AMI8

Anyone in Canada (or anywhere) own a 3rd Gen TL with factory navigation and have a GROM to Android unit installed?

Does it work reliably?

I have a 2005 TL w/ NAV with a GROM AND2 unit installed. The factory stereo is the non mp3 version and doesn't have an XM tuner connected.

The only way I can get mine to work at the proper volume (equal to the radio or CD) is by;

1- open the NAV DVD tray door in the trunk
2- plug in my Nexus 5 phone, start AAlinQ, press play
3- start the car
4- press play on the phone (sometimes it keeps playing)
5- pray the volume kicks in properly so I don't have to turn it to 40 to hear a song!
6- If / when that works close the DVD trunk tray (if I want to use the NAV)
7- Wait for the stereo to loudly annouce from the rear speakers "USB" then wait 30 seconds for the NAV to load then press "OK"
8- press "play" on the phone if it pauses during step 7 until something plays loud enough.

I've been back and forth with GROM and read the AAlinQ reviews. It seems like they tested their units on U.S. models because mine seems to only crap out (lose 90% of its' volume) because the NAV loads and cuts it off.

Anyone else experience similar or know a fix?

ReNeGaDe27

I recently got the Honda Acura 2003-2012 GROM USB Android interface car kit and it works perfectly and i do have factory navi as well.

Which one did you get? and which firmware did you order with it?

AMI8

I bought / installed my GROM AND2 Android back in late October. I think the firmware version was 54 then. AAlinq version was 0.9.6.1 (Oct. 24/2013). Crappy! Volume was low, skipped pieces of tracks, froze, crashed, etc. etc..

With firmware version 56 and AAlinq version 1.0.0 and newer it stopped skipping, and crashed less but would only randomly play at the proper volume unless I started it with the trunk NAV DVD door open.

Then I updated the firmware to 57 and AAlinq auto updated to version 1.3 (Dec. 5/2014) and it crapped out!

Now there is no "usb accessory" readout when it's plugged in. I don't think it connects at all and instead of the usual "USB" voice announcement from the stereo it announces "iPod". I've never connected an iPod to it!

I'm currently searching for AAlinq version 1.2.1 (Nov. 14/2014) and will downgrade the firmware back to v54.

The saga continues...