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Recent content by SparkyBC

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    What is your personal experience with Apple CarPlay?

    The sept 2016 "update" fixes absolutely nothing. Keep in mind the 693S is missing several components and features the 893s has. I can black screen on Carplay or crash it almost daily. Even plugging in the lightning connector you can hear a low audible white hiss. You can't compare a factory...
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    What is your personal experience with Apple CarPlay?

    Don't look at Kenwood. I have their "flagship" DNX893S, nothing but audio problems. I use apple music and the bluetooth will for whatever reason drop "pause" the song and you have to go back into the bluetooth mode on the headunit and click play again. Carplay the exact same thing. Was hoping...
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    Anybody regret upgrading from 6s plus to a 7 plus?

    I hate the bugs in the bluetooth radio on the 7 plus i can't even stream music without the damn thing pausing every few minutes.
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    What cases are you using on your iPhone 7 Plus?

    I went with the Spigen Slim Armor iPhone 7 Plus Case with Kickstand...
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    Why doesn't my car receive text messages with the iphone 7

    Bluetooth will randomly crap out and kill iTunes music streaming, will have to press play again. Will stop press play again on and on. Carplay does funky things too. The Bluetooth update for the iPhone 7 can't come soon enough. Between my $1500 DNX 893s head-unit and my iphone7 plus 256GB...
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    What is this white box pop up?

    Location doesn't mean anything it's a simple JavaScript you can put it in anything and will give your location more or less... It's a scam pop up just clear your browser cache, history etc.. Why would you pay a scammer don't be dumb an foolish.