Just a heads up if your thinking of buying a Eonon head unit

[mudski]

So I have had this G2227 Eonon double din head unit since I bought the car. Nearly 12 months. From day one the radio reception was shite and the UI was buggy, at the best of times. As of late it started to go hay wire.

• Three of the touch screen buttons on the radio screen are now all blurred out and I can't use those buttons,

• the GPS has stopped working, the time will change itself whenever it feels like,
• the volume control on the touch screen will sometimes change the radio frequency instead of volume,
• the illuminated buttons below the screen no longer work
• I can't listen to tune via BT
• making and receiving phone calls via BT is getting worse by the day.
• The flip screen will flip out all by itself sometimes
• There is more but I'm sure.
• Radio reception poorer than my late grandfathers Radiola Grand. (always had this issue since day dot)

So. Yesty I removed the unit to finally install the GPS tracking system. I needed to pick up a power and earth wire so I though to pick it up from the wires that feed into the stereo.
To my astonishment I found that the earth wire on the loom which is supplied with the head unit by Eonon was in the wrong socket in the plug so the unit had not earthing what so ever so it was installed.
Now I'm no auto sparky so having no earth connection may not matter but I am wondering if this was the root of all the evil this cheap chit has given. The only earth this may have got was from the body of the unit when it was screwed into the mount.

Now I need to buy another cheap chinese crappy unit. Still more than 15hunge less than a branded unit.
So just a heads up for anyone who has bought one or thinking of buying one to check if the plugs are wired correctly.