Today I loaded up a USB key with a couple Jesse Cooke albums and plugged it in the port. He never sounded so good.

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Idag laddade jag upp en USB-nyckel med ett par Jesse Cooke-album och kopplade in den i porten. Han har aldrig låtit så bra.

On my birthday last April I decided to replace the MyLink radio in my 2016 Trax.

I knew buying from China had it's problems like 11 hours difference which makes communication complicated plus Chinglish is really hard to understand but I'm retired and figured this would be a nice project for me. Knowing ahead of time that I would be losing the outside OEM temperature probe I was hoping I'd gain more than I would lose. Then it displays local GPS temperatures.

So decide to take a chance on the "Dasaita 2 din Android 8.0 Car GPS radio for Chevrolet Trax 2013-2016 Stereo Multimedia player with Octa core 4GB Ram+32GB rom" so ordered this from AliExpress ( 418.0US $ |2 din Android 8.0 Car GPS radio for Chevrolet Trax 2013 2014 2015 2016 Stereo Multimedia player with Octa core 4GB Ram+32GB rom|car gps player|radio multimediastereo gps - AliExpress )

Price was decent and description said plug&play. So paid these guys, as soon as they shipped the radio I knew I was in for the long haul when I saw "" 1 sold 249 available"" which meant I was the first one to buy one of these. Anyways, this is going to be long and I'll try to shorten the story.

3 days later I get a message from the seller saying that the unit has been tested and all works since it was going a long distance. Fine, 3 days later the radio get's delivered via DHL, Paid $56.07 extra for customs and taxes which is okay. I open the box all excited to install my new plug&play radio and I discover they sent the wrong harness. I make mistakes too, the Technician didn't have a Trax to test it with so he test the radio on a KIA then when he closed and packaged everything up he put the KIA harness kit in the box instead of the GM kit.

So I email the supplier and he wants a picture because nobody can believe that they sent the wrong harness on the first order when everybody was being so careful. So sent them picture....

They quickly respond by sending me the GM power harness not realizing that the whole kit was wrong, not just the power harness. So a week or so later after being held at customs for who knows what reason I receive the power cable. Well now I can power the radio but I have no chimes no radio because I'm missing the GM antenna adapter and the USB adapter. So email them again to mention my disappointment and he's confused as to why these are missing. Sends me the cables he thinks are missing and I get them this time 3 weeks delay ( customs not suppliers fault ) So I receive these cables and proceed to hook up my radio for a third time. Great, I have radio and music, USB.

But no chimes and no backup camera. So email Danny Zhu again, he was going to get back to me for the backup camera but I figured it out. Camera comes in on pin 7&8

så jag tog KIA-kablar och kannibaliserade för mitt syfte,

vi hade nu backkamera.

Sen idag fick jag hörlurshögtalaren som fungerar utmärkt, jag har nu en fungerande radio och jobbar fortfarande med några små problem. Den är åtminstone tillräckligt funktionell för att stanna i Trax. Ett av problemen är att det behöver och uppdateras för Navigation,

Jag åker i fält halva tiden och hastighetsgränserna har ändrats. Älskar enheten än så länge, den har en stor pekskärm och jag kan till och med se min dashcam på skärmen.

Jag säger inte att den här installationen är slutgiltig än men ganska nära.

Fick ventilerna från en skrotupplag för ramen.

Fick även Torque APP ombord diagnostik att fungera,

tyvärr inga felkoder att visa. lol jag kommer uppdatera med nattbilder när min kamera borde kunna ta bättre bilder med mindre reflektioner.

Hoppas ni gillar... Jag är gladare
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Hallå ! Kan du förklara närmare hur du kopplade för att få backkameran att fungera 7-8? var kan jag hitta den?

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Traxy you are an amazingly detailed and knowledgeable guy! These write ups and pics are great!

 

Thank You. Being a perfectionist does have it's down side but it works for me.

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Only unresolved issue is parasitic noise coming from the Chime speaker when WiFi is on.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3f2xbma0f3vxc9x/Voice0003.aac?dl=0

Not too pleasant, so pulled the Dasaita radio and I'm back to the old MyLink radio, waiting for a solution from seller.



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Is the chime on a wire or integrated? Try a ferrite core or grounded wrap on the speaker wire, or a faraday cage around the module.

 

Yeah they suggested a ground strap between chassis ground and radio frame. Daughter has the Trax 1000 KMs away at the moment. Will try this next week.

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Wife was complaining clock was too small,

so I downloaded this one. Think it's big enough?

These are actual screenshots taken from the radio screen itself and dumped to dropbox. Just touch the little camera icon.



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Wife was complaining clock was too small so I downloaded this one.
Think it's big enough?https://www.dropbox.com/s/7isy1mglmjoqpad/Clock.png?dl=0

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Vehicle behind you can see it too!!

 

Just seeing this and wanting to do the same to my 2015 trax as I would love android auto.
Any advice? I'm super new to this and want to make sure I get it right.

The device you bought says it's no longer available, would you recommend anything specific?

Thanks for such a detailed post.

 

Other sellers sell similar radios. The only thing is do you have enough patience with the 12 hour offset and their chinglish. I took a chance and it took 2 months to iron out the bugs and misunderstandings but now after the last fix ( running a ground strap from the radio case to chassis ground ) everything works great and I am very happy with the outcome. Here is an other one...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Own...pvid=fff718f1-9655-4595-a42c-fd0b4fb88fac&transAbTest=ae803_1&priceBeautifyAB=0

Always a gamble when you buy abroad but the payoff can be very pleasing. I wouldn't go back now. Just make sure you specify right from the get go the Year-make-model of your Trax, which radio you presently have installed and if you have the time to take your radio apart, take a picture of the connectors. Also tell them of the options like back-up camera if you have it so they can supply you with the proper harnesses .



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Thanks so much for your super quick and helpful response!

I just took a new job and the commute is feeling long, I think the effort put in to get this radio updated would be absolutely worth it, just very nervous about breaking something.

I think we may have the same model car too, I'm in a 2016 Trax LS
So here's hoping I can get something similar sorted.

 

Post 10 says you have a 2015, do you have 2 Trax'?

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No I totally messed up lol.

I bought mine in 2017 and it was an end of line floor model 2016
Had to log in and double check!it's a 2016 LS Trax in blue!

 

So you must have bought it in 2016 then if it was a year end since the 2016 came out in late 2015. Am I confusing you lol?

 

ha, yes!

it's a 2016, I double checked the paperwork last night,
got it April 2017

They were selling the 2017 and had 2 2016 models left in the showroom at my local dealership, it had 12 miles on the clock and had been kept inside the showroom so I went for it.

 

Did you find an Android infotainment unit yet?


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This radio has been restocked.

https://msg.aliexpress.com/buyerMsg...3826702&digest=56a844708204582d6b67a51d42248b60bb6b3639575539fe62f4c9346fc97c58


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Okay for my wife's complaint about the temperature read-out being to small, it turns out all I had to do is select a bigger font size. They are now about 4 times larger and very legible.

Just realized the link I posted in post #18 is no good here it is again. Radio is restocked

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/9-i...-Chevrolet-Chevrolet-Trax/32811951068.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dQfBpCI


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Well today I discovered an APP in my Dasaita radio that calculates fuel economy via Torque Pro. Don't ask me how because I haven't figured that one yet but on a short trial run it was pretty accurate. I reset the vehicle average meter, which we all no always reads in favor of GM, then took it out for a spin. There was .2 liter/100Kms difference between the vehicle calculate average and this APP's calculation. The vehicle's average was better of course. The vehicle read 7.6l/100kms

The 12.4 is climbing Steeves Mountain on the way to Lutz Mountain where I live 3.1 is coming down the hill. First 5 bars are each minute of the last 5 minutes and so on. I'm really impressed as to how precise it is. Now I can't wait to take it on a long trip just to see.

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Went for almost a 2 hour drive this morning, DIC showed 6.3 while Dasaita showed 6.4. But I did not reset them exactly at the same time.

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Hi traxy. I just bought a used 2013 trax LT with mylink and original rear backup cam. I also wanna Change to an android radio. Did you use your original camera in your dasaita? I dont wanna use After market cam since i would have to disassemble the whole car for the NEW cables to the rear.
I asked 10 different aliexpress traders but they all replied I need to use After market cam.

Any suggestions? Sorry for my english. I am from germany

 

I used OEM camera, if you look at post #1 you'll see what I had to do to get it working. Sorry for my English, I am french. lol

 

I'm just waiting for my android radio to arrive and prepping as much as i can as i've never swapped out a radio before but bringgo is so bad i'm taking the plunge!

for OEM camera are you plugging into 7 + 8 on the radio harness or plugging into car power harness? also what about reverse detection line? referring to example wiring for radio i'm getting ?.

also my radio doesnt come with dab+ only fm so bought a usb dab+ adaptor but want to use existing external aerial (already dab compatible) but assume i'd need a splitter and some connection converters to do that? or shall i just go dab and drop fm? the mylink at the moment has both fm and dab from one aerial.

this thread and traxy have been so helpful already, big thumbs up from me!

will post pics once successfully installed (fingers crossed).

 

Which radio did you get? You don't need to know about the reverse switch since as soon as the radio detects video from the camera it will post it to screen. This is done by the vehicles electronics. Depending on which radio you got it might be pre-wired. Mine wasn't so I inserted a video cable in pin 7&8, 8 being the center conductor (red)and 7 the shield (black) in the picture of post #1

 

got this radio on its way:
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/B3IzVPSC

 

Looks like everything you need is included. Should be plug&play.

 

Hi all,

i cant get oem camera to work everything is working - this is what i have left

-not sure what cable with 3 pins and orange and black cable coming off harness is for.

-aux det?

looks like cable going into pin 7 but nothing in pin 8?

ccd in is from what i can make out is for camera

any help appreciated

 

Hi, right now, I have the same problem, did you solve the issue about oem camera? Thanks

 

pics to go with above post