Apple CarPlay & Phone Charging

[ShirwynW]

Just took delivery of my SV Trophy LR and I cannot for the life of me get it to connect to Apple CarPlay. Also can’t get it to charge my phone via the ports or wireless charging mat.

It is a brand new vehicle and wondering if there is a setting to enable these features.

All tips welcome! Thanks

 

[Susanna]

AFAIK there’s no setting to enable CarPlay, mine just worked from the outset. Ditto the phone charging. I have a Carlinkit device, so I don’t need to keep plugging/unplugging my phone.

 

[Andrew Sinclair]

Apologies if this is obvious but the Apple CarPlay must be connected galvanically via USB, there is no Bluetooth/WLAN CarPlay connection. Which means, at least for me the wireless charging isn’t useful because I am always connected by USB to activate CarPlay and hence it charges as well via USB.

 

[fred12345]

Just took delivery of my SV Trophy LR and I cannot for the life of me get it to connect to Apple CarPlay. Also can’t get it to charge my phone via the ports or wireless charging mat.

1. You must use decent USB cable to connect the phone to the car. The car decides what is decent, not you or Apple - so you have to try a few different ones until it connects. I had to try 4-5 diffrent cables ...
2. Only one USB port can be used for CarPlay, bigger one on the right. When it connects, all you do is click on CarPlay icon on the car home screen.
3. Can you charge your phone on another wireless charger at home?
4. Assuming your phone wireless charging works, move your phone a bit left-right-up-down until you find where the wireless charge point on the mat is. Try all over the place. If that doesn't work, remove any thick phone case, try again.

With these new cars, you need to read instruction manual over and over, there is so much to learn compared to older cars ...

Also, use "search" to look for anything you might want to know about as most issues were covered already on this forum and you'll get answers you need much faster.

 

[Andrew Sinclair]

Having read this thread I wondered why I hadn’t bought a ApplePlay wireless dongle before now.

So I bought on of these today to try it out and it is great. Now I just pop my iPhone onto the wireless charging pad if it needs a charge, if it doesn’t I leave it in my pocket and just start the car and magically CarPlay appears.

It is a shame that this very useful bit of technology wasn’t integrated into the production vehicle.

I am not connected with Amazon and I am sure they can be bought everywhere.

 

[DBedford]

I have found that the charging mat in the ZS TLR needs any fitted phone case to be removed as the install rubber mat is pushing the limit regards charging over a gap.

 

[fred12345]

I have found that the charging mat in the ZS TLR needs any fitted phone case to be removed as the install rubber mat is pushing the limit regards charging over a gap.

mine charges with silicone case on, gets fairly warm but it works...

 

[Susanna]

My phone charges fine with a leather case on.

 

[P3DRO]

AFAIK there’s no setting to enable CarPlay, mine just worked from the outset. Ditto the phone charging. I have a Carlinkit device, so I don’t need to keep plugging/unplugging my phone.

Hi Susanna, I have installed the Carlinkit and it's great, The only thing tho is it doesn't come on straight away when I get in and start the car. I need to unplug/ plug the USB. Is there a setting somewhere I am missing? Thanks in advance Pedro

 

[Susanna]

@Pedro.
Carlinkit works better if you set a delay of, say, 20 seconds. You can find this in the settings page. This gives the infotainment time to boot up before the Carlinkit starts. I hope this helps.

 

[P3DRO]

@Pedro.
Carlinkit works better if you set a delay of, say, 20 seconds. You can find this in the settings page. This gives the infotainment time to boot up before the Carlinkit starts. I hope this helps.

Thank you, I will give it a go

 

[fred12345]

Hi Susanna, I have installed the Carlinkit and it's great, The only thing tho is it doesn't come on straight away when I get in and start the car. I need to unplug/ plug the USB. Is there a setting somewhere I am missing? Thanks in advance Pedro

Same with mine on Android Auto - when it happens, not much of a problem to quickly unplug/plug back ... It's most likely due to the phone being confused what to connect to - the car or the dongle ... it never starts immediately, delay is due to phone and dongle Bluetooth working their thing, not the car.

 

[P3DRO]

Same with mine on Android Auto - when it happens, not much of a problem to quickly unplug/plug back ... It's most likely due to the phone being confused what to connect to - the car or the dongle ... it never starts immediately, delay is due to phone and dongle Bluetooth working their thing, not the car.

Susanna was spot on the delay works , saves the quick unplug / plug back and you can keep your phone in your pocket ?. This involved going into settings. Subsequently, you should launch the mobile browser and navigate to the IP address 192.168. 50.2. Cheers Pedro