Recca168

Just a heads up for anyone else interested in doing this. This just kinda clicked last week after using the nexus 7 for a year... This works great for audio. Plug it in the aux, pair it and done. No wiring needed... [ame=http://www.amazon.ca/Aluratek-AIS01F-I-Stream-DockFree-Bluetooth/dp/B006OT2WFM]Aluratek AIS01F I-Stream DockFree Bluetooth Audio Receiver (Black): Amazon.ca: Office Products[/ame]

The bezel I bought is quite a bit wider. There's 205mm between the two vents compared to stock bezel's 185mm. The nexus7 is 198.5mm across so it wouldn't fit in the stock bezel anyway without hacking apart the vents. I made a really ghetto brace to hold the tablet in place behind the new bezel. Glue and cardboard.... it works... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Recca168/Forums/IMG_20120909_144502.jpg One of the major annoyances was trying to figure out how to get the tablet to turn on when I start the car. The tablet will wake up front sleep mode whenever it is charging, but the car charger's I tried wouldn't charge the tablet. Turns out the Nexus7 will only go into charging mode if plug it in to a charger where the data lines are shorted. I ended up hacking up the usb cable to do this. As for general usage I'm sticking with the Go Launch HD. Its allows a landscape homescreen and let you resize widgets as you please. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Recca168/Forums/IMG_20120909_152531.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Recca168/Forums/IMG_20120909_152522.jpg For the GPS I settled on Waze. Seems there's quite a few people in the city using it so its pretty up to day on traffic/accidents/etc http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Recca168/Forums/IMG_20120909_152455.jpg Also picked up the garmin ecoroute HD. It plugs into the OBDII port and connects to the tablet over bluetooth. It's suppose to give real time diagnostic information. Haven't played with it much yet. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Recca168/Forums/IMG_20120909_153038.jpg The last thing I'll probably do is the mod to have the cigarette lighter port on all the time. Didn't drive the car for the weekend and the tablet ran out of power. Had to pull it out to turn it back on.

I just put together something similar with a nexus7 I ended picking up one of these so I didn't have to hack apart the stock bezel. This bezel had lots of room for the tablet so I had to make a brace to hold the tablet in place http://www.avojdm.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_54_60&products_id=108 Running jellybean with the go launcher app so I can have the landscape home screen. I'll try it out for the next few days and see how it goes