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Pixelated infotainment screen using Waze

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I used CarPlay to use Waze driving today. Noticed halfway there that screen became pixelated. Could this be do to Bluetooth connection? When I rebooted it, the screen was fine.
 
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CarPlay uses a wired connection (on CR-Vs anyway), not Bluetooth, though your phone may be paired using BT while also using CP.
A search of this forum will reveal a lot of complaints similar to yours, far more than with Android Auto.
But @JB in AZ 's suggestion may be the problem.
 
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If it does not happen repeatedly... then chalk it up to some random software glitch somewhere. If it persists and repeats.... time to visit the dealer.

The downside to all the electronic features and bells and whistles in these modern vehicles is that they all have their own software and I can state for absolute fact that there is no such thing as bug free, glitch free, software. Some may be worse or better than others, but they all are going to trigger some sort of malfunction or software exception at some point in time.

Having dealt with software engineers for many years in my career.. they generally follow a different mindset from hardware engineers... as they see any bug escapes as "no big deal" as they can simply patch out a bug and release a new software update to fix it. Problem is.. this slack and lazy approach to software quality does not work particularly well with most modern automobiles yet. In essence.. I find that software engineers tend to use "the field" as their debug QA team much more so than hardware engineers do.

A complicating factor for Honda and other manufacturers is almost all electronic systems they put into their modern vehicles are actually outsourced to other suppliers now days. Honda provides the specifications, acceptance criteria, and Service Level requirements for such systems.. but it is actually some 3rd party software chimps somewhere writing the code... NOT Honda.

Think of it this way... when your PC at home glitches on you.. the prescribed fix is to reboot it, then check the Event Manager to see what errors took place prior to the reboot to see if anything really nasty or persistent shows up. The same is true of our modern vehicles with literally dozens of different little computers all using different sensors and software to perform the features Honda intended, which is why a simple shut down and restart clears a wide range of little strange issues that can and do pop up.
 
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Am I just imagining this.. or does Waze seem to have more glitches and issues under CarPlay than other apps? It just seems from discussions here in the forum that Waze suffers more "squirrel attacks" on it's functionality. Maybe this is just due to it's popularity though... more squirrels means more opportunity for squirrel attacks. :)

I honestly believe Waze to be the source of some of these issues. It can be incredibly difficult for a software app to account for every possible variation of phone and vehicle paring that might take place in the field.
 
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Waze does seem to be more popular than, say, Google Maps. One reason may be it consumes less mobile data (.2MB as opposed to .6MB pr hour), though I don't know if most users are even aware of this.
As you say, more users, more complaints.
 
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I am forced to have an Iphone for work. So I have experienced what you describe once. I just chalked it up to a glitch somewhere. A couple times I had the whole system crash (Shut off and not turn on until I turned off the car for a couple minutes and turn back on) which was more disturbing. I have also had CarPlay refuse to recognize my phone at all. Even though it was connected. This has happened the most often at 3 times or so in the year I have been driving it. Had to restart the head unit via the settings menu to get it to work again.
 
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It worked fine coming home so I suppose there was a glitch in the matrix. A friend has the Accord Hybrid and I can see how much better that is(no pixels, clear picture and no warm up times. Hopefully if CRV Hybrids are still selling(dealer said I was one of their first customers this year(?), Honda will revamp this for the EX next go around. I will say there is a lot of "stuff" on the dashboard (not infotainment center) that seems wasted and more icons than people care about. Not many people actually read the whole car manual.
 
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