JOYING Navigation Car Stereo 11.6 Inch Octa Core Single Din Android Auto Radio Car in-Dash Navigation GPS Units with Full-Fit 1920x1080 Screen 8GB+128GB Support Bluetooth 5.1,DVR,OBD2,Back-Up Camera

First of before I received the radio, Joying's customer was very patient answering all of my questions and even put together a bundle specific to my vehicle. I bought this unit for a 2007 Chevrolet Avalanche with factory Bose system. The system performance is more than I expected, coming from a 6 year old Eonon Android radio. I was afraid the screen would be too large, but it fits just fine and does not look awkward. The provided Can-Bus works perfectly. One note I must add, after I connected all wiring and powered the unit up for the first time, there were no sounds coming from the truck's speakers. After disconnecting the radio and reconnecting it, the sound still did not come on. When this happens go to sound settings and select "turn on Amp", I believe this will not be a problem on non-Bose systems. The bezels are thin and the screen itself is very thin and practically sits flush against the dash ( this should be the case for Suburbans, Tahoea, and Yukon's). The speed of the unit is very fast and snappy, the included launcher is very nice, but I downloaded Vivid Launcher which fits my needs. To conclude, this unit is totally worth buying.

The media could not be loaded. When this head unit worked it was great. Nice quality screen and very fast at switching through the apps. However, the screen would flake out at times which could usually be resolved by restarting the vehicle. Then the head unit decided to freeze up with the reverse camera line overlay stuck on the screen. You could hard reset the unit and get it to come back to the normal functioning screen. As soon as the vehicle is shut off and restarted it would revert back to freezing the screen in the reverse camera overlay. All the while the unit will not produce sound anymore. No tones, no music, no nothing. Tried changing a bunch of settings as well as factory resetting the unit. Nothing will fix this issue.Contacted joying about the issue and have jumped through their hoops of sending videos of what it's doing. Have tried multiple things they have suggested. Can't get a solid answer to anything that fixes it. Also there's a bit of a language barrier so this has become very frustrating. I don't have a ton of time to spend trying the same things over and over again. For the price this shouldn't be happening.Again, while it worked it was nothing short of amazing. I want nothing more than it to work like it should again. If the one year warranty means nothing then I'd be looking elsewhere for a high dollar radio. I'll update this if things get resolved.

Sorry this is so long but I wanted to share my experience after over a year with last years flagship model. I have the Joying Flagship 2022 model that is similar to this model. "JOYING Navigation Car Stereo 11.6 Inch Octa Core Single Din Android Auto Radio Car in-Dash Navigation GPS Units with Full-Fit 1920x1080 Screen 8GB+128GB Support Bluetooth 5.1,DVR,OBD2,Back-Up Camera". Not sure I would call myself an audiophile but I have not owned a vehicle in 35 years without at least a single if not multiple amplifier sound system with component speaker systems (JL Audio) and a pair of 12" subwoofers (Kicker Solobarik) and for the past 15 years or so I have been an "Alpine only" head unit snob until someone broke into my vehicle and decided they needed my 9.x inch $1500+ Alpine deck more than I did. Saw the Seicane units made specifically for my car back in 2020 or so and gave them a try where I fell in love with all that an Android unit has to offer.Picked up a new car in 2022 and thus the cycle begins again. Decided I wanted to try the Joying unit because research at the time suggested they were the best of the Android units AND this model had the optical SPDIF output and I had spotted the Latest JL Audio Reference grade VXi amplifier series with integrated DSP as well as a SPDIF Optical in and thru put. To me this was to be the match made in heaven, no need to deal with ground loops or any sorts of noise introduced by today's EMF noisy cars along an analog signal path. Also the VXi has an Android version of DSP software and a Bluetooth adapter that should let me run all my amplifier DSP settings from the head unit. Purchased the head unit directly from Joying and they were wonderful to work with, for an additional $40 sent me the wiring harnesses to make the head unit plug right into my car with no soldering and heat shrinking involved. I did need to pick up a few small things like antenna adapters, USB adapters to maintain my car's USB outlet etc but Crutchfield filled that gap nicely. Easiest install I have ever done. 15 foot SPDIF Optical cable (Amazon) from behind the dash to the JL VX1000/5i Amplifier mounted under the seat. NO ANALOG AUDIO CABLES FR/FL/RR/RL/SUB to run. It was a "Joying" hahaha just to not have to run those, much less the end result of the quietest system I have EVER owned. No hiss, no popping, no ground loop noise spark plug noise or other interference that works its way into analog copper wiring to deal with. when the volume is down the system is DEAD SILENT, and you don't even know it's on. Now for the bad part... it wasn't ALL smooth sailing. Almost immediately my unit started to show a scrambled video display which would require the unit to be rebooted with a hard reboot by sticking a paper clip in the reset hole. This would resolve the issue for a random amount of time. Sometimes only minutes, sometimes for weeks it was ok after a reset. FINALLY it annoyed me to the point that I contacted Joying about the issue. They seemed unaware of the issue, even though I had seen several you tubes and google results of others with the EXACT SAME ISSUE. However I had already had the head unit for a couple weeks more than a year so was technically "out of warranty". Anyway contacted Joying and expected they would tell me I am out of luck, but they were really interested in helping me in resolving my issue. They were very reasonable and offered to replace my screen at no charge if I paid for shipping both ways and returned my original screen so they could diagnose and repair and likely use as a replacement for someone else with this issue. They wanted to charge me US$100 to cover the cost of the screen $60 + shipping $40 (to me) of which I would be credited $60 (reasonable cost for this huge screen) back to my credit card when\if I returned my original screen. I agreed and asked them to also send me a shorter ribbon cable with the screen, as I was concerned the issue could be the ribbon cable itself. They sent the ribbon cable at no extra charge along with the screen. When I received the replacement screen I popped it in place plugged in the original ribbon cable and off I went. I had not returned the other screen yet since I wanted to be sure the problem was resolved. It WASN"T within a week I had the same scrambled picture on the new replacement screen. Decided I would open the unit and replace the longer cable with the shorter cable just to see if it would matter at all. Not much to the inside of the unit, but when I saw the inside of the unit I was a bit shocked. There is a large circuit board module soldered flat against the main circuit board in the center of the unit with edge contacts around all four edges of the module, there was probably 300 edge contacts total that were soldered to corresponding contacts below on the main board with the module circuit board resting flat atop the main circuit board. What shocked me was that this module was obviously hand soldered in, I am guessing due to the design and sandwiched boards it needed to be hand soldered. I was an electronics technician for over 10 years and am very skilled at soldering, even surface mount components and IC's. So the shocking part was that it looked like these 300+ solder joints were made by a drunk 6 year old with a 100 watt soldering gun (yes gun) eeek! I said to myself THAT has got to be the problem! It took every ounce of my being to not fire up the solder station and re-flow these 300+ joints, but decided I was going to do the simple thing first and replace the ribbon cable which was the reason I opened the unit to start. I replaced the cable, put the cover back on and re-installed the unit and I am very happy to say that replacing the ribbon cable with the several inch shorter cable resolved the issue for me. I have not had the issue re occur even one time in over six months at this point. So time to return one of the two screens I no longer need. Welp, $40 USD to ship a good screen back to China... when adding the return shipping cost to the equation I decided the prudent thing would be to not pay an additional 40 + the 100 I already paid and just kept the screen as a replacement just in case I have a problem with one of them down the road, crack, other issue etc.Now that my issue is sorted with the unit I have to say I love this thing, and all it can do, I am however frustrated about one aspect that others have mentioned. Joying locks these things down too much. I get it they want to be sure the average user has a controlled experience, however it seems that they have done things like lock down the Bluetooth so only phones and the Bluetooth accessories they sell you will work. This is a crappy thing to do as Bluetooth is part of the draw to an Android system. As a result the JL Audio Bluetooth adapter for my JL VXi DSP amplifier cannot pair to the unit. It is detected (I believe with an intentionally incorrect name" and the JL Audio software requires the Bluetooth name to be the expected name or the software will not connect with the device. So the downside Is I cannot adjust the DSP features on the JL amplifier with the head unit after spending $100 on the JL Audio Bluetooth adapter which does work on EVERY OTHER Bluetooth enabled tablet Laptop and phone I own.The only other issue is that the built in cell transceiver could be better. I had a difficult time finding a local carrier who's sim card would work in the unit. I have a T-Mobile card in it now that works sometimes. The unit works flawlessly connected to my WiFi hotspot though and one way to get around the challenges of the units cell radio is to use a cheap android cell phone with a cheap sim and hot spot support and just keep an old phone powered up in your glovebox for a wifi hotspot.Overall still very pleased. Initial rating 2 stars, after problem resolution and positive interactions with Joying 4 stars... If they would unlock the unit and/or provide those who desire it unlocked images to download/deploy over the factory Android load it would easily be 5 stars! Now looking to replace my Seicane unit in my other vehicle with one of these.Nick

I was impressed by the size. It stops there. The touchscreen works seldomly in winter for Canada. Whenever it's a little cold it's no longer responsive and I need to use the voice control. There is no sensitivity option. In fact there is little (almost none) capacity to customize the head unit. It's all locked down. I then use exclusively Android Auto. I bought a SIM card to use the head unit as a standalone but because of the issues I previously stated, it's not working for me. That and the excessively slow response from the SIM network even when the signal is full. If I put the sim in a phone and tether it's really fast. Not a SIM or provider issue. I would not buy again. I replaced a ATOTO and will revert to ATOTO in the future (I wanted wireless Android AUTO).

The media could not be loaded. This is my 3rd joying product. Every single of them had problems.