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On GM cars it's pretty easy to disconnect the OnStar antenna. I don't know what that does to the built-in GPS, but my answer is only buy a car with CarPlay.
by rootusrootus 2y ago
On GM cars it's pretty easy to disconnect the OnStar antenna. I don't know what that does to the built-in GPS, but my answer is only buy a car with CarPlay.
- qup 2y agoI'm going to do this soon to my GM truck. There's a YouTube video that details the process for my exact model. Unfortunately, it's a fair bit of work.
- pmontra 2y agoWhy do you need CarPlay or Android Auto? I'm using my car without any of them and it's perfectly fine. I get calls with Bluetooth and I can play music with Bluetooth too, both from a Samsung and an iPhone. I navigate by looking at my phone on a holder close to the wheel. The screen of the car is further to the right.
- rootusrootus 2y agoI have a different use case. I use voice controls to reply to text messages. And it has to work with iMessage destinations that are not a phone number. I am unaware of any built-in infotainment system that can handle that. Tesla certainly cannot, as one data point. Trying to get voice control to work reliably over bluetooth has never been anything but a laggy mess for me. A well implemented CarPlay implementation (even GM...) is way better.
- inahga 2y agoI've found on some cars (i.e. Jeeps), disconnecting the antenna is insufficient. It just lowers the range of the cellular modem. If you get close enough to a cell tower it'll still find a connection to the mothership. In my case I had to open the radio and physically remove the cellular modem. Which was thankfully on its own removable module.