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Originally Posted by krikke
Just out of curiousity: what did you tweak in order to let it meet your demands?
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Well, I just got the radio this week... So far, here is how it has gone for me:
Bone stock, the first thing I tried to do was remove Sygic and replace it with copilot for GPS. Copilot won't install as it says there is not enough room. After monkeying with it for two days, I gave up and just tried using Sygic that came on it. Loaded it back on and it's actually not too bad. I should have tried it out first lol.
I also have Google maps/navigation installed as I think it's the best out there, but I do travel to areas without cell coverage and need something built in and on-board. Sygic should work fine for me.
Then as I said, the radio reception just absolutely blows. I get maybe 25% static with signal fading in and out. Coming from HD radios, I can't take it.
So then, I loaded up TuneIn Radio app. I can now get my local radio stations that way, I just have to burn my data plan. I have straighttalk and they claim unlimited data and I've never been cut off or even warned before. I have seen claims of other peeps getting cut off though. Who knows? One thing I would like to do is map the radio button to the TuneIn app.
Then I bought a 32GB micro SD card to load up with MP3's so I can have about half my collection just built in (again reducing dependence on my data plan). Well, the built in app media player is lacking in features. no biggie, I can download any app from the market. Winamp I tried and found it to suck. I couldn't tell it what folders to use and it was mixing in GPS voices from Sygic into my playlists.
Then I bought Poweramp as it's the most popular option for this purpose. However, I had horrible stuttering with it and I felt like my radio was going to all but useless. Turns out I had to tweak Poweramps setting to increase the buffer to "huge" and had to increase it's priority to +2. That change fixed my mp3 play back issues and now, this radio is becoming livable to me.
I added the audio glow live wall paper that shows what's going on with my music. Originally I thought this app was causing the stuttering but it doesn't. It's been a bunch of trial and error... lots of tweaking so far.
So now I have working GPS, Pandora, MP3 playback via Poweramp, TuneIn, Google music, Stitcher, torque and some nice live wallpaper. I wish it could boot quicker but I can live with it until something better comes along.
Side note, has anyone tried a 64GB card or even USB drive? Will it work? I could get all my music built in if it can read a 64GB stick or card.