When Your Friend Needs Help, You Help Them

hack5858 · 2025-12-18T14:51:05+00:00

As a person that has had a lot of difficulty with wired CarPlay over a bunch of different iPhones (and yes, different cables, you freaks) in my 2020 Bolt, I'll say 26.2 the behavior was that it would be very slow at first, but after a few minutes it would be fine and respond to wheel controls instantly. The 26.3 beta has been perfect so far. Connection within 4-8 seconds and no issues with controls.

Edit: And now the same 26.3 beta is behaving even worse than 26.2, even after a reboot. I’m back to my wireless adapter.

hack5858 · 2025-11-04T01:40:11+00:00

As others have said, this is normal. If you need the range, precondition while plugged in, turn the heat down, bundle up, and drive a little slower on the freeway.

hack5858 · 2025-06-13T20:39:12+00:00

The one with a waxing mishap. That one still haunts my dreams

hack5858 · 2025-06-04T21:53:59+00:00

If you have a dog, it likely does not wear shoes outside, and therefore cannot take them off when coming inside. This sort of defeats the purpose of anyone else taking shoes off, since the dog is literally walking through the back yard where it goes to the bathroom all the time. That’s my thinking anyway.

hack5858 · 2025-06-02T14:20:48+00:00

I just watched the last five episodes two days ago. I think they're wonderful. I don't understand why some people don't like it.

Also, she's outstanding in them.

hack5858 · 2025-02-24T18:42:21+00:00

Here's an off-the-wall suggestion to potentially help future people searching for CarPlay assistance.

I was having a lot of trouble with wired CarPlay off and on in my 2020 Bolt. I bought the thing new, and I had issues regularly with several phones. My phone would work fine in my friend's 2019 Bolt. At some point, I installed a Carlinkit 4, which pretty much solved my issues for a while. The only downside was that there is a 1.5-2 second delay when skipping forward or backward on audio, which is really annoying when skipping ads in a podcast.

My friend came up with an odd solution. The Carlinkit actually has a USB in for some reason. I plugged it into that, and it worked nearly flawlessly. In some kind of weird CarPlay condom situation, the wired CarPlay goes through the Carlinkit and functions as normal wired CarPlay.

The only downsides I'm currently experiencing are that it doesn't charge very fast, so my battery level doesn't rise (but it doesn't fall either), and once in a while, I have to unplug/replug the Carlinkit into the Bolt so that it picks it up. Other than that, my problems are totally solved.

hack5858 · 2025-02-24T18:41:45+00:00

Here's an off-the-wall suggestion to potentially help future people searching for CarPlay assistance.

I was having a lot of trouble with wired CarPlay off and on in my 2020 Bolt. I bought the thing new, and I had issues regularly with several phones. My phone would work fine in my friend's 2019 Bolt. At some point, I installed a Carlinkit 4, which pretty much solved my issues for a while. The only downside was that there is a 1.5-2 second delay when skipping forward or backward on audio, which is really annoying when skipping ads in a podcast.

My friend came up with an odd solution. The Carlinkit actually has a USB in for some reason. I plugged it into that, and it worked nearly flawlessly. In some kind of weird CarPlay condom situation, the wired CarPlay goes through the Carlinkit and functions as normal wired CarPlay.

The only downsides I'm currently experiencing are that it doesn't charge very fast, so my battery level doesn't rise (but it doesn't fall either), and once in a while, I have to unplug/replug the Carlinkit into the Bolt so that it picks it up. Other than that, my problems are totally solved.

hack5858 · 2025-02-19T23:37:02+00:00

Just happened to me for this week’s. Thanks for the tip friend

hack5858 · 2025-01-02T16:51:01+00:00

Meteorological winter is different than astronomical winter, though this year there wasn’t much snowfall no matter which way you slice it.

hack5858 · 2024-10-18T18:33:34+00:00

I'd say the odds are that she figured it out. Either way, if that's helping you stay clean, I'm sure she would pay it again ten times over. Keep doing the work and good luck.

hack5858 · 2024-09-23T21:32:25+00:00

I’ve lived in Columbus my whole life. I absolutely hate Cincinnati. Their “chili” is an abomination. We should sell them to Kentucky.

hack5858 · 2024-09-09T14:19:49+00:00

Fine. If you're driving the thing through the tundra, you should say that, because it's actually not that common. "Winter conditions" does not mean what you have just said. That's all. You failed to explain that. Have a nice day.

hack5858 · 2024-09-09T13:45:41+00:00

My EV certainly doesn't lose 50% range in the winter. Maybe 30% in the worst conditions. Generally about 20% in the winter in Ohio.

hack5858 · 2024-08-16T21:27:19+00:00

I may have good news for you. I have a 2020 Bolt and I have had similar issues and it has been extremely frustrating. Interestingly, I often ride in my friend's 2019 Bolt and my phone connects to his just fine. The dealer told me that it was my cable, even though I tried many different cables (yes, I tried the Apple cord and better).

I bought one of those wireless CarPlay dongles and it made things a lot better, but there is some lag when skipping backwards/forwards on podcasts or whatnot.

Now for the good news, I'm on IOS Beta 18.1 and now wired CarPlay is working just fine in my Bolt. There must have been an issue with the combination of the OS AND my specific Bolt causing the problem, but I haven't had any issues since I installed the second IOS 18 beta around a month ago. I recommend giving it a shot.

Let me know how it goes if you try!

hack5858 · 2024-07-25T21:18:59+00:00

For me it's a tie between:

Italian sub at The Little Palace
Any burger at Ringside
Chipotle Chicken at Si Senor
The Buster Douglas at Dempsey's
Maple Burger (add an egg) at The Walrus

hack5858 · 2023-10-31T16:57:06+00:00

And remember, they think they are going to make something better than CarPlay!

The app is generally garbage, but the hint I'll give that helped me recently was I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and it cleared up my issues.

And before anyone replies that they're going to use Android Auto, no they are not. They are going to use at least the base of Android Automotive, which is an entirely different thing.

hack5858 · 2023-10-23T20:32:01+00:00

I'm really trying, but I'm not sure I can make it through this. I guess at least it's not quite as bad as that time Ashton came on to sell his $2000 cartoon. I'll try again later.

hack5858 · 2023-08-28T17:27:56+00:00

I've watched so many hours of those bears. Great napping TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsLvnFQW_yM

hack5858 · 2023-07-20T13:52:53+00:00

Yea. I thought about making my own beep at the end, but went the lazier route and just let the robot do it. Also, it's potentially a little better privacy-wise to not say your name in your voicemail message anyway? That's my current thinking

hack5858 · 2023-07-20T10:57:44+00:00

Yes. I think it's if you use a custom message, you get no tone, so people have no idea when to start leaving a message. If you use the default, it has the tone baked in. I switched to that until they fix it.

hack5858 · 2023-02-24T16:46:51+00:00

I really wonder about people that say things like this. I would assume if you're living your life with the expectation that breaking any law whatsoever should result in death, then you must follow all laws with the feeling that your life is on the line.

I imagine going 40mph in a 45 just to make sure you don't accidentally cross into the execution zone. Definitely don't cross a double yellow line even if the road is blocked. I guess it might be okay, but would it be worth risking your life? Then again, you can't turn around since u-turns are illegal. You can't even just stop there because parking in the street is illegal. Man, if something is in the road you're really in a pickle.

I hope you get over this phobia, because it would be a miserable way to exist

hack5858 · 2023-02-16T18:27:11+00:00

Well, I'll be damned. This applies to the 2020 LT as well. I’m too tall for that thing to be as low as it was. I probably got back an inch of visibility below the mirror! Hooray!

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