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

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

Robles — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:28:44 +0000

Por hablar, me ha aparecido la actualización 2.6.26 y he puesto el Android auto 14.0.651204 y a funcionar.

A tardado bastante en arrancar, pero todo OK

COMMENT: This is no English... I translated for you (using translate.google.com):

By the way, I got the 2.6.26 update, and I installed Android Auto 14.0.651204 and it's working.
It took a while to boot, but everything's fine.

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

CHAACHO — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:00:03 +0000

@oaks After trying versions 13.9 and 14 of Android Auto, the CarPC remains in a boot loop. Keep 13.8 while waiting for the major CarPC firmware update.

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

Robles — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:28:09 +0000

@mistermda cual estas utilizando ahora?

He probado la ultima version y se queda en bucle el inicio, y esa que pones tu no quiere instalarse.

English please (if you want to get an answer and want to help others):

@mistermda, which one are you using now?

I tried the latest version, and it keeps getting stuck on startup, and the one you installed won't install.

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

CHAACHO — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:06:23 +0000

Good evening, just a little reminder: the latest version of Android auto has just been released: 13.8.150744. I just tested it on my carpc pro and it works perfectly.

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

CHAACHO — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:37:24 +0000

Good evening dear friends, the latest version of Android auto is 13.7.650604 which I just installed 3 days ago and it works perfectly, no more reverse gear bug which reappeared with version 13.6. Good night

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

Sokratis Panagiotopoulos — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:47:12 +0000

@ap756-fred Much appreciated, got it installed.

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

AP756 - Fred — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:04:15 +0000

@sokrpan As you can read -here_ getting the latest copy of Android Auto apk (beta) seems to help a lot. The latest updates you can find _here_. Click on the latest file (usually the last one in the list), another window opens, scroll down (you can use the "Scroll to available downloads" shortcut), click on the first available version (should be for arm64-v8a) and then "download apk" a bit down on the page. As of today (11.02.2025) the latest version is 13.4.657214-release (134657214). Just beware of the numerous wrong download buttons which try to install other software...

Bye for now Fred

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

Sokratis Panagiotopoulos — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:41:11 +0000

@ap756-fred Thanks again. Question, what is "actual copy of Android Auto", is this sideloading the latest apk?

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

AP756 - Fred — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:52:08 +0000

@sokrpan Good news, thanks for letting us know. And most likely you are correct, Android Auto seems to be an "unstable way" (because they change whenever they like) to operate any dongle. As others found out installing the actual copy of Android Auto over the fixed version helps at least for now.

Bye for now Fred

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

Sokratis Panagiotopoulos — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:19:22 +0000

@ap756-fred Ok seems it is working again and got it updated to latest OTA. I assume Android Auto not updating is the known issue we faced few times before, right?