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Originally Posted by Chrisnytx
I just checked out your profile. Love your E70. It looks great!
That infotainment upgrade looks amazing! How do you like it? I was considering upgrading mine but I love having my directions in my HUD
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The infotainment is a love/disappointment relationship...but it's obviously worth it to me or else I'd remove it.
FWIW:
If you were to just use it for displaying the oem menu options the only isses would be 1) Screen is glossy and reflects everything, 2) the auto brightness feature doesn't work so well. Because of the screen reflections I tend to have the brightness maxed out, but when night falls the monitor illuminates your whole interior...causing you to manually go through the menus to reduce brightness...resulting in your need to do that all over again when it's day.
Bottom line, it's beta. You have numerous similar issues on the android side just like the one I describe above...easy enough to overcome, but sometimes annoying.
My pet peeves: 1) W/o paying for a cellular component to the monitor my time seems to always start at 4a. I can reset, but next vehicle start I'm back at 4am. 2) No carplay audio if you're using a DAC, it's either the DAC (alac music files) or the streaming music through carplay from your phone. 3) Some sophisticated apps (like music players) don't play well with the android system in this monitor. Intermittent bugs, etc. It may be that I'm pushing the envelope with a DAC setup and it wasn't specifically intended to be used solely with a DAC. I can switch between DAC and no-DAC as I have both cables routed to center console, I just swap the aux input cable to desired, again it's just extra work. And sometimes I feel like an airline pilot as I try to prep my music for the drive...if I stop for any reason, I have some minor setup to do and it doesn't automatically start where I left off. Lastly, anyone else behind the driver seat will be totally lost will not know the nuances of how to get music playing (so wife drives in silence :-/).
When I have alac music files playing through the DAC it is amazing (esp. with B&W upgrade), far better than the Individual oem side audio...so I stick with it.
HOPEFULLY there are solutions that I've yet to discover OR these minor issues are fixed on new generation models.