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      12-06-2017, 05:10 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by m5james View Post
Talking with tech support last night, the factory GPS antenna works with the factory NAV and then the AVIN unit comes with it's own GPS antenna. He said that the factory GPS antenna is better, so they offer a splitter option so the factory GPS and AVIN GPS will share the same antenna.
congrats on the deal

yes Avinusa recently added the splitter for GPS antenna as antenna that comes with this unit not the best. some ppl including me had some issues with GPS reception at the beginning, throughout the research (there are similar topics on different forums) first we came out with GPS extension cable that would let you extend OEM GPS cable to this unit and connect the GPS antenna that came with Android unit to the OEM unit as the car's original GPS not really getting used anyway but later the splitter was discovered that will let you just split the signal from original GPS cable (this way you don't need to install extra GPS antenna and you saving space
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