Hi,

Have anyone successfully installed one of those Android navigation / multimedia systems?

I ended up buying one like this:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-Land-Ro...37146.html

except it was couple of hundred euros cheaper. But I have had hard times trying to install it, as installation instructions were non-existent. There are adapters which I think should be connected to the wire harness which powers rear seat passengers' power outlet in rear console, but if I connect the adapter to the harness, the device won't power up nor I have power at the power outlet anymore. Any ideas?

There's the adapter in the middle of the attached picture.

I wouldn't bother wasting money on anything electronic made in china as you can guarantee it will fail in a very short time due to poor build quality issues or cheap fake components. I bought a multi function computer once for a mk4 golf which worked quite well for a few weeks then it caught fire smoke billowing out of the unit without warning took nearly 2 months to rid the car of the burnt electrical smell.

Hi,
I have installed that navi system 3 month ago. I bought it from a different chinese dealer, but the model is the same.
I have had, as prevented, some problems to install it as the bare manual doesn't help. Anyway, after some hours of work and some emails to the dealer, it's working at the 80% of the expected function.
The main complains about this product are:
- the hands free bluetooth doesn't work: I can pair the phone, but the caller can't hear my voice from the microphone even if I can hear him from the radio speaker.
- the steering wheel commands doesn't work, becouse they need a canbus connection and the navigator doesn't have.
There are some wires marked with "CAN", but they are connected (only to a side) to the "MOST" original radio connector that doesn't provide the canbus. The dealer, after some push from me, has admitted that the navigator can't work in the Freelander despite to the technical data written in the site.

As usual the chinese products can't keeping all their promises. I can spend more money to buy a product from an affordable brand, but nobody sells a product like it exept the chinese dealers.

The bright side is that now I can listen my favourite music stored in a large HDD drive, I can see the image from the rearview camera, I can use the navigator app I prefer and I can add a lot of new android apps from the market.
In these days I'm testing a Parrot minikit for the bluetooth hands free and I think it's a good aftermarket solution. MY11 SD4 S

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Can you say where you connected it up to as I installed one in a previous car and that replaced the original radio.

Looks like the seller has now refined the link stating that it's for 2008-2012 Freelanders. Mine is 2007. I have to remind him I explicitly stated my model...

It's now a replacement for the original radio, but is in instead meant to be installed into that empty hole above the radio. Might be, that 2008 and later models have this big grey connector (is it called MOST?) behind their radios, but mine has two smaller green connectors. However, the wire is just long enough to reach the rear side of the centre console, so having such long wire to connect to radio just below won't make sense.

Trekker1972: Where did you connect your's and what's the model of your Freelander?

Saw one in a 2008 Freelander 2 in Beijing when i was there last year, they will obviously get you around there ok

As an aside these Chinese units are very popular with owners of motorhomes as you input the vehicle dimensions.

Cannot comment on building into a vehicle of any type, but as a stand alone unit they are very good value and do work surprisingly well.

I have used mine within the UK , France ,Germany , Holland , Portugal and Spain without problems, whereas the inbuilt unit on my Freelander (2013 ) was very poor and on two occasions took us way off course.

At around £50 you buy it keep 2/3 years and buy another if you are worried about map updates. simply not worth the bother of trying to update.

Incidently my current Fiat based motorhome , with inbuilt satnav appears to have identicle software to the Chinese ones ,

a couple of years ago i bought a complete head unit for my old Antara, to match the dashboard shape and space. Came with Sat nav, bluetoth, various sources of input etc. seemed like a really good price.

when it arrived the display was colour but the quality of graphics was appalling, the radio did not have RDS and the reception was shocking (I had to buy an inline amp for the aerial lead as the standard Vx units had built in amps), it didn't fit the existing cage so I had to cut it to make it fit.

Then to top it all off I got a £70 import tax bill from DHL which the Chinese guys never warned me about or advised in their advert on ebay.

I would now avoid all things costing over £10 from China (yes I know a lot of the FL2 and other cars etc are made in China) as they are made so cheaply they are not worth the hassle.

@Navis

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Trekker1972: Where did you connect your's and what's the model of your Freelander?

My Freelander is a MY2011 and it has the mid-range audio system from Alpine with 9 speaker (not the dolby):



The navigator is not a radio replacement, it's an add-on. It has to be installed to the empty hole (if you don't have the original navigation system from LR) just above the radio unit and it use its AUX input to connect the audio signal. You can continue to use the radio as usual and also connect your favourite audio player to the aux input located at the end of the central console.
I confirm that the connectors are large and grey and I know that there are two of them in the back of the radio and another two under the central console near the aux input connector. The navigator doesn't interact with the MOST system, but it use that connector becouse it has the power and the analog IN signal for the original radio. Probably you can use the second pair of connector if your radio model is the old type with the green ones. MY11 SD4 S

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Thanks Trekker,

And you also have a separate AUX IN in the back side of your radio? Or is it included within the grey connector?

I'll guess I'll have to find right connectors. Does anyone know what these grey and green connectors are called?

Am I wrong if I assume I would first need something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LandRover-Freeland...B00JEWHHX8

and then I have to find another one which works the other way around, right?

Unless, of course, I manage to find a direct cables from the Android system to these 2007 model Freelander style of connectors.

Hi,

I am still struggling with this problem. Here's another picture:

Click image to enlarge

I think I advanced a bit... The red/black ones are probably PC2-81-4 autoleads and the grey one is PC2-117-4.

There's a world full of adapters from either of these autoleads to ISO, but not any between those two. Am I really the only one facing this problem?

Guys,

Fitted sat nav + from

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171936008221?_tr...EBIDX%3AIT

can happily say that it works great and the support due to a minor issue was also great, well worth the pennies.

Jonfen