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patcal said:
Thanks for the reply. It is just not something I am use to. I have always been one to turn off my stereo/radio before I leave the car. Right now I have it looked with password. I have only had it a few days. I'm going to set it to unlock with Bluetooth. Lots of features for me to figure out. Today I am going to wire a power antenna switch so I can lower my antenna manually. Thanks again.
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Ah, well you don't have to worry about turning it off because after two weeks (or less) of the car not starting up, it will turn entirely off so it doesn't kill the car battery. You don't have to have music playing automatically upon startup if you don't want to, either.

I believe there's a setting in the hidden settings so you can have the antenna go down when you aren't using the radio, but I'm not certain because I don't listen to the radio (I listen to music off my phone via Bluetooth), and I don't think my car has a big antenna, just the little roof one, unless that's something else like the original GPS for the stock system.
 
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ButterflyFlutterflyMyOhMy said:
Ah, well you don't have to worry about turning it off because after two weeks (or less) of the car not starting up, it will turn entirely off so it doesn't kill the car battery. You don't have to have music playing automatically upon startup if you don't want to, either.

I believe there's a setting in the hidden settings so you can have the antenna go down when you aren't using the radio, but I'm not certain because I don't listen to the radio (I listen to music off my phone via Bluetooth), and I don't think my car has a big antenna, just the little roof one, unless that's something else like the original GPS for the stock system.
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I use mostly music on my USB drive. Then radio. I got the switch for the antenna installed. I played with it quite a bit this morning. Set up some routines to automatically turn on my phones hotspot when I get in the car.
 
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Question 2016 Jeep Compass and Atoto S8 Gen2...

Anyone around that year of the Compass or Patriot successfully hardwire their SWC? In looking at the wiring diagram for the Compass that year, it looked as if the SWC in the steering column connected to the green/white wire under the steering wheel. This was not successful for me. I tried connecting the SWC wire from the Atoto S8 harness to it, without connecting the other SWC wire on the Atoto harness to the ground wire and with connecting to the ground wire.

I also used a multimeter with the ohms setting to the Jeep side of the harness by inserting the COM probe into the negative pin and the red probe into every pin, while pressing the SWC buttons on the steering wheel and didn't receive any reading. Was I doing it correctly?
 
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Hi, I installed the reverse camera Atoto HD02LR to my car, but unfortunately up-side down. Are there any any possibility to turn it around in S8 Gen2? I could not find and think that I need to turn the actual camera
 
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New issue. I uploaded the newest firmware for my S8 Gen2. (Formatted USB Stick to FAT32, extracted the firmware to the USB Stick, inserted USB Stick into the Storage USB Wire on the Unit, went through the prompt without issue). It had some errors on the screen.

It booted up as normal, then shut off when the launcher appeared. It now appears to be looping. The screen does not turn on but the buttons flash as it wants to start up, then go back off again.
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New issue. I uploaded the newest firmware for my S8 Gen2. (Formatted USB Stick to FAT32, extracted the firmware to the USB Stick, inserted USB Stick into the Storage USB Wire on the Unit, went through the prompt without issue). It had some errors on the screen.

It booted up as normal, then shut off when the launcher appeared. It now appears to be looping. The screen does not turn on but the buttons flash as it wants to start up, then go back off again.View attachment 5739067
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Which SW version this is?
 
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Whats the scoop with dimming and autodimming? The "sun" dimming button at the top of the display seems to have three levels. And turning the headlights on and off seems to switch the brightness too.
So maybe there are three brightness levels, and for each level you can configure the brightness with the headlights on and off? Is that what is happening?
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Correct. You can set the brightness levels seperately for headlights on and off. I cant remember how I did it on my unit but managed it somehow.
 
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I've been running 220811 for more than a week now and it has been really good! Android auto and bluetooth unlock are working perfectly with my Pixel 4A. No crashes, no obvious bugs yet. That said, I don't drive that much so we will see how it goes.
 
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Need your knowledge guys! Today came my S8 Ultra. Everything works great, except the two microphones. The person I'm talking to can't hear anything through either the internal or external microphone. Is there any way I can find out if it is a hardware defect? Or have I done something wrong? And i dont mean that quality of mics are bad, they hear absolutely nothing. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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Need your knowledge guys! Today came my S8 Ultra. Everything works great, except the two microphones. The person I'm talking to can't hear anything through either the internal or external microphone. Is there any way I can find out if it is a hardware defect? Or have I done something wrong? And i dont mean that quality of mics are bad, they hear absolutely nothing. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️
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I have heard a few reports of this issue with the ultra that's why I opted for the S8 Standard which does not have this issue with either mic.
 
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Hi guys, had two more questions. I have now ordered a new external microphone that runs via USB and does not require any software. What do you think, will this work and which USB plug would be suitable for this?

My second question would be the following: I would like to change the roof antenna incl. wiring on my car against a DAB+ antenna? I have often read that the DAB+ USB adapter from Atoto is not so good. Do you know some good alternatives? Thanks
 
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esertime said:
Need your knowledge guys! Today came my S8 Ultra. Everything works great, except the two microphones. The person I'm talking to can't hear anything through either the internal or external microphone. Is there any way I can find out if it is a hardware defect? Or have I done something wrong? And i dont mean that quality of mics are bad, they hear absolutely nothing. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️
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No prob!em with the mic here but getting the cellphone app to work has been interesting, ad no I don't want to be tethered or leashed. I have a gan1 ultra and a list of issues, some I have managed to work out and some have worked themselves out. My eyes however need glasses about as bad as we need volume controls for the mic etc. I have had apps tell me my mic is hot (I am pretty sure they mean the volume) I currently have the external mic on a pillar about two feet away and it picks up everything inside and outside. I'm trying to post this from my truck and it has been a challenge.
 
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Roving1 said:
No prob!em with the mic here but getting the cellphone app to work has been interesting, ad no I don't want to be tethered or leashed. I have a gan1 ultra and a list of issues, some I have managed to work out and some have worked themselves out. My eyes however need glasses about as bad as we need volume controls for the mic etc. I have had apps tell me my mic is hot (I am pretty sure they mean the volume) I currently have the external mic on a pillar about two feet away and it picks up everything inside and outside. I'm trying to post this from my truck and it has been a challenge.
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What do you mean by cell phone app? I use the WiFi Hotspot to give Atoto Internet access since my phone carrier took away the Bluetooth tethering feature for some reason (other carrier's phones of the same model have it and my previous phone had it). The Bluetooth for music etc. still works, of course.

I haven't had problems with the mic, at least assuming that when you use the Google Assistant on your phone for texts/calls, it uses your phone's mic for Google Assistant and not the Atoto's mic. It picks up who I want to call just fine, but speech-to-text for texting sucks, even yelling at it, so I'm guessing it is using the little mic on my phone that I keep on a long-armed wireless charging holder just to the right of the Atoto unit.
 
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Has anyone figured out how to use two 720/1080 cameras, one front and one rear, with the S8 and have both record to the sd card in the S8? I don't want the ac-44p2 or any other forward facing camera that mounts to my windshield or dash, I would like to mount the front camera in my grill\front bumper. I don't need the birds eye view either just reverse camera and rear camera that record to the HU when the car is running, like a dual camera dash cam without the other hardware.
 
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Hi i have an Atoto 10.1 S8 ultra plus my problem is the Bluetooth 2 os seeing the device when you inter the password the device drop off and dont want to reconnect can any help i have tried everything but nothing works can any one help
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Hi did you ever get this sorted out? I have the same issue. Thanks.
 
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    Just got mine in this afternoon and installed it in my 86 Ford truck this evening. Prior to that I set it up via the AC adapter (sold separately).
    I know there are a lot more fleshed out reviews out there but here's my take on it.
    I really liked the A6Y Pro. It started out really strong and for 95% of the time it did what was needed. When you consider it's a head unit so it encompasses a lot more than just an Android tablet, it really is impressive. Everything it did, it did well - it just did it kind of slowly. It got pretty sluggish at times when trying to switch between a lot of apps and installing apps from the app store was painfully slow. It should be noted that in just the normal run of the mill drive when you are listening to a single music/radio app or navigation it did great. It was really just when I was sitting in my truck messing with it that one noticed these things. So take those complaints as being a tad bit critical.
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