Wireless chargers with android auto

[Rwilmoth]

I'm wanting to purchase a nice wireless car charger (either a vent mount or a pad that goes in the nook under the radio) for my phone since I'll be using a lot of GPS until I get the hang of navigating the city to my new job. If I were to plug the wireless charging dock to the USB port in the car would the phone work with android auto while charging?

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[SCOPESYS]

I'm wanting to purchase a nice wireless car charger (either a vent mount or a pad that goes in the nook under the radio) for my phone since I'll be using a lot of GPS until I get the hang of navigating the city to my new job. If I were to plug the wireless charging dock to the USB port in the car would the phone work with android auto while charging?

I am talking Android Phone here, and AA, No experience with IOS Apple phones.

Simple Answer:

I am almost 100% sure NO ( I have never tried it so cannot be 100% sure)

Detailed Answer with reasoning:

The 2018 & 2019 Civic need a USB connection for AA to work .. they do not support AA wireless (I believe).

A non-Honda Wireless Charge just gets POWER from the USB or 12v socket.
The Honda Wireless charge is hard wired into the cars electrical system, and does NOT use the USB socket or the 12v power socket,
There is no Data connection to the phone via the Charger., even if it is plugged into the USB port.

So, you will need to plug your Phone into the Honda's USB port to get the Data exchange between your phone and the Honda head unit, for AA to work

Since you have to plug the phone in to make the USB connection, when you do, it will charge, so there is little point in having a Wireless Charger.

It could however be used to charge a 2nd phone, (Passenger's phone)

Because of this, I have never understood the need to install the Wireless Charger.

Am I missing something ????

 

[Rwilmoth]

That sounds reasonable to me. I was hoping the wireless charger plugged into the USB port would somehow magically send the android auto signal over to the phone. Guess I'll save that $50 since I'll be plugging it in anyway.

 

[SCOPESYS]

That sounds reasonable to me. I was hoping the wireless charger plugged into the USB port would somehow magically send the android auto signal over to the phone. Guess I'll save that $50 since I'll be plugging it in anyway.

That would be my advice, at least unless someone can tell you for sure that somehow "Magically" it will work.

If the Honda HU had supported WIreless AA, ( as well as your smartphone) then the Wireless charge would be a valid option.

Ironically for non Honda OEM head Unit that do not natively support Android Auto (ie most if not all of the fast, but cheap China units) there is an APP that can be loaded on them called "HeadUnit Reloaded" that does support both USB and WIreless AA connection, but that is not even an option for the Locked down Honda Units, unless you Honda Hack them.

I have run "HeadUnit Reloaded" on my Maxima with a China HU, and it does work, but opted to go a different route and not use AA is the traditional way, but rather just run everything directly on the capably fast head unit.

 

[Axatax]

I wonder why Honda sells a wireless charger but they don't support wireless AA or Carplay?

What's the point of this exactly if you still need to connect a cable? Any phone that you're going to want to charge wirelessly is also a phone that has AA or Carplay.

 

[SCOPESYS]

I wonder why Honda sells a wireless charger but they don't support wireless AA or Carplay?

What's the point of this exactly if you still need to connect a cable? Any phone that you're going to want to charge wirelessly is also a phone that has AA or Carplay.

I wonder why Honda do a lot of things.

If you just want to use just Bluetooth, then the Wireless charger will keep your phone charged.

 

[lightthief]

I wonder why Honda sells a wireless charger but they don't support wireless AA or Carplay?

What's the point of this exactly if you still need to connect a cable? Any phone that you're going to want to charge wirelessly is also a phone that has AA or Carplay.

To date only 2 or 3 cars have actually shipped with wireless CarPlay. A Ferrari, a BMW, and a few other expensive cars announced.

Wireless Android Auto was only announced the middle of last year and zero cars have it built in, with none announced that I’m aware of, though I don’t follow Android News too closely.

Keep in mind that cars are designed on a 5 year cycle, and then have small interations on that platform for another another 3-5 years. That’s how far back you should be looking for tech to be integrated into a car.

The pace that phones iterate is just a lot faster than cars are until there is some major shift in how cars are made.

You can see it in the phone holding/charging area.
It’s already too small for most phones people own now. In the time between the development of the car and it shipping that changed but it was too late to go back and carve out extra inches in that area smoothly.

So Honda May decide to include something today but you won’t see it for 5 years and then we’ll want whatever it is that is new then

 

[wireless520]

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