Apple CarPlay occasional connection issue

[sportse]

Thanks for the replies.

It’s not really acceptable for Honda to sell a car that you can’t drive for 30 seconds sometimes as you are waiting for it to boot up before setting the infotainment.

Once every six months ok, but not happening weekly or more.

[Kremmen]

I actually don't mind.

I like to get settled and the headunit delay is no big issue for me. It's usually well on it's way by the time I've turned RDMS off.

Since my latest Android phone AA update it does seem to be kicking in quicker.

[sportse]

I had two passengers and boot luggage last week, we were all seated and belted up waiting for the infotainment unit to finish starting before we could drive away.

It’s not an issue I’ve heard of with other cars, so seems to be just Honda having these problems.

[guest9814]

Today had carplay disconnected when I drive, at that time I not used navigation in car play or music, instead I choose honda fuel economy meters on infotainment screen.
 Carplay connection back only after stopping at safe place and power off and on car, now when I think about that sometimes I simply can’t stop to do that, and Honda not giving to driver’s possibilities to reboot infotainment on the go.
That mean that I need to have 2 independent navigation devices in car, Android Auto in such condition when it’s disconnects have connecting back automatically.

[sportse]

Yes, I have my phone on the dash mount so that when CarPlay fails I can switch the cable from the usb data port to the power port and use the phone screen instead of the infotainment screen.

The phone is set for hands free voice control so I don’t need to touch it.

It’s not really very good that I have to do this in a brand new car. More what you would expect in an old banger.

[Kremmen]

Given they you have Carplay delays and headunit delays have you tried powering up with nothing plugged into the active USB port ? See if the headunit bootup speeds up and more reliably.

I'm thinking back to a Civic post where an incompatible USB stick caused bootup issues.

[sportse]

Given they you have Carplay delays and headunit delays have you tried powering up with nothing plugged into the active USB port ? See if the headunit bootup speeds up and more reliably.

I'm thinking back to a Civic post where an incompatible USB stick caused bootup issues.

Yes, sadly the boot up delays are all with nothing plugged in yet.

I wait until the main menu is on the screen before plugging anything in.

It also did it when I had wireless CarPlay running too, so looks like the issues are with the car.

[sportse]

Honda have just released an infotainment software update last week apparently that includes the black screen issue.

Mine is being updated later this week, hopefully it will sort the issue.

[Kremmen]

Fingers crossed.

It would be nice to find out what Honda think is the issue, just for info.

[sportse]

Apparently the black screen issue is only one part of the update, there are some other bigger issues around WiFi, foreign language, etc.

[Kremmen]

What would be the icing is the same software as the HRV so we could link a phone to the Garmin element and get the 'Internet Traffic'.

Whilst Google Maps works OK it would be nice to have a choice.

[sportse]

I’ve checked the cars own inbuilt software update function and it’s reporting that there is no update/it’s up to date - looks like the software update is dealer only.

They say it will take 30 minutes to update.

[Kremmen]

There are quite a few service bulletins that quote "only to be performed if the customer complains".

This could be one that falls into that category.

[dfconnolly]

There are quite a few service bulletins that quote "only to be performed if the customer complains".

This could be one that falls into that category.

……or the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it category”!

Be interesting to see folks reporting back after the alleged update has been completed

[Kremmen]

I'm sure you'll keep us posted