Identifying and resetting a wireless car play adapter

[Freakuk]

Probably a long shot.

I've just purchased a 2nd hand car that the previous owner (my best man) had installed a wireless car play adapter. Now I've paired my phone via the adapter and all is working well. However, there's about 8 mobile phone profiles displayed while it goes through the pairing process when you start the car.

I've not been able to find anything within the cars ICE to delete profiles etc, so I assume these must be stored within the wireless dongle???

He's been unable to find any instructions for said dongle but he did say he bought it from Amazon. I've had a look at the dongle and there is nothing on the unit to give me a clue who manufactured it, but I've found a link to what I think is the same one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-CarPlay-Adapter-...

I spent some time googling reset/firmware updates etc and it sounds like this can be done on some, but again I have no instructions.

Can anyone help?

[Truckosaurus]

It might just be a case of unplugging the dongle and leaving it long enough so it runs out of power and forgets the previous connections.

But how long that will take is anyone's guess.

[Spare tyre]

My experience with this sort of stuff is it’s great until it’s not

I had a situation where I was driving abroad, so using waze as a sat nav in somewhere like central Munich. Stopped to get fuel, jumped back in the car and it just wouldn’t work

Had to get off the forecourt onto a busy road, lots of being distracted trying to get it to work

If I’d have had a cable to plug in it would have been a lot simpler



Unplug for a while and start again

I’ve also found telling the phone to forget the connection to the car can also help, cheers

[Pickled Piper]

Have you tried the manufacturer's website?

My experience is that they need a firmware update from time to time. It may be better to ditch it and buy a known brand. I have a CarLin. It works well. However, I keep a lead in the car just in case it does fail then I can plug in directly.

[Freakuk]

Pickled Piper said:

Have you tried the manufacturer's website?

My experience is that they need a firmware update from time to time. It may be better to ditch it and buy a known brand. I have a CarLin. It works well. However, I keep a lead in the car just in case it does fail then I can plug in directly.

Problem is it was already fitted to the car and there's no branding on the unit, I bought the car off a friend who even sent me the Amazon order for it, but that has no information on who makes it either.

[Scrump]

If you watch the long video in that amazon link it shows the ip address to enter to get into the device settings.

[Cylon2007]

If the dongle was bought of Amazon the order will be in your friends Amazon order history - should be able to find the details from there surely?

[Freakuk]

Had another look and through a process of elimination I've managed to find the IP address, there's no settings other than audio quality, delay and full reset. Did a full reset and that seems to have sorted it... Cheers all.