AutelAP 200 fail!!

All tells Maxi app AP200 app apparently is not working across the boards and some kind of Android 11 update apparently this is affecting people across the spectrum of devices doesn't look like it's a device problem It's an Android problem so if you update or have updated your software and it's not working if you can revert to the old which can probably can't do you're screwed basically my white AP200 is a brick as of right now the AP 2500 works but it has no brake bleeding capability and other things so it's just a piece of well trash I guess anyway I do have Toyotas software so it's not a huge issue for me but just letting any of y'all know if you haven't seen it yet and maybe issues.

 

Yeah I can't get the software to open on my Android 11 phone which is the phone I started with the AP200 with some update from Windows 11 is screwed that up apparently everybody on the site is noting that I don't have a windows option I don't think well I won't see my Bluetooth computer from the car I don't think I can get it close enough for the windows My phone yes I guess I need to try to put the autel on the tech stream computer

 

Yeah that's what autel. Said on the phone of course that's what you always do with anything computer remove and reinstall it It was all working fine until their Android 11 update of some sort I didn't even notice it come in Don't really care. Just interesting that this thing is bricked and it's not even 60 days old but that's cool this is typical marketing in America today this is what we get this is what we settle for I have the Toyota software so not a big deal was just easier not to have to drag a laptop out thank God I haven't wasted my time with the 808 or at 900 series or any of that because that's a disaster waiting to happen subscription shit and all that mess. But I do have a Windows tablet just an 8 GB piece of junk I'll try to put the software on it and see if that will make a difference I'm sure it will run in windows but I'm not doubting at all because if they can't get that basic part down they can't sell anything. But I did find it portable windows doodad that I have so that could possibly work Just a real pain that it doesn't work on the phone which is what it was purchased for.

 

I did the download and redownload on the phone but I kept the 109 MB file because it looks like I may not be able to get that back if they screw me around I'd like to see the software that you downloaded from the alltel site for Windows I downloaded the Maxi something diagnostic software for my Windows 10 tablet and it is on there and it opens and it tells me that it can't see my AP200 but yet in my Bluetooth menu the AP200 with my serial number is showing and paired alltel is telling me that the AP200 should not work in Windows at all I told them I thought one of my people on the chat was using just that but I don't know this for a fact and don't really care I just want my device unbrick and working like it was when I took it out of the package The green light comes on everything is happening it's paired to my phone the Maxi app will not open it goes from the small icon on the desktop if you will and largest to full screen and drops back down to the icon immediately like it can't be red or can open or whatever and so that's where we are with this I asked the dude directly at all tell is my device bricked have you turned it off screwed it up done something because you don't like my last name or I stuck it in too many cars or what he said No it can't do that That's not a thing I said well I got this brick sitting right here that I need you to get straightened out before the new year buddy You know what I mean I'm not blaming you but my God I'm talking to you jockeying a desk and you have to go talk to the team and then they have to all powwow it's turning into a real jigga mess so this is why I was skeptical about buying from this company thank God this is a $63 device and not a thousand plus you know because that's how these companies do you this is the way of the modern purchasing experience in our country now buffoonery.

 

Yes the AP200 just Bluetooth to your phone which has the Maxi AP200 app on it and hopefully open and then 109 MB green file automatically opens with the AP200 app so you can bleed brakes and do all things Toyota It does not need to be online so if your phone is not connected to the internet you can still Bluetooth to the AP200 plugged into your OBD2 port and still use the software because it doesn't have to be online I don't think it's not using any data when I was using it before out of the box It didn't seem to need anything because I had the data file for the Toyota which I selected at purchased or it set up and then the maxi app on the device and I don't have another Android device like to try the app on apparently by looking online they did some kind of Android 11 update and everybody's been screwed since or many people have been screwed since basic bricks.

 

When the app opens in Android 11 or whatever or opened in 10 like it did a few weeks ago I always had to log in I think I put my email address in the password that I selected and it won't remember it the stupid thing and then hit go and that's that I don't think it has to be online per se but maybe so and how you're making this work and windows 11 the company says predominantly not possible I have it loaded on Windows 11 tablet and I can open the alltel Maxi app or whatever this business of theirs I'm using but. My Bluetooth is on on the Windows tablet My CAP device is seen in Bluetooth and is paired that's part of the serial number of the stupid AP200 but on the tablet the Maxi app can't see the Bluetooth AP200 it just sits there and I think it's a red window that says you're not connected to your Bluetooth device but it's paired to my windows and I see it in the Bluetooth devices so there's always that but it looks like it could work. But yeah every time even the AP2500 when I open that app you have to sign you know the first thing you do is sign in and then the app opens and you connect to the VCI or the device under the dash and then you read the codes and then with the $2,500 you don't do anything else there's no maintenance or anything just cheap junk.

 

I had trouble with my pixel because it's running Android 14 The AP200 does not support that I moved the mess over to an old iPad downloaded the maxi app and have had no problems using the old iPad and then I have an old tablet that's Android 12 I think it's a blue 8-in tablet and it works flawlessly with the AP200. But I noticed sometimes they are communication problems but I don't think it's necessarily the AP200 sometimes there's glitches in the car or something but that's just the way it is when it connects it seems to work very well with the iPad and with the tablet with Android 12 or less. So I've been using it that way I do also own a dealer toughbook with the Toyota TIS network and pre-installed on it and loaded with updates that went through late 2022 I think something like that I don't have an access but I have a friend who works in the parts department and I can get his login when I need it which is basically been never but oh well.

 

I do everything I can to not have to drag out the tough book and the dongle to use text dream if it all possible