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[Android Auto General] Lord Paulus Cobris:
Well,

I too have in home Wifi (all the time) BT, on my stereo speakers and headphones and the phone don´t heat like this...

I have GPS allways on also.

I use Waze for Driving.

But it heats up pretty bad.. (very warm to touch)...

Tomorrow im doing a 200km drive so i will infer the power drain and heating of the device...

Best Regards,

LPC
[Android Auto General] sibesaver:
It's more than having just the radios turned on it's them being active with data. GPS especially if you're not navigating doesn't go through the constant data updates.
[Android Auto General] Lord Paulus Cobris:
True...

But i don´t have wireless pad on my car.

:(

I can only hope the 5000ma that my phone has is enough to not be without battery...

Also its a pitty that my C5 Aircross don´t have an usb plug inside the arm rest... :(

Best Regards,

LPC
[Android Auto General] DeanGibson:
For powering your phone in your car while wireless:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H112XRZ
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
I have a wireless charger pad in my car.

During winter time it is a perfect way to charge the phone on long drives.

During warm temperatures it is a mess.

The phone is already warm through wireless Android Auto. Additionally the temperatures inside the car are high. When I charge my phone in these conditions I reach a battery temperature of 38°C within 10 minutes. With this temperature the charging speed drops a lot. A couple of minutes later I reach 39°C and the phone slows down. For example it needs a lot of time to react. The highest temperature I reached was 41°C with the phone restarting by itself.

Under cold conditions the phone charges with a rate of 7.5% per hour with wireless Android Auto running.

At around March with temperatures rising I reach a charging rate of 1-2% per hour.

With the temperatures we have now I can charge the phone for a maximum time of 15 minutes before the phone slows down.

So generally speaking: during summer time it is impossible to use wireless Android Auto and to charge the phone with a wireless charging pad.

I ordered a charging pad with a cooling fan a couple of days ago to try. But honestly my I don't have much hope as my current wireless charger is pretty efficient and does not heat up much (only the phone heats up a lot).

If it does not work I think I will try a magnetic charging cable instead of the wireless charger.

These high battery temperatures will kill your battery pretty fast.
[Android Auto General] sibesaver:
I have a portable charging pad mounted in front of my AC vent that could be why I don't have issues.
[Android Auto General] Lord Paulus Cobris:
I might go the way of the "poor"...

Just plug an 4000ma powerbank on the phone and put both inside the arm rest! :)

:)

Best Regards,

LPC
[Android Auto General] BlueMeany68:
Thanks, something to consider I suppose. I was hoping that there might be a way within the settings, either of AAW app, or phone settings, as AAW unit is sat hidden away in the central armrest.
[Android Auto General] pittrich:
No, I don't use the pass through mode. Just the initial configuration.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Car makers are still providing cars with wireless charging and wired AA, and with wireless AA and no wireless charger. We are stuck in the middle and have to provide both, and deal with the situation.

I've had wireless chargers in my cars for a long time, it's the first thing I do, so it was annoying to plug into AA before AAW came along.
[Android Auto General] Gee11:
need to downgrade to 1.8. can anyone help ?
[Android Auto General] ZacJ:
Just sharing this on a few threads in case anyone wants my opinion:

So I have both Carsifi and AAWireless - just sharing my thoughts here if anyone cares.

I have a Z Fold 3 and a S20 Ultra. The phones have roughly the same load time on either device in a Hyundai Tuscon. In the Hyundai i30, the AAWireless is about 10 seconds faster than the Carsifi.

The AAWireless app is nicer and easier to use than the Carsifi app. It's also got a few more options.

The Carsifi app takes a little longer to update the device when a change is made. There is also an 'experimental' method to boot faster but it made no difference on my phones...

The only benefit to some people (with Carsifi) may be the 'magic button' - you can set it to do 2 things:

1) change paired phone (double click)

2) Play / pause music (triple click) - however on my device, this paused the music but AA froze, and pressing play rebooted the device, so after about 10 seconds it rebooted and started the music again.

I got the AAWireless many months ago, and the Carsifi yesterday (I purposely got both - one for each car, and so I can test both of them too!)

At the end of the day, both do the same thing in the same way. In summary, I like the AAWireless better as it seems to just 'work' better, the app is better and I like the developer and their reputation.

Oh and if anyone has any questions, please let me know and I'll respond.
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
@ZacJ

Thank you for your information. I think this helps a lot of people to decide.

Do you feel any difference concerning the battery drain/heating of the phone between AAWireless and Carsifi?
[Android Auto General] worldonfire:
@festor yesterday did new factory reset (after updating to 2.0.1), cleared data from phone, from car. Did new pairing for phone and car (via bt, via cable) and then connected AAWireless with car. After pairing phone with AAwireless bt, AA appeared on headunit (without using companion app).

Drove ~30km and it had 3-4 drops (two were semi urban, other two were on country roads)

Today morning added few layers of tinfoil over AAwireless device. Looks like connection was more unstable than yesterday.

Should I try to setup via companion app?
[Android Auto General] mcgyver83:
Thanks for the suggestion but in my Redmi A3 Android 11 "avoid bad connection" is not present (I know that this option exists for others android phones).

But as said, I manually connected phone and AAW via BT and now everything starts connecting and working when I turn on the car :D
[Android Auto General] Gee11:
i also had disconnects all the time and nobody will help me. I already tried all the tips from the internet. Just one thing is left: i need to try FW 1.8
[Android Auto General] schlotboeller:
Could I also try the SSL fix firmware please?

AAWzaMCLpDu

Thank You in advance
[Android Auto General] 1qazwsx4:
Makes me laugh people complaining about their phone being too hot or their battery life draining faster than desired.

Know the alternative...? Plug your phone in and use android auto 🤣

Can't have your cake and eat it too - there will always be a trade-off. Wirelessly charging will ALWAYS make your device hot while charging, it's the nature of the beast. Wirelessly charging, Google maps, GPS, casting via WiFi...

Yep, phones guna go nuclear and melt your car. Is it that hard to charge your device before running AAW? Most phones support a quick charge with 30mins easily getting 50% battery life
[Android Auto General] festor:
At this point I would try everything and you absolutely need to be using the companion app. Anyone suffering disconnections needs to be on their regions 5GHz wifi using a high channel (153 or above) which is set and confirmed in the app.

This should only affect MIUI, but what happens when you try forcing a lower mobile connection on your phone? It might be slightly different for your model, but under Mobile networks > Network mode SIM(x), change to WCDMA or GSM only. Reverse process after testing. Does AAWireless stay connected when you do this? Also, can you try a non Samsung phone in case it's a quirk with your car/head unit?

If you're using v2 hardware and tried everything else you've detailed then it might be a good case study for support, but I would be looking at testing an alternative like MA1 or Carsifi.
[Android Auto General] djjoshchambers:
I've seen several people asking for help downgrading to 1.8 but not send anyone provide instructions. I'm also interested in this. I'm going on a 12 hour round trip road trip next week and would like to know how to do this in case 2.0.1 starts to crash on me. Can someone please provide instructions?
[Android Auto General] DeanGibson:
I'm going to respond to this in a general way, for people needing assistance.

First, I do not work for AAWireless, & what I state on this forum is based on my own experience as a user, which may be flawed.

Second, while this forum was started by the founder of "cpeb", the companion website https://cpeb.it does have a support channel there, where questions are answered by support personnel (at least they answered mine). So, if your question is not answered here, go there (I actually went there first).

Third, a lot of questions are answered by scanning the last 100 messages on this forum, & of course you can use the forum search facility. There's a lot of good stuff in the older messages!

Now to your specific question: As I understand it, in the AAW Android app, when you press "System Update", your serial number is looked up in a special database, to see if you need a "special" version of the firmware. If you are NOT in that database, you get the standard, released version of the firmware.

If you ARE in that database, you get whatever special firmware you have requested. That may be a new unreleased version, or an older version, or a special version to test a specific problem.

How do you get into that special database? You ask, providing your serial number. You can ask here, or on the https://cped.it website. If you ask here, there may be a delay in having your request fulfilled. Then, you press "System Update" in the app, while connected to your device via Bluetooth. Note that I am not responsible for this process in any way.

Note also that doing a reset on your device resets the serial number, so once you ask for a special firmware version, don't reset your device.
[Android Auto General] hocuspocus69:
hello after upgrade to firmware 2.0.0 no more sound or microphone on phone call..

miui 12....thanx

EDIT

After upgrade firmware 2.0.1 everything is back...no more issue apart the unresolvable on miui wifi and mobile connection together!

Xiaomi mi mix 2s miui 12.0.3 suzuki swift 2019
[Android Auto General] Lord Paulus Cobris:
Hello,

Today i had the oportunity of doing 2 long drives (120km´s each), i put AAWireless on the test.

Im glad to say that it worked perfectly!

Using the 5ghz band the system is faster and more responsive.

I got no crashes and everything worked well (phone, powerAmp and Waze).

The phone did use some battery, 20% on all the travels (going and then coming back).

I used all the default options on the AAWireless APP.

I just enabled on Andoid Auto the developer options, and then the wireless projection on the app.

thanks again for creating this device.

With my very best regards,

LPC
[Android Auto General] sidofido:
I finally figured out what caused my disconnections lately. It was a cable... Two months ago I replaced it with a shorter one and it was a mistake all the time. I had some random disconnections during the drive and I tried every possible configuration, but nothing helped. It never occurred to me that it could be a cable, because the dongle connected without problems and it always disconnected while driving. I replaced the cable with the old one and everything now works without freezing. Looks like the old cable was losing data or something after a while.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Cables can be dodgy for sure, ok to start, but not ok when driving around with the car bumping on the road. I would suspect that disconnections are caused by this. The best thing to do is secure the AAW somewhere out of the way where you won't be bumping the cable, or if you go near that area, being really careful. If your AAW is freeballing in your car, it's a recipe for disconnections.

Mine is stuck to the roof of my console cubby and when I put my phone nearby to charge I am careful. Once I'm connected I don't get disconnected due to the road surface. Once my issue for not having AA projection was the cable had come out, so this is a thing.

Foiling the inside stopped the music dropouts, and securing the device guards against disconnects while driving. If you're getting a lot of disconnects and you don't think it's related to the cable and it happens pretty soon after driving, see how long it will stay connected if you don't move anywhere. Try and lock down the issue.

I remember replacing all those USB cables when I was running wired, before AAW, due to the phone moving around and the strain on the connection. A new cable solved it every time, until that cable became unstable. Better the USB cable than my phones port.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Testing the other day in my Golf when I went to 2.01 showed that I wasn't getting AA projection automatically still.

I reset my AA all through my phone to start using 2.0, which means redoing my shortcuts, background, app arrangement etc, but it doesn't seem to have worked.

I have no trouble with launching AA with the Ottocast in the Polo. Apart from not being able to do Stop/Start stuff for the cars that power the USB before and after the engine is on, it's otherwise pretty reliable and has gotten better with a few FW updates. The Assistant sounds were janky to begin with but are now fine. A newer FW messed up things like dark mode not working with the lights on and sometimes you would get a black screen until you went to another screen and back to AA. I downgraded the FW back to the one that was working good before, I'll keep it handy as I try new ones.

So I had to re-connect to the Ottocast and it's been fine again since but with AAW I am still having to go into the APP, changing the connection method, and upon saving and rebooting it will launch nicely. But not the next time I go into the car, which was four times today. It so far hasn't mattered which connection I try, default, direct, or MTP all work if I change to them but not upon the next try.

The previous time I disabled Dongle Mode but it still wouldn't connect until I changed the connection. When I do drive this car it's nice to have AA so I'm doing this every time but it would be nice if I didn't have to.

Also, recently, probably after 2.0, I get this notification on my phone after using AAW. I have to press the stop button to stop it doing what it's trying to do. Does anyone else get this?
[Android Auto General] donn2:
I also have (or had) this issue (Samsung Galaxy S20 5G with Android 12). As a workaround I had to press the mute button on the car system two times after accepting a call and then it works correctly for the duration of the call. Also I have had various other sound issues (no sound/no microphone).

I have upgraded to 2.0.1 yesterday, I have yet to try making a phone call but the other sound issues didn't occur again yet.
[Android Auto General] 1enry1:
I can't post anything ... because it is a voice assistant who tells me that before calling a contact in the address book to give authorization in my car, but where ???

I contacted assistance of my car and they say that there is no authorization in the car!

So why don't you call me vocal assistant to the contacts and asks first authorization in the machine? Another Android Auto ....bug?

Help me
[Android Auto General] 1enry1:
you have a GOLF 8 VW ? when you tell to the google assistent to call a number in the

address book ... your call the numer that you say ? in my .... NONE !
[Android Auto General] Tony7533:
Hi guys. I can't solve the last problem. After a phone call, the sound can no longer be played by the device. Reboot required.

AAWireless ver. 2.0, Audi A6 C7, OnePlus 7Pro
[Android Auto General] Omerhebi:
Hello ,

I got my AA wireless a week ago and everything was working well connection was perfect, playing Spotify and Google maps with no problem and receive and making phone calls was perfect and then suddenly just the other day when I get a phone call or make one , android auto disconnects and the phone call is made from the cars Bluetooth and when I end the phone call android auto reconnects! I have an MG HS and Xiaomi 11 lite phone can someone help me !
[Android Auto General] Roy47:
Hi having problems with my phone connections. Incoming calls show up but when answering I get no sound also when making a call the call connects but again no sound
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
I have a 7.5 GTI. MIB 2.5 high, S22 Ultra. I ask Google mostly to call people in my family I have set up, like wife and daughter, mother etc.

I never use the car system underneath, they are always clunky.

If you are wired AA you can do what you want?
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
I drove the Golf this morning to test using passthrough but the same, no projection until I change a setting and it reboots to save.

It seems it doesn't matter too much what I change as long as I do. So I'm connecting easily to AAW but it doesn't project.

Any ideas, it was working before. Does everyone else get that AAW app notification as well?
[Android Auto General] Roy47:
Hi could you please roll me back to version 1.8 hopefully this will restore my phone functionality

AAWireless-nprggLr2

Thanks Roy
[Android Auto General] cristi_b:
@Genebaby I also have Golf 7.5 and S10e and the provided cable. Now I'm on 2.0.1firmware and in my opinion it's the best firmware so far. Everything works as expected.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
This notification is from the start/stop mechanism, which means the companion app is in control of starting up AA. I'd disable it if you don't need it.

In fact, in 2.1.0 we are dropping the app controlled start / stop mechanism and are moving to a device controlled mechanism. Start / stop has been horrible since the beginning, too many variables (phones) to make it work correctly.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Any ideas why my setup won't project without intervention? So 2.01 is not the 2.1 that was mentioned before?

Any idea when 2.1 is out?
[Android Auto General] tomballpkrxda:
@tallleroy I have both the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G and a 2020 Palisade (10" screen). I received my device today and simply cannot get it to connect to my head unit (it worked once for a few seconds). My question is are you using any of the alternate settings such as 'passthrough' or 'direct' usb connection with this combo?

I've tried multiple cables, reset the cache for Android Auto and Google Play Services, reset the device, and tried manually connecting to Bluetooth. I usually get a pop up on my device saying to press 'Android Auto' on my screen but it never becomes available on the head unit

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks!
[Android Auto General] siuengr:
Same here with a GMC Acadia and an S21+
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
I don't know what to say. My wife tells me that her headunit resets and and other troubles when she goes to a certain area. It was fine that first day when we went somewhere else and today it was fine because she didn't go there. She will keep testing.

To see what happened I changed my USB to Direct and it seems the same.
[Android Auto General] tallleroy:
Hello @tomballpkrxda,

Here is a link to the settings I am using. My Settings.

I see from feedback here that some folks have trouble when setting the 'Allow multiple taps' experimental feature.

Please post the sequence of LED colors you observe after plugging it in here, so I can understand if it is a problem with the phone or the head unit.

LeRoy
[Android Auto General] eelsid:
Working perfectly with 2017 Honda Pilot and OnePlus 7 Pro. Loving the AA split screen!
[Android Auto General] mandrsn1:
I got my device today and it set up perfectly with my car. I used it on a long drive and it worked flawlessly.

However, when I turned my car on again, the LED turns green when the car starts but stays solid green. I left it plugged in for a while and it stays sold green the whole time. My phone never connects. Is it stuck in a boot loop? Any advice? I am using the OEM and cable and tried connecting it to the car and to other USB power sources with no luck.
[Android Auto General] tiniwings:
Hi did you re tried? Mine was smooth on first run, after I switched off/on my car the connection is not sucessful, the aaw device stays on blinking blue color.
[Android Auto General] easting:
Same behavior with mine. Pixel 3XL, 2018 Chevy Silverado, stock MyLink headunit.
[Android Auto General] robflor7:
I have a 2020 chevy silverado. When i connect the led goes from solid green to flashing green. The BT connects, the WIFI connects. It flashes blue for half a second and then goes back to solid green an reboots. When i connect to it with just a power supply it never reboots. I have tried resetting it several times. nothing changes. I only got it to try and connect once the very first time. It said searching for the phone, thought it was going to work and then stopped. Now the head unit just says connect a phone to use android auto. very disappointed. Starting to feel like i wasted my money...
[Android Auto General] tomballpkrxda:
Thank you. It's looks like default settings work for you. I will try again today. Can you clarify the following statements from your writeup? It's not clear to me what you mean by on and off for AAWireless. For instance, how can it 'join the conversation' when off? I appreciate all of your assistance. Thank You!

"Disable Audio Sink and Developer mode cannot be processed by AAWireless when on. When on the exact encrypted data conversation is transmitted between your phone and the head unit. When off, AAWireless joins the conversation to inject those Experimental Features."
[Android Auto General] -Loom-:
I recently discovered that the provided AAWireless USB cable sits quite loose in the car USB port. I tried the official Volkswagen AA cable which is very short and high quality and sits very snuggly. While this cable works perfectly with wired Android Auto, I couldn't make any connection to AAWireless at all.

So, if you have any connection problems, I really advise to try out all sorts of different cables.

Still wondering why the VW cable didn't work at all ....
[Android Auto General] tallleroy:
The conversation between your head unit and your phone is encrypted.

When passthrough is enabled, AAWireless cannot see the contents of any packet sent either way from the phone to the head unit. It will only forward the packets.

When passthrough is disabled, the AAWireless decrypts the packets going back and forth and can understand and modify certain packets to allow the experimental features.

LeRoy
[Android Auto General] Synman:
I have a 2020 Paliside with the fancy screen too. It isn't my primary vehicle but I guess I should give it a go. My AAW has been working with no significant issues in my 2019 Sonata (7" screen) with my Pixel 5. No need for passthru or any of the other work-arounds to get it to work.

I'm also using the DPI hack (103 dpi) to get split screen on my Sonata. Having read your post I'm now curious to know what my DPI settings will need to be to unlock similar functionality on the Palisade.

Thinking this thru.... I honestly never put much thought into moving my AAW between my two vehicles other than the notion of just doing it... perhaps there's a feature request here for multi-vehicle support.

Will report back shortly on how things go with just getting it to connect to the Palisade.
[Android Auto General] tallleroy:
@Synman

You can take the AAWireless device between vehicles. But it does remember the settings you made in the previous vehicle. You may have to plug the device into a USB power supply and use the AAWireless Config app to get the device back to defaults.

I find that DPI 100 will give me the dual screen interface on the 10.25" Palisade head unit. But it only fills the left two thirds of the screen and the text becomes too small for my OLD eyes to read.

Hyundai is supposed to release a software update later this month for our head unit, it may or may not contain a feature to allow Android Auto to use the full screen. I have my fingers crossed.

LeRoy