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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8855444" data-attributes="member: 614752">Not to Monday morning quarterback, but these things have been notorious for mystifying bugs, poor performance, arriving DOA, and premature failure since they first started selling that sort of thing.&nbsp; What&#039;s worse is that the seller probably has no idea how anything works, cannot or will not help you troubleshoot, and if those companies employ anybody who speaks English whatsoever it&#039;s likely not the people who even half understand how to go about diagnosing problems.&nbsp;&nbsp; There may be a forum of Android nerds where people have bought these things and can figure out how to make them work or troubleshoot, but the general consensus on audio forums is that the veterans read a hundred posts like yours and just don&#039;t buy stuff that every thread about is a complaint.&nbsp; To be fair, a lot of those off-brand Android head units come in at around the cost of a lower high-end Alpine or Kenwood.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect a lot of the people buying these just like the Android OS and have big dreams about the flexibility of such a device working properly and ease of integration with other devices using an operating system with which they are comfortable.I really want this to be a thing myself, but I won&#039;t touch them with a 10 foot pole until someone reputable (Sony/Alpine/Kenwood, etc.) throws some R&amp;D into making them reliable and with known quality DAC and pre-amp AND until I can buy local or from an outfit like Crutchfield who will be able to help me out if issues arise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8855444, member: 614752"] Not to Monday morning quarterback, but these things have been notorious for mystifying bugs, poor performance, arriving DOA, and premature failure since they first started selling that sort of thing. What's worse is that the seller probably has no idea how anything works, cannot or will not help you troubleshoot, and if those companies employ anybody who speaks English whatsoever it's likely not the people who even half understand how to go about diagnosing problems. There may be a forum of Android nerds where people have bought these things and can figure out how to make them work or troubleshoot, but the general consensus on audio forums is that the veterans read a hundred posts like yours and just don't buy stuff that every thread about is a complaint. To be fair, a lot of those off-brand Android head units come in at around the cost of a lower high-end Alpine or Kenwood. I suspect a lot of the people buying these just like the Android OS and have big dreams about the flexibility of such a device working properly and ease of integration with other devices using an operating system with which they are comfortable. I really want this to be a thing myself, but I won't touch them with a 10 foot pole until someone reputable (Sony/Alpine/Kenwood, etc.) throws some R&D into making them reliable and with known quality DAC and pre-amp AND until I can buy local or from an outfit like Crutchfield who will be able to help me out if issues arise. [/QUOTE]

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