R4 Companion 4+
Uniden R4 Radar Detector
Angela Mcarthur
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- $7.99
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Description
BLACK FRIDAY SALE! 20% OFF. Powerful, yet simple! Quiets your R4 until a real threat is present. *FEATURING SpotLocks™ - state-of-the-art false lockouts.
NOTE: R4 Companion™ requires a Uniden R4 or R4w radar detector with US Version 136 (R4) or 114 (R4w) firmware to function correctly. R4 Companion will NOT function correctly without this firmware.
R4 Companion™ is a feature rich app, designed to give you the most out of your R4, while enhancing your driving experience along the way. Featuring intelligent alerts and advanced muting! R4 Companion™ is the COMPLETE solution to enjoying your R4.
The R4 Companion™ app leverages years of optimizations and features from the Radar Companion™ series of apps. (Available separately for owners of the V1, R8, R9, & DS1 radar detectors).
Enhanced GPS location based 'false muting' via SpotLocks™ - All future updates to this app are free to purchasers of R4 Companion™
R4 Companion™'s alerting and muting systems are fully optimized for the R4 platform. Intelligent voice announcements and on-screen visuals will always keep you informed and aware of the situation around you.
R4 Companion™ full feature list:
• SpotLocks™ - Location based false silencing has never been this good or easy. Turn on the intelligent location-based learning and let R4 Companion™ do the rest. Or you can manually 'lock' or 'unlock' locations with ease from the main alert screen.
• Works seamlessly with the R4's auto mute memory, manual mute memory, k-block, and quiet-ride built in muting.
• Option to play detector tones in app.
• Ability to set R4’s internal detector settings (30+) from the app (See below list, more settings coming in free future upgrades). *Requires US Version 136 (R4) 114 (R4w) firmware:
Quiet Ride
Limit Speed
Units
Laser
X Band
K Band
K Pop
K Filter
K Scans
TSF
Ka Band
Ka Pop
Ka Filter
Ka Scans
K Blk 1 & 2
All Threat
Ka 1-9 Segments
Auto Mute Volume
Change Alert Display
Display Color
Display Brightness
Priority Band
Auto Mute Memory
Select Auto Mute Memory Bands
• SpotLocks™ works seamlessly with your R4’s built in 'auto mute memory' locations. If you create or delete a location from the app it will apply the changes to your R4 at the same time.
• 'Proximity' meter - leverages the high resolution signal strength to show you a better representation of the signal's source.
• 'K & X falses in area' meter shows you how many possible false alerts exist in the area you are traveling based on the accumulated SpotLock data™.
• 'Custom Phrases' for a given threat's audio announcements.
• High resolution meters for the priority alert (Not limited to the # of bars on the R4 display).
• Customizable heads-up display (HUD).
• HUD displays the priority alert's band, signal strength, frequency. The HUD is color coded between real threats & muted false signals.
• HUD of the secondary alerts' bands, signal strengths, frequencies, & bogey counts.
• Advanced BSM/CAS/Ka False Muting (Optimized for the R4 platform).
• 'Ghost' muting quiets false alerts when you are stuck traveling near a false emitting vehicle.
• "Passive Mute™"- Quiets the R4 below user set speeds & during weak K & X signals.
• Bogey count display showing total number of threats.
• Vehicle speed display. Speed is color coded for each alert type.
• Mute status with the ability to manually mute/unmute alerts as you need.
• Detailed & intelligent voice announcements of band, frequency, strength, number of alerts, occurrences of mixed signals and more.
• Automatic muting of Ka, K, and X bands ('Time before mute' set for each band).
• 'Reduce Speed' notification for user set speed.
• ‘Urgency Alerts™’ - Unmutes growing threats & announces these alerts via voice & notifications.
• ‘Alert History’ - View your past alerts with detailed information.
• Compass heading.
• Detailed trip summary including duration, distance, alerts, muting stats, battery, and more.
• Automatic and seamless connection via Bluetooth even while the app is in the background.
• iPhone & Apple Watch notifications of dir, band, & freq of each alert.
• Help system.
What’s New
Version 1.11.2
Now supports the new Uniden R4w detector!
"Feels like a new detector!", -e This is what people are saying after using R4 Companion™ - See what all the fuss is about, try it for yourself!
If you liked R4 Companion before this release, you are going to LOVE it after! Modify the most popular settings on your R4 radar detector right from the app! See the list below for a complete list of the settings you can modify (more settings coming in future updates). Spread the word, it is only going to get better. If you have an idea / suggestion you would like included in a future update, please visit https://crackedpixel.com/contact-us to let us know. Thanks!
Version 1.11 Update:
• Fix for rare crash getting detector's firmware version.
Version 1.10 Update:
• Support for new R4w detector.
• Added detector firmware version to the main alert screen.
• Added new firmware update notification to the main alert screen.
• Updated "detector settings" to work with the latest 136 firmware for R4.
• Updated "detector settings" to work with the latest 114 firmware for R4w.
• Enhancements to 'trip details' and 'alert log' to show total signal count.
Previous Updates:
• First major update to "SpotLock" system (location based lockouts) since its release.
• New and improved SpotLock 2.0 and Advanced False Assist 3.0. Both data driven systems have been updated using 4 years of historical data. This takes your detector to a whole new level of quietness and safety against real threats.
• 4 new mute types added to alert history log:
"User R4" for when the user presses the physical mute button.
"R4 Latch" to support Uniden's latch mute - when the detector is muted & the signal goes away & then re-occurs within a short period.
"User app" for when a user mutes the detector by taping on the phone screen during an active alert.
"Ka, K, X Timer" for when the detector is muted after the user's set amount of time.
• Added ability to erase POI, Ka & Laser Alerts from the map via the format button.
• Added ability to backup/restore all, or just backup SpotLocks, POI, and Ka and Laser Alerts individually.
• Added the option to have the radar detector's alert tones play through the app.
• The app will read your detector's settings for each signal type's alert tone (1-12) and use the associated alert tone within the app for alerts.
***TIP: Setting the main volume for the detector to 0 on the main alert screen and enabling the detector alert tones, will eliminate the brief audio "blips" you would normally hear when a mute command is first sent to the detector. Only potential threats will then trigger audio through your speaker or audio system providing an extremely quiet ride.
• Improved Bluetooth connection.
• New 'GPS Warmup' feature that keeps the detector quiet for a 'user set' number of seconds or until a GPS connection is established with your detector and/or iPhone. Useful for parking garages etc.
• Added ability to tun ON/OFF the function of SpotLocks automatically writing the location to your detector's "manual mute" memory when a locked SpotLock is created (This setting is found on the map screen).
• Added volume adjustment sliders for the detector's main and mute volume levels to the main alert screen.
• Added the ability view and change the R4 mode between Advanced, Highway, City and Auto to the main alert screen.
• Added a new R4 settings screen to modify some of the more popular R4 settings (more to come in future updates) including:
• All Threat ON/OFF
• K Blk 1 ON/OFF/WEAK/MUTE
• K Blk 2 ON/OFF/WEAK/MUTE
• Laser ON/OFF
• X Band ON/OFF
• K Band ON/OFF
• K Pop ON/OFF
• K Filter ON/OFF
• K Scans (Narrow, Wide, Extended)
• TSF ON/OFF
• Ka Band ON/OFF
• Ka Pop ON/OFF
• Ka Filter ON/OFF
• Ka Scans (Narrow, Wide, Segmented)
• Ka 1-9 Segs ON/OFF
• Auto Mute Volume ON/OFF
• Change Alert Display (#1, #2).
• Select Display Color
• Select Display Brightness
• Select Priority Band
• Auto Mute Memory ON/OFF
• Select Auto Mute Memory Bands
Ratings and Reviews
Good app
After using the radar alone and trying the this app with it I was amazed how it helps turn downs false signal on normal roads. I do have one feature or bug I still can’t figured out. The city over speed warning comes on even when I turn it pass 60. I want to go faster than 60 and it does it on the toll road too. I have to reset to factory settings to get rid of it. I hope they can tell me how I can turn it off or and fix the bug even when I’m on the highway with speed faster than 60.
Update: love this app as they provided instructions how to turn off the speed warning limit. 5star app!
Developer Response ,
Hi Duppyducky,
There is a setting in the app you need to change, simply go into your audio settings in the app (found at the bottom of the main alert screen). In the audio settings change the "limit speed" to be whatever you want. It defaults to 60. You can also just disable it if you don't want any warnings of going over speed. Please reconsider your rating once you have tried this setting out. Thanks!
Indispensable
It is difficult to imagine that this app works so well with just its default settings that it made me believe my R4 wasn’t working properly. The truth is, I was getting a vast number of false alerts that this app helped to mute - while
Keeping track in the log for later review.
The only thing I haven’t figured out how to do it to use the map function in the app to go back and mark certain spots as false alerts. You can mark the type of alert, but there doesn’t seem to be away to mark as a false alert. Otherwise perfect. The in app settings config for the R4 is very helpful too.
Developer Response ,
Hi Ryuk,
Sorry you haven't found all the value you are looking for. You will continue to get value add with all of the free updates that come out on a regular basis. Once you have purchased the app you get free updates for life. For example, the next update 1.02 will have the ability to customize over 35 of the detectors internal settings via the app. 1.02 will also feature over 8 new features/improvements. Many of our customers find it very worth the initial price, given the price also includes a lifetime of free updates. Many customers let us know what feature(s) they would like to see by writing us at https://crackedpixel.com/contact-us . We then prioritize and implement the features requested in upcoming releases. The app does work with CarPlay (announcements, audio ducking etc.). It just does not have a CarPlay specific app because of the restrictions Apple puts on such apps. As soon as Apple allows it, rest assured this app will support it as well. Please drop us a line and let us know what features you want to see to make it more worth your purchase and we will get it into a future update. Hopefully once you have more time with the app, and its future updates, you will find it worth the money, and update your review. Thanks!
Must have app for R4 owners
I typically don’t write reviews for apps, but since this is a paid app and an app that performs flawlessly, the developer deserves to have a positive review written. I would’ve paid $20 for this app. It allows you to adjust most settings that you would normally have to do on the R4 itself. Also, you can see many more details of what the R4 is detecting that the small display can’t show.
If I had one recommendation it would be to have a Landscape option that also flips the display so you could use it as a Head Up Display against the windshield. That would be awesome.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Angela Mcarthur
- Size
- 8.6 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2023 Cracked Pixel
- Price
- $7.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.