Car Play Issue

[Kjs33233]

Had the car for a week or so, Car Play was fine and today on the ride home, plugged in and won’t wont.

Connection good
Reset phone
Software up to date

What gives?

 

[Truck Norris]

Sure the connection is good? I bought a 90 degree USB cord and noticed after sitting for a bit on the drive the plug end of the cord would marginally flex and I would loose all connection for Android Auto even though the cord was plugged in. Also. The cord is a cheap piece of crap I am finding out.

 

[Kjs33233]

Sure the connection is good? I bought a 90 degree USB cord and noticed after sitting for a bit on the drive the plug end of the cord would marginally flex and I would loose all connection for Android Auto even though the cord was plugged in. Also. The cord is a cheap piece of crap I am finding out.

If it shows the phone as charging you think it would be good?

 

[Truck Norris]

Yeah I would think that would mean it's good. I'll check tomorrow if mine looses connection and still shows charging.

 

[joschneider]

If it shows the phone as charging you think it would be good?

It would really help if you could provide more info. What do you mean by it doesn’t work? Is there a CarPlay icon on your screen? Does your phone say CarPlay on it while plugged in? Anything else you could give us to help troubleshoot?

 

[Kjs33233]

Yeah I would think that would mean it's good. I'll check tomorrow if mine looses connection and still shows charging.

Tried a different cord for the heck of it and it worked. Problem solved.

That cord must be okay enough to charge but not to fully connect.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Mcc]

Yeah I would think that would mean it's good. I'll check tomorrow if mine looses connection and still shows charging.

A better although still not conclusive test would be to try to stream music (not CarPlay) from your phone through the cable to the car.

 

[Kjs33233]

It would really help if you could provide more info. What do you mean by it doesn’t work? Is there a CarPlay icon on your screen? Does your phone say CarPlay on it while plugged in? Anything else you could give us to help troubleshoot?

All good now. Car Play logo wouldn’t turn green, basically wouldn’t connect.

New cord and connected right away.

 

[Kjs33233]

While we are here, you can’t use car Play with Bluetooth on the Genesis, correct?

 

[Truck Norris]

No wireless connection. Has to be wired unfortunately.

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[Mcc]

Tried a different cord for the heck of it and it worked. Problem solved.

That cord must be okay enough to charge but not to fully connect.

Thanks for the help!

USB cables have 4pins
1 +5 VDC
2. Data -
3 Data +
4 Ground

So you can see it is possible for you to charge while not having a data connection.

 

[Kjs33233]

USB cables have 4pins
1 +5 VDC
2. Data -
3 Data +
4 Ground

So you can see it is possible for you to charge while not having a data connection.

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

After messing around with the cable again, I realized even the power would go on and off. Also, if you flip it to one side, didn’t work at all.

It’s now in the trash

 

[FLnak]

I've had the same thing happen with third party iphone lightning cables.... they just seem to stop working randomly. The original apple ones are more consistent until the portion where the cable meets the connector begins to fall apart. Just keep plenty of lightning cables handy.

 

[Mcc]

I've had the same thing happen with third party iphone lightning cables.... they just seem to stop working randomly. The original apple ones are more consistent until the portion where the cable meets the connector begins to fall apart. Just keep plenty of lightning cables handy.

I recommend Anker lightening cables. Less expensive than Apple and much better built.

 

[farandaway]

USB cord is always the #1 source of problem when carplay or android auto doesn't work all of a sudden