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[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Enabled 2.1.0, can you confirm if this fixes it? If the app doesn't show a device, the pairing from phone to the device is somehow lost. Neither the device or app controls this. So I have no clue why this happens.
[Android Auto General] Maverick0984:
I'll give it a shot when I get back in the car, thanks.

If I look now, not in my vehicle, the pairing isn't lost. Just to confirm, that isn't happening every time. What's happening every time is things generally not working and the generally not working is for various reasons.

It's highly unlikely that the blame is my phone forgetting Bluetooth pairings on the regular spontaneously.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I'm not saying your phone is to blame perse. But the only reason the app will show no paired devices is when there are actually no paired devices, because the list of devices in the app is based on the paired Bluetooth devices. Why it gets unpaired, that's a mystery though... A lost pairing on the device side can potentially also cause the phone side to remove the device. But we are not doing this without user interaction.
[Android Auto General] notorious.dds:
Hi all...

I posted this over in "Android Auto General", but it hasn't gotten any replies yet so I figured I'd check here.

Essentially, I'm trying to use my AAWireless dongle in my new car that happens to have integrated Wireless Android Auto. Why you might ask???...because I used my AAWireless dongle in my old car and I really like the "disable audio sink" option. However, I can't make the dongle work in the new car because its native wireless connection always takes precedence. And, obvious to most of you, the "disable audio sink" option doesn't exist with standard AA connections.

So my questions are:

Is it possible to use AAWireless in a car that has integrated wireless android auto?

If not, is it possible to disable the audio sink in some other way? (My phone is rooted, for what it's worth.)

Thanks!
[Android Auto General] Kingcool88:
Hi @Snirpo

I'm having issues 50% of the time to connect since updating to 3.2.1, running on a Pixel 8 PRO (Android 14)in our Volvo XC90 2022. Before update the phone connected 10/10 times, and worked like a Sharm.

If I disable then enable Bluetooth again, aawireless connects as it should.

The car connects to the phone everytime, so it's something with aawireless.

My device is AAWiPYNUoS1
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Downgraded your device to 3.1, please verify if the problem is gone.
[Android Auto General] Kingcool88:
Will check in 1h and reply back. Tnx for fast answer!

Edit: So far so good :)
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
If you can disable the native wireless connection on the head unit, then yes. Otherwise no, it will conflict. May start sometimes on the native connection, sometimes on AAWireless, depending on which is faster.
[Android Auto General] sfm_es:
Are you having troubles when you power off the car and shortly after you power it on again? (as when you park only for picking something at a shop and the resume your trip)

In my case, AAWireless won't reconnect correctly. Only if enough time has passed since I turned off the car, AAW will connect correctly.
[Android Auto General] GOFTC:
No problems with my devices on reconnect, either immediately or after some time. My only grief are the very sporadic disconnections (interference caused?). When this happens, the only way to recover is to reboot the car head unit (by presing and holding for 2-3 seconds the volume knob/reset control of the head uint)
[Android Auto General] aeropiloot:
I have an issue with a 2017 Suzuki Vitara (Bosch SLDA head unit) and gen2 AAWireless bought a few weeks ago on Amazon. AAWireless is on firmware 3.2.1 and the head unit is version 1890. With OnePlus 6 everything works perfectly, Android Auto works great and every time. But when I try to connect my iPhone AAWireless LED just keeps blinking green then solid green and then blinking green again. The phone shows it is connected to AAWireless but the car will not show CarPlay. I have tried dongle mode on/off and passthrough on/off in every combination but nothing helps. just blinking -> solid -> blinking green LED and no CarPlay.

EDIT: To clarify the phone shows it is connected to the adapter by bluetooth but CarPlay is not launching on the phone.
[Android Auto General] Cipcino81:
Same. Plus my phone begins to have insufficient RAM to do multitasking (3GB).
[Android Auto General] Maverick0984:
Drove my vehicle 3 times since the downgrade to 2.6.1 and it worked every time. This help diagnose anything? I'd be happy to try out other versions to rule something out.

I'm not sure why the once or twice the app acted like the device had been forgotten but I think the issue was mainly around the Bluetooth connection not connecting as expected.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
According to our backend, your device is still on 3.2.1. Is this correct? What does the firmware update screen say?
[Android Auto General] josefsch:
After upgrading my gen1 AAWireless to 3.2.1 about 10 days ago I had lots of problems getting AA started, the LED usually flashing green and booting in a loop. I had Dongle mode activated since this was as recommended as the mode intended by Google.

Some days ago I deactivated Dongle mode and AAWireless has been working stable and connecting really fast - usually when leaving the garage I already had AA available on my headunit.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
The joy of dongle mode. We are sick of it and after many discussions decides to make dongle mode disabled by default in firmware 3.3. It just doesn't work how Google intended it to work (for everyone). The unfortunate side effect of this is some phones not routing hands free audio correctly. Mostly limited to Chinese phones (Xiaomi and such) though.
[Android Auto General] Maverick0984:
You're not wrong. Looks like the update must not have finished. Hmm.

By chance do settings in the app get reset on a firmware update (thinking back to 3.2.1 upgrade) ? I definitely had to turn the Start/Stop fix back on so maybe that was enough to fix it. Not sure now.

I guess if you can flip my device back to current firmware, I'd appreciate it, if it's working now. I'll just assume it was settings changes I didn't notice.

Thanks.

EDIT: I spoke to soon. Running v3.2.1 failed the very next time after making this post. Here's some screenshots of the app seemingly unconfigured but the device listed as paired (but not connected) in my Bluetooth settings. You can see the app blurred out behind the Bluetooth devices.

After downgrading to the v2.1.0 for real (and confirming) it connected right up. My experience seems to show v3.2.1 having issues finding and connecting to the device over Bluetooth.

In order to fix, I have to repeatedly try and manually connect, open/close the app, and then eventually try and "save" the settings once connected for it to fully initiate Android Auto. These hoops aren't required in v2.1.0 but the sample size of attempts for v2.1.0 is still a bit small.

Happy to try other firmware versions or settings changes.
[Android Auto General] mike1986.:
Justy FYI - with KIA Sorento 2021 and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra dongle mode works perfectly fine. I think AAWireless in my scenario works better then when dongle mode is disabled.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Very very odd to have the app go to it's "no devices paired" state while the device is still paired. Something seems not quite right. Please run 2.1.0 for a while if you don't mind.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Hello,

as I connected my gen1 device today after several days without using my car, I received the info that a new firmware 3.2.1 is available. Should I update my gen1 device even if it is currently working correctly ?

Thanks in advance for the answer.
[Android Auto General] hikouka71:
thanks for your help before, the gen2 i picked up to replace my flakey kickstarter one is more stable but i'm still having odd issues with it, sometimes my wife takes my car, and plugs her phone in directly for AA (unplugging my aawireless puck) and almost always after that, i have to go thru the flashing green light, clear data storage and re-pair dance. or if we go somewhere with valet, i'll unplug the puck also because i've found that it starting and stopping with out my phone in the car makes it even less likely to hook back up than if i unplug it when dropping car. 19 chevy equinox, both are pixel phones
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Disable dongle mode, that will solve blinking green 99% of the time.
[Android Auto General] lukccp:
I already have wireless AA by default on my Pioneer SPH-DA360DAB unit, but I found one nice future - DPI settings.

Because screen is only 7" and I can't "move" navigation/menu bar from bottom to the left side of the screen.

That would be very useful for smaller screens like mine, to get bigger video (IPTV/YT...) with right aspect ratio.

I tried with ON/OFF "Show quick controls for apps" option from settings, but it does not work for me in latest AA version 10.xxx.

As I see AAwireless has a DPI setting which should solve exactly that.

Does this really work for all screens, regardless of brand?

And second what I noticed is audio delay (YT/IPTV over Fermata or S2A) when using wireless AA connection. When wired connection is uesd there is no delay.

Any delay issues with AAWireless?
[Android Auto General] hikouka71:
i'll give that a try thanks
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
DPI changes work on all head units. Audio delay issues will also happen on AAWireless. Simply because the AA protocol is not designed for streaming video (and audio). We might implement screen casting at some point though.
[Android Auto General] esl537:
Hello. I am new to this forum but created an account just so that I could ask questions to this thread. The thread is a bit long (323 pages as of this typing) to search through so I apologize if my question has already been asked. If you point me in the right direction, I will be happy to read.

I recently got AAwireless. I have a Pixel 8 and a Mazda MX-5 2021. Android Auto works with my phone when plugged into the USB port. My AAwireless is on firmware 3.2.1 and I have the latest companion app and Android Auto app installed, according to the Play Store.

All of this said, I have not been able to get AAwireless to start up Android Auto. I have written several messages to the AAwireless Tech Support and have followed all of their suggestions multiple times but nothing helps. The following are some details on what I have tried and observation / results.

1] The AAwireless device always ends up in the "Blue Blinking LED" state

- What I understand is, this means my phone is connected to it via WiFi and is trying to start Android Auto

- I have confirmed, looking in the WiFi settings of my phone that I am connected to AAwireless device

- Meanwhile, my phone is also connected to my car through Bluetooth, verified in Bluetooth settings

2] Through the companion app I have tried:

- Enable Passthrough Mode

- Enable Start Fix

- Enable Force MTP Start as well as the other option (I forget name) in that setting

- I have tried all 3 of these in all 8 combinations and nothing works

2b] When Passthrough Mode is enabled:

- AAwireless device appears to go into a boot loop

- It starts Green, Green Flashing, Blue Blinking and then loops

- This is the case whether enabled alone or with any of the other fixes listed above enabled

3] In the Android Auto app I have set battery optimization to Unrestricted

- Tech Support said I should also set battery optimization to unrestricted in the companion app

- I was not aware that this was possible - where is this setting?

3b] In the Android Auto app, I went into Developer Settings and verified Wireless Projection is enabled

Can someone point me in the right direction, anxious to get this working. Thanks!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Blinking blue is always a car side issue. Mazda's have this problem more often. It mostly solved by removing the phone pairing on the car side. Afterwards don't connect the phone wired, but plug in AAWireless right away. If that does not help, it can be either a defective cable or defective USB port on the device (or car, but I guess wired AA works?).
[Android Auto General] martynas:
Hi, still AAWireless reboots after each call? In my situation (if remember correctly also NTG 5.5) it does not reboot after first call, but second and further calls are directed to phone hands free speekers. On car bluettoth menu before first call you can see phone "connected", but after first call "bluettoh cannot be used while connected to Carplay". After manual disconnect/reconnect it is again connected to car bluetooth. How to enable Carplay restart after each call?
[Android Auto General] esl537:
Hi. Thank you for your suggestion, I will try it, though I am about to be out of town so not sure I will have a chance to write back indicating my result.

But just to answer - yes Android Auto works via cable and I am using that same cable for the AAwireless connection.

Follow-up question - you mentioned it could be a defective USB port on the AAwireless device side. If that is the case, it would be unfortunate. How would we go about confirming whether this is the case or not?

Thank you.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Easiest way is to test in another car.
[Android Auto General] esl537:
I decided to just give it a quick try before heading out.

Just to be clear, I started over completely, deleted cache and storage from both AA and companion apps, deleted all Bluetooth connections from my car and well as the BT connection in my phone to the car. I reset the Mazda Infotainment Head Unit. Only then did I try again.

This time, I did not connect my phone to the USB port in car. I made sure there was no connection to my phone via BT. Then I opened the AAwireless companion app and plugged in device. It asked me to plug my phone into the car to start AA but I let it time out and skipped the step. Then I let AAwireless do its thing.

And the result? Still no dice. All the same symptoms persist as described in my original email, even went through all the combinations of Passthrough, MTP Force start, Start Fix, etc.

I will take the AAwireless device with me on travel and see if I have a chance to connect it to a different car and see what happens.

Follow-up question. If it is a Mazda side issue, then what is the fix? Should I be investigating whether there is a firmware update for my Mazda Infotainment system?

Thank you.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Hello @Snirpo,

I finally upgraded my gen1 device to 3.2.1 firmware...

I didn't notice any problem, except when I try to activate stop/start (my car unit remains On for some minutes after engine stops and car door closes). If stop/start is activated, the device take a long time to connect, and disconnects, reconnects, disconnects,...

For your information, Dongle mode is off.

Any advice ?

Thanks in advance
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Have you tried to reboot your phone? Was start/stop also activated on the previous firmware?
[Android Auto General] J_E_F_F:
looking forward to that potential!
[Android Auto General] lukccp:
Yes, this would be really nice one... No more need for Scree2A or Fermata.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
The phone has been restarted several times, no change. The problem was same with previous firmware, I was hoping it would be solved with the new one !
[Android Auto General] kolchose:
Is there a explanation available for all functions in the Companion app ?

Now I'm on FW 3.3.0 and Carplay works not so smooth (Reconnects). I will try some settings but it is not easy to know what settings is for what.

My Radio are VW composition media and the Issue is: If the iPhone (IOS17) are connected and I select a Playlist and click PLAY the composition media disconnects and few seconds later starts again and then I can Play the music. Also very often I see is that my Radio try to connect. The Radio lost the connection and reconnect.

Android Auto with my Pixel 7 looks stable.

Any Ideas?
[Android Auto General] joeyberkovitz:
Not sure I understand exactly what's happening.

Regardless, VW uses an old version of carplay which needs audio fix so that audio works and doesn't stutter. This is enabled automatically and can possibly be what you're seeing. After connecting, the first time music is played, it will be paused and then resumed quickly once. This should only occur once per connection and unless the phone is very slow, should occur within about 1-2 seconds.

Is the entire carplay connection dropping (video disconnect, followed by AAW LED turning off, going back to flashing green, ...)? If so, that would require further debugging.
[Android Auto General] jhwbg:
I think that next beta release will fix this problem and keep the calls in AA.
[Android Auto General] grac:
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra with Alfa Romeo Giulia 2018y and still problem with connect AA over CP protocol.

Dongle mode ON or OFF, nothing changes.

Disconnect smart watch, nothing changes.

Debug mode ON

Any sugetions ?

I send many reports from applocation.
[Android Auto General] kolchose:
Next time I will check
[Android Auto General] joeyberkovitz:
I think I'm familiar with your issue, but unfortunately I don't really have any explanation as to what's happening. We have users with both the same phone and car using AA over CP without issues.

From the logs I've seen, the phone just disconnects randomly, often very shortly after connecting for no apparent reason.

All I can say is basically reset everything and start over:

- factory reset AAW

- re-pair AAW BT to the phone

- since you're on dev firmware, if you want phone audio to be routed through the AAW instead of the car - enable phone calls in the AAW BT, and disable for the car BT. otherwise disable for the AAW BT.

- as a starting point, enable AA over CP and nothing else

see if that works any better. after that, you can try to change other settings as needed (ex: DPI, WiFi channel, auto video focus, ...)
[Android Auto General] bigcid10:
I was just wondering if anybody is having the same issues I am

I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max 17.2.1

And the music and navigation aspect of my series 2 box is mostly just fine. Nothing I can complain about.

But the problem that I’m having is, I could be talking to somebody and then all of a sudden they cannot hear me anymore. I have to reboot the wireless box and the radio in order to get it to work.

It doesn’t happen when I’m on a wired connection it also is random like I can make quick phone calls and everything is fine but then all of a sudden one phone call it’ll just happen nobody can hear me

Support has told me to do a bug report and sent in but it’s random so it’s kind of hard to do that so I was just asking if somebody else was having the same issue I have the lastest fw I think 3.17

Thank you
[Android Auto General] grac:
Thank you for your help. Giulia bluetooth call disconnection in Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra works. I hope this will be fixed in next versions of the aawireless firmware.

I would also like to remind you about the non-working telephone handset button on the AR Giulia steering wheel.

THX

Grac
[Android Auto General] joeyberkovitz:
As per my previous message, if you don't want phone calls to switch to the car UI, the current dev firmware (which it seems you're on) or the next beta firmware when released, supports sending phone calls through the AAW. If that doesn't work after following my instructions, let me know.

I may need more info for the steering wheel issue, which we can probably only solve if phone call audio is sent through the AAW. Please join Slack and message me there to discuss: https://join.slack.com/t/aawireless/shared_invite/zt-29rh1p7pt-h7EUFrsuh2ltj_JZT_59qQ
[Android Auto General] l3s:
Yoooo

Here is the place for a positive response:)

I have reported problems which always got resolved within a very short time.

I just simply would like to leave a positive feedback on your works guys!

Your product and promise is absolutely reliable!

Many thanks and Cheers 🥂
[Android Auto General] danw_oz:
I also have this dongle and Pixel 8 Pro, which stopped working after the latest AA update, my phone throws and error that AA has an issue, what it more annoying about this is it then triggers some security feature on my uconnect unit, which disables some of the features, one being the amplifier for about 30 minutes.

If it is a new setup it might not work until google fixes it, there is lots of noise on the internet about Android14 and AA breaking some wireless AA setups, I have been waiting for an update from google on it, but have stop using it, as I prefer to have an amplifier.

I actually came here looking if there was a solution/workaround.

answer to 3 open app drawer, click and hold on aawireless, then click app info, then click app battery usage and then unrestricted.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
What's the name of your device? Curious which AA version this is.
[Android Auto General] danw_oz:
An update, I have uninstalled updates from AA then reinstalled and setup connection again an all works again.

I don't know what version, shipped Nov this year. Software version 3.2.1

AA version have no idea 15 Dec 23 update
[Android Auto General] ylavi:
Thanks for a great device.

Mine works well except for sometimes not making a connection properly, requiring me to disconnect it briefly from the car to start over.

I do have a related problem, with my head unit, and I'm curious whether AAWireless could potentially offer a solution:

As I comment here, it seems that some PSA head units have a potentially-annoying habit of starting media playing when the head unit starts up, because in the previous session media was manually started (and it doesn't matter if before shutdown the playing was stopped/the unit was muted!). For someone who wants play to resume from a USB storage device, all is well, but for BY/AA users this most likely results in the radio starting up, and loud.

What I am interested to know is whether AAWireless could potentially emulate USB storage until an AA session could be started. I just have in mind a "fix" setting which would tell the device to do that, not that it should be any kind of default behaviour. That virtual storage would need to contain a silent MP3 file - enough to keep the head unit busy. One second might suffice; my head unit plays what it finds on repeat.

I suppose the necessity for this might be dependent on the mode it's being used in. I am using Dongle mode, and I'm aware that there has been some back-and-forth about the preferred mode. Maybe "Normal" mode would directly solve the issue above by making the head unit go straight into AA mode even if no device is present/before one is detected, but due to USB issues on my current phone I don't plan to make that sort of change to my configuration in the near future.

Thanks!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I mean AAWireless-xxxx or AndroidAuto-AAWxxxx
[Android Auto General] danw_oz:
AAWireless aaw9025b177
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
When did it stop working?
[Android Auto General] danw_oz:
4th December, then started today after I reset everything, but I was also away for 10 days so could use it. I think the emergency AA update google released on the 15th fixed it but I wasn't here to test it. I do not believe it was an issue with the dongle, more a google stuff up.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Hm yeah on the 7th (might not be 100% correct) AA was updated from 10.8.634424 to 10.8.634444, relatively minor change you'd think, but maybe stuff broke. On the 8th it was updated to 10.9.634624. Then on the 21st to 10.9.634644. Hard to say, anyway, glad it works again.
[Android Auto General] siri17:
Hello!

I'm also new here in the thread and have been using Aawireless in our Seat almost since the beginning. The “aa over cp” function has been around for some time now and I was wondering whether it would also work in our 2018 Mini Cooper F55. Unfortunately I can't get a connection. Can anyone give me tips? I searched a lot but didn't find anything about the problem. The car only supports CarPlay directly, but not AA. Can it even work?

Thanks .