Wired Apple CarPlay choppy

[Logal727]

For me it happens with YouTube Music and Sirius, the only two apps I use for streaming in the car. I don't think it's an app issue.

The only other thing I can think of is some sort or radio interference, which I encounter when using Maps on CarPlay and the one is near the charging pad and the GPS acts up. If I move it out of the charging pad area, everything works fine. It could be you are streaming audio and it’s not downloading very fast over the cell connection due to interference. Try placing the phone on the dash behind the large sync screen area and restarting all the apps and seeing if that helps.

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[jrstinkfish]

The only other thing I can think of is some sort or radio interference, which I encounter when using Maps on CarPlay and the one is near the charging pad and the GPS acts up. If I move it out of the charging pad area, everything works fine. It could be you are streaming audio and it’s not downloading very fast over the cell connection due to interference. Try placing the phone on the dash behind the large sync screen area and restarting all the apps and seeing if that helps.

EDIT: Sorry, I thought this said Wireless Carplay was choppy. Though as it turns out, my wired Android Auto also cuts out for a second every few minutes, so the whole thing is hosed now


Thanks for the tips, but not sure those apply to my situation. My phone stays in my pocket, and Wireless AA has worked perfectly for a year now, up until this last set of OTAs. When it was happening when I first bought the car, I tried everything and just eventually gave up and stopped using wireless AA entirely, which was a drag.

I sat in my driveway earlier, phone connected to my wifi, while trying to time the glitch to see if it was a regular interval (it's not) and the same thing happened, so I know it's not an issue with slow data transfer. I even did the SYNC reboot, deleted the data from my AA app on my phone and re-paired, and still the same thing -- every 2 or 3 minutes, there's a short gap in the audio, regardless of what app I am streaming from. It sounds like a small thing, but it's annoying as hell and shouldn't be happening again.

The fact that it's happening to several people (at least those who are reporting it here) on Apple and Android after these latest OTAs seems to point to something that was fixed last year and then somehow dropped back in to the code. If it goes on much longer, just going to buy a dongle and not use the built-in wireless AA, avoid Ford's wireless hardware altogether.

 

[JohnnyForensic]

Does the same thing happen with Apple Music?

 

[Logal727]

EDIT: Sorry, I thought this said Wireless Carplay was choppy. Though as it turns out, my wired Android Auto also cuts out for a second every few minutes, so the whole thing is hosed now


Thanks for the tips, but not sure those apply to my situation. My phone stays in my pocket, and Wireless AA has worked perfectly for a year now, up until this last set of OTAs. When it was happening when I first bought the car, I tried everything and just eventually gave up and stopped using wireless AA entirely, which was a drag.

I sat in my driveway earlier, phone connected to my wifi, while trying to time the glitch to see if it was a regular interval (it's not) and the same thing happened, so I know it's not an issue with slow data transfer. I even did the SYNC reboot, deleted the data from my AA app on my phone and re-paired, and still the same thing -- every 2 or 3 minutes, there's a short gap in the audio, regardless of what app I am streaming from. It sounds like a small thing, but it's annoying as hell and shouldn't be happening again.

The fact that it's happening to several people (at least those who are reporting it here) on Apple and Android after these latest OTAs seems to point to something that was fixed last year and then somehow dropped back in to the code. If it goes on much longer, just going to buy a dongle and not use the built-in wireless AA, avoid Ford's wireless hardware altogether.

Weird stuff, haven't had these issues. Hopefully it gets fixed eventually.

 

[jchen14]

Does the same thing happen with Apple Music?

I don’t use Apple Music

 

[gryphon]

This is a very good trouble-shooting checklist:

How to Fix It When Apple CarPlay is Not Working (lifewire.com)

 

[lukew]

Wired carplay is also inferior for me. Culprit looks like bandwidth to me (thanks for the USB 2 on thousand dollar phones apple). If I change to the small carplay window, its OK. On the large version of carplay, trying to play music and show a moving map at the same time results in lots of video compression artifacts and stuttering audio.

I just wait for wireless to finish connecting, then plug my phone in to charge.

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