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[Android Auto General] mikiwinds:
I dude, i have a problem with aawireless (last version) oneplus 7 (android 10 no root) and spotify (paid, original no mod).

Android auto restarts by itself randomly if i use spotify. I tried dezeer but i have the same problem. Seat Leon 3rd Series restyling

If i don't use any music player i don't have problem.

How can i solve? thk
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Just installed the new 2.0.2 firmware, but still I can't get a connection without passthrough mode.
[Android Auto General] pancher.hu:
Hi,

I received my dongle in April. Had several issues in the beginning, but I tried all the best practices and I was able to get rid of the most. Only one, but a serious one remained. I tested different settings but always gave up and went back to wired connection.

Now I want to solve this issue finally. The symptom is stuttering sound followed by disconnection after a few minutes. The LED status does not change, only as soon as the HU shows "AA disconnected". The reconnection process starts automatically and in approx. 15 sec the connection works again. But this happens every 3-10 minutes.

Samsung S21, Toyota Highlander
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
That's correct, it's only a fix for instability in non-passthrough mode. 2.1.0 will contain the fix you're talking about.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
First thing to try is passthrough mode. If the same thing happens in passthrough mode it can either be a device defect or HU issue.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Thanks for the Info, guess I got this wrong.

Could you push the 2.1.0 version for me for testing?

In the quote above I send my deviceID

I have already installed the latest companion app from Firebase. If you need anything else for getting testet on a skoda fabia (2021) with Swift Infotainment system, feel free to contact me.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Sure! It's enabled now.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Thank you.

Will report back after testing.

//EDIT: Short test results with dev firmware 2.1.0:

- like almost instant connection without passthrough mode.

USB Mode = MTP with retry

Dongle Mode deactivated

- features like DPI setting works like it should

- weird behavior when running NEWS or Podcasts on the HU. the first seconds are through the phone speaker, then it switches to car speaker.

- same happens with google assist, when I activate it with "Hey google" it answers "what to do" on the phone and the result of my question is spoken out of the car radio.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Thanks. These audio issues also happen in passthrough mode?
[Android Auto General] leungalv:
Just to chime in in case this might be useful to anyone. I had been having a lot of disconnection issues with AAWireless on the following platform:

Car: 2021 Audi running MIB3 in Canada

AAWireless Firmware: 2.0.2

Device: Sony Xperia 5 II Global XQ-AS72 Asia Variant running Android 12

Cables: various one's including UGreen, Anker, CableCreation, Satechi - all of various lengths.

I just picked up a Sony Xperia 5 III North American Variant XQBQ62 running Android 12 connected AAWireless with a 0.4ft CableCreation 60W PD Fast Charge USB 3.1 10Gbps, have driven around in the same areas for about five days now, I haven't had a single disconnection.

The differences relevant in this situation would probably be the chipset, CPU, and GPU.

If there is any other information that users might find useful, let me know.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
No. With passthrough enabled on 2.0.1 or 2.0.2 I did not notice those sound issues. Then everything was coming out the car speakers.

Not sure if I should factory reset the device and test again?

Or do you have some steps I should try?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I'm a bit surprised your MIB3 doesn't have built in wireless AA :) I tested a VW Tiguan today with MIB3 and it had wireless AA, I only realised when I plugged out AAWireless and the Wireless AA connection kept running (so it was actually connected to the built in wireless AA) :X

Certainly good info though! May I have the name of your device?
[Android Auto General] leungalv:
You'd be surprised how much is missing from the Audi :cautious::cautious: lol

What do you mean name of the device?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Hm ok, that's odd, because we just pass on the data, not modifying it. Will have a look into it.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
I'll test it out again tomorrow after a factory reset and clean steps to reproduce.

It's kind of a hassle cos the oxygen 12 (android 12) firmware on the OnePlus 9 Pro is full of bugs, they still didn't push an update since 2 month for the EU...

could be phone issues as well. I'll check logcat and stuff on the phone side, tomorrow.
[Android Auto General] FrankieG64:
I've been running the dev firmware and app since 6/10 on a 2020 Ram 1500, 12" Uconnect, Samsung S10. Has been solid the entire time. Had a hiccup on Sunday when I got into the truck and there was no connection. Turned out that for some reason Uconnect would not establish a bluetooth connection with my phone. Once the h/u fully restarted after the truck sat for a while everything was back working. This has been the longest I've had AAW working without an issue since I got it.
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Ok. Just tested again. With dev firmware 2.1.0

Well, in the morning the device didn't connect at all. Pulled the plug and reconnected an our later, it works again.

About the audio issues, with passthrough mode all audio goes through the car speakers. Without passthrough all Google Assistent answers / Google Maps Navigation and notifications come only through the phone.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I guess you don't have "disable TTS sink" on?
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
"Disable TTS sink" was enabled when navigation, notifications etc. were only playing on the phone. (Thought this would make the Navigation voice louder)

With setting "Disable TTS sink" to disable, all sounds I just testet, like navigation, whatsapp and a call now go all through the car speakers. so all is fine so far.

What I did notice, maybe it's just me and my setup,, but I think all sounds volume, even music is very low. I do have the Volume on the HU maxed out but sound is maybe 50%

Vor reference, using volume rocker on the phone does nothing without passthrough mode, of course.
[Android Auto General] aallss:
Maybe it will be useful to someone: I have AAWireless and Samsung s20ultra, everything was almost fine, but there were rare outages (one place at home and at work - always). I was waiting for a new firmware with a channel change - it didn't help. I've already given up on it (outages are quite rare, it was more common in the center).

But then the entire memory of the phone clogged up and I cleaned it a little and reset it to the factory settings. There have been no outages for a week now.

From smoking different forums, the problems with reconnections concerned mainly Samsung.
[Android Auto General] kdub808:
You can go ahead and put me back on the stable branch. 1.8 does seem to be faster in booting up and connecting to my head unit but I would rather have the latest bug fixes.

AAWireless-CxcOpYfN

Thanks,

kdub808
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
done!
[Android Auto General] skiptowncat:
zfold3 connected to my audi MIB2 via wireless has issues with music stopping playing randomly and then won't start again and waze will just randomly stop navigation. Gone back to wired now and it's much better
[Android Auto General] rayboehm:
Could you possibly put me on the list for the dev firmware? I'm using a Pixel 6 Pro on a 22 Kia Stinger with the stock headunit. Trying to get off the passthrough mode, and would like to test out the newest version.

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Thanks
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Try passthrough mode, if same thing happens, clear cache and data of AA. If it then still happens, we need to dig further.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Sure, enabled!
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Ok. today was a bad day for my AAwireless, I guess...

Yesterday everything went perfect.

I came to the car in the morning today. Can't connect. even after a couple of unplugs didn't help. I left the device unplugged till a new dev firmware version popped up. after at least half an our of doing everything, I got it flashed. But still, car did not connect to the phone. then I deleted AA data and cache, connected with the cable again and afterwards switched to the Dongle it finally it connected...

...then, after shoping, I came back to the parking lot, no connection... I leave it for today...

Any Hints.

Oh, in between Device was blinking in all colors. green and blue, then it was solid blue, then it got solid green again, there was also red lights at some point...

we'll see how it works tomorrow morning.

BTW, is the RESET hole on the device doing the same then the factory reset option in the App?
[Android Auto General] jekobay:
Hi allzl, I have a problem: the device disconnects every time I drive to certain places when I get home, always the same places, any ideas?
[Android Auto General] aallss:
the problem of disconnections in the same places has been with me for 1.5 years. The firmware didn't help. Reset Samsung s 20 ultra to factory settings, there are no more disconnections.
[Android Auto General] jekobay:
Thanks, I don't want to reset my Note 20 but maybe this could be the solution for other problems
[Android Auto General] josefsch:
Disconnects in the same places are likely related to radio interferences. You can try to select the other frequency band (2.4 or 5 GHz) or another channel in the settings of the AAWireless companion app. Other users in previous posts also reported successfully shielding the AAWireless device by wrapping it in thin metallic foils, energy bar covers, etc.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Do you have Uconnect by any chance?
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
No. I'm driving a 2022 Skoda Fabia IV with Swing infotainment system. If that helps.
[Android Auto General] bergasha1:
Could I also be added to the test firmware please

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I had it running perfectly then I got the steady green light of death. Recieved my replacment the other day but it keeps crashing after about one minute. Steady blue light but I have to unplug and re plug to get it to connect again for about a minute.

Any suggestions?

thanks
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Can you send in a bug report via the app?
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Hi!

I' ve been struggling to update to v2.0.2 (from 2.0.1).

After downloading, when I hit update, it inmediately reports "update failed" and device hangs in full white led (have to unplug and plug to recover). Tried several times (phone restart, etc) to no luck.

¿¿¿Any hints???

PS: Device ID: AndroidAuto-AAW0BFP6ObA
[Android Auto General] Oversemper:
Hi, Everybody! MB GLC (first gen prior to restyle)+Sony 1 mark 3 (Android 12)+first gen AA Wireless (2.02 firmw, AAWvzwqPWSp) works pretty much perfectly with the latest updates everywhere safe for one thing. GPS. It is not documented anywhere clearly. My car has GPS of its own and when I connect phone by usb and even place it inside elbow rest compartment it has PERFECT GPS reception. Car's position, heading and speed is no more than 1 second late on the screen. It is much better than when the phone is used without AA with a holder on the windshield. There are NEVER "looking for GPS signal" unless I'm driving in a tunnel or under some roof.

But when I plug AA Wireless either in a dongle mode or non-dongle mode, passthrough/non-passthrough mode, the position regularly (but not constantly, like 50/50 of times) becomes crazy. Rotation when standing at a red light. Jumps. "Looking for GPS signal" with the car's position pointer being gray (google maps). How to fix it? Put the phone under the windshield. I don't have to light the screen or anything. It is not power saving when the screen is off. Just putting the phone where GPS signal is good makes AA Wireless always the same as when the phones is used without AA on the windshield holder, but never as good as with a USB AA with the phone being buried deep inside where no GPS signal can make it's way. What conclusion can be made of it? With AA Wireless the GPS signal is often (not always) received not from the car's headunit like with USB AA, but from the phone's GPS antenna. Dear, Devs. If you run a new campaign for "adding GPS signal forced from car's headunit" I will support you with USD 100. I swear! It is the last thing to fix to make it an absolute copy of the USB AA.

BTW. I've never used the tap restriction which messes with GPS.
[Android Auto General] TaxiTom:
I got mine 2 days ago and struggled with the instalation, could not connect the head unit. After having spent hours on it, I realized that just drawing power from the cig.-lighter might cause the problem and used instead the USB-port from my ZENEC head unit. From there immediate hookup and running smooth. A great product! Yet for those who have older cars w/o data-USB port be advised you need to put the dongle on the head unit usb otherwise it won't work.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
What an obvious finding ! :D
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
AAWireless does not influence GPS in any way when passthrough is enabled or "remove tap restriction" is disabled in non passthrough mode.

I'm not sure why this happens, only thing I can imagine is the car not advertising it's internal GPS, and both in wired and wireless mode it actually using the GPS from the phone. It's possible (I guess) the GPS signal is worse because of the wifi signal interfering with GPS? Seems pretty far fetched though.

I can see from debug logs if the car is broadcasting a gps service. If you shoot in a bug report via the app, I'll check.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Believe me, he's not the first :)
[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
I guess I sent you 3 reports.

No issues today morning. Everything is connected and fine....

Will start recording when I drive home later today and send it.

At lunch break, I decided to turn BT an WLAN in the phone off, before I got to the car.

Turned on the Car, then BT and WLAN again - flawless connection.

after finishing time I left everything on, went to the car, no connection. And the LED went through all colors, solid and blinking to red light. I turned of the car, BT and WLAN, unplugged AAWireless, waited a few minutes, plugged in the AAWireless, turned BT and WLAN on, started the car. It took a while, but everything got connected again.

Hope you see something in the logs or have a hint.

Maybe Android 12 on OnePlus 9 Pro removes known connections after a while and can't find it again?
[Android Auto General] Spoonoid:
Exactly the same here sadly.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Start/stop enabled by any chance?

EDIT: Not enabled I see. Using the latest app? (2.17.0)

Isn't the LED yellow btw? White doesn't really make sense.
[Android Auto General] Spoonoid:
Not enabled indeed.

App version 2.17.0 confirmed.

The LED might be more yellow than white, kinda hard to be sure.

Thanks for checking!
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Same here:

Start/Stop => Disabled

App Version => 2.17.0

Led Colour => It might be light yellow instead of white

Thanks for your support Snirpo!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Can you possibly download the Alpha app from: https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/5196d378c8e122d7 . This version has debug logs enabled you I can see what's happening (or not happening in this case :) ).
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Of course!

Downloaded and installed alpha version.

Will test tonight when I get back home and report back.

Thanks again!
[Android Auto General] elbubi:
Tried failed update with dev version, luckily now you'll be able to see whats going wrong.

Thanks Snirpo!
[Android Auto General] Marsou77:
Hi there!

I'm now struggling with my unit.

Latest firmware 2.0.2, app 2.17.0 with a Pixel 6 running Android 12 June Update and a Peugeot 208 I

When playing music with Spotify, the AA interface is really laggy and not a joy to use. When stopping music, the UI is as smooth as when my phone is wired.

I tried a lot of things to solve the issue like resetting the unit (my unit ID changed everything time :O), dongle mode, passthrough... And same thing happened.

I tried AA directly connected with my phone and everything went like it should, so, I think there is something weird with AAWireless and my phone. I remember I didn't suffer from this with firmware 1.8.0 (if I can downgrade my unit to this version to check 👀)

I tried with my girlfriend phone Galaxy A7 and there is no problem at all, Spotify and stock music player doesn't slow down the UI.

Tomorrow I will try to listen music with another app from my Pixel.

I also recorded a log that I didn't sent, I'm waiting the green light to do so.

While the unit recorded logs, I scrolled on Maps, then played music with Spotify, scrolled again on Maps, then stopped the playback and scrolled another time.

In case It can help here is my unit ID: AndroidAuto-AAWuoBcjksX

Thank you in advance for your help!
[Android Auto General] mackus44:
Is there anyone here who uses the box in an Audi A3 8Y built in 2020? Problems? Experience?
[Android Auto General] Spindlewood:
I'm an AAWireless beta tester and have a 2018 Audi SQ5. I support AAWireless on Audi vehicles through Audiworkd and Audizine forums (and here). I haven't been contacted by anyone yet with the touchscreen interface. Hopefully that's good news. Since AAWireless works well on my 2018 SQ5 MMI, I'm hoping that they haven't changed the MMI code significantly beneath the surface.
[Android Auto General] InnocentSmith:
Good to hear, waiting for mine. Can you share where you placed the AAWireless unit? How long is the connection time for the Subaru system fro mstartup until fully fucntional?
[Android Auto General] andy o:
Just got mine too, Los Angeles area. Went almost smoothly, but maybe for cars like Mazdas it should ask to try passthrough after the error message that it can't connect cause if I hadn't seen the info beforehand here I would have probably taken significantly longer to figure it out myself. Otherwise, it's working great on my 2016 Mazda 3.
[Android Auto General] zim2dive:
I tried searching, but didn't see anything I haven't tried..

OnePlus 7T (still waiting for a stable OTA for Android 11).

I had to manually force the BT connection to get thru the initial setup, but now I connect reliably to the AAW.

The problem I have now is that I lose mobile data when connected to the WiFi from AAW.

I have gone in to the Android/Developer settings and have "Mobile data always active" enabled, but that did not make a difference.. still no mobile connection.

Guessing this is a well known problem?

thanks!

Mike
[Android Auto General] tallleroy:
Search for Wi-Fi Advanced Settings on your phone. If there is an entry called "Switch to mobile data", enable that. That setting is on my Android 9, 10 and 11 phones.
[Android Auto General] mapinkerton:
It is definitely an issue for Mazda cars running the official MZD Connect headunit software, I encountered the same on my 2016 Mazda 6. Fortunately, the dev team has already identified the cause of the problem and should have a fix in the first software OTA.

In the mean time, passthrough mode works as an effective workaround. Once the fix is released, we should be able to disable passthrough mode and use the experimental features (change DPI, audio sync, etc) as well. :)
[Android Auto General] isketerol:
Pretty much the same experience here. It worked great the first night I got it with no fiddle required. Then it worked for about 20 km on another trip and died. It has not worked since.

I have tried different cables and two different phones. I am really frustrated that there's no logical explanation for why it should stop working.

I saw a remark that the first OTA update will address the issues we have with Mazda not working. No word on when that OTA is happening tho.

Mazda CX-5 2018 with the latest firmware updates. Google Pixel 5 and One Plus 6.
[Android Auto General] mapinkerton:
Have you tried using the companion app to change to passthrough mode? That should work (in theory) on your setup even with the current software. In "normal" mode there is a known timing issue that would only work occasionally for me exactly like you've described, but "passthrough" works consistently in my case.

edit: FWIW, I had trouble switching to passthrough mode at first. If you have issues, you may try while plugging the device into a power source other than the car.
[Android Auto General] yabbacarnation:
Connected instantly out of the box to my 2016 Hyundai i30 via my Samsung S20. Thanks Emil
[Android Auto General] yabbacarnation:
Working perfectly out of the box on my 2016 i30 with a Samsung Galaxy S20 with Android 11
[Android Auto General] andy o:
An Indiegogo update just went up, the OTA update apparently is almost ready and will go up next week and fix the Mazda issue.
[Android Auto General] jahandy:
The fact that my Leaf's USB is powered all the time and thus keeps AAW running and possibly melting my EV-range is driving me nuts, too.

Since the USB port is right next to the car's power button I now unplug AAW whenever I get out and leave the cable dangling right in front of the port. So whenever I feel I need AAW I just plug it in and wait a few seconds for it to boot before I start driving. Still way better than having to fish for my phone and plugging that in.

Maybe a USB on/off switch can be an option if that isn't too manual!? ;-)

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[Android Auto General] djbolden:
Just chiming in with another me too, works great on my 2014 F-150 FX4 that's been upgraded to have Sync3.
[Android Auto General] sympapa:
Hi !

I am the owner of Magane 4 ph 1.

What your R-link 2 system version ?

I funded this project, but I'm worried while waiting for this device to arrive because the aa gateway app doesn't work on my R-link 2 system.
[Android Auto General] usedr:
Could someone try this fix for the no internet connection problem when using Xiaomi Phones and MIUI?

https://xdaforums.com/t/aawireless-...s-connected-wirelessly.4252187/#post-84789945
[Android Auto General] zim2dive:
That seems to have done the trick, thanks!!
[Android Auto General] Spindlewood:
The device uses Max 100mA or so according to the developers. This should have a very small impact on the batteries, unless left for many days. Do some math and it should ease any anxiety.
[Android Auto General] jbeuree:
I have a similar problem with our pacifica hybrid. It seems to keep the usb port powered on for an oddly long time. Most of the electronics turn off with the door opening, but not the usb port for some reason. Not so much worried about the effect on the car battery as the effect on my phone staying connected to the car with AA running when I'm home. Would be nice if the unit could detect this and turn off the wifi/bluetooth to force the phone to disconnect.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
That might be a better explanation indeed.
[Android Auto General] bergasha1:
Bugreport sent, Pretty sure it's my second faulty unit as the first one did not have this issue.

Thanks
[Android Auto General] skiptowncat:
Update and passthrough seems to have cleared most issues. The only on I have no is music will not restart after a phone call. The music is playing but no sound comes out, I have to switch to radio or media input and then back to AA for sound to come out
[Android Auto General] -Loom-:
Whoever did the german translation of the app: You might want to look at some of the strings again, like "Standart" -> "Standard", "Gepairte Smartphones" -> "Gekoppelte Smartphones" and much more. . It looks rather sloppy this way.