Does Carplay in the Civic just suck? Worth replacing?

[TheCanadian]

Its an iPhone 8+ w/ iOS 13.3.

I had some freezes on my headunit when using an iPhone X and IIS 13.X. I've had no issues on IOS 14.0.1 with my X. The iPhone 8 and X have the same internals too.

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[longthaitran91]

Its an iPhone 8+ w/ iOS 13.3.

Reset your phone once every few days. I drive uber eats and run youtube in the background and anytime I pause the video and unplug my iphone 8. youtube would crash when its paused in the background. Apple carplay also runs slow when you don't reset your phone over a few weeks. Resets fixes all my issues. So there might be a ram garbage collection issue wtih the iphone 8. I now reset my phone before I start my workday so my phone doesn't run into memory management issues

 

[VarmintCong]

Reset your phone once every few days. I drive uber eats and run youtube in the background and anytime I pause the video and unplug my iphone 8. youtube would crash when its paused in the background. Apple carplay also runs slow when you don't reset your phone over a few weeks. Resets fixes all my issues. So there might be a ram garbage collection issue wtih the iphone 8. I now reset my phone before I start my workday so my phone doesn't run into memory management issues

Thanks, does it need to be the hard reset procedure or just power it off and back on? Not sure there's a difference.

 

[longthaitran91]

Power off and on

 

[izzyC-EX]

Hey guys, just want to help out. I have a 2020 also and had a crappy experience with CarPlay. I found a handful of 2020 owners seem to have issues with CarPlay integration on there new cars. I'm thinking a batch of head units was not properly setup from the factory. I put together a video on simply how to reboot and even reset your head unit from factory. Also I think its important to punch in your headunit code if it asks after a hard reset. It will take away your current settings but this stabilize my CarPlay. Check out my other videos also for tips on Honda Hack, Wireless Carplay, etc...

 

[XLR8TOR]

Hey guys, just want to help out. I have a 2020 also and had a crappy experience with CarPlay. I found a handful of 2020 owners seem to have issues with CarPlay integration on there new cars. I'm thinking a batch of head units was not properly setup from the factory. I put together a video on simply how to reboot and even reset your head unit from factory. Also I think its important to punch in your headunit code if it asks after a hard reset. It will take away your current settings but this stabilize my CarPlay. Check out my other videos also for tips on Honda Hack, Wireless Carplay, etc...

Nice video!

 

[kperalta]

Its an iPhone 8+ w/ iOS 13.3.

Yeah it's just a carplay issue, replacing the radio wouldn't fix anything and you can't even on an Si.

 

[Fountainhead]

I have an iPhone Xs and since the day I got the car-over various iOS versions, Carplay hangs the entire radio-it's random and sometimes i'll have to wait for a long redlight and turn the car off and on again before it straightens itself out. Other times I just unplug the phone and do a running reboot. Hmmm, running iOS on top of Android, bitter rivals, what could go wrong? I then bought an iPhone 6 to leave in the car for music only. I put latest OS on it and it also hangs constantly. All I do is listen to music. This radio is slow and the SOC barely gets the job done, jusssssttt enough to avoid lemon complaints.

 

[longthaitran91]

I have an iPhone Xs and since the day I got the car-over various iOS versions, Carplay hangs the entire radio-it's random and sometimes i'll have to wait for a long redlight and turn the car off and on again before it straightens itself out. Other times I just unplug the phone and do a running reboot. Hmmm, running iOS on top of Android, bitter rivals, what could go wrong? I then bought an iPhone 6 to leave in the car for music only. I put latest OS on it and it also hangs constantly. All I do is listen to music. This radio is slow and the SOC barely gets the job done, jusssssttt enough to avoid lemon complaints.

Sadly nearly all Apple CarPlay compatible units is built on Android. But the main fault of this is really Honda. The os on the head unit is Android 4. That os came out 2012-2013. Idk why they used such an old os in 2016-2017 when Android 7 was out at the time.

 

[Fountainhead]

Sadly nearly all Apple CarPlay compatible units is built on Android. But the main fault of this is really Honda. The os on the head unit is Android 4. That os came out 2012-2013. Idk why they used such an old os in 2016-2017 when Android 7 was out at the time.

Because cheap I guess.....

 

[VarmintCong]

Sadly nearly all Apple CarPlay compatible units is built on Android. But the main fault of this is really Honda. The os on the head unit is Android 4. That os came out 2012-2013. Idk why they used such an old os in 2016-2017 when Android 7 was out at the time.

Cause DOS wasn't available?

 

[longthaitran91]

Because cheap I guess.....

With the hardware and software Honda put in the radio, my best guess how much honda pays the BoM for the head unit would be $50-100 possibly with the software written by 1 person that is forced to add carplay to use it's existing surplus 9th gen head units honda couldn't get rid of

 

[Fountainhead]

With the hardware and software Honda put in the radio, my best guess how much honda pays the BoM for the head unit would be $50-100 possibly with the software written by 1 person that is forced to add carplay to use it's existing surplus 9th gen head units honda couldn't get rid of

Yeah and I bet it's the slowest cheapest SOC that will do the job. Probably an old MediaTek that barely runs the Navi AND the rest of the radio...I bet you they aren't even leveraging the GPU in the thing.

 

[mbpbo]

What is this wireless dongle you speak of?

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