Motorola MA1

[erem]

On 5/13/2024 at 1:48 PM, miks said:

 ive ordered carlinkit 5.0 to solve this and if that wount help i have AAwireless next on list.

Good to hear. My corolla is late 2023 w/new multimedia, so it would be nice to hear from you if you succeded or failed with carlinkit. Let us know and good luck

[miks]

On 5/15/2024 at 6:18 PM, erem said:

Good to hear. My corolla is late 2023 w/new multimedia, so it would be nice to hear from you if you succeded or failed with carlinkit. Let us know and good luck

yesterday the dongle arrived. setup was basically plug and play. everything works out of the box. all i did was made car to forget my bluetooth phone before plugging dongle in.

time will tell if there is any glitches or misbihavior

[Roy124]

@miks  I like the heater steering wheel switch where you can see it.

[erem]

On 5/17/2024 at 8:41 AM, miks said:

yesterday the dongle arrived. setup was basically plug and play. everything works out of the box.

time will tell if there is any glitches or misbihavior

F

Good for you :)

The unit seems smaller than I expectwd. Looking forward to hearing from you in a couple of weeks... If it's gonna be ok I'm the next in the queue.

[miks]

14 hours ago, erem said:

Good for you 🙂

The unit seems smaller than I expectwd. Looking forward to hearing from you in a couple of weeks... If it's gonna be ok I'm the next in the queue.

im driving the car daily and am super happy with that dongle. it stats up fast, no misbehavior, no disconnects. works perfectly. i get waze and spotify in splitscreen whenever i enter the vehicle and music auto starts without need to press anything

[erem]

13 hours ago, miks said:

... no misbehavior, no disconnects. works perfectly.

So its time to order one. Hopping that corolla cross '24 has same gen multimedia as corolla '23. It coud be since there are no differences between corolla '23 an '24. Could you please let me know full name and code number of carlinkit of yours?

[Corolly Poly]

31 minutes ago, erem said:

So its time to order one. Hopping that corolla cross '24 has same gen multimedia as corolla '23. It coud be since there are no differences between corolla '23 an '24. Could you please let me know full name and code number of carlinkit of yours?

There are differences between 23 and 24 Corolla. Wireless Android Auto is  new on the 24.

[miks]

56 minutes ago, erem said:

So its time to order one. Hopping that corolla cross '24 has same gen multimedia as corolla '23. It coud be since there are no differences between corolla '23 an '24. Could you please let me know full name and code number of carlinkit of yours?

i have "carlinkit 5.0". bought it locally for 50eur.

Ive heard people also have good experience with AAWireless brand dongle

[erem]

49 minutes ago, Corolly Poly said:

There are differences between 23 and 24 Corolla. Wireless Android Auto is  new on the 24.

My bad. I meant c.cross

[erem]

Carlinkit 5.0 ordered, arrived, installed. Pairing was really plug & play and I was so happy! Right after the pairing I headed home, roughly 40km. AA with two maps and spotify. It worked smoothly only 30 min to stop abruptly. Phone killed AA and 16 other apps because of overheatingt (!). I was lucky to repeat the installation later home, but with some major problems. Right after it started working again I turnd the car off and on, but Carlinkid didn't reconnect. 

I did some more tries, but with more and more problems with each consecutive try. It looked like car multimedia learned to reject (uncompatible) device. I know, I know, there is no AI in toyota, but... who knows? Joking 🙂

I also did some tweaking, have firmware updated, nothing helped. So after all I decided to return the device. This tool is not for me, I have to live with cable 😞

It looks that there is something in that toyota corolla is not on the AA compatibility list...

https://www.android.com/auto/compatibility/#compatibility-vehicles

[Paul john]

32 minutes ago, erem said:

Carlinkit 5.0 ordered, arrived, installed. Pairing was really plug & play and I was so happy! Right after the pairing I headed home, roughly 40km. AA with two maps and spotify. It worked smoothly only 30 min to stop abruptly. Phone killed AA and 16 other apps because of overheatingt (!). I was lucky to repeat the installation later home, but with some major problems. Right after it started working again I turnd the car off and on, but Carlinkid didn't reconnect. 

I did some more tries, but with more and more problems with each consecutive try. It looked like car multimedia learned to reject (uncompatible) device. I know, I know, there is no AI in toyota, but... who knows? Joking 🙂

I also did some tweaking, have firmware updated, nothing helped. So after all I decided to return the device. This tool is not for me, I have to live with cable 😞

It looks that there is something in that toyota corolla is not on the AA compatibility list...

https://www.android.com/auto/compatibility/#compatibility-vehicles

Did you go to the settings of the carlinkit?

you can change the auto negotiation of the carlinkit to lock it to either aa or acp. That stops false or rejected connections

to get to the advanced settings on an iPhone you go to 192.168.50.2 when connected to the kit.

on an android you need to download the app from their website.

i have been using carlinkit 5 for a year now.

one thing i have found is dont get into an update frenzy. Unless you really need to dont update once you have found the revision that works in your car and turn off autoupdating. 

[erem]

14 hours ago, Paul john said:

Did you go to the settings of the carlinkit?

 

Yes, I did it and it changed nothing. As far as I know (from the net) it is "hit and miss" business with all this dongles. What works for you may not work for me. And it doesn't, actually 😞. 

[miks]

On 5/31/2024 at 2:53 PM, erem said:

Yes, I did it and it changed nothing. As far as I know (from the net) it is "hit and miss" business with all this dongles. What works for you may not work for me. And it doesn't, actually 😞. 

what phone was that?

you still have at leas one decent option to try  - https://www.aawireless.io/

or you can wait for v.2 from them later this year https://www.aawireless.io/article/aawireless-2-to-be-released-this-year

 

[erem]

11 hours ago, miks said:

what phone was that?

 

I got Samsung Galaxy S20 ultra. Quite decent phone. Works fine in any environment but this one. Yeah, I've heard AAwireless is an alternative, thinking of it. Thx for the hint.

[Msantan]

Hi there,

I have a Motorola MA1 for more than a year. It worked like a charm in my Volkswagen Tiguan, but now in my Toyota Highlander it just worked when I manually connect the phone (Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra) with the car. It never connected automatically. It seems to me that Toyota Smart Connect initiates the bluetooth but is not accepting connections during the initial seconds, so the phone try to connect, and when failed, it doesn't try again...

The solution I found was forcing the connection with an app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gonext.bluetoothpair), which keep trying up to 5 times in intelvals of 15-20 seconds before giving up. Now I can have wireless AA easily every time I jump into my car within 30 seconds from the starts.

I hope these lines could help other desperate users like me, who are reading multiple threads looking for a working solution. Well this was mine 😉

Cheers

[erem]

On 7/15/2024 at 11:43 PM, Msantan said:

Hi there,

I have a Motorola MA1 for more than a year. It worked like a charm in my Volkswagen Tiguan, but now in my Toyota Highlander it just worked when I manually connect the phone (Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra) with the car. It never connected automatically. It seems to me that Toyota Smart Connect initiates the Bluetooth but is not accepting connections during the initial seconds, so the phone try to connect, and when failed, it doesn't try again...

The solution I found was forcing the connection with an app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gonext.bluetoothpair), which keep trying up to 5 times in intelvals of 15-20 seconds before giving up. Now I can have wireless AA easily every time I jump into my car within 30 seconds from the starts.

I hope these lines could help other desperate users like me, who are reading multiple threads looking for a working solution. Well this was mine 😉

Cheers

Good for you 🙂. I think I'll try maybe after the upcoming software update. Several bugs were found and (maybe) recovered, perhaps one responsible for this mess.

[Paul john]

On 7/15/2024 at 10:43 PM, Msantan said:

Hi there,

I have a Motorola MA1 for more than a year. It worked like a charm in my Volkswagen Tiguan, but now in my Toyota Highlander it just worked when I manually connect the phone (Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra) with the car. It never connected automatically. It seems to me that Toyota Smart Connect initiates the Bluetooth but is not accepting connections during the initial seconds, so the phone try to connect, and when failed, it doesn't try again...

The solution I found was forcing the connection with an app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gonext.bluetoothpair), which keep trying up to 5 times in intelvals of 15-20 seconds before giving up. Now I can have wireless AA easily every time I jump into my car within 30 seconds from the starts.

I hope these lines could help other desperate users like me, who are reading multiple threads looking for a working solution. Well this was mine 😉

Cheers

Not rated well at 2.7 for functionality that is built in for freeee

[Paul john]

On 5/21/2024 at 6:02 AM, miks said:

im driving the car daily and am super happy with that dongle. it stats up fast, no misbehavior, no disconnects. works perfectly. i get waze and spotify in splitscreen whenever i enter the vehicle and music auto starts without need to press anything

Been using that unit for some time now