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Oct 15, 2016 | 05:06 PM

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What's the other end of the display harness connected to? I actually connected the Vline harness to a port that was on the bottom left of the dash behind the ash tray.

Oct 15, 2016 | 05:46 PM

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What's the other end of the display harness connected to? I actually connected the Vline harness to a port that was on the bottom left of the dash behind the ash tray.

sounds like you didn't hook up the display harness cable to the back of the navigation display.
The port at the bottom left dash behind there ashtray is the incorrect spot for installation. Instructions supplied state to do it at the rear of the navigation display

Oct 15, 2016 | 06:10 PM

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I meant the harness also fits in the port behind the ash tray. I connected the Vline harness to the back of the display.

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Oct 16, 2016 | 12:19 AM

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I m having the same issue as Dark Knight.

I didn't have a factory plug behind the NAV unit. I plugged in the video cable, /land triple checked all connection. No dice. I can tell the car sees the vline since it's showing cd changer 1 - 2 etc. but is not showing the android screen. Any idea? Would love to put the car back haha

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2007 base audio
still on original factory v6.1 map.

Oct 16, 2016 | 09:59 AM

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i think the problem is that cars that didn't have the blue plug "connected" from the factory never had a video input signal that vline needs.

Perhaps ML systems had the video input enabled from factory for DVD video (base model doesn't have DVD playback IIRC)

Either we need to figure out how to enable the video input or ... don't know yet

Oct 16, 2016 | 10:13 AM

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I have the ML. Can someone post where the other of the end of the factory video harness is plugged in to? One end goes to the back of the nav display, what's the other end connected to? I wonder if maybe we just need to buy the that factory harness. The instructions on the Vline say if there's nothing connected to the back of the nav display to just leave the female end alone so I thought it should still work.

Oct 16, 2016 | 12:36 PM

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the plot thickens...

I've tried everything. Maybe a defective unit. I'll call Grom on Monday and see what they think.. Whats the blue wire used for from the factory... interestinggg

Oct 16, 2016 | 02:33 PM

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the plot thickens...

I've tried everything. Maybe a defective unit. I'll call Grom on Monday and see what they think.. Whats the blue wire used for from the factory... interestinggg

I'm unsure what the wire that was already there does. I have a prestigous society navi bypass that was done by a stereo shop so perhaps that is the difference, but I suspect the cable is coming from the lower CD/DVD unit.

Just to be sure we are talking about the same connections to the car I pulled some still frames from this video:

Best that I recall, these are the two connectors I used. Both had cables attached, that had to be connected to the other open connector on the respective harnesses.

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Oct 16, 2016 | 02:51 PM

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That's where I made my connections. I'm guessing it's a faulty unit, harness or both. I have a service ticket with Grom, hopefully they get back to me tomorrow. The attached photo is where the video harness also fits, I wonder if that's where the factory video harness gets connected to.

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Oct 16, 2016 | 03:28 PM

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I m having the same issue as Dark Knight.
... I can tell the car sees the vline since it's showing cd changer 1 - 2 etc. but is not showing the android screen. Any idea? ... .

If you have not already done so, try pressing the "SCAN" button on the radio three times while it is on the CD changer screen. The VLine is toggled between the CD screen (so you can get to the audio adjust settings) and it's own screen by this. A momentary blank screen is normal while the VLine boots, but should be replaced by a VLine and then Android boot screen after that.