Center Display Screen "Skins"

I think I like the alternative center display screen format better:


Not sure if we can add our own custom wall paper?

This is a terrible pic of the clock but gives the idea. The little tick a the top is the first of 60 second ticks that go around the center in a full circle:


Also, just realized that I can add compass direction and (gps) elevation to the lower part of the Map display:

 

It is not easy to find some of these menus. I happen upon most of them, then go back and find them in the owner's manual. I didn't remember either, but just found it again by searching on "skin":



See Change Skin below



barnesgj thanks for the custom wallpaper info. I think (?) it is only for the clock page, will try it later.

 

I did not post all of the intervening pages which may have made it more confusing. Try Settings ... System (lower right under Audio) ... Others ... Change Skins.

I think there are a number of "others" under different categories.

It is VERY confusing. Sometimes I think I saw an interesting page, and then I cannot find my way back to it!

 

Hey! There is no "other"! Here is a short video: Changing Skins

 

Apparently a number of Android Apps can be installed. A bit of YouTube searching shows some installation App (possibly only for certain models, possibly more universal?) which allows many more Apps to be installed including prohibited apps such as NETFLIX. Now I am 100% in agreement that NO driver should be watching NETFLIX while driving, but as someone who takes breaks, and often eats in my car while traveling, I could see having some video available ... (possible drawbacks include, it may be technically illegal to make such mods, mods could cause other problems, after an incident, authorities may not believe you, that you only watch when parked and not while driving.)

Apps aside, I am starting to like this user interface more than the stock lists. but, GUIs are very personal choices.

 

I'm making some progress. After I plugged in my iPhone (possibly similar with Android), I got the CarPlay icon on my second page:


Next, I found the home screen edit order (which moves Icons around on a grid):


Then I got these screens with CAD like grid marks:


At which point I could pick and drag each Icon between pages and choose the location on the screen:
(I moved the AppleCarPlay to the upper left of my "main" screen.


This was my screen at the end:


In summary, I needed to first plug my phone in by USB to get the CarPlay Icon which I could then move around. Now, when I unplug the phone, the block stays there, but it turns gray says something like SmartPhone.

Also, note that once you go into some button selections, the screens look the same as the "classic" skin, e.g. the Vehicle Energy page looks the same. Or, once you go into CarPlay, well it just looks like regular old CarPlay (looked about the same on the Gen 2 Volt too).

Looking at some of the other Icons, say Info, there are four "sub" selections to the right. I think those can be custom assigned, but don't get how yet. I thought I was in the right place with some menu items grayed out, but I couldn't figure out how to change which showed up in the four small boxes.

The five white dashes at the bottom middle seem to indicate that we can fill up to five different pages with Icons.

 

They gave us four more blank pages, there must be good stuff to put there (widgets, Apps?) ... I think Ken7 is right about tighter packing of the Icons.

So two questions ... How do you change the selections within a group? For example, I want one of those small buttons next to Info to be Vehicle energy. Is four the standard number of sub? menus, and we just get to? pick which four?

Next question, with my web browser showing the looping Wx radar (works for some NWS pages), can I somehow assign that NWS web page that to a single Icon button?