Replaced my 7 inch Carlaoer head unit (https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sc4...r-install.html) with a newer, bigger, faster 10 inch Eonon UA12S-PLUS.

The unit has a floating QLED 10 inch screen, Android 13 Wireless Head Unit
Octacore, 6 GB RAM, 64 GB storage


Was able to reuse nearly all the wiring from my prior Carlaoer installation because the new head unit has the same pinouts os the old one. It's a fairly common pinout in Android head units.

 

Stripped out Navigation frame to make new installation of new double DIN cage easier. There are about 90 mm depth available. The Eonon head unit is 80 mm deep.

 

Double DIN cage was mounted in navigation cage using custom fabricate metal angle brackets. I used slotted brackets to enable adjustability of cage angle and position.

 

The cage and navigation frame were test fitted and adjusted BEFORE adding the wiring harnesses and head unit. I left enough harness for each connector so hard unit can be pulled forward out of cage without removing the navigation fram or taking dashboard apart. Here it is all put together with head unit and harness.

 

Love the big screen and how it can be set for height and angled towards driver.

 

Apple Siri voice was not being audible using either Zlink (the head units'built-in Carplay app) nor in AutoKit. This took me hours to troubleshoot. Turned out to be a setting in the head unit's NAVIGATION settings, not in any of the obvious audio settings nor in the factory settings. Go into the Head Unit's "car" settings. Then into Navigation. There is a navigation audio setting that must be set to "mix" to make Siri voice audible. Without that set to mix, you can hear Apple music playback, but whenever Siri is to speak you get silence. Also, set the mix ratio down to about -3 to avoid clipping Siri's voice.

BTW, I prefer to use my separate Carlinkit USB adapter box and Autokit to enable Apple Carplay because that allows the head unit to continue using WiFi for data while I listen to Carplay music. Autokit uses its adapter box to connect the phone via a separate WiFi link. In contrast, Zlink takes over the head unit WiFi to create a hot spot and uses that hot spot to connect the iPhone. That naturally takes the head unit off internet because its one WiFi connection is repurposed to creating a hotspot instead of connecting to internet.

Another oddity I noticed is that with ZLink active, Torque Pro could never find my LEOBD adapter. With Autokit + it's adapter box running instead of Zlink, Torque Pro immediately found the LEOBD adapter and paired itself to the adapter.