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[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Blue means the AA connection is active. My guess is that for some reason AAW disconnects, interference or otherwise. Then AAW reconnects, but the HU does not accept/show the new connection. Possibly it does not autofocus. Is there somewhere in the HU an Android Auto button where you can get it to manually focus?

What's the Bluetooth name of the device? So I can the hardware model and settings
[Android Auto General] peter_baz:
Thank you for your prompt reply!

The BT name is AAWireless-9ce42493.

Please note that it lights light blue after many disconnects - different than the dark blue that is on when it's connected normally.

Yes, on the HU I can press the "map" button that normally takes me to AA but it prompt a message like "you need to connect to AA first". There is normally also an option in "menu" but it's missing(it's there only when there is an AA connection).

Thank you very much for your time!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
It the light blue more like dim white? Can you take a picture next time its in this state?
[Android Auto General] peter_baz:
Yes, you could call it white but it has a bit of blue as well.

When you power on the AAW, it first light up this whitish light for an instant before going green.

I will post a photo next time it happens.

Thank you!
[Android Auto General] peter_baz:
Hello again,

Please see the attached picture of the "light blue - whitish light"

I have also sent a bug report via the app after the disconnect.

AAWireless-9ce42493

Thank you so much
[Android Auto General] biglou29:
Hi all

I don't believe this is an AA wireless issue but I thought I'd try my luck with the brains trust here to see if anyone has a solution.

I recently upgraded from a Z Flip 3 to a Z Flip 6.

The problem I'm experiencing is that when Android Auto starts up it toggles off the Audio toggle on the phone. This results in me not being able to use any voice commands or hear navigation or google assistant sounds. Music through Spotify etc works fine.

I can manually turn on the Audio toggle on the phone and it will fix the issue, but I need to do this every time AA starts up. I didn't have to do this with the Z Flip 3.

When using the old phone, you'd see and Audio Disconnected then Audio Connected prompt on the car's head unit when AA would start. Now I just get Audio Disconnected until I manually intervene.

I've tried all the standard fixes of disconnecting devices from car, factory resetting AA wireless, changing BT device type from other to speaker/headphones etc.

The issue occurs on both wired and wireless AA, hence why I said don't believe it's an issue with AA wireless.

Just hoping someone on here has experienced same issue and has found a solution.

Thanks.
[Android Auto General] biglou29:
An inconsistent fix I've found is to create a routine when Android Auto is activated to have the phone disconnect from the car, which it will then automatically attempt to reconnect via BT and in doing so re-enables both the call and audio toggles in the phone BT settings.

The inconsistentcy is in the routine activating when it should.

Such a random issue but it appears as though these toggles are turning on and off when switching between connected devices ie: car and android auto.

No idea why it happens on both wires and wireless AA.

Edit: even though this worked for toggling the switch off and on, eventually the voice functions stopped working altogether, even when toggling manually witched worked fine before. Hopefully is is just a bug for a new device but had to factory teset my phone just to get back to whwre I was a few hours earlier.
[Android Auto General] pnsdhrn:
AAWireless for S2A in Android 14

I have purchased AAWireless and set up in my car head unit(Blaupunkt SanAndreas 970 with Android Auto Wireless)and Android 14 Phone(Honor Magic V2 Fold).As per the set up description in the Reddit I could manage connection of AAWireless with the the WiFi and AAWireless Bluetooth connections of Blaupunkt Head Unit turned off.But once AAWireless is got connected, immediately the WiFi and Bluetooth of Blaupunkt unit gets on spontaneously turned on and the AAWireless connection turns off.How I can turn off the WiFi and Bluetooth connections of the Head Unit turn off permanently?

Also I installed S2A v3.7 in the phone with Kinginstaller.But S2A is not showing in the Car screen.Why?
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
If your head unit is already Android Auto wireless compatible, why use AAWireless dongle ???:unsure:
[Android Auto General] pnsdhrn:
In order to play videos for children in Car Screen while in Android Auto.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Hard to see if its dim white. If it's the same dim white as when just plugging in the device (before it goes solid green), then it may be defective.
[Android Auto General] tecno321:
Hello guys, What is the newest model? Thanks
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Same model, but top one is made in China, bottom is made in EU. Bottom one is newer.
[Android Auto General] deadman1717:
Funny thing is that the notification bell in the navigation bar is working and opens notifications when clicked on.

Do you have any idea what behavior on the user/phone side exactly triggers this issue?
[Android Auto General] bdalenoord:
That was my thought as well when I was able to reproduce it on another head unit.
[Android Auto General] Incredible_Max:
Hi,

I also received my AAWireless on the weekend, but as I have a Xiaomi Smartphone I can't get an internet connection via cellular when connected to the wifi network.

I also can't change the settings through the companion app while it works on my old LG phone.

Does anyone know whether it is possible to use an existing wifi hotspot (with an internet connection)? Could either use the one from the car, another phone, or the phone connected to AAWIreless. I thought this would be possible, but could not find an option in the settings to change the network.
[Android Auto General] SergeyBezverhiy:
I've got AAwireless-thLW5839 and Technisat HU (MST2_EU_SK_ZR_P0478T).

Can I also test this fix?
[Android Auto General] tallleroy:
Sorry, Hyundai / Kia has not yet enabled the use of the full screen for Android Auto. I have had four software configurations so far with my Palisade. None allow for use of the full screen.

You can see a bit more by setting DPI to 103 in the AAWireless config app. Android auto will show two panes in the left 2/3 of the screen, and you can show something provided by Hyundai on the right third of the screen.
[Android Auto General] HofaTheRipper:
Update: Had no reboots since the update. (I drove 300km since that)
[Android Auto General] DerFremde:
Got mine last week, works pretty good for me. But most of the time I have to connect manually to the AAWireless-xyz123 bluetooth to start AA. Is there any way to force the Bluetooth connection?

Car is a Skoda Kodiaq, phone a Pixel 3a.
[Android Auto General] DAVIZINHO:
I received mine to spain today (Contribution ID: 4267)

My car is a honda civic 2018 type-r and conects fine.

It gave me some errors in the setup procees (i think google assistant is the problem) but after this conects fine with the car and no problem.

My phone is a xiaomi mi mix2s with android 10 and the problem is not internet connection, but i will try to solve it tomorrow with developers function.

The problem in my case is something that other guys say in this forum.

Now the device create the wifi hotspot and the phone conect to this hotspot.

This is a problem for me becasue I use my phone as a hotspot for other devices in my car (a mobile for speedcams, the radio unit to standalone spotify)

I want to mantain the hotspot in the phone and the device conect to it. its important to me to know if this will be a future feature. if its imposible i will sell the device now :-(

thanks a lot
[Android Auto General] thitar:
Hi, I probably do something wrong, but half the options of the Settings page of the app are greyed out. So I need to do something to activate them?

Thanks for your help.
[Android Auto General] HofaTheRipper:
i think the options are only useable without activating passthrough mode...
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Exactly :)
[Android Auto General] qvert:
is it normal that in the first 2-3minutes my spotify music + navigation sound sometimes stutter?

after 2-3 minutes it's gone

It's fine for me, nothing too worry but still wanted to report
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Normally not no. What's your device name? (AAWireless-xxxx)
[Android Auto General] qvert:
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[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Oh I see you're still on 1.1.0, you can try to update to 1.2.3 to see if that makes it better.
[Android Auto General] qvert:
strange i thought i already did... just did now (or does resetting device removes the OTA too?)

so seems the bug is gone now, but what i now have is when i use audible instead of spotiy my headunit crashes

even though i have a adjust timestamp settings on

its a VAG one, seat leon from 2020
[Android Auto General] vizzze:
Updated and tested a bit.

I previously updated the software of the headunit of my VW from 359 to 369 and this already improved greatly on technisat; on 359 i had frequently headunit reboots and sound stuttering, with 369 i had a single headunit reboot in a week.

With this specific MIB2 version i didn't have a single headunit reboot or any kind of problems, great user experience.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Your wifi request is possible now, I do this with my S20+, I had a routine previously for hotspot on when I connected to the car wifi, and it all still works after setting up the AAW device. It's fine around town but on longer trips I need the cable to provide power, until I get a decent wireless charging setup going.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
After trying the VAG fix I haven't had a reboot, but I will try and make that happen, not been driving that much, but the stuttering of the music at times continues.
[Android Auto General] DAVIZINHO:
thanks a lot i will try,

My problem now is my xiaomi not have internet while conected to the aawireless, but im changing the rom now and i think this will works.

the power is not a problem, the car have a qi charger.

thanks
[Android Auto General] Virnik0:
I received my own yesterday. It is even smaller than i thought. Connection works, but so far, it didn't start automatically. I had to run AAWireless APP and select to check connected device, then it connects. I suspect BT connection conflict between BT of my car, watches, camera and AAWireless. Will give it more testing, it is very early to judge.
[Android Auto General] mack0a:
The same for me, solid green light, it never goes beyond booting.

I have already tried rebooting the device with a 5-second press, flashing it with DRAM fix - no effect so far.

Is it bricked? It still can be flashed, so maybe there's hope. Is there any alternative firmware that I can "unbrick" it with?
[Android Auto General] DAVIZINHO:
In my case all the problems with internet are the xiaomi.eu rom. I change the rom and use a lineageOS and works perfect.
[Android Auto General] Notor1ouS-:
which android version was your Xioami eu rom?
[Android Auto General] DAVIZINHO:
Last xiaomi.eu beta version for xiaomi mix2s

Android 10
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
We fixed the "VW Headunit crashing on skipping tracks" issue now completely. Confirmed it's a bug on the HU side, latency makes it worse. We will probably push a new firmware by the end of this week.

I will also submit a bug report to Google, cause they can fix/workaround this issue as well for cabled users.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
I was just trying to do something other than music streaming in the Polo and the AAW box rebooted. Last time I was trying to hear a message using AA, this time I was in the phone section of the headunit, and this time I have the VAG specific FW, so for me nothing has changed.

Hopefully I just submitted a bug report just afterwards from Fql2KAtB
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I'll put your device on the new version so you can check. However I see you have a Harman and Delphi headunit, so these are probably unrelated. Your headunit doesn't reboot, but AAW itself restarts?
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Thanks, I'll check in the car soon, and yes, this is a Delphi unit in this car. Did my logs come through?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Sadly the logs haven't arrived. The log sending functionality is utter sh*t right now. We really have to improve it, but so much other stuff to do :( Could you try again?
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
I'll try in a few minutes, almost back to the car
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Logs submitted again, device should be Fql2KAtB
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Ok, I applied the update on the way home and can report some strange behaviour afterwards. I just submitted (hopefully) logs again just now.

So I applied the update and decided to ask Google for a song, which I can't recall being a reboot issue, just wanted to hear a song. I did notice that the Assistant's voice was choppy, but the music was fine. Then I realised that I could no longer change the volume of the music. The volume button only affected the Assistant volume, like you can do when the Assistant is talking.

So I asked some questions and always got the choppy Assistant voice.

When I got home I did another log submission and the AAW rebooted. Put the music back on and the volume works for the music. Asked a question, choppy Assistant and the volume again is stuck for the Assistant.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Got your logs, will check them later. These issues seem completely unrelated. I suppose you did try multiple cables and tried passthrough mode? Also please try 2.4ghz WiFi and make sure debug logging is off (cause this hurts performance alot, and might cause very odd issues).
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Ok, I'm using a known good cable, I don't think the car likes passthrough but I'll try that and the wifi too.

Just went for a quick drive and same thing happens when I get a notification to listen to, buggy voice and volume issue. Strangely the music volume decreases afterwards, it goes quieter than it was set to.
[Android Auto General] Marshy33:
My good cable gets lots of disconnections with AAwireless. The only cable that has been solid for me is the one that came with AAwireless.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
I'll switch to that one, it's what I'm using in the other car, that doesn't get as much use at the moment. Need to go for a decent drive so I'll try all this later
[Android Auto General] Nudnik_de:
I'm on the AAWireless VAG software version (1.3?) provided by Snirpo and my VW MIB2 Technisat PQ is on SW 475. Today I had the first headunit reboot since I updates both.

Interesting observation: it's the first time it rebooted during playing a song on spotify and not when changing songs...
[Android Auto General] valeri_s_k:
Got my unit yestarday, setup was easy and for minute or two.

Just after setup, updated to newest version.

Car/HU - VW passat 2017/MIB2 - ZR Technisat/Preh

Phone - Xiaomi Mi 9T pro with custom AOSP Rom

Before receiving AAW unit I have used TV stick which was slow ( more than 2 minutes total time for AA to appear). Otherwise good for most of the time, but not always - tv stick crashed from time to time.

First observations after few short drives, total abt 30 minutes:

- Faster than expected - abt.20 seconds - AA appears on the HU display only few seconds after phone connected to car BT.

- stable connection, no HU or AAWireles unit crashes/reboots so far. By the way never had HU crashes when on wired connection or when used tv stick as well.

- play music (Spotify) with no interruptions.

- steering wheel buttons operating as usual.

In general could not notice difference between wired and wireless connection.

Hope it will stay stable on longer drives too.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Doing a lot more driving than usual this evening, got one more trip to go.

Just now I went for a drive, swapped to 2.4ghz and used the AAW cable. Same new issues with Assistant and volume.

On the way back I enabled passthrough, and those issues are gone. I thought that passthrough was a stop-gap type of thing and it was best to try and use MTP or Direct (I was using Direct), but I"m happy with passthrough as l just want a wireless experience, not to change DPI or anything.

So I'll keep it on Passthrough and 2.4ghz for the first half of my next trip, which is going into the area it loves to sktip the song, and then let it go onto 5ghz for the way home and see how it goes.

Just to be clear I've never had the Assistant volume issue until I got the experimental FW this afternoon.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Went for a bit more of a drive. The short drive I did earlier with the same same settings did get a tiny hiccup in the music, but on this drive I didn't get one music drop out and I always do on that route, so that was good.

The Assistant seems to have more trouble hearing me? On the way there I was on 2.4 and I turned it off for the return but still had issues being heard and understood, couldn't really reply to notifications being read to me.

Just now on the way home as well I realised the map was not smooth. It seemed to be keeping up, but not smoothly anymore, this was on 5ghz.

Tomorrow I'll put it on 2.4ghz again and test some more.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
We have some optimizations for 2.4ghz in the next version, that might help. The issues you are having are a bit odd though, hard to explain them. Almost sounds like the WiFi connection is just terrible.
[Android Auto General] Super Josh:
Hi All,

Received my shiny AAW unit today and it looks great :)

I thought that I would update the firmware first before trying to connect it to my headunit in the car.

When I connect the app to the unit and go in to the OTA update screen it states that I'm on version 1.2.1 but it says no update available. I thought v1.2.3 was already released? Or am I missing something?

Cheers,

Josh
[Android Auto General] micro2112:
So i updated my 2nd batch unit yesterday, and all was working fine. Then i parked and walked away from the running car to pick up the kids and the AAW will no longer connect.

I think its constantly power cycling because the app will show the settings, then they grey out, and come back.

Issue continued this morning.

Honda Odyssey, OnePlus 5t - Android 11.
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
Drove to work this morning and there were gaps in the music again in the same area as usual, but where there wasn't any last night. A lot more traffic, so I was going a lot slower. Watching the map it was laggy, then catching up, then laggy, then catching up. I went past a road and I could see on the map I had not reached it yet, then it jumped ahead.

I was able to ask for a song successfully this morning.

On the way home I'll switch back to 2.4gha and observe.
[Android Auto General] vizzze:
On my car the GPS/Maps issue was caused by the "Remove tap restriction" option that was enabled. If you have it enabled, try without.

On my VW car the gaps in the music were resolved updating the headunit software, so it was definitely not aawireless problem in my case
[Android Auto General] Genebaby:
What headunit and software do you have? I've never had the tap restriction on, I am running very exeperimental VAG FW, which gave me other issues, which were resolved by using the Passthrough method, which looks to be giving GPS issues on top.

Soon I'll drive it home and test again, then I'll put it back to Direct and double check the GPS in the normal scenario.
[Android Auto General] vizzze:
Technisat unit: MST2_EU_VW_ZR_P0369
[Android Auto General] charlie234:
Any update with looking into this working with Mazda 2016 cx5's with the oem aa head unit or am I just out of luck with this one?
[Android Auto General] fese:
Hello Snirpo,

can you give us more technical details, how you could fix it? Is the bug report public available?

I'm just curious about that, because I'm struggling with this bug years before AAWireless. Android Auto music playback on my Technisat MIB2 was always unstable. It was not only happen on skipping a song. Different cables and phones never fixed it. I also reported this issue, but there it looked like it only a few people faced this bug.

Recently I did the unofficial firmware update from 0253 to 0478, only because of the hope that this bug is fixed there. I didn't drove a long distance to make proper conclusion about stability, but since the update I never faced any reboot.

After the MIB2 update I observed another issue with AAWireless. If I keep AAWireless connected to the USB port (I'm not sure if USB power is always on?), on the next car trip it can happen that the HU can't recognize any Android Auto device. It always tries to connect, but then it will abort. Also my smartphone will not work in this scenario via cable. After a power cycle of the HU, the problem is gone. As a workaround I always unconnect AAWireless after a trip and plug it in when I start the ignition. I also tried different USB Modes without success. My AAWireless ID is "AAWireless-eMgvu2dt".

Thank you very much for a great product! I really appreciated your work and open communication.
[Android Auto General] Synman:
I'm sure this has been covered but I wanted to provide some updates experience wise.

The companion app really needs some TLC lifecycle / state wise. Half the time I open it, it wants to go through the initial setup process even though I have an AAW registered. It also put a persistent notification on my notification stack the other day about "setting up AAW" and the only way I could get rid of it was to reboot my Pixel 5.

Something else I noticed on my Hyundai Sonata was related to the "multiple touch/tap" option and YT Music playback. With that dev option enabled, AA does not receive next track / progression info and causes all kinds of visual / playlist selection funkiness. Since I don't have a specific need for this feature I disabled it (honestly have no clue what it is intended for TBT) and playback track change sink is far more reliable...

I do like the auto start feature released recently. Having my HU open AA automatically is a nice bonus. It works without issue about 90% of the time.

Still am having to deal with latent WI-FI and BT connections if I get anywhere near my car HOURS after shutting it down. Beyond unplugging my AAW, the only other way I am able to prevent AAW from stealing my active WI-Fi connection post shutdown is to toggle both Wi-Fi and BT off on my Pixel 5 and only re-enable Wi-Fi. If I disable Wi-Fi and leave BT on, something (I'm assuming AA) automatically re-enables Wi-Fi and it re-connects to the AAW hotspot.

Really looking forward to some updates to address this one. I expected to see an update on Indiegogo about it, but the last update was focused on just shipment updates. I have not reviewed all the update in this thread since I last visited so perhaps I've missed some updates here too.... although I do know it was acknowledged the team is still working out some kinks / issues with this use case.
[Android Auto General] Marshy33:
Wow someone who has faced all the struggles I have. I was originally on software 245 and had all the issues you had. Upgrade to 253 made it a little bit better and I'm now on 475 which is far more stable, but I could still force a headunit crash if I tried.

Now using the new version snirpo has made and I can confirm I cannot force the headunit to crash after lots of trying!

As for you other point regarding not being able to connect the in the 2nd trip, I had this issue when on 253 using an old phone always plugged into the car. I would have to pull the usb and replug to get it working again. But in my quest to stop the reboots i used vcds/obdeleven to see if there were any settings I could change. There was one in 5F byte 19 usb. Changing that from ipod_usb to full meant android auto booted everytime without me having to pull the usb. (It had no effects on the crashing headunit)
[Android Auto General] Prpa:
Hi, I have Skoda Octavia 3fl with MST2_EU_SK_ZR_P0468T version. Can you check if there is some update?

Thanks!