New apple CarPlay usb dongle for android headhunts and tablets.

[Maxim Kraev]

You asked for support. They don't offer any support to customers who bought from eBay.

They do not offer support even for customers who bought from official store, they will keep blaming you phone and you HU. Even you clearly demonstrated the stick issue with video of different phones and different HUs. knock-off will work of you not update it..,

 

[marchnz]

They do not offer support even for customers who bought from official store, they will keep blaming you phone and you HU. Even you clearly demonstrated the stick issue with video of different phones and different HUs. knock-off will work of you not update it..,

Rubbish support is standard across all of these knock off resellers.

I doubt the "official store" is anything other than a reseller.

 

[Maxim Kraev]

Rubbish support is standard across all of these knock off resellers.

In my case rubbish support is from the official store.

 

[Larzouz]

In my case rubbish support is from the manufacturer directly. As you are saying they are blaming my phone although I showed the problem on different phones

 

[Maxim Kraev]

fix for reboot issue https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidAuto/comments/l4nccu , Confirming uninstalling chrome update fixes the issue.

 

[Calvin.z34]

Hello, a quick google search got me to this form and i had to make this account.

I bought the carlinkit carplay adapter from Amazon and it hasn’t been very stable.

I am using a samsung tab a 10.1 2019 (t510). the only app i have got to work is the supplied app. Some older apps with firmwares i have installed still do not want to work. I have tried zbox, autoplaybox, etc.

Sometimes it will connect for one second then disconnect, sometimes it will play one song and end within the last 8-0 seconds left.

I need any supplied apps to be vertical compatible.

PS:
Yes its rooted, yes its above 4.4.4, and yes its an oem apple cable.

 

[Vischo-X]

Hello, a quick google search got me to this form and i had to make this account.

I bought the carlinkit carplay adapter from Amazon and it hasn’t been very stable.

I am using a samsung tab a 10.1 2019 (t510). the only app i have got to work is the supplied app. Some older apps with firmwares i have installed still do not want to work. I have tried zbox, autoplaybox, etc.

Sometimes it will connect for one second then disconnect, sometimes it will play one song and end within the last 8-0 seconds left.

I need any supplied apps to be vertical compatible.

PS:
Yes its rooted, yes its above 4.4.4, and yes its an oem apple cable.

I'm having the same problem with my Android 9 head unit and my iPhone. The problem is the dongle; just make this simple test, unplug it. I bet that your audio apps will no longer close. Plug it again and you'll see the problem back. I notified the manufacturer, recommended a couple of changes in the Autokit config, but neither resolved the problem, and they stopped replying -I even sent them a video showing this behavior. Apparently the only workaround will have to extend the usb to the center console in order to have it handy so I can plug and unplug the box when needed. Not very happy with that.

 

[Calvin.z34]

I'm having the same problem with my Android 9 head unit and my iPhone. The problem is the dongle; just make this simple test, unplug it. I bet that your audio apps will no longer close. Plug it again and you'll see the problem back. I notified the manufacturer, recommended a couple of changes in the Autokit config, but neither resolved the problem, and they stopped replying -I even sent them a video showing this behavior. Apparently the only workaround will have to extend the usb to the center console in order to have it handy so I can plug and unplug the box when needed. Not very happy with that.

So you also have the problem of your dongle disconnecting when listening to music from your phone? Was their any stable version that i can downgrade too? How about dongle firmware?

 

[Vischo-X]

So you also have the problem of your dongle disconnecting when listening to music from your phone? Was their any stable version that i can downgrade too? How about dongle firmware?

In the Autokit app config there's an option that redirects all audio through bluetooth, I think it goes something like "Audio channel (beta)" and the options are Bluetooth and Box. That option appears after you let it update; if you just install the apk in the address it will install an older version that doesn't offer that option, so if you updated and don't want it, just delete Autokit and install it again from the original link and don't update.
I enabled that audio channel option and that corrected the problem of showing you Carplay as an audio source in the phone during a call and setting it as default, but the audio from Apple Music or similar then goes through your iPhone speakers instead of the HU speakers.
The problem setting Carplay as audio source during a call, for me at least, was that the mic had something like 3-5% of the normal sensibility, the caller says that they hear me like underwater facing down lol, I thought maybe the box had a mic and couldn't hear me well as it's in the glove box, but my box is the one without mic. Looking at the phone, in the audio source I saw speaker, bluetooth -head unit- and Carplay, and Carplay was by default enabled, so for every call I had to pick the phone up, change the source to bt and only then I could sustain a normal conversation. That Audio Channel option resolved that, but instead created the problem of not redirecting the music to the head unit.
In the end I left that audio channel option in "box" and somehow my iPhone learned that I preferred to use bt instead of carplay as default and is working fine now. But I think it's a messy app, with very unclear options and after all not sorting out all the problems. For instance, for every call, the head unit's bt phone app will lay over carplay displaying that answer/hang up popup over the carplay call screen. When using carplay if I press the answer button in the steering wheel in order to display the call history, that bt phone app will take over, minimizing carplay, unless I'm actually answering a call, in which case it does what it expected. Probably Autokit requires more privileges in order to totally take over as it should, not sure, but when you have native carplay in your head unit the only way out is the exit button, all the rest is owned by carplay.
Well, at least now I have carplay, before buying the carlinkit I didn't, although not working as seamless as it does in enabled factory head units.

 

[Calvin.z34]

In the Autokit app config there's an option that redirects all audio through bluetooth, I think it goes something like "Audio channel (beta)" and the options are Bluetooth and Box. That option appears after you let it update; if you just install the apk in the address it will install an older version that doesn't offer that option, so if you updated and don't want it, just delete Autokit and install it again from the original link and don't update.
I enabled that audio channel option and that corrected the problem of showing you Carplay as an audio source in the phone during a call and setting it as default, but the audio from Apple Music or similar then goes through your iPhone speakers instead of the HU speakers.
The problem setting Carplay as audio source during a call, for me at least, was that the mic had something like 3-5% of the normal sensibility, the caller says that they hear me like underwater facing down lol, I thought maybe the box had a mic and couldn't hear me well as it's in the glove box, but my box is the one without mic. Looking at the phone, in the audio source I saw speaker, bluetooth -head unit- and Carplay, and Carplay was by default enabled, so for every call I had to pick the phone up, change the source to bt and only then I could sustain a normal conversation. That Audio Channel option resolved that, but instead created the problem of not redirecting the music to the head unit.
In the end I left that audio channel option in "box" and somehow my iPhone learned that I preferred to use bt instead of carplay as default and is working fine now. But I think it's a messy app, with very unclear options and after all not sorting out all the problems. For instance, for every call, the head unit's bt phone app will lay over carplay displaying that answer/hang up popup over the carplay call screen. When using carplay if I press the answer button in the steering wheel in order to display the call history, that bt phone app will take over, minimizing carplay, unless I'm actually answering a call, in which case it does what it expected. Probably Autokit requires more privileges in order to totally take over as it should, not sure, but when you have native carplay in your head unit the only way out is the exit button, all the rest is owned by carplay.
Well, at least now I have carplay, before buying the carlinkit I didn't, although not working as seamless as it does in enabled factory head units.

That’s not my problem.

My problem is when I use CarPlay, I play music through Apple Music and when a song ends/is about to end, the dongle decides it’s time to stop working and returns to the please insert product screen

 

[Vischo-X]

That’s not my problem.

My problem is when I use CarPlay, I play music through Apple Music and when a song ends/is about to end, the dongle decides it’s time to stop working and returns to the please insert product screen

That sounds a bit trickier. Let us know what do you find!

 

[Vischo-X]

That’s not my problem.

My problem is when I use CarPlay, I play music through Apple Music and when a song ends/is about to end, the dongle decides it’s time to stop working and returns to the please insert product screen

Have you already tried to switch to compatibility working mode and lowering the charging mode to weak instead of strong?

 

[Larzouz]

fix for reboot issue https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidAuto/comments/l4nccu , Confirming uninstalling chrome update fixes the issue.

I confirm this works for me.
no more reboot without chrome.

 

[jefbuan]

In the Autokit app config there's an option that redirects all audio through bluetooth, I think it goes something like "Audio channel (beta)" and the options are Bluetooth and Box. That option appears after you let it update; if you just install the apk in the address it will install an older version that doesn't offer that option, so if you updated and don't want it, just delete Autokit and install it again from the original link and don't update.
I enabled that audio channel option and that corrected the problem of showing you Carplay as an audio source in the phone during a call and setting it as default, but the audio from Apple Music or similar then goes through your iPhone speakers instead of the HU speakers.
The problem setting Carplay as audio source during a call, for me at least, was that the mic had something like 3-5% of the normal sensibility, the caller says that they hear me like underwater facing down lol, I thought maybe the box had a mic and couldn't hear me well as it's in the glove box, but my box is the one without mic. Looking at the phone, in the audio source I saw speaker, bluetooth -head unit- and Carplay, and Carplay was by default enabled, so for every call I had to pick the phone up, change the source to bt and only then I could sustain a normal conversation. That Audio Channel option resolved that, but instead created the problem of not redirecting the music to the head unit.
In the end I left that audio channel option in "box" and somehow my iPhone learned that I preferred to use bt instead of carplay as default and is working fine now. But I think it's a messy app, with very unclear options and after all not sorting out all the problems. For instance, for every call, the head unit's bt phone app will lay over carplay displaying that answer/hang up popup over the carplay call screen. When using carplay if I press the answer button in the steering wheel in order to display the call history, that bt phone app will take over, minimizing carplay, unless I'm actually answering a call, in which case it does what it expected. Probably Autokit requires more privileges in order to totally take over as it should, not sure, but when you have native carplay in your head unit the only way out is the exit button, all the rest is owned by carplay.
Well, at least now I have carplay, before buying the carlinkit I didn't, although not working as seamless as it does in enabled factory head units.

Hi , we have the same problem. calls through carplay had my callers complain , but when I press car's bt on my iphone , they stop complainig..also siri on carplay doesnt hear me well when im talking , whereas my google assistant app in my headunit works pretty well..I think the autollink app needs some tweaking

 

[joker_yss]

I confirm this works for me.
no more reboot without chrome.

I can confirm this as well on a PX30 unit. I was able to make mine work by disabling the Chrome app entirely. I didn't use Chrome anyway so doesn't hurt me.

I do have a question about Eplay/autokit app though. My android auto google maps never goes into dark mode which usually should happen at sunset or be controlled by the headlamp. I have the day/night set to auto in my Eplay app settings.

 

[Larzouz]

I can confirm this as well on a PX30 unit. I was able to make mine work by disabling the Chrome app entirely. I didn't use Chrome anyway so doesn't hurt me.

Support has shared an update of the dongle firmware that is supposed to fix the issue.
not yet available as in app upgrade yet

 

[yamate55]

Honestly I am just going to give up on using AA and just use HereWeGo navigation and spotify directly on my head unit I think the best course of action for anyone that wants an aftermarket Android Auto or Carplay solution is to use another dongle brand like Zlink / generic non brand and to not update them or just use a head unit with it built in like a Joying.

Carlinkit are clearly an awful company and autokit is terrible software.

I think the best solution of all though is to use a branded Pioneer, Sony, Alpine or Kenwood aftermarket head unit since a lot more care and attention will have been put into building them and even though they cost more, they will pay dividends since they are likely to have fewer bugs, will have an actual warranty and will offer third party support.

 

[lew26]

I gave up with the adapter I bought with my HU.
I would up with the software solution (android auto).

[Android 4.1+] HeadUnit Reloaded for Android Auto with Wifi

This Threader is a Spin-off of the original: [Android 4.1+] Headunit for Android Auto - 160117 - Self Mode+ other fixes, x86, 720p by the late :crying: @mikereidis. App links: https://www.b3itlabs.com/prod.php?id=1 PlayStore...

forum.xda-developers.com

It's a paid ($5) app. I'm using it with a USB connection. Works best with a short, quality cable.

I have no relationship with the product or author. It works reasonably well for me.

 

[Bob_Sanders]

Honestly I am just going to give up on using AA and just use HereWeGo navigation and spotify directly on my head unit I think the best course of action for anyone that wants an aftermarket Android Auto or Carplay solution is to use another dongle brand like Zlink / generic non brand and to not update them or just use a head unit with it built in like a Joying.

Carlinkit are clearly an awful company and autokit is terrible software.

I think the best solution of all though is to use a branded Pioneer, Sony, Alpine or Kenwood aftermarket head unit since a lot more care and attention will have been put into building them and even though they cost more, they will pay dividends since they are likely to have fewer bugs, will have an actual warranty and will offer third party support.

I have both a Pioneer and a Kenwood collecting dust in my basement. They are both good units and present fewer problems than the Chinese units do, but I prefer the Chinese units. They are more flexible, and you can do more with them.

If you want to run AA/carplay though, the branded units are the better deal. They OFFICIALLY support AA/carplay while the Chinese units do not so getting it working is more of a crap shoot than anything else

 

[beny28]

Hello guys!
Do you know, if is there any repository with old versions of Autokit and previous dogle's images?
I use Carplay rather than Android Auto.
The dongle has worked acceptable (it was crashing while incoming calls, from time to time), until I have updated in January. Now it can crash even when there is a music playback only. The strange thing is, it can works for a day or two without a crash, but when the problem occurs, it is happening a few times in a row (it disconnects, I am connecting it again, the system works for 2 minutes and is crashing again).
I use Allwinner R16 headunit with Android 6.0. Maybe it is better to buy a new HU on Android 10 and use TomTom, G Maps, Apple Music directly on the device