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[Android Auto General] bramgg:
I'm a bit confused. I have received the AAwireless yesterday but haven't used it yet since my car is still in the shop.

I'm reading all these requests about adding device ID's to dev firmware, connection issues etc. Wouldn't I just be able to plug and play and use the device (after updating it) without issues? Or do I need to flash other firmware etc. to get it working properly?

Sidenote, can I already update this device without having access to my car?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
No, it is plug and play for 90+% of the users. The problem with these kinds of topic is, wherever it's located, reddit, XDA etc, it's mostly about issues.

So when reading this you might think the device sucks. And for some people, that might be true. Although in alot of cases it's not the device at fault, but Android Auto itself, or the phone or the head unit, or all things combined. And for sure AAWireless is also not perfect, we can still improve and tweak stuff.

Yes, you can update when powered through any USB port :)
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Snirpo is fully right.

Of course I only post in this thread when I have an issue. Nevertheless my AAWireless connects perfectly in about 99.5% of my drives.

It is stable. In my opinion the AAWireless device works more reliable than my phone. Some issues are also phone related and not AAWireless related.

I normally only post for the 0.5% of my drives.
[Android Auto General] urmanio23:
I think it's worth the price, if you want the comfort of not having to plugin your phone to have wireless AA. Many of the issues are related to Android auto itself and the infotainment system of some vehicles. I bet 98% of the users just use it and forget about it cause it just works.

I have a POCO phone, while good overall, it has a bug that makes it loose connection with the AAW unit when the cellphone data connection drops and comes back. If I hadn't read about the issue and saw it happened consistently to other POCO users, I might have thought it was AAW fault but it's now a well known (and weird) bug...that hopefully will get patched soon.
[Android Auto General] huppejue:
Hello, if you have the dongle mode active, the setting with the last connected phone does not work. I turned off dongle mode and everything works. Regards
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
That's correct. It also shows a warning in the app when you have dongle mode enabled, priority does not work. There's not much we can do about this in dongle mode, that's how Android Auto works. It will only start up AA on the phone connected to the handsfree of the car. So whichever phone is connected to the handsfree of the car will start up AA.

So why does dongle mode exist and is the default? Well, because this is how Android Auto natively supports dongles, which also means no dummy handsfree bluetooth profile (to emulate a native wireless HU) is needed on the device which causes a whole lot of issues. This is also how the MA1 works.
[Android Auto General] italodance:
I purchased this cool dongle recently, everything is perfect by far except Fermata Auto, it is a bit laggy in video while playing my local video files, whereas audio is fine no delay.

So please guide me, is it related to AAwireless or the app?
[Android Auto General] Stelviota:
Just a small question: I have a Alfa Romeo Stelvio and a Poco smartphone.

With the cable I have the Android Auto logo on the right. With only 8,8 inch, the screen is quite small.

I ordered a different dongle before which removed the logo, but I could not control the screen with the center console button.

Does AA Wireless removes the logo, or will it keep it on the screen?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
That's probably because you had a dongle before which does Android Auto over the CarPlay protocol. There are more cars which have CarPlay in full screen, and native Android Auto only part of the screen. The is a headunit limitation. So no, AAWireless will not remove the logo. If it has the logo wired, it will also have it wireless.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Android Auto is not very well optimized for playing videos, because normally you cannot play videos over Android Auto. These limitations get amplified by using Android Auto wirelessly because of added latency.

The main problem AA is bassiccly streaming a car specific UI to the car which needs to be a realtime as possible, otherwise it would feel sluggish when controlling the UI with the touchscreen. For navigation etc it doesn't really matter if it's a little bit laggy or jittery. While for video, it's better to have a bit of buffer to smooth it out.
[Android Auto General] Stelviota:
Thanks, totally clear!
[Android Auto General] benrita:
Thanks but dongle mode is disabled, must be the default setting.
[Android Auto General] italodance:
@Snirpo

Please guide me for the best settings of AAwireless with my Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, Android 12.

I have some disconnection and connection randomly. I updated my dongle to the latest firmware, as well.

What should I do?! Need your guidance here.

Edit: test it about 2 hours with AAwireless app running in the background.

All fine no disconnection 😅🫢
[Android Auto General] bramgg:
Update: just got my car back, connected AAwireless and it works flawlessly on my Kia XCeed 2022. Plug and play. Awesome 😎
[Android Auto General] alexalex1989:
This is because of a Xiaomi/Poco bug which causes the Bluetooth Connection to stop for a small time when the mobile signal stops or changes. Try disabling and enabling your mobile internet to reproduce it. Has not been fixed so far unfortunately :(

Can anyone confirm that switching to LineageOS works?
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Hi @Snirpo !

Did you by chance had made any advance regarding Peugeot NAC lag issue?

May be another hardware revision with better performance, or a firm/soft workaround.

Regards and thanks in advance!!!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
No sorry. It's not performance related. The MA1 has the same issue on these cars. We may have one idea how to work around the issue, but did not have time yet.
[Android Auto General] Xtragyne:
i believe my post was invinsible ...
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Thanks for your answer Snirpo, hope you can get the time to materialize that idea.

I misspoke before, I didn't mean a device with better performance itself, but some kind of hw change that by chance makes it behaves better with NAC.

One unrelated doubt I have: When dongle mode is activated, does passthrough enabled/disabled has any effect?

Regards and thanks once again.
[Android Auto General] morhimi:
I'm having multiple disconnects while driving, to a point where it actually won't reconnect at all.

happens no matter what phone I use:

Pixel 7 Pro

Pixel 6

Xiaomi Mi 11

Car is Hyundai Ioniq 5

AAWireless Device ID: 41fac828

disconnecting AAWireless and plugging a cable directly to the phone then AA works without any issues.

also testing AA wirelessly on different car with AutoKit dongle (allows AA wireless) works well, no disconnects

any idea?
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Just for my information, what is the behavior problem with your NAC ? I have a Citroën C5AC with NAC and didn't notice any specific problem...
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
The issue is with NAC wave 2, may be your is wave 3 or later.

Take a look at this thread => https://github.com/cpebit/aawireless-issues/issues/106

Cheers.
[Android Auto General] macca017:
I have MY20 Forester and use a Oppo A57 5G phone.

Had an issue with AA as it flashed green then went dead?

Reset everything, now all is OK

My issue is, before the reset and after is AA seems to start-up twice, android auto opens on my phone then shuts down, it then opens again and all is good again.

Should it start twice before working?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
We are testing something for other cars and I want to check if this also helps for your car. May I enable this firmware for your device? Can you post the name of your device?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Hmm dead in what way? Reboot? AA should not start twice normally. Can you push a bug report via the app and post the name of the device here? Bug report is either reachable via help and support in the companion app or the button in top right in the settings screen.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
You're right, mine is Wave 3 with Wave 4 firmware...
[Android Auto General] morhimi:
@Snirpo any idea? The device is unusable right now.
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Yes of course!!!!!!

Me device es AndroidAuto-AAWOBFP6ObA

Should I use this new fw in any special mode (dongle, passthrough, etc)?
[Android Auto General] Xtragyne:
Same as my car, Opel Astra K 2016 with Navi 900 - and my phone is Samsung S22 Ultra with Android 13

It is disconnecting after 1 hour and then disconnecting every 1 min or 30 secs .

I have tried every option including GM Fix but nothing works , cable connection has no issue at all

@Snirpo would you be able to advise anything ?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Sounds defective, please contact support@aawireless.io for a replacement.

Device should work perfectly fine with an Ioniq 5. Very hard to say what the issue can be, but let's just replace it. Please contact support@aawireless.io
[Android Auto General] r0x:
I also have disconnects every 10-15 mins.

Hyundai Santa Fe 2020 with POCO F4.

Is there any Beta Firmware I can try out?
[Android Auto General] answer25:
On my fiat uconnet system, I have occasional disconnections while driving on the road, is there a related setting?

start/stop active dongle mode off pass-through off

android 12

samsung s10+

2.1.0 version

AAW375e02f9
[Android Auto General] josefsch:
Since the release of firmware 2.1.0 in August 2022 I have been using my AAW in dongle mode with my Samsung A53 and Renault Espace without problems. Typically Android Auto would connect within a few seconds after entering the car and starting the engine.

The Samsung A53 received a major firmware update with Android 13 in November and 2 more minor updates. However, AAW was working fine afterwards.

During the last days I have problems - Android Auto taking minutes to connect (if at all), the AAW device LED cycling solid green - sometimes yellow - flashing green.

I also seem to be unable to open the device configuration in the AAWireless app (production or dev version) or manually connect to the AAW device bluetooth.

Any ideas?

My device is: AndroidAuto-AAWuU9qZkbW
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Try a reset.
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Hi @Snirpo

Today I've tested v2.3.0-202301121217 on a 20min drive.

I've used it with dongle mode on + passthrough on (as always)

Results:

1) Audio Multiplexing Stutter is, sadly, still present.

2) UI when using multiple audio sources (Waze Navigation+ Spotify) is noticeable laggier. Could be a coincidence but I don't recall having that much lag (screen refreshes slowly, don't respond to play/pause buttons, etc)

Do you want me to try another mode or anything in particular?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Same result as one of our testers. Surprising, cause the passthrough mode in this firmware is a pure byte per byte passthrough, no message parsing at all, it results in worse performance on these cars.
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Glad at least results are consistent among us. Tried it again today with 01181615, tried dongle on/off and passthrough on/off.

Same as yestarday, much worse audio performance and sluggish interface response.

I know its not AAW to blame for this, its the shi*ty NAC 2 HU, I truly hate it.

Do you want me to roll back to 2.1.0 or do you prefer me to stay in beta channel to try new approaches?

Regards!
[Android Auto General] italodance:
@Snirpo I have a weird problem it is very rare I mean its not usual.

Sometimes music volume is a bit down when AAWIRELESS connected , I guess my phone recognize AAwireless as a Bluetooth headphone.

How can I fix this?! I don't want to disconnect and connect just because of this but I did.

Moreover, as I said before, it is very rare not always.
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
@italodance

I use a Tasker script to increase to max volume on every connect.
[Android Auto General] italodance:
Well I just want to fix this random issue, what makes this and how to prevent this from repeating?!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Turn on dongle mode if it's not already enabled. This way AAWireless doesn't host a dummy handsfree profile anymore.
[Android Auto General] dom1926:
Buonasera, ieri ho ricevuto il mio AAW, ma oggi mi sono accorto che durante la ricezione o l'invio di una telefonata il dispositivo si disconnette, ed inizio una chiamata con il normale bluetooth del mio smartphone, connesso al mio Alpine ILX 903D. Dopo la chiamata, torna alla normale schermata di Android Auto, perché questo problema? C'è qualche impostazione sbagliata? Grazie.
[Android Auto General] dom1926:
Hi, i have the same problem! with xiaomi redmi note 9 pro, do you resolved it ? thanks.
[Android Auto General] alexalex1989:
I had problems with disconnects when the mobile signal changed. It is a known issue with Xiaomi / Poco phones. I can now confirm that it works after flashing the PixelExperience custom ROM.
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
@Snirpo

Just (perhaps) a stupid question: is it also possible to add another device to AAWireless Wifi?

For explanation: I ordered a dashcam. I did not receive the dash cam yet.

The dashcam provides the possibility to get connected to a WiFi router so that I can download the files and live view the dash cam. But it's not possible to be connected to AAWireless Wifi and have another hotspot or Wifi connection at the same time with my phone. Therefore my idea was to connect the dash cam to the same Wifi like my phone (in this case the AAWireless Wifi).
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Yes you can, AAWireless hosts a hotspot. Password of the hotspot is uppercased sha1 of the full SSID. I don't know what performance impact this has though. But I expect none, cause the wifi has more than enough bandwidth.
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Thank you Snirpo for the fast response.

I will try it out as soon as I have the dashcam.
[Android Auto General] JaGuR:
Have you tried a different cable ?

A decent quality cable
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
@Snirpo

Sorry to bother you, do you think you can drag me back to v2.1.0 or do you prefer me to stay on beta chanel to try any other firmware?
[Android Auto General] bloodhound42:
@Snirpo was the firmware 2.2.0 released ? My AA wireless is showing 2.1.0 only
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I enabled the normal beta version for you know. Can also put your back on production.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
2.2.0 only adds compatibility for European production devices. It's functionally same as 2.1.0. Hence not enabling it for everyone.
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Ok @Snirpo thanks! I will stay on develop fw by now, will let you kwow if I need to go back to production chanel.

Regards and thanks!
[Android Auto General] italodance:
There is a bug with new AAWireless app update, its Wi-Fi channel is 149 now and if you try to set it as auto it never connects anymore until reset it manually.

Edit: I could set it to higher range but Auto is impossible.
[Android Auto General] italodance:
By the way, is there any manual instructions for the App companion?!

I don't know what kind of settings these are.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
This is not a bug, but a feature. From extensive testing we decided to make channel 149 the default for countries where it's supported. Interference is less on the upper channels (that's probably also why it's the default on the MA1). We probably should remove "Auto" though, because the app will indeed automatically move the channel back to 149. In the previous app version "Auto" actually used to be hardcoded channel 40. It was never really "Auto" before. Should've been called "Default" or something. So it's now actually more "Auto" then it was before :)

However, not working on 149 is not correct. Can you give me the name of your device (AAWireless-xxx or AndroidAuto-AAWxxx)?

EDIT: We removed this functionality for now in app version 3.12.0. Apparently it causes issues for some phones. Surprising, because this functionality has been in open beta (8000+ users) for over a month with no reports of issues.
[Android Auto General] italodance:
Tnx for the update, I just saw it in Play Store.

But the bane of my device changed after resetting. (?!?!)

It was AAwireless-xxx , now changed to AndroidAuto-AAWxxx?!

It doesn't supposed to change?! And what's the difference?
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Just for correction: bane should be name.

It's the name of the WiFi network of AAWireless.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
AndroidAuto-AAWxxx means your device is in dongle mode, that's how it's triggered, by the AndroidAuto-xxx. That's what you normally want, and is default on new devices. The reason why we still have "normal" (native wireless HU emulation) mode as well has multiple reasons.

1. Device priority from AAWireless itself won't work in dongle mode, because how Android Auto is designed to work in dongle mode.

2. Because dongle mode didn't exist before the MA1 was released, so we kept it as an option to turn it off. This is to avoid potentially breaking people's setups when updating their device. When it's off, it will stay off on firmware update, until you reset the device or switch it off manually.

3. For some phones / cars, for some reason, in dongle mode it will just never start up AA. We have no idea why, it doesn't make any sense, we have yet to see a pattern. Turn it off and it will work fine. These kinds of issues come and go, so is probably just brokeness in Android Auto itself.
[Android Auto General] Diesel80:
Hello @Snirpo I'm from Italy, and having some issue.

The scenario information are:

Veycle Toyota RAV 4 2022

Device Xiaomi Mi 11T 5G - Android 12, latest official global miui 13 (No rooted)

Google android auto 8.6, trough playstore no beta channel

Device AAW51381c93

1) One time on 3/4 time the AA don't start and need to delete from car and phone the BT and Wifi network, cycle restart of phone, dongle or car

2) Sometime that's happens to while running AAwireless after 30min and have a start-stop AA every 5minutes or need to do the correction on step 1

I have read this forum these days ant find that the best combo is

- USB mode standard

- Dongle mode Off

- Passtrught off

- Start/stop off ( my car don't stop usb power when engine stop becouse hybrid engine)

- Wifi 5Ghz, put ch 149 and region "italy"

Last test i have done yesterday:

Clean data\cache for compaion app and Google AA

remove any reference for wifi-bt from car and phone

Put no battery restriction on Google AA and companion APP (also auto start)

Reset dongle to factory default (UPDATED, sorry i have forgot it first time i post)

Follow wizzard from companion app for first setup for dongle and Google AA.

Unit working flawless

Today morning AA didn't start in any way. Need to put phone on cable, AA started immediatly and after disconnect phone by cable and re-connect the dongle to same cable AA wireless start

I have notice during the falling start of AAWireless there usually one of two by BT or Wireless don't connect, and if l try manually ask for password (mostly of time wifi).

Can i try the new firmware fer EU region?

Is there a way i can provide some debug information?

PS: Cable connection is rock solid, and have used the cable provided by unit to test if was a cable problem.

With previus car (ford ecosport 2019) i have used same unit with another phone (Mi 10T) and the actual phone.

The behavior was the same. cable connection rock solid. AAW sometimes dont start until reset veycle too. I was thinking was a ford problem (very poor infotaiment). Now i think the problem is unit itself, but im pretty sure the unit is fully functional, and is something related to software.

Thank you in advance
[Android Auto General] italodance:
I noticed if I set Dongle Mode, it has delay in connection like 3 or more minutes, so I forget it.

And if I disable it, it connects in seconds but sometimes my phone recognize it as a Bluetooth headset which results in low volume (but like as I said sometimes).

Really confused. Any fix possible for this behavior?!

I moved to "Disabled Dongle Mode" anyway.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I'll test on Xiaomi Mi 10T on Monday now. It used to work fine, but I haven't tested for a while on Xiaomi. Delay of more than 3 minutes is not normal. But yeah in general, Xiaomi and Huawei phones are problematic with Android Auto Wireless.

EDIT: OK, I got the Xiaomi Mi 10T from the office. It still had MIUI 12.5 installed. Tested a few times, works perfectly fine. Upgraded to MIUI 13, it was a bit wonky at first, but tried multiple times from cold boot (with dongle mode enabled) and it seems fine. So I have no real explanation for these issues. We could replace the device, but I'm not sure it would help to be honest. Anyway, if you want to try, please contact support@aawireless.io for a replacement.

A video of how it should work (on AA version 8.6.625054):
[Android Auto General] urmanio23:
Maybe @Snirpo can help me with a question. My phone that the bug that makes AAw disconnect when cellular data fails or changes (roaming switching, etc)

Could there be an option to make AA start automatically after reconnecting to the phone? Right now I have to click/touch the AA icon on the infotainment screen.

I have a Peugeot 208, recent model and a POCO F4 with MIUI 13.

Thanks in advance.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I enabled the develop build for your device. Don't think it will help, but you can try :) Please report back it it helped or not.
[Android Auto General] tiunilohmu:
Does it work with 2021 Audi Q7?
[Android Auto General] TheUntouchable:
From the indiegogo site:

Don't know if its the same radio but I think you have to just buy and test it ;)
[Android Auto General] andy o:
Per Emil, the new CPU hasn't shipped yet, it's in June. This new issue affects orders from 4018 to 9600 and those batches have the original CPU.
[Android Auto General] Nudnik_de:
Kept the MTP with forced start setting. Will have a longer drive today, maybe after that I can report better if and how things are workinh
[Android Auto General] Nudnik_de:
Can report the Headunit still reboots. Just noticed that it happens more often when Spotify runs in fullscreen mode.
[Android Auto General] tiunilohmu:
His RS7 is MMI 2.5. Mine is MMI 3.0.
[Android Auto General] jaygz:
Unfortunately 1.2 didn't help with my 2019 Nissan Rogue issues. I still have been unable to use it. Here's hoping the next firmware update allows me to use mine.
[Android Auto General] fandino.ol:
I have a 16 nissan maxima (18 radio swapped) and a pixel 4XL and can confirm its working solid.

Mine is set to MTP and pass-through

It does not work with the cable that came with the box

Also I had to go to phone settings to select the BT device, because otherwise the app wasn't able to pair for some reason.

I think all nissan dash are pretty much the same OS look but they may have either Bosch or Clarion hardware so I think that could be a factor, between models

if devs need any logs or something to help nissan owners get it working, happy to help
[Android Auto General] Cheesethief:
Monoprice AtlasFlex USB C cables seem to work pretty good if anyone is having issues with the one that came with their device. I have tested 1.5' versions of AtlasFlex and their Essentials (1.6') Type-C to Type-A USB 2.0 cables and both seems to work for me. Note that the essentials cable has an odd, long USB C end.

I am not sure how good the new update is when it comes to disconnecting from AAWireless. When the car is in my garage it still catches it and tries to connect. Looks like I have to manually disable BT for a while on my phone for it to stop trying to connect. Not ideal, but more bearable than 1.0.0 was.