These actually work?
I like the second one with a physical knob for volume. What's involved in wiring it? Any chance you a picture of it installed? Does it include the camera, remotes etc?
I haven't had it installed for very long (like 2 weeks) but yes, works fine. Me & several buddies have those cheap Joyring units installed, and one of my friends put them in his kids' cars. There was a guy on marketplace who mustve bought a bunch of alibaba or something, because he had a picture of a stack of them in his house, selling for $20. No issues. Wiring them up is exactly like any other car stereo. Match the head unit wires to the harness and send it. Most of these come with a remote & camera/wiring. The Joyrings have been going strong for 3+ years now across several vehicles. This is the first time using this brand, however. So far so good. The instructions on this one were actually usable too. Still Engrish, but not terrible Engrish.
Can you post a picture of it installed?
Also what amp are you using?
Most of our installs don't use an amp, but my daughter's jeep had a sub in the back, no idea what brand. I just wired it in same as before. I'll get a pic next time I see it.
I tried a cheap Android head unit everybody was raving about once... it was a huge piece of shit. Took forever to boot, audio quality was really bad with no real feature set to adjust the eq or anything. Screen was ridiculously unresponsive. Doesn't mean they're all that way, but that was my experience dipping my toes into the Chinese Android stereo market. You get what you pay for, which might be fine if your expectations are low and you're not much of an audio guy.
Anyway not trying to be a nay-sayer, I hope this one turns out to be good.
The boot time on these isn't super fast, but honestly it's faster than my wife's 2021 Expedition. I mean look, it's not a $1500 deck, it's a $50 deck. But they work really well without any real compromise. I can't really speak to the audio quality... (a) I'm not an audiophile, (b) my hearing is quite literally shot after too many years in a rock band, (c) the jeep supplies tons of background noise anyway... but it sounds fine to me. My friends who aren't deaf haven't complained either. YMMV. But if you require oxygen-free speaker cable, then you already know this isn't going to be for you. Screen lag (from touch to response) is worse than the Ford but much better than my 2014 Lexus.
If I had one complaint over say the Pioneer 4400 NEX that I have in my JKU, it's that you can't (or at least I can't figure out how to) play the radio while you're using a car play function like navigation or OnX. It took me a while to figure out how to do it on the Ford, so there probably is a way. But at $50 I can live with that limitation, and I can also afford for it to break (or get stolen) something like 12 times before I'm at a negative ROI compared to the Pioneer.
