Phoenix Android Radio 4th Gen PX6

Gtibbot · Feb 10, 2020

kilthro said:
I upgraded my PX3 to the PX6 a few weeks ago and it's been awesome. Now that I have a good feel on it's performance, I decided to do the hidden Top and Bottom bar tweak. It's pretty easy and straight forward. I have gone an extra step and set two tasker tasks and linked them to shortcuts so I can quickly enable the full-screen mode and then disable it if needed. The full screen works on everything except for when split screen is used. The top and bottom bars will appear no matter the setting. Overall, I love the full screen over the top and bottom bars that come on the unit.

Best part is, nothing is hardcoded that would permanently alter the unit as its just a setting.. It does retain the setting after a reboot as well.

here is a quick video demo of what it does. I know some of you were concerned if it was permanent or not.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zau2tsqitlvdku9/px6-barhide.mp4?dl=0

Very Cool! How are you enabling full screen mode?

BDF · Feb 10, 2020

the upgrades dont seem to be any kind of change, in fact had to reboot it on a 3 hour drive, but seemed fine on the way back, it does now advance the tracks on the "Music" app. i do wish they could get fast boot sorted, i get a different result every time i start the truck, sometimes right where i left off, on console for example, but it may act like i rebooted it, time seems to not be a factor. i can have it sit for days at the airport, and it go right to console, or turn it off and back on and it will reboot.

kilthro · Feb 10, 2020

It's not all that hard and is what you would use for creating apps or telling android to go full screen. now I believe this only works on 8.1 and later.
Any of you long term android users probably have done this. I first did this back on my note 9 with a tasker toggle in the pull down menu.

First, you will need an android terminal app.
I prefer to use Terminal Emulator for Android from the play store.

Now we need to utilize adb to set the group policy commands for immersive.
Launch the terminal app that you downloaded.

We need to configure adb first

Type the following commands and press enter after each one

set adb tcp port = 5555

setprop persist.adb.tcp.port 5555
reboot (yes just type in reboot and hit enter... it will reboot)

Open Android Terminal Emulator back up

Now type the following commands (Press Enter after each one)

adb-ec connect localhost
adb-ec root
adb-ec disconnect
adb-ec connect localhost
adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*

Thats it. You are now full immersive.

If you want to go back to it being off, open terminal app and type the following

adb-ec connect localhost
adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.off=* all off

Or you could use this command to go back to stock

adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control null* (returns to stock/default settings)

Now i haven't tested these to see how they interact with the restricted px6 but we may be able to hide just one of the bars instead of both.

adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.status=* (top bar)
adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=* (bottom bar)

If you want to automate this, you can use tasker and set up customer tasks to enter this via shell, then create short cuts and toggle it like i do.
If thats a little more advanced to get going but saves tons of times later.. let me know if you need those steps.

Guy · Feb 10, 2020

Do you mind making a little tutorial on how to do that? That’s something I’d be into doing, particularly since I use a launcher.

how do I set up that tasker and what do the scripts have to say?

Thanks

kilthro said:
I upgraded my PX3 to the PX6 a few weeks ago and it's been awesome. Now that I have a good feel on it's performance, I decided to do the hidden Top and Bottom bar tweak. It's pretty easy and straight forward. I have gone an extra step and set two tasker tasks and linked them to shortcuts so I can quickly enable the full-screen mode and then disable it if needed. The full screen works on everything except for when split screen is used. The top and bottom bars will appear no matter the setting. Overall, I love the full screen over the top and bottom bars that come on the unit.

Best part is, nothing is hardcoded that would permanently alter the unit as its just a setting.. It does retain the setting after a reboot as well.

here is a quick video demo of what it does. I know some of you were concerned if it was permanent or not.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zau2tsqitlvdku9/px6-barhide.mp4?dl=0

Wyo1 · Feb 10, 2020

kilthro said:
It's not all that hard and is what you would use for creating apps or telling android to go full screen. now I believe this only works on 8.1 and later.
Any of you long term android users probably have done this. I first did this back on my note 9 with a tasker toggle in the pull down menu.

First, you will need an android terminal app.
I prefer to use Terminal Emulator for Android from the play store.

Now we need to utilize adb to set the group policy commands for immersive.
Launch the terminal app that you downloaded.

We need to configure adb first

Type the following commands and press enter after each one

set adb tcp port = 5555

setprop persist.adb.tcp.port 5555
reboot (yes just type in reboot and hit enter... it will reboot)

Open Android Terminal Emulator back up

Now type the following commands (Press Enter after each one)

adb-ec connect localhost
adb-ec root
adb-ec disconnect
adb-ec connect localhost
adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*

Thats it. You are now full immersive.

If you want to go back to it being off, open terminal app and type the following

adb-ec connect localhost
adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.off=* all off

Or you could use this command to go back to stock

adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control null* (returns to stock/default settings)

Now i haven't tested these to see how they interact with the restricted px6 but we may be able to hide just one of the bars instead of both.

adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.status=* (top bar)
adb-ec shell settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=* (bottom bar)

If you want to automate this, you can use tasker and set up customer tasks to enter this via shell, then create short cuts and toggle it like i do.
If thats a little more advanced to get going but saves tons of times later.. let me know if you need those steps.

Very interested in this. Think you could do a video? It's just a bit outta my comfort zone to do with above steps.

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kilthro · Feb 11, 2020

I am traveling this week so it won't be until this weekend. What i can do if it would just be easier, is create some tasker scripts, export them and post them. All you will need to do is run them to achieve the commands above. You would need to download the tasker app, import the tasks and then run them. The initial setup scripts you will only need to run once..

melvimbe · Feb 11, 2020

kilthro said:
I am traveling this week so it won't be until this weekend. What i can do if it would just be easier, is create some tasker scripts, export them and post them. All you will need to do is run them to achieve the commands above. You would need to download the tasker app, import the tasks and then run them. The initial setup scripts you will only need to run once..

I think this was in the video, but just to be sure. When in the taskbar-less mode, you can pull the bars back onto the screen with a swipe, correct? My concern is that once an app is up and running, it will be impossible to switch apps without the task bar.

melvimbe · Feb 11, 2020

is anyone using the AUX input on the PX6? I tried it a couple weeks back and couldn't get it to work. It wasn't the reason I was working on it, and not something I absolutely needed, so didn't worry about it.

kilthro · Feb 11, 2020

melvimbe said:
I think this was in the video, but just to be sure. When in the taskbar-less mode, you can pull the bars back onto the screen with a swipe, correct? My concern is that once an app is up and running, it will be impossible to switch apps without the task bar.

Yes you can swipe up or down and they will appear. I did show that in the video.

melvimbe · Feb 11, 2020

kilthro said:
Yes you can swipe up or down and they will appear. I did show that in the video.

Thank you

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