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I wanted to start a thread to compile all things Joying related.
I just put in a new Joying Android 10.0 head unit for just shy of $400. I purchased the VW specific unit with physical buttons. This unit fits the dash without any dash kits, and is basically plug and play.
I’ll give you some of my observations, some of the things I like, and some of the things that I dislike. I’ll talk about some of the quirks, and we can use this thread to discuss fixes, or alternate options to give people a head start.
The literature provided from Joying is very poor, so it’s easy to screw things up with experimenting with what some of the settings do.
The screen is very nice, it is bright, and very responsive.
The bezel and buttons look and feel very OEM. It fits the dash perfectly, fit and finish is good, the color may be one shade off, then again that could be because the head unit is new, and my dash has 8 years of sun exposure, and cleaning. More premium feeling volume and tuner knobs would be great, but as is they are just as good as what you would get from anything else. I just like the heavier metal knob on my old Sony.
Install was very easy. The unit I bought came with the appropriate harness, and canbus already wired. I simply had to connect the audio output (digital coax in my case), microphone, video in for backup camera, and gps antenna. I am not using the sim card feature, so I removed the extra cable from the board, and did not install the 4g antennas.
There have been a few quirks/problems, some of which have known solutions, others might require more advanced fixed.
My OEM compass that reads the direction in my gauge cluster is confused. It will constantly switch between 2 different directions, even when parked. It may toggle between North, and South East, then off, then repeat that cycle. I believe this can be fixed by disconnecting the OEM compass. When I had an idatalink maestro installed I needed to remove the OEM compass if I had a GPS antenna connected, I believe this is the same situation, but I have not disconnected the compass yet, so the fix it up in the air.
In the widgets, top of the home screen, and vehicle settings there is no way to change the units. It is stuck on liters, kilometers, celcius, etc. A new launcher, or some other fix may be available, but it’s not a built in option to fix this. I don’t actually use the weather widget, or vehicle settings, so it’s a very small annoyance, but it still shows temp in celcius at the top of the screen.
The built in FM radio app has a bug. When connected to Carplay, and also listening to the radio, texts doesn’t produce audio. You can see the Siri “wheel” spin, so it’s working, and the mic is picking up responses, but it produces no audio. To fix this you have to start a different audio playback source before listening to/responding to texts. You can switch to USB audio, Bluetooth, or anything in Carplay, then the audio works perfectly, but this does not work when listening to the radio. This is a frustrating problem, and there may be a different radio app available that would fix this, but I don’t know yet. If there is, it’s possible that I won’t be able to set it as the default for the “band” button on my head unit, so this is something I’m looking into. It’s annoying to see a text notification pop up, be required to start a song on a different source, then listen to/respond to the text, then switch back to the radio. Since I don’t listen to the radio too often, it’s not a big deal, but for to and from work, listening for traffic, or talk radio it would be nice for this bug to be addressed.
One other small thing is the app that’s tied to the “Media” button. The included music app that plays music from USB is just ok, it will play FLAC, but doesn’t sort out the tags well, and there is no album art. The widget has a permanent The Police album art, even before connecting a USB drive it was there by default, I can’t figure out how to get the widget to show the actual album art, which the main app will show when using MP3s. As a solution, I downloaded Poweramp, it’s working well so far, but I want it to be the default app when I hit the “Media” button, instead of the build in music app. Sometimes when I hit the media app it goes to Poweramp, other times it goes to the built in music app. This seems to also be related to the radio app. When switching from Carplay (Spotify) the media button will open up Poweramp, but when switching from the radio the media botton will launch the built in app. Hopefully there’s a way to resolve this permanently.
Some of the good things are the hardware.
So far the fit and finish, and screen quality are great.
Digital coax output is nice.
Option to add a sim card for data.
Boot time is incredibly fast if using the sleep feature.
Joying offers a bunch of different sized screens to fit your needs.
Hopefully some of these small quirks can be easily fixed. It may require a new launcher, different apps, or a future firmware update, but these quirks should really be easy fixes.
That’s all for now. I’ll keep this thread posted with helpful observations, complaints, and praises.
I just put in a new Joying Android 10.0 head unit for just shy of $400. I purchased the VW specific unit with physical buttons. This unit fits the dash without any dash kits, and is basically plug and play.
I’ll give you some of my observations, some of the things I like, and some of the things that I dislike. I’ll talk about some of the quirks, and we can use this thread to discuss fixes, or alternate options to give people a head start.
The literature provided from Joying is very poor, so it’s easy to screw things up with experimenting with what some of the settings do.
The screen is very nice, it is bright, and very responsive.
The bezel and buttons look and feel very OEM. It fits the dash perfectly, fit and finish is good, the color may be one shade off, then again that could be because the head unit is new, and my dash has 8 years of sun exposure, and cleaning. More premium feeling volume and tuner knobs would be great, but as is they are just as good as what you would get from anything else. I just like the heavier metal knob on my old Sony.
Install was very easy. The unit I bought came with the appropriate harness, and canbus already wired. I simply had to connect the audio output (digital coax in my case), microphone, video in for backup camera, and gps antenna. I am not using the sim card feature, so I removed the extra cable from the board, and did not install the 4g antennas.
There have been a few quirks/problems, some of which have known solutions, others might require more advanced fixed.
My OEM compass that reads the direction in my gauge cluster is confused. It will constantly switch between 2 different directions, even when parked. It may toggle between North, and South East, then off, then repeat that cycle. I believe this can be fixed by disconnecting the OEM compass. When I had an idatalink maestro installed I needed to remove the OEM compass if I had a GPS antenna connected, I believe this is the same situation, but I have not disconnected the compass yet, so the fix it up in the air.
In the widgets, top of the home screen, and vehicle settings there is no way to change the units. It is stuck on liters, kilometers, celcius, etc. A new launcher, or some other fix may be available, but it’s not a built in option to fix this. I don’t actually use the weather widget, or vehicle settings, so it’s a very small annoyance, but it still shows temp in celcius at the top of the screen.
The built in FM radio app has a bug. When connected to Carplay, and also listening to the radio, texts doesn’t produce audio. You can see the Siri “wheel” spin, so it’s working, and the mic is picking up responses, but it produces no audio. To fix this you have to start a different audio playback source before listening to/responding to texts. You can switch to USB audio, Bluetooth, or anything in Carplay, then the audio works perfectly, but this does not work when listening to the radio. This is a frustrating problem, and there may be a different radio app available that would fix this, but I don’t know yet. If there is, it’s possible that I won’t be able to set it as the default for the “band” button on my head unit, so this is something I’m looking into. It’s annoying to see a text notification pop up, be required to start a song on a different source, then listen to/respond to the text, then switch back to the radio. Since I don’t listen to the radio too often, it’s not a big deal, but for to and from work, listening for traffic, or talk radio it would be nice for this bug to be addressed.
One other small thing is the app that’s tied to the “Media” button. The included music app that plays music from USB is just ok, it will play FLAC, but doesn’t sort out the tags well, and there is no album art. The widget has a permanent The Police album art, even before connecting a USB drive it was there by default, I can’t figure out how to get the widget to show the actual album art, which the main app will show when using MP3s. As a solution, I downloaded Poweramp, it’s working well so far, but I want it to be the default app when I hit the “Media” button, instead of the build in music app. Sometimes when I hit the media app it goes to Poweramp, other times it goes to the built in music app. This seems to also be related to the radio app. When switching from Carplay (Spotify) the media button will open up Poweramp, but when switching from the radio the media botton will launch the built in app. Hopefully there’s a way to resolve this permanently.
Some of the good things are the hardware.
So far the fit and finish, and screen quality are great.
Digital coax output is nice.
Option to add a sim card for data.
Boot time is incredibly fast if using the sleep feature.
Joying offers a bunch of different sized screens to fit your needs.
Hopefully some of these small quirks can be easily fixed. It may require a new launcher, different apps, or a future firmware update, but these quirks should really be easy fixes.
That’s all for now. I’ll keep this thread posted with helpful observations, complaints, and praises.
