[Android Head-Units] WaLak17:
Hey!

Sorry it took me a few days, but I was out working.

CARPLAY TUTORIAL

DISCLAIMERS

- It has to be wired (so you need your lightning/usb c to usb a cable)

- Phone calls can make it buggy sometimes; just unplug/plug phone.

- Cannot use the car radio (can be replaced downloading a radio app)

- Cannot pass songs with your Steering wheel.

Rest work just fine

Things you need first.

- A windows laptop

- A forthing (works for mine, T5evo 360; the 360 cameras works without trouble, it changes between screen very smoothly)

- The carlinkit dongle to "force start" the Autolink.apk - I got this one. https://www.amazon.com//dp/B08FG3QTZ5/ . After a lot of research... there are units that are faster and better but this is the one you need to devices that do not have Carplay by factory settings. Maybe (or maybe not) there are better dongles (if you have another one; I don't see why not try this steps). But for now, this dongle is working for me and I don't have a lot of complains.

STEP 1 - ON YOUR CAR

- Go to your car, and Restore Factory Settings. DO NOT connect your phone to BLUETOOTH OR YOUR CAR WIFI

- Feel free to set up your Time zone and other settings

- Initiate your CAR HOTSPOT; you don't have (but you can) change your Hotspot name and password; to whatever you want to.

STEP 2 - LAPTOP

- On your Windows Laptop, connect to your CAR HOTSPOT with WiFi

- Then on your WiFi icon (the one that shows the connection...), click it, then right click on the hotspot/Wi-Fi connected and then click on Properties. There, you have to Locate your DNS SERVER IP Address. Write it somewhere.

- Download the autolink.apk here (this is the official apk address from the website: http://121.40.123.198:8080/autokit/autokit.apk (beware of Capital Letters on address).

- Then, download the AutolinkForthing.rar that I made for you guys; it contains a command made by me (all I did was modify a code found from alemonterotech that he used on Geely´s) and the adb files needed to install apk.

- Unrar the whole carpet into C:/. Unrar also the autolink.apk on the same Carpet (AutolinkForthing). So you should have 4 files on AutolinkForthing carpet (adb.exe, adbwinapi.dll, autolinktoforthing.cmd and autolink.apk). Once this is set up; start the CMD.

- Copy the IP Address once is asked for. Keep clicking continue until asked to install Autolink, write Y. It will take a few minutes and and a succesfull message should show up. Finish to read the instructions.

STEP 3

- After a few minutes; Turn off your car; Close it with your car keys (force it to restart the system, it takes like 30-45 seconds)

- Connect your dongle to your car, I rather plug it while off, you can leave it plugged all the time by then, turn your car on; check the box on the screen that pops out and accept.

- Connect your phone to your dongle. The dongle will now "force start" while your phone is connected to the CarPlay. If you want to access the autolink configuration, after the CarPlay starts; unplug your phone leaving your dongle connected; It will pop out a screen with a few configurations, including updating the APK and the BOX; beware to leave configuration on 30 FPS, otherwise will be forever stuck on black screen.

I things this is it; any questions or experiments you have on your own; beware that is all on your own risk. If your restore your car to factory car settings again; it will be like starting from scratch so be sure to have all your set up before doing so. I erased carbitlink app on my phone because I never liked it in the first place.

For now, I am happy using my carplay, works well on siri; now that I didnt connected the bluetooth or wifi to the car, is a lot less buggy so the only real turn down is that I cannot change songs with the steering wheel (for now) but I believe that there has to be a more compatible version for the autolink apk that allows it, or just wait for an update.