Mirrorlink doesn't work

[Chris603]

Hey guys,

first sorry for my bad english, I'm not a native speaker

My new Sony XAV-602BT moniciever can not connect to my Xperia Z Ultra (Newest Lollipop Update). When I plug-in my phone with a usb-cable, and start the mirrorlink-mode in my radio, my XAV-602BT only shows a loading circle with a dark backround. Even after 5 minutes nothing happens. On my phone there pop up a link in the statusbar: "Connect to headunit"(Translated from german to english, don't know, if this is the orig. Error in english language). If If I click on it, my statusbar shows me shortly "connected to headunit", and the loading-circle in my radio stops for a moment, but then then it continues. In my statusbar is no (persistant??) message like "Connected to head-unit"?!

Btw, even before I click on "Connecting to headunit"(and after that), my phone goes in landscape-mode and locked it.

I tried to start mirrorlink manually in the settings, but my phone only says "Mirrorlink will start soon". Also I tried to change the network adress in the mirrorlink settings, but that had no effect.

I hope anyone has an idea, what problem I have, and maybe somebody has an idea to solve it. Maybe someone had/has the same problem?

Kind regards,

Christoph

[Chris603]

Goord morning

Actually, my Xperia Z Ultra can not connect to my Carradio with MirrorLink. It seems, this is caused by my unlocked bootloader an the persistant deleted DRM-Keys, which I didn't backed up, because no one told me, thar MirrorLink would'nt work after that 

If I understand @Rickard well, I'll never get MirrorLink with the Sony-Firmware working, so I should try to search for a CustomRom, which supports MirrorLink by itself. So I searched a couple of time with google, but got no result. It seems, no CustomRom have this feature, or at least no dev meantions this in his posts.

So it would be great, if anyone here knows, which CustomRom supports MirrorLink, or at least, if there is in general a Rom, which features this.

Kind regards,

Christoph

[Uliwooly]

@Rickard

Thank you Rickard.

[Uliwooly]

@Chris603

Check the XDA forum, but in the mean time, have you considered using Chromecast?

[Chris603]

@uliwooly

But a chromecast won't work with the XAV-602BT. I don't no much about chromecast, but they are connect with HDMI, right? Mirrorlink is using USB

I think I will try some Roms, maybe one of them supports mirrorlink. This should'nt take so much time, the ZU has not many Roms

[Uliwooly]

@Chris603

Yes indeed, sorry, but you might want to check the XDA forum, there might be a way around this.

[Chris603]

Today I tried many Custom Roms, also the DRM-Restoration-Mod - Nothing worked. With a Custom Rom, my radio only says "USB-device is not compatible". I even can't use it as usb-drive.

However,  I think I'll buy a locked Z3C from a friend for 100€. 

Sony has to update their Unblock-Instructions, so that no other users run in this issue! 

But if someone has an idea, how to fix this, or knows a working Rom/watch, please tell me! I'll buy the phone only in 1-2 weeks.

But anyway, thanks for your help guys! With your help I found at least the cause of my problem :smileysmileythumbsup:

[Uliwooly]

@Chris603

100euros for a Z3C, that's a great deal.

[Chris603]

Yes, but the front and back are broken, also the headphone jack is'nt working. But if I only use this phone as navigator, I don't need this things

[Uliwooly]

@Chris603

The back shouldn't be an issue, the front screen can be repaired quite simple, and perhaps if you buy a 3.5mm jack module too. 

[SharkN]

this my thread also problem with mirrorlink
#http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z-Ultra/Mirrorlink-connectivity-problem-after-upgrade-to-14-4-A...

i've also unlockbootloader from day one, but before upgrade to the latest official rom, i'm using official 14.3.A.0.757 to connect to my xplod in car visual XAV-741. mirrorlink connectivity working, i can mirror my Waze apps to my in XAV741, but after upgrade to 14.4.A.0.108 it's keep give me error "USB Error". i not been able to use mirrorlink anymore. my XAV741 also have the latest firmware JR08_xav_1.13.003 . since that update until yesterday latest firmware 14.6.A.1.236 i can't connect XAV-741 to my Xperia Z ultra