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[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Some interesting finds on the weekend. I went for a big drive interstate, only my second one in this car and I decided to not plug in while driving and just use AAW and see how the wireless charge copes (not well when things get hot after a while but I had enough battery).

So 2 hours in and all is normal, as I report that I don't get any disconnects. Stop for a break and keep going. Not long after that, AAW restarted! Never again the whole weekend, including the drive home, which is 3 hours on the road.

I also discovered that when it happens that I cannot hear the assistant (my only real issue) that during the time I would expect to be hearing the assistant speak, but there is no sound, when I use the volume controls they are still adjusting the music volume, not the assistant volume. So there is really something going on there. It's just pot luck if I can hear the assistant when I go for a drive.
[Android Auto General] t-6:
Hi,

my AAWireless: AAWtrgUgh5x

my car: VW Passat 2018 /w Discover Pro head unit

my phone: Pixel 5 /w Android 13

Ever since I updated the dongle to 2.0.2 firmware, Android Auto just won't start and the dongle will keep on blinking green. I have to factory default the dongle and go through the setup process again to make it work. But that will only last for the current drive.

I've tried multiple USB cables with both USB ports in my car. Tried uninstalling all Android Auto updates on my phone, deleting cache & data for Android Auto, deleting all bluetooth couplings in my phone and on my head unit - nothing works.

This problem persists through multiple Android Auto versions on my phone (from 7.8 to the current 8.0.623314) and already happened on Android 12.

The dongle is on 2.1.0 right now.

There is kind of a workaround that seems to work most of the time: When the AAW blinks green, I can connect my phone to another USB port. Android Auto will start and after a few seconds, it will stop working, my head unit will show a message like "lost connection to Android Auto" or something like that; then the LED will turn blue and Android Auto will restart. I can then disconnect my phone from USB & Android Auto will keep on working.

Any thoughts, ideas?
[Android Auto General] joeyberkovitz:
Sounds like it might be an issue with the new dongle mode. AA won't connect if the phone isn't connected to the car's Bluetooth first, but it's also possible that your phone accidentally assumed that a different Bluetooth device is the car (like a watch, ...).

You can try resetting AA cache/data (or just go into AA settings and remove the car), then when you connect AA, make sure no other Bluetooth devices are connected to the phone. If it still only connects once, maybe try turning off dongle mode and see if it's better.
[Android Auto General] t-6:
Sure thing, deactivating the dongle mode immediately worked and worked afterwards.

I'll try to check the Bluetooth stuff next. None of my other two Bluetooth devices are anywhere near my car, though, and I've already tried clearing the Bluetooth couplings in my phone AND my car (to my phone) as well. Even changing the bluetooth name of my head unit ^^

Emptying AA cache/data and/or removing all cards in AA didn't work either. Even tried uninstalling AA updates as well. Didn't make a difference.
[Android Auto General] Lolo78:
Dear Guy's,

the product works well overall and I am satisfied with it. But regularly (1 time out of 3 or 4) the product does not launch Android Auto on my car (Passat GTE with Discover Pro). For it to work again, I have to go into the app and change the USB mode to any other mode and it connects and starts.

It's not blocking but if someone could tell me if there is a configuration to do or if it's a bug to fix?

Thanks in advance
[Android Auto General] STELIOSFAN:
I have a Toyota Corolla H/B (2021) and a Xiaomi 11 lite 5G. It connects just fine but (although i don't mind the random disconnects) what bothers me is when i receive a call the Android Auto disconnects, routes the call on regular car bluetooth and when i hang up it connects again. This is a problem because i'm losing the google maps display.

Is there a solution not to disconnect when receiving a call ?
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
If you need Google maps, that means that you are driving, so answering phone calls is not recommanded, even with hand-free equipment...
[Android Auto General] STELIOSFAN:
I think you misread my post. Answering is supported via Bluetooth of the car (there are plenty of buttons on the car supporting answering the call) and also in Android Auto with the cable while in google maps. With AAWireless its not behaving as the cable (answering via AA while in maps) but switches to regular bluetooth.
[Android Auto General] Shinobi226:
Good day LeRoy,

With your setup, it is assured that you can enlighten me.

Hyundai palissade 2020 is also my car.

I have a Samsung s21 as for a phone.

The annoying part is when I am in my bedroom and that android auto connects to the car( I mean AAwireless's WiFi)

Then I switch back to my home WIFI manually.

Then the cycle perpetuates...

So I basically rock LTE in my house instead of my WiFi.

What is your AAwireless box settings?

If I am to enable the start/stop feature, then when in the car, I cannot get it to connect if I don't restart my phone.

Thanks in advance!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
For everyone who created a translation. We've just pushed app version 2.23.0 to the Play Store which includes all fully completed (100%) translations. Thanks!
[Android Auto General] tallleroy:
Good day to you @Shinobi226,

Yes Start/Stop should be active with your Palisade. The Palisade keeps the USB port powered on long after you turn off the ignition. Your phone sees the AAWireless device powered on and connects to it again and again if it remains powered.

I am having great success with Start/Stop right now using the latest firmware and app available.

If you have both installed and still have trouble, do these steps.

Disable Start/Stop while connected to the device and save the settings.

Quit the app and clear the cache and data.

Go into the bluetooth settings and delete the AAWireless device.

Now start the App and answer all of the initial starting questions. There is one in there about having Hyundai, Kia or Genesis vehicles. This prompt is new so you may not have seen it before.

Once the device is connected and working, you can enable Start/Stop.

You may want to disable Passthrough mode as well. With the new Palisade firmware I use 105 DPI when viewing AA in full screen. DPI settings are not applied in Passthrough mode.

Best Wishes,

LeRoy
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Start / stop working correctly depends unfortunately very much on the phone. Excluding the AAWireless app from battery saving might help, but on (newer) Samsungs especially it's all quite horrible.

Does the AAWireless notification show when the handsfree of the car connects to the phone (in start/stop mode)?
[Android Auto General] olliesshop:
I frequently have an issue with Android Auto not showing my route after it's confirmed the location I want to go to. For example, I say OK Google, navigate to Work, then it responds with a confirmation of the address to Work, but never displays the "blue" route on the map. This happens both when the car is first started and when I try to change the destination enroute. Also, it's been happening for a number of weeks.

I'm wondering if this is a AAWireless or an Android Auto issue.

Thanks for any help you can give!
[Android Auto General] PinkiPL:
Will there be a firmware update to version 2.1.0 for users who currently have version 2.1.0-20220815...develop? I have information No update available

device: uIlm9jhy
[Android Auto General] andy o:
Everyone having trouble with Start/Stop, there might be a relatively easy to bypass your car's always-powered USB port problem by buying a couple of adapters/cables:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AAWireless/comments/q16i5u

If you don't have a USB port that's only powered in ACC mode, and can do simple soldering, you can do what I did which is equivalent, but looks a bit simpler without requiring the power switch cable, do a fuse tap and then do the equivalent to the linked post above. Details:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidAuto/comments/u6bxom

This works without issue on my 2016 Mazda 3.
[Android Auto General] Shinobi226:
Good evening,

Just to let you know that your solution worked wonders, I am in my bedroom and android auto didn't try to connect once. I will update if trouble arise from within the car itself.

I will also update the head unit firmware, android auto full screen sounds too interesting to pass on a few minutes of work.

Thanks again
[Android Auto General] 0BurntRice0:
I just wanted to come back here and give an update in regards to having my Samsung Z Flip4 not connect to Android Auto wirelessly (wired worked every time).

To connect I needed to clear the Android Auto app data every time and then it would connect as a new device.

I believe the issue was that I used the Samsung Smart Switch application to transfer my phone data from my previous phone to the new phone.

When doing this it seems to copy over some (in simple terms since I don't even know) background data which came from the previous phone.

Clearing all the data and cache from every app I had did not work either.

I factory reset my device and used smart switch to transfer all my phones data EXCEPT applications.

I did a quick test by downloading Android Auto and the AAWireless app and it worked 10 times out of 10 times.

I then manually downloaded each application from the app store which took a while but was worth it considering the issue has been fixed.

So if you have an issue and you used Smart Switch then I would not be surprised if that was the issue.

Happy to answer any questions that are needed.
[Android Auto General] jaweinre:
Omfg saved my sanity too. Cx5 2019 factory reset and all works fine. Thank you!
[Android Auto General] valeri_s_k:
Just finished Bulgarian
[Android Auto General] Flame Red:
Hello,

I wanted to bring up a problem I have been experiencing since I got the AAWireless. This is on a Volvo with a Fold 4, but it has been doing the same on a Fold 3, Fold 2, and a Note. Now running 2.1, but it has been doing this since version 1.x from day 1.

Waze voice instructions will sometimes skip a word, or skips the end of an phrase, and sometimes the entire phrase.

Never does this with a USB cable. Does not do this with the same phone on a GM, or Mazda

I put in a bug report, but the solutions of toggling various options in setup did not resolve it.

Any advice, please?

Thank you!
[Android Auto General] Shinobi226:
I tested and worked flawlessly, until I walked away from my car with phone in tow and car still running because of a passenger still within (terrible humid day)

When I ce back to the car, nothing could be done to reconnect android auto. I used the companion app to remove the device and add it again (speedy process now) and since, all is as advertised.

Thanks for your help
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Good chance it worked because of the app being in the foreground. But please keep me up to date, curious how your experiences are with start / stop.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
There's unfortunately not much we can do about these kind of issues. Some cars are a bit wonky because of the less stable/constant connection on wifi. On PSA NAC Wave2 it's especially bad, but there are other brands which are also (lesser) influenced.

These head units were not designed to take in account latency/jitter. A wired USB connection is way more stable and constant.

I played around with this for quite a while on a Citroen C3, tried alot of stuff, buffering etc. But there's only so much you can do. When there's time I'll probably play around with it some more.
[Android Auto General] billarf01:
Wanted to let you know that start/stop is working well.. (AAWireless setup 7 days ago) with my Samsung S22 and my 2018 Wrangler JL, 8.4 radio with UConnect. Battery is set to unrestricted in regard to the AAWireless app and the Android Auto app. Firmware 2.1.0 in use and for Android Auto Android Auto 8.1.123404-release.daily beta .
[Android Auto General] kb_79:
Hello I come back to the news to find out if any tests were in progress to create on the Aawireless box Bluetooth gateway to allow the reception of calls on a telephone which is not connected at the car

Thx
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
No, it's possible, but tricky. Is there an usecase you need this for?
[Android Auto General] kb_79:
Hello, it's true that my configuration is not the most usual for users :)

My problem is the inability to connect two phone profiles in the car.

I have a phone which has two sims and which is connected with bluetooth to the car but I would also like to use android auto but only with a phone dedicated solely to that which obtains internet by sharing the bluetooth connection of the main dual sim phone.

This second phone would be used to be the monitor for the use of android auto especially waze music podcast… and since it uses the phone profile of the vehicle's bluetooth my main phone cannot receive calls on the car speakers, that's why I wanted to see with you if a kind of bluetooth gateway could be set up to route calls from my main phone via the bluetooth of the aawireless gateway and continued with the use of android auto on this phone without sim card.

I hope I was clear but the language barrier does not make it easy :)

Thx
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Can't wait for you to play around with it a little more :P :P :P
[Android Auto General] tOOmki:
How to disable this message?

It appears before AA is started.

Before the last update, it did not show up.

Car: Opel Zafira 2017
[Android Auto General] TheBo:
Guys, just chiming in to ask if someone has a fix/workaround for the broken TTS, as mentioned before by others in this pages. Other than that audio works no problem.
[Android Auto General] kb_79:
@Snirpo Hello did you understand my need? 😙
[Android Auto General] yuriy.bolgov:
Hi Guys,

It is too hard to read whole topic...

Is there solution for phone overheating?

Phone: S22U

I own Audi A6 C8 (2019), and it has wireless charging... but phone get overheated when I put it to charger plate and use aawireless at the same time.

I've tried to enable "energy saving mode" on the phone, but that didn't help.
[Android Auto General] bpsmicro:
Try turning off Fast Wireless Charging on the phone. Not sure if the Audi charger even supports fast charging, but if it's trying to, that'll pump a fair amount of power into the phone which will cause heat.

But yeah, generally speaking using WiFi (as in AAW) and wireless charging at the same time may cause excessive heat, and if the above doesn't help you're probably stuck.

For what it's worth, my S20FE with a third-party wireless charger (fast charging off) does *not* overheat even when using AAW. I was actually a bit surprised at this, but pleasantly so.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Hm yeah. It's a very specific use case though. The thing is, with all features we have, they are hardly being used. DPI change is used the most and even that is only used on about 1 percent of the devices. The other features are used so little, there's hardly any use case for supporting them. If it was easy to implement we could've done it, but this is quite some work unfortunately. So I'm sorry, but there's very little chance we will implement this. You can still create a feature request on https://github.com/cpebit/aawireless-issues/issues though.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Another side effect on GM apparently. I saw your post on GitHub. I'll create a custom version of the firmware with some changes reverted. I'll update you on GitHub.
[Android Auto General] kb_79:
Ok but to simplify I think that many people who have two daily phones would like to have the possibility of connecting two bluetooth profiles phone in their car and they Block to one by the car manufacturer
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
I'm afraid you diddn't understand Snirpo answer : so many available features are amost not used, so developping new feature for very few people is not realistic...
[Android Auto General] EViollet:
Hi.

First of all, thank you for this very good device. I've been using mine for more than a year now and it really is a life changer.

If have a suggestion however.

I have 2 Renault vehicles. And their Bluetooth name is "Renault" for both of them (how original). I configured my phone to give different names to them so that I can differentiate them. However, I have no means of differentiating them in the start/stop bluetooth lost. They both appear as "Renault" which makes configuring the "start/stop" option quite the difficult.

Do you think it could be possible to display the phone configured name in the list? Or at least the Bluetooth Mac address so I can see which is which?

In advance thanks.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I think we can, will check!
[Android Auto General] ofcomer:
Does AAwireless need to be connected to my phone's bluetooth at every start and stay connected? I'm asking this because my car (Citroen c3) has an app where I can keep statistics of my trips (gas usage, times, etc.) and in order to use this app, my phone's bluetooth needs to be connected to the main unit. I wonder if I can use this functionality of the app while using AAwireless.
[Android Auto General] EViollet:
That would be awesome! Thank you very much! 🤗
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
In my C5AC with AAW connected, no problem of connection to "myCitroën" app !...
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Who (Snirpo ?) can explain the "Time-out" setting, and how to adjust it to get the best operation ?

Thanks a lot.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Speaking about features more people would use, make it possible to mirror whole phone screen to AA 😅
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Normally don't touch it :) We will move these settings to an advanced settings menu for the next app.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Yeah I don't know, theoretically (and possibly als practically) we could implement something like Miracast. Personally I'd never use it. I think screen mirroring sucks. But if there's lots of demand for it, I guess we could look into it.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I guess we can open some kind of poll for features. First need a list of features though.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
My guess is, when it comes to AA(Wireless) features, the majority of users will always be the people that simply wanna use AA wireless.

That's either they are not so techy or simply couldn't imagine how powerful it could be. There are not many that want to write emails on their car headunit, or wanna watch YouTube, twitch or what ever streams.

In my last car I connected a fire stick to the headunit, just cos I could. I would count me to the power users and I would love to see my Android device mirrored to the HU.

That's a great thing if we could and not want to use one of those dongles that come with a full Android os on them.

Bottom line is, I guess. we power users are the minority.

Device mirroring in AAwireless would be the cherry on top of the cake for me.

I would have plenty of use cases.
[Android Auto General] festor:
I would be careful how and where a cast option was implemented. It’s fairly clear Google don’t want the option for safety reasons. I can’t see them having a single issue with any of the extra options you provide at the moment, but if full screen mirror was added to augment Android Auto they might think differently.

It might be different if it was an entirely separate option like a full switch to MirrorLink, but that’s a lot of work.
[Android Auto General] DeanGibson:
Be careful what you ask for. If Google finds out you are mirroring any kind of active content, they will shut AAW down in a New York minute.

And that will hurt ALL of us!
[Android Auto General] Andres.Navas:
@ofcomer Same here with the C5AC, no problem with "myCitroën" App, normally the phone connects to the car Bluetooth without any interference with the AAW profile
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Thank you for your answer, so what is the "normal" (default) value ?...
[Android Auto General] HofaTheRipper:
20000
[Android Auto General] tOOmki:
Did you have a moment to make this version for me?

I also corrected the device number in the github post.
[Android Auto General] josefsch:
I would like the AAWireless device's syslog, which you can download from http://10.42.1.1:8000/syslog, to contain correct timestamps. I am sure somewhere during the boot process the device could grab the current date/time from the headunit or the phone. I am also convinced this would also be appreciated by you AAWireless developers and support people ...
[Android Auto General] Rom4egT:
I've got 2.2.0 developer firmware.

What has been done?
[Android Auto General] Kingcool88:
Since updating to 2.1 the device has become unusable för me. All things playing sound stutters ALOT.

Can you please downgrade me to previous firmware?

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[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Done, please report back if it actually helped.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Not yet sorry, I'll build a firmware tomorrow (hopefully).
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Mainly adding support for (yet another) hardware model.
[Android Auto General] Kingcool88:
My phone gets connected to the aawireless wifi and says bad quality net. Is this normal?
[Android Auto General] gizmo1973:
Hi guys..

I have recently encountered problems with my aa wireless.

We use 2 phones, but only one is always preferred, and when i desconnect, it doesn't connect the other phone.

And with my working phone, when starting the car, it connects and disconnects 4-5 times and at last it keeps the connection and i can start use it.

In the recent months, it's almost become so irritating, that it is on its way out the window.. 😔

Car is Renault Kadjar 2018 and 2 phones, both Oneplus 10 pro, android 12.

Hope someone has the missing link for me.. 🙂
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Since when did this start? How does the LED act when this happens? Do you by any chance have another phone (from another brand) to test?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Doesn't sound normal. Did you try other wifi channels?
[Android Auto General] Kingcool88:
Will test tomorrow. And until now the device has been really good. So big ups for that :)
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Just implemented this in the latest dev app. For both the AAWireless device selection screen and the start / stop screen. Let me know if you like it.
[Android Auto General] gizmo1973:
It started within the last 14 days.

The led's switching between constant blue and blinking blue led.

I don't have any other phone to try with, sorry..

It is actually useless at the moment.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
What's the name of the device? Did you try another cable? Did something change? Phone update, AA update, AAW update?
[Android Auto General] thepher:
Tested with Xiaomi 12 Lite (Miui 13, Android 12) Firmware 1.12.0 and Passthrough on.

MZD Connect with 74.00.311 firmware.

All seems to be ok.

I'm afraid to update firmware. ¿There are any way to downgrade firmware?

Thanks.
[Android Auto General] sc00bydoo:
What version of Miui 13 are you on?.I thought there were issues with miui 13 and android auto wireless where it would keep on disconnecting if the mobile phone signal dropped out or changed from 3g to 4g etc.

I've been holding out buying the aawireless because of this issue

My miui version is 13.0.13
[Android Auto General] thepher:
13.0.7.0 Global, with no disconnections or signal dropped
[Android Auto General] Kingcool88:
When driving today my wifi didn't connect to the device and all was working flawlessly!
[Android Auto General] welshblob:
I'm on that version too on a Poco f3 and it's disconnection and dropout city over here due to the Xiaomi bug.
[Android Auto General] sc00bydoo:
I'm afraid I'm going to have to wait before purchasing until the miui bug is sorted out by xiaomi and who knows when this is going to be