То " @Alan16ac " - On my "Erisin" I have this parasitic noise :(

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Managed to cure the worst of the static today. Turns out it’s the wireless phone charger I’ve placed above my head unit. Annoying as I’ve hard wired it in there too and fed the cable. Easily moved though I guess. I’ll put it on the other side of the steering wheel.

5 hours ago, tuningmania said:

То " @Alan16ac " - On my "Erisin" I have this parasitic noise 😞

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That’s annoying, did you not manage to figure out what’s causing it?

To " @Alan16ac " - I am not specialist to find what causes the noise. I am waiting the Professional who install the "Erisin" to find the good working solution

So I've just finished fitting mine. The quad lock connector was quite a tight stretch, not just because the new unit is shallower, but also because the connector is on the right of this unit rather than the left. The GPS adaptor Alan16ac recommended worked like a charm, but is there an equivalent adaptor that would allow me to use the car's own DAB antenna too? I'm not too keen on the one supplied with the kit, which needs to be glued to the screen. I ran three USB extension cables from the back of the unit into the coin tray next to the steering wheel, to connect any USB dongles or data sticks to.

 

I've got the same interference as the other posters here, though it is only audible when nothing is playing and between songs, so I'm not worrying massively about that yet.

 

What is more worrying is that the second time I turned on the ignition I got an "Airbag warning!" message, which now flashes up every time I start the car.

22 minutes ago, teacake said:

So I've just finished fitting mine. The quad lock connector was quite a tight stretch, not just because the new unit is shallower, but also because the connector is on the right of this unit rather than the left. The GPS adaptor Alan16ac recommended worked like a charm, but is there an equivalent adaptor that would allow me to use the car's own DAB antenna too? I'm not too keen on the one supplied with the kit, which needs to be glued to the screen. I ran three USB extension cables from the back of the unit into the coin tray next to the steering wheel, to connect any USB dongles or data sticks to.

 

I've got the same interference as the other posters here, though it is only audible when nothing is playing and between songs, so I'm not worrying massively about that yet.

 

What is more worrying is that the second time I turned on the ignition I got an "Airbag warning!" message, which now flashes up every time I start the car.

Sounds like you’ve disturbed or unplugged the connected that shows the passenger airbag on off below the head unit. It’ll just need resetting with an OBD reader. I just used an ELM OBD reader and Carista to reset mine.

22 minutes ago, teacake said:

So I've just finished fitting mine. The quad lock connector was quite a tight stretch, not just because the new unit is shallower, but also because the connector is on the right of this unit rather than the left. The GPS adaptor Alan16ac recommended worked like a charm, but is there an equivalent adaptor that would allow me to use the car's own DAB antenna too? I'm not too keen on the one supplied with the kit, which needs to be glued to the screen. I ran three USB extension cables from the back of the unit into the coin tray next to the steering wheel, to connect any USB dongles or data sticks to.

 

I've got the same interference as the other posters here, though it is only audible when nothing is playing and between songs, so I'm not worrying massively about that yet.

 

What is more worrying is that the second time I turned on the ignition I got an "Airbag warning!" message, which now flashes up every time I start the car.

Shame about the airbag warning. Maybe running the usb extension cables near by caused it. 
 

Doesn’t the supplied Dab antenna connect to one of the usb? From the picture there are only three usb at the back, so are you using the Dab antenna you bought as you’ve run 3 usb?

13 minutes ago, kashpopat said:

Shame about the airbag warning. Maybe running the usb extension cables near by caused it. 
 

Doesn’t the supplied Dab antenna connect to one of the usb? From the picture there are only three usb at the back, so are you using the Dab antenna you bought as you’ve run 3 usb?

Nothing to do with running cables..... The facia trim has a small airbag connector at the bottom, you can just about remove the trim and dangle it. Remove it and the warning light displays needing resetting as said previous. 

Unit if like mine may have 4 usb

Thanks all. I would've unplugged the connector on the facia airbag warning light, and didn't reconnect it before I tested the head unit, so that sounds like the cause. I've got an OBDLink reader, so I'll download Carista and have a crack at resetting it. Torque Pro can't even see the error code.

 

For the DAB antenna, the Erisin unit has a USB lead to a dongle, which then has a connector for a long antenna lead (see picture). Inside the car, I've one connector left over, which I'm hoping is the DAB?

 

 

FM connector?

i've slept since i did mine..🙂

 

DAB unit has double Fakro connector i think?

Failed to get anywhere with resetting the airbag error. Carista couldn't find any error codes and doing an ODB2 reset made no difference. I think I've managed to kill my OBDLink MX adaptor trying to update its firmware, but I've still got a working LX one, so no real bother there. I've got a guy coming to do a remap on Wednesday so I'll see if he can reset the error while he's about it.

 

olduns - there's a double Fakra connector in the car, which I've plugged into a corresponding double connector on the head unit. I assumed that was the FM. There's another connector which went on the GPS adaptor, and I assume I've connected correctly as I have sat nav working. Then there's one more that doesn't fit anywhere on the new head unit, and which I was hoping was the DAB.

 

I'll have to whip the new head unit out in the morning to see what colour the connectors were, but here's the back of the old Columbus unit with one double and two single fakras.

 

 

 

 

So I suspect the DAB adaptor might be this one...

 

https://audiotechdirect.com/male-fakra-to-mcx-dab-aerial-adaptor-cable/

 

Mine didn't have DAB so possibly that is it for yours. 

After getting the wrong one initially, reversing camera is now sorted 🙂

 

 

22 minutes ago, Alan16ac said:

After getting the wrong one initially, reversing camera is now sorted 🙂

 

 

 

Nice. How did you run the wiring and is the camera in the boot latch?

On 25/02/2020 at 16:10, kashpopat said:

 

Nice. How did you run the wiring and is the camera in the boot latch?

 

Sorry, didn't see this. The camera replaces one of the number plate light holders. It has an LED in it too for the number plate. I ran it up past the window behimd the trim of the boot lid, through the rubber pipe/tube thing, then under the headlining to the C pillar, then dpwn the C pillar behind the trim and along the floor under the lip, up past the fuse box, and under/behimd the steering wheel. All totally hidden.

Bit of an update, and a review after a few weeks of using the Erisin ES8028V...

 

Interference-style noise is still an issue, and is there whenever the audio is active. It can be drowned out by turning up the volume, so it appears to be at the same level regardless of amplification. As an experiment, I tried unplugging every external connection apart from the multi-connector and the noise was still there, so I concluded it's an inherent weakness in the noise suppression of the internals that I can't do much about.

 

The screen is very good, but a bit cramped by the bezel, making it hard to see and press buttons at the bottom of the screen. I haven't removed the protective film yet, so the display is currently too reflective, but I'm not sure I've finished removing and replacing it yet, so the film stays on for the moment.

 

By buying the cables listed up-thread, I've been able to connect the various built-in antennae, including the FM and DAB ones, all of which now work nicely, as does the GPS. I've used a multi-connector extension cable as well, which reduces the the tension on the multi-block. I've run a pair of USB leads from the back of the unit, over the steering column into the coin tray next to the steering wheel, and that's where I can plug in USB devices.

 

USB sticks work fine up to 128GB, but micro SD cards get truncated to 32GB, which is annoying. Particularly annoying since the ability to use 128GB media was the final deciding factor in me choosing this particular model. Connections to my bluetooth OBD reader have been flaky, and the 4G adaptor has been terribly unreliable. I once spent over an hour trying to get it to connect long enough to download an app from the Google Play Store, despite having a decent mobile signal. The fact that I was finally able to get it to work by plugging the 4G adaptor into a laptop and then connecting to it makes me wonder if the USB ports on the unit aren't powerful enough to run the 4G adaptor. Certainly the wi-fi aerial works well enough, as I can park outside the house and connect to my home wi-fi to do updates, and that's the method I'm using at the moment. The general flakiness of the external connectivity was probably why it bricked one of my OBD adaptors during an update, which was annoying to say the least.

 

The two main reasons I changed the head unit from the original Columbus were to get a decent sat nav and improve the sound quality. I can report qualified success on both points. Sat nav: I was intending to use Waze but, given the flakiness of the 4G adaptor I'm currently using the built-in iGo. Which actually works quite nicely, though I'd like to be able to customise it more, and it's set up for LHD markets, which put some icons and buttons on the "wrong" side. But I'm generally happy with this at the moment.

 

Audio: not quite there yet. I love that it can play anything I throw at it, including some huge 24-bit 96kHz FLAC files, but the sound quality is quite variable, and seems nothing to do with the source bit-rate or anything I can point to. Some music sounds awesome, some sounds absolutely terrible, and while I've managed to improve things with the graphic equaliser it keeps resetting that on me, forcing me to keep re-adjusting. And track resume after a restart is not at all reliable. Sometimes it will resume a track where it left off, sometimes it will go back to the beginning, sometimes it will sit paused until I give it a poke. Again, no apparent pattern to this, but given that some of my journeys are quite short and my tracks quite long this is probably the thing that annoys me most of all. After some experimentation, I'm using CarWebGuru as my launcher, and PowerAmp as my media player, by the way.

 

On the idea of using Android head units in general, it's good but I would have liked to be able to customise the interface more than I currently can. I'd like to have a couple of key Torque Pro read-outs overlaid in the corner, while having currently playing track information visible, all while devoting most of the screen to nav, itself customised with quick shortcuts to take me home or to work. These are all pipe dreams at the moment, and the available launcher interfaces seem to be quite inflexible and waste a lot of screen real-estate. I briefly tried split screen, but that just became unmanageable.

 

So in brief, generally good, some brilliant points, some quite annoying gotchas, could not be described as anywhere near perfect.

 

 

I'm considering replacing my columbus with a PbA VW8128V, which seems to be the replacement for the VW8028V. From what you have written above, the installation process looks reasonably straightforward if you have all the necessary equipment to hand.

One question I have is that the Columbus is programmed in to work with the car's VIN, do these replacement units need to be programmed in the same way, or do they just work automatically?

I can only speak for my Joying unit but there is no code on installation. You can if you want set up a security code after installation like you can with all Android phones etc

No programming or coding to the car is needed

Thanks. I'll carry on and get one then, to replace my temperamental satnav.

I've now fitted the replacement PbA VW8128V unit. Everything seems to be working ok. Only one slight problem I've met. There were 3 cables connected to the columbus plus the quad lock, one with a white double connector, one with a black connector and one with a blue connector. I've connected the white one to the double space and the black one to the gps using an adaptor and the gps seems to work. I haven't connected the blue one as it didn't fit where I thought it would. What is the blue one for and is there an adaptor for it?

@Martyf - standard fakra colour codes apply.

 

double white is AM/FM

blue is GPS

black is DAB

Thanks langers2k. I seem to have plugged the dab into the gps then. I'll have to get a dab adaptor.