Cockpit

Ten minutes with the bike parked, in this order. Tick as you go — the page remembers.

1. Open Zontes Smart on the phone.
2. Scan the QR code shown on the bike's display. That's the pairing handshake — you are not hunting for the bike in the phone's Wi-Fi list.
3. Once connected, download videos and photos straight to the phone.

If it won't connect, you're not doing it wrong. Zontes acknowledged app-to-vehicle connection problems in the German-speaking market as of early April 2025 — the app installs, then never finds the bike. Worth knowing before you spend an evening on it. Test it once, calmly, and if it fails, that's a dealer question, not a you question.

While it's unresolved, the footage still exists — it plays back on the TFT. What you lose is the file, which is the part the street-survey pipeline needs. If the app stays dead, a separate handlebar cam becomes the survey channel and the built-in one goes back to being insurance.

The goal on each handset: one switch that swaps the home screen to a big-target bike page, quiets everything except the people who matter, and gets out of the way. One tap on, one tap off.

iPhone — a Focus called Bike

1. Settings → Focus → +, choose Custom, name it Bike, give it amber and a car or bell icon so it's findable by colour.
2. People: allow calls from Favourites only, so Michael always rings through and nobody else does.
3. Apps: allow Maps and Zontes Smart. Silence the rest.
4. Customize Screens → Home Screen: switch on a custom page, and make that page hold only what you touch at a stop — this Cockpit, Zontes Smart, Maps, Camera, LINE.
5. Customize Screens → Lock Screen: pick the big-clock face. Legible at arm's length in sun.
6. The automatic trigger, when you have something to trigger on. Set a Schedule → Bluetooth, pointed at whatever the phone pairs with — an intercom when you buy one, or the bike itself if the 368G will pair. Until then leave this off and flip the Focus by hand; it is two taps.
7. Focus Filters → Add Filter → System Filters: add Dark Mode with Appearance set to Dark, so the phone goes night the moment Bike Mode starts, whatever the hour. Add Low Power Mode from the same list while you are there — both lift again when the Focus ends.

The manual toggle: swipe down for Control Centre, hold Focus, tap Bike. Two taps, gloves on.

vivo on Android 16 — take over Driving mode

Android 16 already ships a mode that switches itself on when the phone connects to a car's Bluetooth. Your helmet intercom is that Bluetooth. Rather than build one from nothing, take that one over — it arrives with the hard part already wired.

1. Find it without hunting. Open Settings and use the search box at the top — type Modes. Funtouch puts things where Google doesn't, and one search beats three wrong menus.
2. Modes → Driving → Set up Driving.
3. Leave the Bluetooth trigger for later. It wants a device to trigger on and there is not one yet — an intercom will do it, and it is worth checking whether the 368G itself will pair. Until then the tile is the switch.
4. Let starred contacts and repeat callers through — Michael always rings. Silence the rest.
5. Prefer it to say Bike? Modes → Add mode → Custom, name it, pick an icon. The icon sits in the status bar, so one glance tells you it's on. Worth doing anyway if Driving mode starts throwing map screens at you.

If there is no Modes entry at all, Funtouch is still on its own older version: Settings → Sound and Vibration → Do Not Disturb (it may read Focus Mode), plus the moon icon in Control Centre. Same job, fewer triggers — you'd switch it by hand.

The toggle: swipe down, edit the tiles, and drag the mode tile into the top row so it's the first thing under your thumb.

While you're in there — readable, and cheap on battery

• Font size and display size up a notch or two, and bold text on. Costs nothing and improves every app, Zontes Smart included.
• High contrast text under Accessibility, if daylight washes the screen out.
• Dark theme on, set to Always — not sunrise-to-sunset. Settings → Display → Dark theme. On an OLED panel a black pixel is an off pixel, so this is real range on a long ride, not a matter of taste.
• Brightness to manual, then only as high as you genuinely need to read it. Auto-brightness meters the sky rather than the screen, overshoots on a mount, and spends battery doing it.
• Extra dim (Accessibility → Display) drops below the normal minimum for night riding without touching contrast.
• Screen timeout to its longest setting, or the map sleeps at the lights.
• The bike page: Mot Dang, Zontes Smart, Maps, Camera, this Cockpit. Then drop the icon grid down a size so the icons come out bigger.

One asymmetry worth knowing: Mot Dang is an APK, so it lives on the Android only. On the iPhone, put the Mot Dang website on the home screen instead — same maps, same reporting, no install.

Put this page on both home screens

Android: browser menu → Add to Home screen. iPhone: Share → Add to Home Screen. It then opens without browser chrome, which buys back a strip of screen and stops a stray tap wandering into a tab.

• The southwest stays off the route. Not a one-off for the blessing run — a standing preference. Doi Kham, Ton Kwen, Chom Thong, Wat Sri Suphan and the 1269 Hang Dong road all sit in that quarter.
• Leave through Chang Phuak, the north gate. Lap the moat clockwise with the wall on your right (เวียนขวา wian khwa). Close the loop back through a north, east or west gate.
• Red plates (ป้ายแดง pâai daeng) mean daylight only, and inside Chiang Mai province.
• New tyres want roughly 100 km of ordinary road before mountain hairpins.
• August rain builds from early afternoon. Turn for home before it does.

First stop on any auspicious run stays Wat Chiang Yuen — the wat of auspicious arrival.

Stays on this phone. Nothing is sent anywhere.