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UPDATE:I bought a Mint Mobile data card for the truck a few months back. I wanted to see if using the Android-side of this unit was worth having a seperate data card (instead of just using CarPlay). The thought was I could use the Mint Mobile service for a passenger hotspot and to stream video for the kiddos. I also thought I wanted to use Spotify and Waze in split screen for most of the time, instead of the Nav on my iPhone.This weekend, I did a factory reset on the unit and just went back to using CarPlay. The two SIM/Phones didn't play nice together. The split screen setup didn't hold over, so I had to redo it everytime I started the truck (Nova Launcher didn't help with this... at least, I couldn't get it to work). Spotify was buggy on the Android side. The unit would freeze often. I would loose my steering wheel controls intermittantly where it would try to control the Console and not Spotify. The last straw was I lost the camera system last friday. It just quit. I use that to see a line on the floor in my garage when I park (there is little room for error between hitting the gun safe and the garage door not closing). CarPlay got mad at me and would no longer connect the AutoTech at the end either. There were just too many little issues that became annoying. I probably messed up some setting somewhere... so I can't blame the Mint SIM or Autotech, or even Apple. But, I just went back to square one and wiped everything.I use Nova Launcher to run a very basic homescreen for start up: 4 buttons (Console, Settings, CarPlay, and Google Play Store) with a Raptor background pic. CarPlay starts up automatically in a few seconds so that is the main screen I use now. The Mint SIM is still in the unit. It hasn't thrown any fits, yet, but I also haven't messed with anything. All works well again. So, I guess I will just leave things as-is and be happy with it.
UPDATE:
I bought a Mint Mobile data card for the truck a few months back. I wanted to see if using the Android-side of this unit was worth having a seperate data card (instead of just using CarPlay). The thought was I could use the Mint Mobile service for a passenger hotspot and to stream video for the kiddos. I also thought I wanted to use Spotify and Waze in split screen for most of the time, instead of the Nav on my iPhone.
This weekend, I did a factory reset on the unit and just went back to using CarPlay.
The two SIM/Phones didn't play nice together. The split screen setup didn't hold over, so I had to redo it everytime I started the truck (Nova Launcher didn't help with this... at least, I couldn't get it to work). Spotify was buggy on the Android side. The unit would freeze often. I would loose my steering wheel controls intermittantly where it would try to control the Console and not Spotify. The last straw was I lost the camera system last friday. It just quit. I use that to see a line on the floor in my garage when I park (there is little room for error between hitting the gun safe and the garage door not closing). CarPlay got mad at me and would no longer connect the AutoTech at the end either. There were just too many little issues that became annoying. I probably messed up some setting somewhere... so I can't blame the Mint SIM or Autotech, or even Apple. But, I just went back to square one and wiped everything.
I use Nova Launcher to run a very basic homescreen for start up: 4 buttons (Console, Settings, CarPlay, and Google Play Store) with a Raptor background pic. CarPlay starts up automatically in a few seconds so that is the main screen I use now. The Mint SIM is still in the unit. It hasn't thrown any fits, yet, but I also haven't messed with anything. All works well again. So, I guess I will just leave things as-is and be happy with it.
