Best way I’ve found to test it is to get a passenger to sit on your phone while you’re driving. If the GPS stops updating, CarPlay is using the phone GPS.
I haven't been able to figure out what "background" does, or maybe it's a bug and it's supposed to suppress it, but it just doesn't work.
I tried background, and it worked for me. I turned it off though, because I share the car with my wife. It did pop up a bunch of car play disconnected messages though, so maybe the behaviour depends on your head unit?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207092
Same here in my Chevy Colorado, functionality probably hit or miss based on vehicle and radio.
I use a cplay2air with an XAV-AX1000. The head unit *must* be on the older Sony 1.01 firmware. If it has the 1.2x Sony firmware my experience is that the head unit will just go into a reboot loop as soon as the cplay2air adapter is connected. That said, there are some issues: #1 - You can "Hey Siri <ask something>" in a single command and it works, but if you do any Siri requests that require "back and forth" it acts like the mic isn't working when you try to respond. So, "Hey Siri text so and so" prompts siri to ask "what do you want to say" .... but it will never pick up your response. Additionally, the mic doesn't work for phone calls. Other than those 2 (rather large - depending on your use case) issues, it has worked pretty well for me. I personally make due by switching to "speaker" on the phone if I have to make or receive a call, and using my apple watch for more complicated Siri commands that I can't ask in a single request. You can trick the Sony into downgrading the XAV firmware pretty easily if you get a copy of the 1.01 firmware and then rename the file so the Sony thinks it's one version ahead of what's currently on the unit, and by using a hex editor on the first 2 bytes of the file to set the "version" that is embedded there to also be one above whatever firmware version number is currently on the radio. For example, if you have 1.20 installed, you'd rename the 1.01 files to be 1.21, and change the first 2 bytes of the firmware from "01 01" to "01 21".
Thanks for that. That is most interesting. To think we actually upgraded the head unit firmware to latest in the mistaken belief it would be more likely to be supported! We should have tried it first!
When the app's location services is off. It should not able to use car's GPS either. That is the point of turning off location services.
What’s the Cplay2air fw version that works on XAV-AX1000? Tks to let me know.
My aftermarket Sony head unit XAV-AX5110 running 3.0 (then 3.21 on 2.2.2021) was not compatible with version 2020.12.10 as well as some previous and next firmwares. Could you share more details about your exp and your Sony head unit?
After rolling back to December, I decided to try an OTA update to 2021.02.02 today and it restored the use of the steering wheel controls in my 2020 Rav4. Now just need to get the custom firmware once available.
I'm currently on whatever the latest OTA firmware from CPLAY2AIR is, which is sometime in November 2020. I also tried rolling back to the August 2020 firmware at one point to see if it made any difference with the Mic issues but it did not. I haven't tried any of the newer (December '20, Jan '21, Feb '21) CarlinkKit firmware's yet but hope to have a chance within the next week or two. I intend to try them on the Sony 1.01 firmware since that's the one that works, but was also going to try them on the 1.2x Sony firmware to see if that started working, but it sounds like vosadrian (above) already tried them with the 1.2x and it still doesn't work, so may skip that attempt for the time being.
To be honest, Waze has been a crappy app lately. Prior to me getting my Acura in December I remember having issues with wired CarPlay and Waze on my Hyundai. Waze is even worse wired up to the CarPlay in the Acura. I'm probably going to move over to Google Maps soon. So I wouldn't necessarily blame the dongle if Waze keeps crapping out.
Glad it's not just me. Waze has been incredibly buggy for me the last few months. I'm about ready to switch back to Google or Apple.
Can you explain what background on setting does? Is it some kind of multitasking?
The adaptor will start without showing the connection screen. It waits until your phone finishes connecting before showing the display on your head unit display. Worked on my car, but seems to fail for others.
I created one way that I can use the cplay2air. It is not perfect, but it works. I used the ludwig 2021.01.28 firmware (Firmware) and I created a script that resets the cplay2air if it has a config. So, the cplay2air asks for a new config every time. How I said, it is not a good solution because i have to config the dongle every time, but I don't know another way I use it.
#!/bin/sh
# ver se o arquivo existe em etc/bluetooth/
if [ -f /etc/bluetooth/mybluetooth.tar.gz ]; then
# remover as configuracoes
rm -f /etc/bluetooth/mybluetooth.tar.gz
rm -f /etc/hichain/*
# criar um novo serial
echo `head /dev/urandom |md5sum |awk '{print $1}'` > /etc/device_serial
# sincronizar e reiniciar
(sync;sleep 1;reboot)&
fiSame here, and it keeps offering the same update, saying the update was successful, then still showing the old version.
