and resolution on the screen is very crispy and

13:55The screen is very it's very vibrant and colorful

13:59I can kind of see this screen being really good on the cars that have more of that blue tint

14:01really good on cars that have more of that blue tint.

14:04I'm looking at you guys like Mustangs and stuff like that GM car like

14:07generally Ford has a lot of blue kind of colors.

14:10But look at this it kind of matches my upper screen right here

14:13here that kind of blue right to so it's cool and this is

14:16in the default screen. Now let's look at

14:27Let's go to my next UI.

14:30So the password again is 3368

14:33And then right here. Here

14:351818

14:36It's like they didn't want you to touch this stuff or some all those passwords found very similar to the other one

14:45But more like a navy blue and like just more like stealthy again that looks pretty cool

14:52But it's just user preference and then you have the Andrew auto

14:56And that's why whenever when you saw my initial screen

14:59It looked very different because I wanted to go for that different theme

15:02So I'm gonna change it one more time to the original one I the original one I had which was the first one

15:13UI03 so if you guys are UI03 comment down below

15:16Boom. It's it's it's nice. I like the big widgets and stuff like that. It is kind of a little bit brighter

15:22Maybe a little bit more distracting, but yeah

15:25Overall what I've been I've been using this head unit for a week now

15:38It's like to distort or the volume can get really really loud on my system

15:43Iattutto hang out like a two or three audio because I

15:47Actually have an amp so I guess it amplifies the sound and makes it super loud. So I'm usually down here. I'm never up there

15:54Bluetooth signals been really good. Why fights been brilliant. I had no issues

15:59I know I only had this head unit for a week

16:01But but in the week that I've been testing it everything has been working great. It's has never crashed

16:06It had never had any issues and iDoing their support

16:10They've they've been super helpful and like their responses are super quick

16:14And that's something that I would pay a little bit more money just to get that extra really good support now

16:21Is there anything I want to complain about honestly? No for 400 bucks

16:304500 bucks for this head unit. It's definitely there's nothing really I can complain about the screens great

16:34They upgraded the screen the previous screen had some backlight bleeding issues

16:39This one doesn't have that issue anymore. So it's like that's really good. The build quality

16:45We have actually improved it on because they use this better screen, which is again another really good thing for me

16:52I had a 2015 vents it fits in really nicely also very good. It,

17:01been reliable so if you guys were looking to buy this check on the links description below

17:06I have the iDoing which is remember that they've been really good and they have really

17:09good customer service so it's definitely something you guys should check out other than that um yeah,

17:15let me know if you guys have any questions on the UI. I know I want to really go deep dive into the UI

17:20because um you know it's not not everyone has seen the UI so just check out the GUI and stuff like

17:26that I think I really like it and um I covered so much stuff like that I just want to show you

17:30guys something a little bit unique with their their skin they have on top of this pretty cool

17:35Thanks for watching, peace out guys, and remember to subcribe. Peace!