Dasaita CarPlay Head Unit: Toyota Camry 2007–2011 Beginner-Friendly Install

0:00What's up guys? It's your boy John. Today we're going to take a look at the Toyota Camry.

0:06Now this is one of the most popular cars here in the United States.

0:09So we know we got to take another one review and another peak.

0:12This is using the latest and greatest specs from the CIDA.

0:16I already- I already kind of took it out of here just so I can one hand it for you guys a little bit

0:19little bit easier.

0:20Already know that the box is looking good. The Cider printed.

0:27And then when you open it we have this piece. That kind of went over it and then of course

0:34you have the little lid. This is the good foam. None of that styrofoam. Good foam to protect the

0:39units. Why is it important to have good packing materials? Because look at these

0:43edges right here on the products you definitely don't want to chip. Let's say that little bracket

0:49right there. So it's very important. The next thing is we have the harnesses.

0:59Now something a little bit new that I've been noticing is the CIDA has been upping their game when it

1:04comes to packaging. Look at this. They have their own little bags. It says

1:10power spe's. It says power cables and accessory cables. So it is labeled

1:14and it's labeled and it's in the CID of the CIDA blue. Maybe kind of. Next the next package

1:22package is well I guess it's not labeled but this is going to be the main harnesses that connects

1:26the

1:36and we have a dash cam. So, let's see, what's this blue box and we have a we have dash

1:41a dash cam that I also ordered. So, if you're looking to get a reverse camera, boom, we have it right here.-

1:47not sure if I'm going to have enough time to do the reverse camera but I'll see if I can hook

1:51hook it up at least that way you can see the quality

1:55, the camera I'm going to be working on is my friend's camera. You can already tell it's getting kind of

2:00darker right here in California. It's about 6 pm. It's going to be a little bit darker. So that's why I'm

2:05saying that I probably don't have time to do the reverse camera but we'll see if I have enough.

2:13Real quick before we do the install, I just want to show the S3 wallet right here. I've been

2:17been using it for about 2 weeks now and I've been loving it. It holds all my car. It has an air tag

2:23holder. It also has some accessories. If you don't want to use an air

2:53holder, we have a screwdriver right here. We have some kind of pry tool. You don't need this but,

3:00but you can use a flat head too. But to remove some trim pieces, I have a 10 millimeter. You can use a

3:0710 millimeter socket, of course, or yeah, you probably want to use a 10-millimeter socket.

3:13Then I have an 8mm, an extension. Just sometimes it's going to be a little bit

3:17cavernous. In my case, I'm going to use an impact but you can use just a ratchet.

3:24So this is going to be my setup. It's not too crazy in parts. Most of this stuff is your

3:29everyday kind of things. First thing you need to do is you can remove the shift knob.

3:37You're going to have to remove this whole trim piece. I know it sounds kind of frightening

3:41but it's very easy. So to unscrew unscrew, you left a loosey. That bad boys comes out. So put that

3:53somewhere safe. You want to put it on the passenger seat. Next thing off is you just pull for this.

3:58You just grab it and pull. And, there are two clips. they're just plastic clips. So looking too

4:05strong. Grab and pull. And that's going to reveal two Phillips screws, which we will have to unscrew.

4:13So get the tool. This is a little small one. So I had a little more of a smaller of a smaller.

4:22I like using small screwdrivers because inside a car, there's not a lot of room. These screws

4:28you

4:29want to keep in a the safe place. Usually I put these in a cup holder. I'm just going to put in a cup holder

4:37because it does have a door so maybe it won't get lost. So now you can pull this out.

4:43But you have this trim down here blocking it. So I don't know you see that., you see the

4:56trim piece. It's this trim piece right here, not the bottom one. So you get this trim piece and I

5:03just use my hands but you can pry it. It open kind of slowly like this. I'll show you where the clips are

5:10so it makes more sense. So there you go. The clips, there's three clips up here and there's the two clips

5:17that. You kind of put it down and it goes in. I like starting from here. So you,

5:25you saw where I pulled it from around this shifter because these clips right here are a lot

5:31away from the and it's away from the spray point. So now that with that piece gone

5:36we

5:36can go further. All right so the next step is we can try to pull this out but we're going to have

5:45issues with this shifter. So with this shifter a lever here you're going to see a little button

5:50right here., now make suret your car is in, it's in park right now but parking brake

5:57engage and parking brake is on the left of your brake pedal. Have that push down because when you shift

6:03to into gear you I mean you're not you're not in parking it more. So keep that

6:11in mind too when you start your car sometimes other cars will detect that and they won't

6:17bother you with it but so you're going to have that and we're going to have to remove this

6:25trim too. So I'm not using the plastic tool trim I'm just using my hands. You really don't need it

6:42for this car and what I pulled was right here there's a little gap right here a little seam

6:51and it's kind of hard to get in camera you just pull that out. Now there is wires for the

7:02cigarette lighter but boom look at that. All the guts exposed. Exposed I know the light is

7:12a little bit harsh but you know bear with me the clips on this right here if you guys have a hard time

7:21is right here and this is where I pulled in this section right here where it's a little bit

7:27weaker. These clips aren't as strong as these yellow clips right here so try to pull from

7:32this one and I pulled from both sides straight up. Okay so now that we had that out of the way

7:45you don't have to unplug it you can just kind of twist it like this

7:49and then we just have to remove this piece right here. The reason why we had to remove

7:53this. This piece right here which just slide out a little bit and then you

8:07just feel at the time not so much anymore. Now these are these ports are held by clips

8:17so there's a little plugs on the back of them. This is how the plugs look like and you can see there's little clips

8:35there's little clips and you just squeeze it and pull the cable out, squeeze it pull the cable out

8:40and I was saying this now reveals the two 10 millimeter bolts down here.

8:48so we've finally got it. What holds this head unit together is two 10s

8:54right here and two 10s above here and that's it so all right so you can see that this is a point of view

9:06so we're looking in a 10 somewhere around here and a 10 somewhere around here there's two of them

9:14remove those and we is done on the bottom.

9:21Bada boom, bada beam, one more to go, your fingers and tada that's exactly what you want.

9:42good thing I'm going to make sure you don't lose these in the cavern now the top

10:12very careful you're gonna have to pry this open somehow without damaging your dash so just kind

10:22of go easy at first see how the dash takes it so it's because of Toyota and the quality on their

10:34dash this one seems good I kind of taking it slow

10:42my little

11:39is going to give you that there you go and make sure it's clipped onto here there you go

11:50so yeah I would say that's the hardest part and the most great is there is no damage to the

11:58dash and get close up so you guys can see it reveals two 10s right there

12:07see I think I'm bright enough for you guys can see one two so let's

12:14remove those and we should be golden all right so after you remove the two bolts up top in the

12:29two bolts down below this is where things go a little more you think it's put some muscle

12:36to it we call this the pray and pull that just means be careful when you're pulling it

12:42nothing else is holding it besides clips and you just pull which I just did

12:47now I like to put a little microfiber towel to kind of help any like if it falls down or

12:52something like that it protects like the paint here so you just pull it down

12:59and that just the plugs now it's in an awkward angle so I am going to the have

13:05to just pull it out and you guys are just going to do that on your own without me

13:10can really seeing it but I will pull one two three so there's three plugs on the head unit

13:29and then now there's two more antennas on the head unit so one two and then don't forget we also

13:36messing with the AC down below so- so we're gonna have to plug the AC which is a gray plug

13:46and walla that's it so let me show you guys again there's I know this shows four but there was three

13:57plugs here two antennas and then we have the AC now your car might vary because this is a us model

14:06and

14:06there's also always a lot of different configurations but for my configurations that's how it was

14:13all right fast forward to the present we are in the Camry with the the side of head unit and

14:22here is the bare bones now let me talk about what you need to plug in to your Camry this is

14:29very important it's very simple now let me try to get the stabilized so you guys can see it without

14:38he's shaking so much okay so the harnesses that you plug in or the ports it's just like

14:52Lego pieces you have the 10 the 10 pin right here which plugs in no problem

15:03imagine in

15:33steering wheel controls look at these three wires you

15:35wires I know it's not filling it all away but that's all you need to get the steering

15:40and controls to work this the on this goes into the back of the head unit so I have three things plugged

15:46in that's it three things you might ask what's this why does it go to nothing you don't need

15:54it because if your car doesn't need it then you don't need it they have extras because

15:59of the model years Toyota does slightly change things now what you do need is this one

16:04right here you see how there's a small one and there's a big one this one is for

16:08am and FM radio so you just plug that bad boy to the back of the head unit and you'll be fine

16:15so imagine you're gonna be plugging these two things in the back

16:19for pretty much controlling everything

16:22let's move on to the back of the head unit it elaborate a little

16:26bit more so so

16:29this is the back of the decided or the front the decided head unit

16:33and you want to screw in the wi-fi antenna right there that's gonna give

16:40you oops it's in the wrong spot so there's a 4g one this is why we do

16:47this video and this one has the little red little cap over it just put that aside

16:53and you want to plug that in right there plug and then screw it in

17:02bad a being bad a boom we are good

17:05now get that nice and snug I think it's under tight and now that black plug

17:11you plug it it into the back right here and then the AMF radio I want to plug everything in

17:18um and then I'll turn it on and we can go over the interface okay

17:25some AMF radio we are gonna do the black wire right here

17:35this is pretty much the main thing, and there's some loose ends but don't worry

17:42there's the bottom right there that's for your climate now with just those two things plugged in

17:47we're going to have some magic happen let's get the keys in there so this is going to be the cold

18:08boot let me see this android now you can change this emblem or brand to a Toyota badge by going to

18:21the advanced settings and I got to say this head unit right here right aside is so bright

18:32which is exactly what you want you want to drown in that sunlight I like

18:35the UI by the side again super smooth let me go over the specs real quick

18:43whoo this thing's quick, now it automatically goes to apple car play exactly what you want you

18:51can hear it there you go so we're skipping it right there and it's going to the next song

19:04great I'm kpop shout out to you Annie for listening to some good old kpop I don't even know

19:08is it kpop or even a me to be honest I'm not sure okay I don't know who's listening to music

19:14but after that we can the accessories because everything is working the way it should

19:22which is beautiful usb we're going to put some usb in the glove box that way if she needs a

19:28charger phone or if the wireless ain't not working on her phone she to directly plug it in

19:35and it'll still work and to do that we just plug it into the back right right there so that's us

19:40bees let me go over here so if you have a subwoofer or anything like that you can plug it into

19:47these rca jacks sub so rca into and also the camera in as well just super cool we have

20:00this is the orgy antenna microphone and uh there's- and there an microphone on here already which I did

20:10a test and honestly the microphone is huge it just uses this microphone but if you want it really

20:17close to your face you can put

20:19here and then talk to it that's not something I do honestly because after I did the little

20:24tests and it sounds so similar I don't even bother this is for the ox which we're not going to

20:34mess with more 4g antennas and then the sim card which we don't really need and then more usb

20:43can you can so I'm gonna plug those in right now and then we will go over it's

20:49alright so I just fish the usb's over there let's get that test fit again I have the rca

20:57which I which I'm not using but I'm just just to keep it a little organized just in case the customer

21:03wants to move with that again front camera probably not going to use it but I'm just

21:09putting that right there and I'm gonna be keeping the microphone and stuff like that

21:13just in a box so they can just use it but you pretty much just snug it back

21:19here now the one ding that will come up is what about the brackets

21:26how does it stay in now that's like it's gonna be held with just the clips

21:33which some people don't like but the brackets just don't the oem brackets don't really align

21:39and f and on honestly just like this without like the clips in it's on there pretty good already

21:44just by friction of making sandwich right here that's just how it is

21:51so we gonna lock it in right here you're gonna have to pull that out so it's gonna be

22:00clipped in in the front the top and then clipped in at the bottom and that's what's

22:04gonna really hold the head unit together

22:33gets a client control action going and

22:37line up the clips so it clips in nicely so this is going to require some finesse to be honest

22:57there you go so it clips in now the color actually, actually matches pretty nicely

23:14nine out of, I might, the you might be more sensitive to the color finish

23:21alright let's do the vent up top make sure when you remove these vents that everything's still

23:28kind of moves we just have to plug that that little port and turn it off and this again

23:43this is where how we kind of latch it in so you definitely want to make sure it's clipped in and

23:50latched in nicely because this actually helps hold the head unit together at the top push that in

24:14a little bit more get that fitment looking good then the rest I'm gonna do to kind of dial it in

24:23alright so the head unit is

24:53the settings because I want to show you the specs it's using this is the QC M6125 model using

24:59android 12 kernel MCU I am you all that stuff it's got it's got two quad cores that octa core processor

25:08right there you got the a 73 2.2 0 gigahertz I'm assuming and then you get the cortex a 53 with the with

25:16the 1.8 6 gigs around come on come on that's just too much for a head unit but they pack it in that's amazing

25:27okay I got the iPhone 15 pro max and this this display is crispy I'm

25:32but I'm telling you guys this I why why is it so comparable how was it how is the apples

25:40display comparable to display this IPS now I'm not gonna铆say the old tech is worse but I'm saying that if

25:49you the the crispiness the colors pop the

26:09these android head unit manufacturers are doing it's crispy and oh yeah I gotta show you this

26:17when you turn on the headlights oh we got the dark mode right now we got the RGB but you could set that

26:26let me show you guys let me show you guys that how to change to that while we're I don't think so

26:32say I got the RGB could be in the car it's led settings right here so let's change it to

26:41white just changing the white keep it classy I think thesec these things are

26:45kind of like this green color if we want to match but let's just keep it white because

26:50the cluster is white which is kind of nice for 2009 good on you Toyota

26:54oh wow I got to see this whoo oh that is that's it but let's just do a little a little

27:06bright mode just so you can actually what you what's easier to see

27:10and maybe dark was a little bit easier to see for you guys all right so we were looking at the

27:17about machines you had all of this stuff stopped at Ip address all that stuff is good

27:23so there's Wi-Fi and of course there's all that goodness but we want to be even more car settings

27:33enable

27:35of course we want to enable that steering controls amplifier settings let's get driving settings

27:39watching video I want to watch some videos while I'm driving

27:51have auto sleep brightness mode, auto, playing music, reverse all that stuff so that's all good

27:58factory settings let's see if the 126 password is good it is and you can change your car logo

28:08right here you can use it use it custom one right here if you like

28:14you're dancing icon we're not going to mess with the too much of that stuff

28:22but you can add your own logo if you please amazing so good job the site for having such an

28:33amazing head unit the UI is by far my favorite sometimes the UI have you ever like a pioneer

28:40or any of those guys their UI is out of date I mean look at this background it is straight fire

28:47reminds me of copy apple okay because this looks exactly like apple if you would ask me

28:53and of course we have apple right here like that would you read that boom we have a car play with maps

28:59capture all your tools and stuff like that oh my gosh look how punchy the colors are

29:05amazing if you were interested in this product I'll leave the links down below of this insane

29:10product I know I'm sounding like I'm gassing it up but seriously this is by far one of my

29:15favorite this looks like a 1440p display it's like 1080p to 1440p

29:23like the 1080p shrunk down to this I can

29:45it, smooth buttery smooth but yeah that's going to wrap it up. Thank you guys for watching

29:50I'll catch you guys in the next one peace