Carlinkit CP2A CarPlay to Android Auto Adapter, 2-in-1 Wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto Dongle, Esay to Hide, Stable Connetion, Work with USB-A/Type-C Port (New Generation)

I had a horrendous time to get my new Carlinkit 4.0 2023 model to start up for my Audi 2018 Q7. Dropped a mail to customer support but no response for 12 hours so started doing some research. It just would not startup the CarPlay prompt on connecting the dongle. Finally after some thinking and plenty of research it connected and is now working like a dream. That’s why I took off a star. And gave 4/5 for bad setup instructions else the product is a 5 star. Update: it’s working now beautifully! The instructions are really poor on how to make a connection. I am leaving some details for anyone else with a AudiQ7 CarPlay who faces an issue to connect carlinkit 4.0 2023 model. 1) when you connect the dongle to your USB and the red light indicator goes on but nothing happens to your car screen interface to show a CarPlay prompt (which is where I was stuck at) take the following steps 2) turn on your wifi on iphone and look for a new wifi connection. Weirdly enough it was showing as Volkswagen C2 on my iPhone wifi settings. Rest were familiar ones. So I connected to Volkswagen C2 and it asked for password. I entered 12345678 (got this on some research) and it worked. 3) that was it ! The green light start blinking on the carlinkit 4.0 dongle and Audi MMI display showed a prompt to connect and activate a new CarPlay connection. I said yes and agree. 4) then the screen gave me a name AUDIMMI to detect in my Bluetooth settings which I did and my iphone 14 pro max was instantly connected wirelessly to a seamless and almost no latency CarPlay. 5) I am happy this worked! But carlinkit guys if you are listening - you need to have clearer instructions or a page on your website where car owners can select their model to learn how to connect. Your bad setup instructions took away the fun out of an awesome device.

Try to do every thing before returning it but no luck

I can’t say I understand how this works or why, but the bottom line is that it does. You plug it in to the USB port, it does some witchcraft on the screen (clearly this is Chinese) you connect your phone via blue tooth and boom! You have wireless CarPlay. The only negative I’ve found is that when talking on phone calls I’m told the sound quality is poor and choppy at times, otherwise maps and music work great. It’s crashed once or twice in the last 4 Months but it’s really been pretty good.

It works great

Glitching with Apple CarPlay

Product was easy to setup, and that's where the positives end. Once it is connected, takes about 30 seconds to establish Android auto with my Pixel 6 Pro, it displays my maps app and plays my Pandora. Trying to enter in any locations, there is about a 1 second delay that can only be reduced to 300ms, not really an improvement as it is still infuriating when trying to enter in a road name, an artist, or similar. I figured I would just consider this processing delay. But whenever I am listening to just audio, I will regularly have audio dropouts at least once a minute, and more so if my phone is trying to look for a Wi-Fi signal. So I reached out to their support on their webpage store. Since it wasn't purchased from their store, they direct you to their main website, sure, fine, whatever. Since I had just updated it within the last month of contacting their support, I figured there shouldn't be too much difficulty. Nope. They want me to do a new update, change the frames per second and bit rate of the device which they don't document very well if at all, and the audio dropouts and severe response delays are still present. TLDR, this is not a complete product and should not be released by the manufacturer. I had purchased another Android auto device, works faster, no delay, no bizarre setups required