gromaudio

We do not plan on updating VT1 with wireless CarPlay. You may use Wireless dongle from Carlinkit. It should be fully compatible with VT1.

hypervish

That's disappointing - what was the reason for not bringing this to Vlite?

Earffman

I recently bought an sd card from you with an upgrade to android 8.1. Following the attached instructions, I downloaded Vline Update to version V2VL1.1.11. The file is downloaded, the device reboots, but when Recovery Mode is turned on, ERROR is written. The item for updating to Android 8.1 also does not appear. What should I do? I will say in advance, a reset to the factory installations, and the installation of Gapps was performed when a problem was detected. But that did not change the situation.

bob256k

@earffman You need to file a ticket with @gromaudio support directly . They are very very rarely on these forums, so I do not think they will see your issue .

Earffman

Dear forum users , i have new observation. After resetting the settings that I did on the advice of the GromAudio service, in an attempt to understand why my device is not updating (they still could not understand), I installed the same media players and the same music sources. But the sound is greatly distorted? comes to a wheezing sound. The cassette player in my Lexus LX470 sounds an order of magnitude better. What could be the problem? Who faced this. Previously, the sound was on top.

crazy_vag

On my IS350, my wife uses the Wireless Carplay, while I use the stock Android features - since I've got a Google Pixel phone. Anyway, the wireless Carplay is great. I even set it to automatically start for her. However, I've ran into a one limitation (not present with wired Carplay): Wireless Carplay - when active - turns off WiFi.

What this means for me is that I'm not able to use stock Google Maps. I'm also now 100% reliant on my wife running the navigation from her phone which is not something I want to do. This mostly happens when wife wants to play her music from her phone.

Is this limitation something that can be worked around in the future?

Neles

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It's a limitation on how wireless carplay implementation works.

baviaannl

Anyone else running the LEX5 system with the wireless car play installed? I noticed soon after that the system wasn't shutting down, used the car one night and the following morning I left for work and was suprised that the system didn't have to boot up!

Contacted Grom support although when I told them I have the LEX5 they said this was norrmal behaviour and part of the new update. I asked whether this would hit the battery and they told me it would have no affect although I'm a little dubious.

I've had 2 flat batteries since, although I'm not 100% sure its the GROM system to blame, first instance I left an OBD scanner plugged in and powered up so it wasn'tmuch of a suprise. A week later I also had a flat battery although I'm not sure I gave the battery a sufficient charge after it went flat as the LCD on the charger is corrupt.

Anyone else had any issues, good or bad?

Dave5150

The only issue I have with wireless Carplay is that my iPhone tends to "hang on" to the connection when I arrive home and head into the house, since it's still close enough for the wifi to reach. So my phone won't connect to my home wifi because of it, and the audio won't work. I have to manually turn CarPlay off in settings each time. Grom says there's a fix for that coming so when the ignition is turned off so is the CarPlay. Hopefully that comes soon.

BillNick

I also have LEX5 VL2 in my IS250.

Couple of weeks ago I updated to get the wireless car play. Worked great as I sat there and tried after installing. Turned the car off, went indoors.

Next time I used my car and ever since, the unit is not working. I have just stripes on the screen. I can’t even get into recovery mode.

Im also suspicious it’s now draining my battery too as had 2 flats. The 2nd being just 3 days after charging my battery back up from the first time.

GROM have much to answer for with this update. I’m still awaiting a solution from their support team.

GyumDoong

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I definitely think the Vline's the culprit in the battery drain. I had about 3 flats in the last 2 weeks and finally decided to hook up the multimeter to check for parasitic draw. After about 5 min of shutting down the vehicle my multimeter was reading about 150mA, and as soon as I unplug the cable for Vline, it drops to about 30mA. Mine's 2006 IS350 but can't imagine the power draw being too different from ISF

@gromaudio Is this a known issue and is this being looked at? Getting sick of jumping my car every 2 days

baviaannl

It is 100% the Vline... Disconnected the power lead and the battery has been perfect ever since. Been meaning to contact them although got caught up with other things and I guess they have no support at the weekends. If you're reading this @gromaudio can you advise please? Not happy about having a £500 system disconnected for fear of running down my battery!

popz3210

I had a similar issue a few updates back, sound distortion. I thought it was a hardware issue after I performed a reset and update. Nothing helped, then one day an update fixed the sound... Now I'm afraid to update again in fear the issue may come back. Must be some weird software sound issue with the OS.

KYLS

I opened a ticket with GROM on this early today, for I have also been experiencing battery drain issues for the last few weeks. They initially responded,Then responded to my follow-up question on how I can test it myself with,I must say they were quick to respond to the ticket, and seemed to be aware of the problem.

My units are all now at latest; VCore: V2OVL3.19.0.0 VBase: 20.56 (L24). Time will tell if the issue is resolved. From GROM's response, I'm concluding that there are newer hardware batches of VL2 units that did not experience this, but that is only a guess on my part. I recently replace the Interstate battery in my LS460L, for it refused to charge beyond 9v after the second deep discharge that occurred because of this.

What would be the easiest way to test the draw? Previously I would watch the GPS antenna LED as an indicator the unit was in sleep, but I was still having battery issues even with that going out after a few minutes delay (as expected). I suspect I need a way to probe the power harness with a multimeter. If the power harness plug/socket is a standard part then I'd like to build one with an inline power switch and points on the power line(s) where a multimeter could be attached. Thoughts? Seems like something GROM could source and sell, but perhaps they would see that as an admission that they have a QC issue. Regardless, I would like to have a way to check power draw after every update, and although I know I can test draw on the entire circuit at the fuse, I'd prefer a way to test it for just the VL2. It is in the glove box and easily accessed.

Neles

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I had the same issue listening to music through wireless carplay. I adjusted the volume back and forth (from 100 to 90 then back to 100) and now the issue is gone lol. Been good for a couple days. Besides this, wireless carplay is great!.