DIY: Used 2012 Toyota Display Audio with Entune

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by P@ul

Dang, I totally missed this! Thanks for sharing!

Does the PT296-47120 work with the 2015 head units fine? Another DIY shows the PT296-47121

[P@ul]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

Does the PT296-47120 work with the 2015 head units fine? Another DIY shows the PT296-47121

It should. I have the touchscreen Scion headunit now, the one that started in MY2014.

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by P@ul

It should. I have the touchscreen Scion headunit now, the one that started in MY2014.

Great! I ordered a head unit from a prius with the 47130 or 47121 module for $180, absolute steal. Just gonna pull it off sell the head unit then keep the navigation module

[trueno86power]

Originally Posted by Ledippen

Confirmed that this radio has nothing coming out of pin 9 on 10 pin harness. which is brown on main harness. just spliced it together with acc wire on top of it and all is good. small red wire

Sorry for the old thread revival but,

If I understand correcly, with a Toyota Headunit it give no power to the brown wire on the main harness. This wire turn on the OEM amp. It's only a 12V signal to trigger the amp ?

Without the amp turn on, it sound like crap from what I understand. With the amp turn on, does it sound great ?

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by trueno86power

Sorry for the old thread revival but,

If I understand correcly, with a Toyota Headunit it give no power to the brown wire on the main harness. This wire turn on the OEM amp. It's only a 12V signal to trigger the amp ?

Without the amp turn on, it sound like crap from what I understand. With the amp turn on, does it sound great ?

Of course, the amp powers the door speakers.

[trueno86power]

Just to confirm, I've used a 2013 Corolla Nav unit and it's working really well in my 2015 Scion FR-S. You only have to tap the Red 12V Ignition wire onto the Brown AMP signal to power up the amp and it sound like it should.

It's even better now, since it have an equalizer !

For French Canadian, you will loose the french language with an US radio.

[red05five]

hey guys, i just installed a Toyota bluetooth/touch screen head unit from a 2015 Yaris (model number PT546-52150, with codes AXCP-Q15U & T10028 on the front) into my 2015 Scion FR-S (the stock head unit thatbwas on my FR-S was also a very similar bluetooth/touch screen unit).

I badically switched to the Toyota unit as a last step to get rid of any Scion stuff on my car (have pretty much changed everything to Toyota on it). So yeah JDM ftw! lol

However, as noted before on this thread, compared to the Scion head unit, the sound coming from the Toyota unit is flat and it doesn't sound as good. Even trying to use the equalizer doesnt really improve the situation.

Obviously I'd like to keep the Toyota unit on the car... How can I make the audio as good as the Scion unit though?

I see some previous posts where you guys mention an update to the software as well as modifying one of the stock connectors (believe I understand that one of the wires in the FR-S's stock connectors doesnt work with the Toyota units and this causes the bad sound?)...

With that said, would updating or changing the software resolve this issue? Can I do this software update myself? Or I do need help from a dealer? And if I can do this alone, how do I update the software?

My plan is to put in the back up camera and one of the Toyota navigation modules in later as well. Would adding the navigation module be another solution to this sound issue? (BTW if anybody knows a specific Nav module I should use for this Toyota head unit, would much appreciate if you could provide the part number or from what year and model car I should look for!)

Or is modifying/splicing the wires on the stock connectors the only solution to improving the sound? I'd rather not mess with the stock connectors as I have no experience in doing this...

Would there possibly be any plug and play solution to this? Perhaps a small adapter harness? (Plug the Scion connector into the adapter and the adapter to the radio?)

Appreciate the kind feedback guys! Thanks in advance!

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[red05five]

bump! any help here guys?


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[spyingwind]

So, from the entune update file it looks like it might be possible to root these head units and install out own software onto them. I'm thinking something like Kodi or something like that.