Any experience with appradio2 ?
 

Rather than spend 895 on a factory option... Was considering the appradio2 unit... Also will the stock mic and USB port work?

AppRadio 2 Installed
 

I had one installed yesterday. Could not hook up radio because he did not have the proper adapter. Any help here would be appreciated.

I had him do the right thing with the parking brake and it really gets in the way. I suggest bypassing.

Overall, I like the AppRadio better than the stock radio, but there are a number of issues.

It is slow to move between apps.
There is no way to stop the music without going to the music app which may be in the background.
I have to have the phone handy because I am constantly asked to allow access to the iphone.

I'd say I don't have enough time with it to give a proper opinion yet.

Word of caution on watching DVDs with newer nav decks and app radios:

Before you could just ground the parking brake line and all was good.
Now days, you have to release the P-brake and pull it again to enable the viewing of movies etc...

I've bypassed this on Appradios by getting a programmable relay to wait 4sec then ground, relase and then reground the p-brake line upon turning the ignition on. Thus allowing viewing of the screen whilst driving.

Just throwing that out there.

Ishii

slow to move between apps? (care to explain more about this?)

having to constantly access phone?

keep me posted cause i dont want to drop money on something that could become an annoyance

I wouldn't recommend it, I read reviews on amazon and they said the stereo was supper laggy and not enough apps. I bought myself a pioneer AVH-4400BH works great

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