Troubleshooting - CarPC Forum

CarPC Dongle fails to boot and just shows constant Orange LED after booting.

Sokratis Panagiotopoulos — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:13:43 +0000

For past few week, I can't get Dongle to boot. I insert the Dongle to the USB in my car, I see it start with Blue LED, but then it turns Orange and stays there without changing back to Blue as it did before.

I checked the Dongle on my PC, I can access the drive and see the content, but it will not boot completely. Tried MirroiD and Vysor, still nothing.

I haven't updated it to the latest firmware 2.6.22, so wondering if that is causing the issue.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Surchauffe de carpc pro

CHAACHO — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:32:58 +0000

Bonjour mes amis,j'ai constaté que le carpc pro chauffe trop cet été,il devient brûlant,j'ai eu un message d'alerte et j'ai dû le débrancher pour qu'il refroidisse.Sinon j'ai toujours le problème de ne pas pouvoir le connecter avec le téléphone portable pour passer les appels .Est-ce que quelqu'un a pu le connecter au smartphone ?Merci

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Translation added: Hello my friends, I noticed that the carpc pro heats up too much this summer, it becomes burning, I had an alert message and I had to unplug it so that it cools down. Otherwise I still have the problem of not being able to connect it with the mobile phone to make calls. Has anyone been able to connect it to the smartphone? Thank you

Guiseppe's way to get his CarPC to connect

AP756 - Fred — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:00:40 +0000

Today I got a mail from Guiseppe. He had some trouble to run CarPC on his car. I just publish his mail as a very good example how users help users Thanks a lot Guiseppe for your mail.

Here is the slightly edited copy of his mail (unfortunately the pictures didn't transfer...):

Hi dear "Fred" i don't understand why, but I've been "banned" (once more!) on CarPC forum.

So I can't communicate on forum and I write to you to inform you about my experience:

As others here reported recently I had problems with connecting "android auto" of my CarPC and infotainment of my Skoda Kamiq. It worked perfectly for 10 months and then suddenly stopped working (unable to connect with the device anymore). A bit frustrated I kept the CarPC in its box for 4/5 months and then I updated OTA (with "Mirroid" on Win10 PC) to version 2.6.12. It worked for 3 days and then the same problem (unable to connect with device) happened! To eliminate any possible reason I took my car to the official Skoda service and they updated the infotainment system. But the CarPC still didn't connect. I was going crazy, there was no reason why "android auto" kept being blank.

I reconnected CarPC to "Mirroid" on the PC and initiated a factory reset. Just when CarPC wanted to restart (when the LEDs of the CarPC went off) I disconnected from the PC and connected to the car system. CarPC rebooted in the car (with the round yellow leds) and after a few minutes the car PC reconnected, "android auto" colored again and CarPC FINALLY WORKS! I don't know for how long but for now it connects!

If you have the same problems and cannot connect with "android auto", try deleting the "CarPC" device from "my devices" on the infotainment system and reconnecting the freshly reset CarPC.

I hope to be useful.

Thank you once again for the help you give on the forum.

Ciao

Guiseppe, we have to thank you for your report. Much appreciated.

Bye for now Fred

Google Play Services update

Poncet — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:17:03 +0000

Hi all, anyone having the same problem as I have : impossible to update Google Play Services

Any way to resolve this ?

Audio/Video out of sync CarPC Pro

Adam — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:17:27 +0000

Hello there,

I see one annoying issue across all FW versions.

I observe significant audio delay (count of sec) during video playback (VLC, MX Player). It seems audio and video track is completely out of sync.

Thanks!

Make calls with pccar

Moisés — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:46:53 +0000

Good morning. I have updated pccar with the latest version, everything seems to work fine but I still cannot make calls from pccar without entering the SIM...has this problem been resolved? Can you help me?

I NEED CLEAR HELP

Moisés — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:18:01 +0000

A few months ago my carpc arrived. At first I got it to work but there was a problem, my phone did not connect via Bluetooth to make calls, the only way to make calls was by inserting the SIM into the carpc itself.
I've had a nice paperweight on carpc for months, today I tried plugging it in to see if it would update, and if the problem was resolved. Now I can't get it to connect to the car, I don't know how to update it via OTA, I don't understand in the forum how to update it through PC... everything is a disaster from day one, months waiting for carpc to get a nice paperweight. The only developer tries to help and I appreciate all his time invested, but when I buy a device I hope I don't have to have extensive computer knowledge to make it work. I knew what I was risking when I started buying carpc but I never imagined the experience would be so disastrous.

4G Dongle - Android Auto fails to update to latest version

Sokratis Panagiotopoulos — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 14:38:04 +0000

Hi,

Did an app update today, and can't update Android Auto. It fails to update itself.

Tried to clear cache, clear data, force stop, reboot Dongle, same results.

Anyone had similar issue and able to get it updated? Is there any newer firmware for 4G Dongle than 2.5.18?

After Update carpc pro stopped working

Mahmoud Hassan — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:06:33 +0000

After Update carpc pro stopped working on my 2022 subaru. It was working fine for a month. Now when I start it up it stays on solid orange LED and never show up as connected on the screen. As if I never connected anything.

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Help request for multiple issues

CHAACHO — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:36:58 +0000

Good morning. I have just received my carpc and I have some problems. The time is not automatically set via GPS if I choose not to share mobile data from my smartphone. On play store there is always an update 'android auto which does not want to be installed. I downloaded the latest update for android auto but refuses to install. The version I have of the operating system is Android 9: 2.5.24. Is there a new version? And last question, the module heats up, is this normal? Thank you and have a good day.