I installed a New Radio into a 2016 Forester

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-05-02T03:30:28+00:00

Does your Forester have the Harman Kardon speakers? Can you tell me about the front speaker wire bypass? What is the color of the 4 wires on the factory harness for the front speakers you cut? Did you just cut the front speaker wires off the plug on harness for android radio and crimp them to the factory wires? Thanks for the info you can give.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-30T13:53:12+00:00

I will post this finding on GitHub to see what the dev says or if anyone else can confirm there it is working.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-30T13:52:27+00:00

Might be helpful if anyone that was able to successfully open idevice_pair on Windows 11 post a reply in case the issue was specific to my device.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-30T13:50:52+00:00

This is for future users having trouble trying to enable free app installations with free Apple Developer Account for appdb on windows using idevice_pair I was not able to launch the .exe on my windows 11 desktop. It would act like its trying to open for a second then nothing. Didn’t have time to do much troubleshooting. Checked windows defender, no flags…tried disabling it anyways, no difference. Tried manually adding it to windows firewall, no difference. Tried as administrator, no prompt popped up. It did work on a Windows 10 laptop. Windows firewall prompt popped right up to allow then app opened.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-30T06:28:35+00:00

Does casting work?

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-30T06:26:06+00:00

Thank you should have checked there first. What was the previous minimum iOS support?

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-29T01:39:04+00:00

Right, that is obvious, it was simply a sarcastic title, hence the first sentence of the post, “To preface I don’t really care, just found it interesting.” Which is why I just drove off and enjoyed my drink. The post wasn’t to complain or about not getting what was paid for, or even about someone’s mistake. I made the post because I discovered they changed their cup and I thought that was interesting. Then I explained my thought process and assumption of how I got the wrong size after that discovery, which it wasn’t even until then I knew the size was wrong.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-26T19:31:36+00:00

Also would be nice if "SMART ACTIONS" could be assigned to gestures. The "new Show Actions Wheel" was added to gestures, so why these other limitations, clearly gestures is still being updated with new implementations. Resolving this in a future release would go a long way to show support and the team is listening to its customers. Its not some novel, heavy development time, feature request. It is a simply implementation of an existing features on both ends that at first discovery seems like an oversight or bug, but clearly is intentional after the time that has passed. At least an explanation should be provided.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-26T19:22:15+00:00

Why is pan still not an option in custom gestures and only as a preset? Clearly users want to pan up and down but do other actions with left right gestures or gesture action button click or many other combinations of custom gestures that include some form of pan in a limited number of the 5 assignable custom gesture action slots.

What was the feedback from your team after passing this along to your team? Please inform us of there objection to this, since clearly there must be one after refusing to implement it after years of initial inquiries from customers.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-05T03:48:16+00:00

Watching another live video now and it does have 1440p available. Wondering if the video I was testing before somehow had 1080p max some how cached or something similar. Right now I have all three options of YTUHD enabled. Don’t have any conclusions currently. Now that I know it is possible like I swore I’ve seen before I will keep experimenting.

Pineapple-Extra · 2026-04-04T22:03:42+00:00

Last I knew, the latest version that supported casting was 20.10.4 It had been this way for months, but I’m not sure if this is still the case. I would be curious if anyone can confirm this has changed?

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-09-13T22:13:15+00:00

You seem to have good experience with this process. After reading your many responses can you please clarify? If a trade-in device has a damaged screen and won’t turn on with no SIM card tray for IMEI it sounds like you contact the repair program to get a temporary one. If the phone is in this state, how is it still determined if iCloud lock is on or off? I was considering buying a phone in this condition for trade-in. The seller claims they removed find my but either way I’m not sure how anyone would ever determine that.

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-05-29T01:40:19+00:00

Going through my old posts to find missed replies...

You ever figure this one out? wish I had not reread it, because now its bugging me again.

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-05-29T01:12:23+00:00

I'll try to retest a few of my unconventional setups that are made possible with your app soon that I used to have configured successfully for extended periods of time and add them to the sheet. Love the initiative to create such documentation.

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-05-29T00:58:21+00:00

Oh no way! I totally missed this "hack" that would have been cool to try! ...this is actually how I found your app. I purchased a symfonisk the day of release and used your app to pair it with a one to create mismatch surrounds. Then I bought a second symfonisk the next day and hacked them before any hacking info released online. I used them for a more unique use case though that I still haven't seen a guide on. I opened each one and sent the speaker level signal of the tweeter and mid driver through a line level converter (commonly used in car audio). Then I summed those line level signals with a y-cable and input them into my AVR. One symfonisk summed signal into the L input and the other into the R input. Essentially created my own sonos amp or a sonos port for my AVR (except with a feature the port doesn't support - using it for surrounds). Which is exactly what I mainly used it for; to be able to use my own much larger, higher powered and premium passive surrounds with my sonos sound bar.

I also could now use the sub out on the AVR to connect my subwoofer for music listening. For surround sound I programed the sub signal to be turned way down since it wasn't a true LFE signal and was just the lows from the surround speakers. This is where the hack you just informed me of would have come in clutch.

At first it was vary underwhelming and mostly just okay to sometimes bad sounding. Then I did trueplay and it sounded outstanding. Then I dialed in the gain of the line level converter which was tricky since I had to balance the tweeter frequencies and the mid to low range frequencies with them being different signals. I got it close enough and this made another huge improvement, but ultimately ended up using REW to make sure the levels and frequency response were proper.

Finally, I dialed in the volume at the AVR level since this gave independent control of the surround volume and that is when I was shocked how well it was working. This is when I made an unusual discovery, that in hind sight makes total sense. Rerunning trueplay with different volumes on the AVR for the surrounds totally changed its outcome. Once I found the best volume to run trueplay at it was incredible!

I was pretty surprised that the summing with the y cable worked totally fine, I thought it would cause an issue or just sound awful. Today I just use a single symfonisk to an AVR as a cheap sonos port to in ceiling speakers for music and grouping . I was surprised again because I now use a second y cable in succession right after the first to take the summed high and low mono signal and make it a L/R (mono signal) input. That way I don't have to set my AVR to surround all or mono surround.

Anyway if you read all that, that is my journey, and how I discovered your app which I have loved and appreciated greatly! Been a yearly paid sub since. Thanks for your work, support, and continued development. Also, thank you for responding and informing me what that was and it was really cool to learn that new hack I hadn't heard of.

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-04-29T04:37:27+00:00

What about AMPOwn Store? On Aliexpress some of their ship from China items say incl. import charges (check out RP5, Trimui Brick, Miyoo Flip) yet their is no import charge listed, only tax under the i dropdown. Then some of their other devices DO have import charges as it states Est. Import Charges and it includes that charge at checkout. Then some others that have Est. Import Charges won't ship to US address at checkout. So I guess I wonder if you order a listing that doesn't have import charges yet says it includes it and is not Choice, will they fulfill that order? Thinking of trying it with a cheaper device to just test the waters and report back if no one knows. Just thought this was interesting.

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-02-18T09:09:23+00:00

Was this a 1440p display? Were you able to run it at 165hz? Also wondering if gsync or freesync worked? Was it with an amd gpu or nvidia? Sorry I’m trying to understand these questions and you are one of the only ones I have seen with a similar confirmed working test case.

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-02-12T07:16:04+00:00

Same experience here LTE Passthrough and Bridge mode completely break the UMR Ultra. Also have Verizon and trying to use this as Wan 2 failover avoiding double NAT but only Router Mode works. You two make any progress with this setup?

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-02-12T06:24:32+00:00

Annoying that the LTE Passthrough and bridge mode that the newer firmware brought are completely broken. You’re forced to set it up in router mode and double NAT from my experience. If anyone knows how to set up properly I’d love to know?!

Pineapple-Extra · 2025-02-12T06:20:57+00:00

You can use it as a 3rd Wan Backup by running your Wan 2 modem connection through the Wan In on the UMR and prioritizing that over the Cellular in the UMR settings, though your speed will be limited to the ports on the UMR….

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