[Dev] New "NavRadio+" ported to MTC devices

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KaTRaM

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Hi!

I have tried to install the app, but it indicates that the hardware is incompatible. I have a PX5 radio, but it seems to bring a brand new MCU:

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Is there a way to make it work? Are you going to update the app for this type of MCU?

Thanks
 
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New update coming out:
- Updated Patch for S32F0 models
- Added 30 backgrounds and "preview" backgrounds in settings

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randycorcoran

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Hi @KoTiX2,

I installed the free version you post on the first message and I tried during last week on my PX3 MTCE GS auto radio. It works fine (I noticed that quality of sound has increased) but I realized some strange situations:
  1. When I seek stations in the background, the app crashes.
  2. I think that AF only picked new stations if you seek them first. It would be great that radio could recover AF automatically without having to scan previously.
  3. How can AF work better? Which value have I to put in factory settings? I tried with 20db and 30db but AF only works a few times in spite of station has more than one AF registered.
Thanks in advance for this great app!
 
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KoTiX2

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randycorcoran said:
Hi @KoTiX2,

I installed the free version you post on the first message and I tried during last week on my PX3 MTCE GS auto radio. It works fine (I noticed that quality of sound has increased) but I realized some strange situations:
  1. When I seek stations in the background, the app crashes.
  2. I think that AF only picked new stations if you seek them first. It would be great that radio could recover AF automatically without having to scan previously.
  3. How can AF work better? Which value have I to put in factory settings? I tried with 20db and 30db but AF only works a few times in spite of station has more than one AF registered.
Thanks in advance for this great app!
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You are lucky that it work "fine" on a px3 unit :p
I guess it's running anroid 7, correct? I beleive that I some how lost the support for android 7 units while adding new features to the app.
I have a px3 cpu board somewhere at home and i'll try to load it up on one of my units to see what happen but i cannot guarantee anything right now...
Tnx for reporting anyway ;)
 
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randycorcoran

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KoTiX2 said:
You are lucky that it work "fine" on a px3 unit :p
I guess it's running anroid 7, correct? I beleive that I some how lost the support for android 7 units while adding new features to the app.
I have a px3 cpu board somewhere at home and i'll try to load it up on one of my units to see what happen but i cannot guarantee anything right now...
Tnx for reporting anyway ;)
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Yep, that's the one I have... I bought it 3 years ago and yes, it has android 7.1.2
Please don't forget about px3 units.. we cannot afford upgrading them yearly. As I said, I am looking for a good radio app which works well (I am realized about android radio chipset limitations) and I want to buy your app if it achieves it. Thanks for your work.
 
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hi, how do I disable these notifications that keep appearing every 10/20 seconds ??? I'm not interested in those that go above maps or other apps ... if I deactivate all notifications, even the rds data on the widgets no longer appear ..... thank you
 

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maxxxy said:
hi, how do I disable these notifications that keep appearing every 10/20 seconds ??? I'm not interested in those that go above maps or other apps ... if I deactivate all notifications, even the rds data on the widgets no longer appear ..... thank you
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This is not a NavRadio notification. It's from some other app or from the hal9k or malaysk rom.
You should check their custom settings.
 
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@KoTiX2
Hello there,
My radio does not have rds feature. If I buy your app, will it work? I have uploaded a picture of the system specs. Very happy if you help.
 

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KaTRaM

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royalhawk2002 said:
It seems a S32F0 MCU based HU, but the beginning of the string of the relevant version is shown as a different one ( MF1 instead of S32F0). The remaining is the same of any MCU with S32F0. You can try, at your own risk, to flash one of the S32F0 MCUs based on 7708 Radio Chip.
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If I flash the firmware you tell me, what risk is there? Can I brick the unit?
 
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    Cutprods
    Astro2023 said:
    Hi, I use an Ottocast USB AIO box, the Picasou 2 Pro, this is an app for listening to the radio with all the features I'm looking for. Do you think the developer can work on this device?
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    Does this device have a FM radio chip, connected to the original car antenna? This app is for aftermarket Android Head units that replace the original ICE equipment. They universally have a FM chip that is not part of traditional Android; rather controlled by a separate microcontroller and firmware. Real FM radio, nothing to do with the internet. Unless I'm mistaken, apologies if I am, about your device; it is completely outside of the aims of this app. Even if it could access the FM radio, via usb, it would do so in a way that is nothing to do with this app. The developer makes new versions according to the popularity of newer qualifying platforms, I outlined above. I don't imagine it's economically worthwhile to him to develop bespoke versions, at the very low app cost he asks for it.
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    ms009986
    Wow, man, I just have to say nice work for replying to all these posts. You are certainly in touch with your users.

    I have a pretty fair number of suggestions or requests, but I'm going to keep it to my main problem for now just to keep things simple. I read through all 100 pages of posts to see if this problem was mentioned, and it wasn't (or I missed it somehow).

    Anyway, I'm having trouble with the drag-and-drop function of my favorites list. I assign all the stations I want as favorites, then I drag and drop them into the order I want (basically, talk stations, then pop stations, then hard rock, etc.). Everything works fine, I can switch between stations like I want and everything stays put. However the radio doesn't save the new dragged-and-dropped configuration. When I turn the car off and come back later, the favorites are still there, but in order of frequency. The app has forgotten all my dragging and dropping.

    "No problem," I thought, "I'll just save the list once I get them in the order I want, then if it forgets I'll just overwrite the list with my saved configuration." But when I do that, it doesn't help, the favorites are still listed in order of frequency.

    So I thought I'd throw yet another problem at you and see what you think. I'm guessing since nobody else is commenting that remembering station order is a problem that it might have something to do with my particular configuration? The only thing I can think of is that I'm one of the few who actually uses AM stations, so when I rearrange the AMs and the FMs together perhaps the app is not able to handle that somehow?

    Anyway, saving favorites order is not working for me. Glad to troubleshoot if you need to try anything. Thanks for the amazing program!
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    ms009986 said:
    Thanks for your feedback...I would hope that if the program allows you to rearrange a screen it would always remember the rearrangement, or just not let you rearrange it in the first place. No one would want to rearrange their favorites more than once.

    I would think the most common use case would be people would scan for all the FMs and AMs they can get and leave those bands alone, then pick their favorites, then rearrange them and keep them displayed. While they could rearrange the FMs and AMs, there's not much reason to if they're not stations they listen to much.

    ALSO (very opinionated here!) I like the idea of being able to arrange my AMs amongst my FMs. There's no reason for that not to be allowed, and it makes sense if you categorize your stations.

    Anyway, certainly if you save your configuration in a file it should also remember positioning for each band? Thanks for answering, and I will look forward to the next few updates to see how the new bands function! Thanks for considering my comments!
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    I have a good news: i was able to fix the FAV problem of reordering the list after app start.
    I still need to to male some more tests but i beleive that by next weekend i could release the new version.
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    After releasing my NavRadio+ for Allwinner and IntelSc9853 devices in december, i finally ported it successfully to MTC/HCT based devices (PX3, PX5. PX6, PX30, Snapdragon655).
    I paste here the first post of my other thread as a presentation of my work:

    I have been working since July 2019 this radio FM application originally created by Omega2008 (dipcore) from 4pda and I published it on playstore (with his permission of course) after some beta testing on allwinner and intel sc9853 units.

    A FREE VERSION FOR XDA USERS IS AVAILABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE XDA RULES AND TO LET USERS TEST THE COMPATIBILITY BEFORE BUYING IT.
    YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:
    V3.21 DROPBOX LINK
    or
    V3.21 GDRIVE LINK
    IT DIFFER FROM PAYED VERSION JUST IN TERMS OF USER CUSTOMIZATIONS OPTIONS AND NO LOGOS SUPPORT.

    If you are sure that your unit is compatible with the app you can get it on the Google PlayStore, here:
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navimods.radio
    or on the Huawei Appgallery at this link:
    https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/C107643913

    Here you can see a sample video of my working progresses:
    Sample Video
    Here a demonstration video of the automatic assignment of Logos, station name and alternative frequencies:
    Demo
    and here a review from a friend:
    Review

    It's widely customizable in the graphics and layouts:
    - Wallpapers: Presets (about 30), system wallpaper, solid color, from personal images
    - Color themes (20 predefined or personal adjustments)
    - Night mode on / off, timed or automatic with car lights (MTC only)
    - Resizable text elements and Font choice
    - 4 view modes:
    Vertical List (Left/Right and5,6 or 6 buttons)
    Horizontal Grid (1x5, 2x3, 2x4, 2x5, 3x3, 3x4, 3x5)
    Horizontal Carousel (5-11 items)
    Fullscreen (double tap or timed)
    - Selectable inactivity timer for fullscreen activation
    - Toggable StatusBar in fullscreen mode
    - Toggable Clock and GPS speed in fullscreen
    - Toggable Frequency slider
    - Automatic and manual assignement of Logo images to the stored radio stations based on RDS id and station name scraping.
    - Logos can be downloaded from internet DIRECTLY IN THE APP or sideloaded.
    - Station lists can be sorted by name or frequency and saved/restored in a Json format
    - Improved RDS AF function with automatic storing and merging of alternative frequencies found
    - Notifications Toasts
    - Selectable Radio Region
    - Station editable elements : Position, Frequency, Name, Logo, Favorites
    - 2 Homepage Widgets, horizontal and vertical design
    - Floating widget
    - Autostart on boot option
    - Support 800x480, 1024x600, 1280x720 and 1920x1080 display resolutions
    - Resizable Texts elements
    - App full settings backup/restore function


    List of available Logos by nationality, in Bold the ones with automatic Logos assignement functionality (by RDS id):

    EUROPE: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Cyprus,Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Perù

    USA: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachussets, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Island, Washington, Washington DC, West Virginia, Winsconsin, Wyoming

    CHINA, JAPAN, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINE
    MOROCCO, TUNISIA, SOUTH AFRICA
    AUSTRALIA, NEW ZAELAND

    Some pictures:
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    NavRadio+ is now available on playstore here:
    [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navimods.radio[/URL]
    or on the Huawei Appgallery at this link:
    https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/C107643913
    With full support for all MTC devices.
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    KoTiX2
    SOME TIPS:
    TOGGLE SCREEN NORMAL/FULL:
    - Double Click on the station information toggle fullscreen on/off.

    NORMAL SCREEN:
    - Long press on the station information popup the "ADD Station" dialog window if the station is not in your station list. If it's already in your list, it will focus the relative station button.
    - Long press on a station button bring up the "EDIT Station" dialog window
    - Single press on screen arrows <> does a small frequency step fwd/back
    - Long Press on screen arrows does a quick search fwd/back

    FULLSCREEN MODE:
    - A Single press of the arrows <> switch to next/previous station
    -A Long press on station information(center of the screen) bring up the "EDIT Station" dialog window.
    - In interface settings you can remove the big frequency in background if a logo is available.
    - In settings you can hide status bar, activate the clock and a speed gauge

    STEERING WHEELS CONTROLS:
    - The steering wheels commands act exactly in the same way as the fullscreen arrows, they just need to be setup in the correct way in carsettings application.

    FAVORITE LIST:
    - The FAV list is the result of merging FM and AM favorites, so you can have both frequencies in the same list.
    - FAV stations can be edited within the fav list but cannot be added. You need to be on fm or am list to add a station and set it to favs.
    - Deleting the FAV list will just remove the fav flag from the fm/am stations but will not delete them.
    - Deleting AM/FM list it will delete the FAV list too.

    LOGOS:
    - you can use your own station logos, you just need to know where you have them stored and browse for them when editing a station.
    - To get the stations Logos from the app you have to set the nationality of the logos in the interface menu, download and extract them.
    Once they are extracted you have to edit each saved station to assign the logo image to it.
    - The automatic assignment of the Logos is based on the RDS id of the radio stations (pi code) and the search of the logo by RDS name.
    The first method (by id) is faster and more precise but it needs that the name of the logo contain the picode of the station and for this purpose i renamed them for some of the available countries. Of course i cannot make them all and the functionality of this method depend of the availability of correctly named logo images for your country.
    The second method (by name) is less accurate and it work comparing the RDS name with all available logos. If the rsult of the comparison is 100% correct the logo is autoamatically assigned. If the result are more then one logo, a dialog window popup asking you to choose it.

    AF (Alternative Frequencies) handling: (Doubleclick to switch between stored AF)
    AF service allows the radio tuner to tune in to an alternative frequency when the signal becomes too weak. The minimum level signal can be set in factory settings (Auto Search Stop) and has been found
    that around 30 db is the best choice.
    To improve even more this service I added an automatic storing of the alternative frequencies so that every time a new frequency is received, it's added in a list.
    After an autoscan some radio stations can be found on different frequencies, NavRadio+ have an option (in Settings/radio) to automatically merge the frequencies in just one button populating the AF list
    The frequencies available in this list can be selected using the station editor or switched one by one DOUBLECLICKING on the station button.

    NOTES:
    I'm the only developer of the app and I work on it every single day for some hours a day.
    I try my best to develope the app at best of my possibilities and I wish at evey release that it is bug and crash free.
    This is very hard to achieve, even if I have some very good friends that help me testing it.
    I'm really thankful to them for their help and support.

    Thank everybody who beleive in my work and thanks for understanding. :)
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    KoTiX2
    Some more news for this week (the image should be self explanatory):
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    Then there some more countries with automatic logos:
    Belgium, Czech rep., France (tnx @Timpuli), Hungary, Croatia
    Italian logos are still worked out and I'm waiting for friends to prepare the German and Spanish logos (they are really too many).
    I'm fixing again Agama metadata for no RDS users and liveRDS.
    Other minor bugs are fixed too.
    Next week i'll concentrate on after sleep resuming and AF alternative frequencies.
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    KoTiX2
    I uploaded on YouTube a small video showing the new upcoming Drag&Drop + Swipe feauters of NavRadio+

    It's a demostration of the new new drag & drop and swipe features of NavRadio+, now you can
    - Easily Change order of the memorized stations.
    - Delete a station with swipe gesture.
    - Add an Alternative Frequency to a station by dragging.

    VIDEO HERE

    Suggestions and comments are wellcome ;)
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    okij
    maxxxy said:
    for one app??? YES
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    Then please go ahead and write such app for yourself, if you think that it's so easy and cheap to do.

    There's nothing wrong with asking some money for a good software. Things don't have to be for free and I'm pretty sure that @KoTiX2 so far put more hours of work into this project than it payd back, if you look at it at a monitary basis. There surely also is a lot of enthusiasm in this project.
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