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[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Start / stop on the firmware side hasn't changed in 2 years. It doesn't really do much apart from disabling the standard connect loop from device side. App side has changed quite alot recently. However it's still very very dependent on the phone wether it works correctly or not. If the phone decides to kill the start / stop service, the AA connection will die. Also, if for some reason the HU or phone decides to kill the handsfree connection, the AA connection will die (after a certain delay).

You can try it in the latest app version if it works any better, if not, disabling power saving settings might be something to try. If it then still not works correctly, not much we can do.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Very hard to say what's wrong. But sounds like a hardware issue indeed. If you push a bug report through the app (settings --> top right icon), and post the Bluetooth name of the device here, I can check the logs.
[Android Auto General] mortbrad:
Your replies are remarkable. Do I need internet access while I'm at the car to post?

My damn basement carpark kills all connectivity and whenever I get in the car and go outside I am in a bloody hurry to get somewhere :)
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
No not necessary. The bug report will be sent to the backend when there's internet again.
[Android Auto General] popy2006:
Exact same issue on an KIA e-niro (2023)!

Was running AAWireless since 11/2023 wihtout major issues.

In the last (two) month/s or so, the connection is not stable.

It drops the connection ~2-3 times on an 30min trip and reconnects.

Will try to send an bug report, when i am in the car.
[Android Auto General] r0x:
Hello, I'm using AAW with Carplay and everithing worked fine over months, but since a week or so it takes ages to connect, up to 10 mins, until the connection is established.

The LED flashes green and the Headunit sais "connecting to USB-Device" , then it goes out and comes again, and so on and so on, for several minutes.

I think it has started after a FW update, I'm on the latest Developer-FW.

Device: AAWireless-8b7d0f0c

FW-Version in the screenshot.

Maybe you can downgrade my Device to an older fw Version or something.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
You can downgrade yourself actually from within the app. Please provide feedback if you found a firmware without this issue, so we can trace back the changes.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
When you created the bug report, please post the name of the device here.
[Android Auto General] r0x:
I don’t have the App, because I‘m using an IPhone, so I‘m updating AAW via Web Interface.

Maybe I have an old Android device, so I can try to downgrade.
[Android Auto General] stulaw11:
Is AA over CP stable enough for daily use?

I have a Porsche which only has wired Carplay but a Galaxy S24+ and cant decide between AAW or an AI box like a newer Carlinkit version. Obviously this is $60 right now and that is $130; not huge overall but double (and don't care about the other full Android OS features, just want maps/Waze really).

I know people here (been on XDA 10 years), and devs of this, seem quite honest on what it can or cannot do/limitations, so truthful opinions would help. (Yes, I know an AI box isnt perfect 100% of the time either.)

Or alternatively, will 2.0 do AA over CP better as Q3 is soon here anyway.
[Android Auto General] Radegast12:
Well, great, and the last time I was laboriously typing 40 characters into the radio :cool:

I'll try it when there's space. Thanks.

EDIT:

It works. Connected. Thanks.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
It's finacky, really hard to get right on all cars with all the translation needed between AA and CP, nessecity to proxy Bluetooth handsfree and transcoding of the videostream (for non native AA resolutions). I wouldn't buy AAWireless for AA over CP only.

Good chance though, you can unlock native wired AA on your Porsche. Not sure how it works, but I know it's possible.

AAWireless 2 will not support AA over CP at all because of hardware limitations. Technically we can still support it. But 9/10 people use it for getting widescreen AA through the CP protocol, that will not be possible anymore, so we decided to drop it for AAW2.
[Android Auto General] stulaw11:
Very honest and appreciated. Would always recommend your product.

There is a way, but I have a lot of warranty left (5 years from only 6 months ago as a certified preowned), so don't want to go that route. Plus for newer head unit cars it's almost $600 to get it done from people in sketchy countries (which you must give them remote access to your PC and car to do) who vaguely claim "their way is warranty safe" with zero evidence and won't share their work, and a good-spec (8gb RAM Android 13) AI box is $100-150 with zero warranty implications.
[Android Auto General] popy2006:
I have sent an report where it reconnected two times on one ~30m trip.

The device name is: AAW6b9d2c76..

Please keep me updated if you recevied the sent error report from the app.

thx
[Android Auto General] brackenhill_mob:
@Snirpo I'm having similar connectivity issues which have been getting worse over the last 2 months. I'd like to post a bug report via the app. Do I need to do this when the app refuses to connect or at any time? Often the unit reboots while I'm on a drive and refuses to reconnect, but then might right itself an hour later...
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
At any time is fine.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Checked it. The AAWireless to phone side seems to be the problem. There seem to be wifi connection drops. On the last trip (in the log) you has a disconnection about 5 min in the trip, and again around 11 minutes. Afterwards it ran fine for about 20 minutes. Since when did the problems start? Because I see your phone had an update around the 19th of june. Wifi connection drops is a very common issue on Xiaomi phones.
[Android Auto General] popy2006:
thx for checking.

yes, there was an update to "1.0.3.0.UKWEUXM" on my Xiaomi 11T.

But i think it was about 2 months ago, see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HyperOS/comments/1cqlqkk

So it seems no issue with AAWireless, or isn't it?

Do you have maybe experience in any Xiaomi setting wich can imporve things?

i think about an option which is disabling/switching away from wifi to mobile if the signal is weak.

Did'nt found one.

thx
[Android Auto General] aeropiloot:
@Snirpo I have been on dev fw now and the microphone issue is still there. Sent a few bug reports. Also now I have a new issue. On 3.x my phone connected ~90% of the time on the first try. Now it can take up to 5 min to connect and it seldom happens on the first or second try. I just sent a new report.

I’m on cs317-eu-prod-4.0.0-202406170936-develop-e8433fae5f00b803.swu
[Android Auto General] zaang:
The only solution for disconnections eith xiaomi cellphones is buy a cellphone of another brand.

I bought a Samsung and the problem is solved
[Android Auto General] Igor Kogan:
Hi, I'm a new AAWireless user. I have the device for a couple of weeks and it worked fine all the time.

Recently it started to have random disconnections\reconnections form the car (Pixel 8 and Honda CR-V 2017). Physically the connection between the device and the car is good, I moved the cables during the ride, no issue.

I submitted a report today. The device ID is 0d2e25b0. Can you please take a look at the report? Thank you!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
All seems a bit a bit too coincidental, a few people suddenly complaining about disconnects... I'll look into it. Since about when did the disconnects start? On the AAWireless side nothing changed though, you've been on 3.5.0 since the beginning.
[Android Auto General] Igor Kogan:
I have got the July Google update recently, I think it started after the update, not 100% sure.

I restarted the phone, it didn't help.
[Android Auto General] popy2006:
Yeah, i am regreting ever buying Xiaomi phone's :(

Out of three phones there where 3 different hardware issues (mic, display green line and fingerprint).

Also MIUI (HyperOS) is the worst OS i have ever had (and i am in the smartphone boat since they arrived first with apple/htc). The worst thing is the "Energy Saver" which is killing app's in the background and cannot be complete be disabled (also with pinning and so on...).

Maybe i will switch in the near future.
[Android Auto General] anonymous97:
Ok, so I'm using AAW for a while now with Mercedes W205 and I've finally managed to resolve call delay issue by removing all BT devices from the cars HU. Now I have another one. Encouraged by fixing the issues, I've connected my wife's phone as a second one, and calling is a problem again. Now I cannot hear a caller (I don't even hear dialing sound). The only option is to manually switch the call to phones speaker via AA. The issue persists regardless of whether there are both phones in the car, or just one. Spotify and Google Assistant works fine with cars speakers. In my phone I'm connected via BT to the AAW with calling function enabled. Can you help me please? Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 6, AAWireless-19ca9418
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
From the log it seems the phone side is explicitly killing the TCP connection, not wifi related. In fact the wifi connection stays active. I cannot see why the connection is being killed though. Can you potentially create a phone-side bug report? (https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/bug-report) and send it to support@aawireless.io ? The bug report has to be captured within a few minutes after the problem occurred.
[Android Auto General] Igor Kogan:
It didn't crash today. Once it happens again I'll

It didn't crash today. Once it happens again I'll do it. Thanks a lot!
[Android Auto General] dok_and_max:
I had a similar problem (solid green -> blinking green -> blinking blue -> solid green and so on). I am using AA over CP with firmware version 4.0. Support advised me to change the 'Lookup Timeout' option value to 0, and the problem was resolved.
[Android Auto General] brackenhill_mob:
Submitted a report about 15 minutes ago. After a drive that worked so might not be of use.

AAW2c36d7f1
[Android Auto General] pnsdhrn:
I have placed order for AAWIRELESS (Version 1) with Dessert Cart India.My Phone is Honor Magic V2 Global Fold and the Head Unit is Blaupunkt San Andreas.Both are enabled with Wireless Android Auto and working smoothly.But I want to play You Tube Videos and Videos in my phone in the Car Head Unit Screen.I have seen several posts in Reddit and Internet that these videos can be played with AAWIRELESS Dongle.That is why I placed the order for this. Any how, I want to confirm this.So please confirm whether YouTube Videos and the videos in the phone can be played with this dongle.

Waiting with Thanks...
[Android Auto General] jv.batista:
So, @Snirpo, if AAW2 won't support AA over CP due to hardware limitations, what exactly is the incentive to upgrade to AAW2? For someone like me that was expecting, albeit with no bases and also knowing that current hardware seems to be already overkill for it, better hardware, AAW2 will just a be an extra button to easily swap between phones, a new case and maybe any updates that may not be done to AAW1?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
AAW2 isn't an upgrade spec wise no. It's not really nesseccary, you don't really need more performance, because it's just a "dumb" dongle to convert wired to wireless AA (or CP). We are using a different SoC now, which doesn't have a hardware video decoder (but still encoder), that's the mean reason we have to drop AA over CP. It's only used for AA over CP, which is a feature right now used by about 1 percent of the users.

Our main focus for AAW2 was improving quality and costs. We spent alot of time and money tuning the antenna. Because one of the main problems with AAW1 (or any other dongle) is interference. We also also optimized the costs. AAW1 is very expensive to produce. At this moment it's still OK-ish, but our competition going down in price more and more. At some point it will just be impossible to compete at the current cost price. That will mean it will be very hard to sell AAW's, which is bad for everyone.

We will keep updating AAW1's (at least the gen2's) for the coming time. They use the same high level firmware. So all improvements/fixes will also come to AAW1.

When you already have a working AAW1, with no problems, there's no real reason to upgrade to AAW2.
[Android Auto General] jv.batista:
@Snirpo , got it. During my normal use I only noticed 2 spots where connection gets a bit weird. In one place it stops for a split second and, as soon as I'm out of it, it resumes as nothing happened and the second one the device looks like it gets overwhelmed and the whole thing 'reboots' twice. I guess that's what you're referring as interference.
[Android Auto General] Jochen Scheuerer:
Just a small question. You has successfully connect your phone, using it in AA over CP, and deleted the org. BT pairings for classic AA in your mobile and your HU, right? Then you added your wife’s phone in the same way? Also delete after that all basic BT and HU pairings, etc? Have you disabled the AAW setting to use the last known phone? Only have a sorting? E.g. your phone first, and if this is not found, the phone from your wife? Is at the phone which you do NOT what to use in this moment, the BT switch of, so, that it will NOT be found, when the AAW gets power? Have you tried to use the APP to handover between the phones?

I have 4 phones stored in the AAW Box. An S23u, an iphone 15, and 2 iPhones from my kids. It works with the know settings in an A205 from 2019 with AA over CP and widescreen. From time to time for testing needs I need to reset the HU by pressing 10 sec the power switch from the HU in then powered mode to reboot the HU, but in principle in works.
[Android Auto General] r0x:
Can't find this setting (Lookup Timeout) on my Device.
[Android Auto General] dok_and_max:
This is likely the setting (I highlighted it in red)
[Android Auto General] mortbrad:
Done now

AAW275764a6
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Hm yeah bit hard to say based on the logs. It seems like there's an USB side crash, and then afterwards it has trouble starting up the connection again. I'll check if I can reproduce by emulating an USB side crash (which doesn't happen that much). What you can try it to disable dongle mode, that may atleast help starting the connection up again after an USB side crash (to exclude any phone side dongle mode funkyness).
[Android Auto General] joeyberkovitz:
this should be fixed in today's dev build, feel free to ping me if otherwise

the AAW should now more explicitly select the correct bluetooth device for bluetooth call audio if there are multiple available
[Android Auto General] jv.batista:
@Snirpo , how bad of an idea is to have both 2.4 and 5.0 Ghz wifi available?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Not sure what you mean? You can switch to 2.4ghz wifi already.
[Android Auto General] jv.batista:
Both at the same time xD

Like, having the 5Ghz for the AA side of things and then have a 2.4Ghz hotspot sharing Internet from the phone
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I don't think thats possible with the wifi chip we currently use. It's bassiccly the same chip as the raspberry pi 4.
[Android Auto General] anonymous97:
Wow, thanks for the quick reaction, it works! Of course I'll give it a try for a week to check, but it worked already on my phone. Thank you!
[Android Auto General] zaang:
What is the latest beta version available?
[Android Auto General] aeropiloot:
Can you please add my device to the dev channel, hoping that will fix my connection issues. AAWireless-7ace8313
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Your device is already in the dev channel.
[Android Auto General] aeropiloot:
Thats what I thought but the update page showed update available and the update was 3.5.0 (both regular and beta). Whatever you did worked, got a new fw today, thanks (y)

Will try a call later to see about the microphone dropping issue.
[Android Auto General] aeropiloot:
The microphone dropping issue is still there on the dev firmware. I sent a bug report from the web app and also an email to support with a syslog. I can see that around the time the microphone stops working the phoneRx packets drop 0.
[Android Auto General] mortbrad:
Have turned dongle mode off now.

I believe the settings in my unit were as per the Mercedes the unit was in before, so we'll see how this behaves.

Thank you so much for the amazing attentive support.
[Android Auto General] Radegast12:
A useless thing and it doesn't work.

Internet sharing for infotainment only works for me the first time I connect. Every time the infotanment connects to the hotspot, but the connection icon is red (Skoda).

And a hotspot for passengers' cellphones? Why, everyone has mobile data these days.
[Android Auto General] tOOmki:
I already wrote about this problem in March - I thought it was AA's fault, but nothing has changed until today.
[Android Auto General] matrixx1:
Hi, I recently purchased AAWirless, I am very satisfied with it, it works great and I love the fact of being able to chnage dpi and enable developer mode for fermataplayer. I have one question, how can I get Day/Night mode to work? Currently with AA its stuck in day and have to enable night mode manually. I was under the impression, that AAWireless is able to handle Day/Dark mode automatically, based on sunlight as was the case with HUR Reloaded. Can you please advise? I have Toyota Rav4 2019 with OEM headunit with factory wired AA and CP support. Thank you
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
AAWireless does not control or influence day/night mode. Please check the settings of Android Auto and check if day/night mode is set to "Automatic".
[Android Auto General] matrixx1:
What a pity I thought it does control it. Of course my setting was in automatic, and tried both phone controlled and car controlled in developer menu, still unfortunately it doesn't switch automatically between the two modes .
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Weird, you'd expect "phone controlled" to work, even if the car doesn't control it. But it might be broken. Did you try to manually switch between day and night mode? Also check if there's some generic setting on the car which controls day/night mode of the whole car UI.

But no, AAWireless does and cannot control day/night because it not have an RTC (real time clock), so it has no idea of the current date/time.
[Android Auto General] festor:
I had an issue with night mode not working recently. I forgot I had tuned off the cars auto lights.
[Android Auto General] matrixx1:
Actually changing phone controlled car controlled in AA dev.settings has never worked for me with any other car or headunit, be it OEM or android based. It's a pity it doesn't have a clock Emil's implementation on HUR reloaded or his previous app AA night enabler or on OBD2AA have always been the best and most reliable solutions. I will check my RAv4 maybe it has a setting about night mode in its computer. I have also tried to change the headlight from auto to manual on and off but it didn't change might mode. Of course when connected via cable with aawireless disconnected, night mode works as it should
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Eh, that's very weird, because there's no difference between a wired or wireless connection (normally). You can try to turn on passthrough to let the data passthrough 1:1 without any intercepting from AAWireless. Please report back if that makes a difference (I don't expect so).
[Android Auto General] matrixx1:
Hi will try and report back
[Android Auto General] Silvio1977:
I drive a Mercedes with Comand Online and use a Samsung S22. I haven't had a Google Assistant tone in a long time. He understands me, only I can't hear the answer. As a result, I can't read Whatsapp. The instructions of Google Maps are audible. When I use AA over CP I can hear everything, everything is too unstable for me and therefore use AA. When I connect the phone to cable, it's the same problem. Is there a way for AAW to make the output of Google Assistant audible to me?
[Android Auto General] popy2006:
@Snirpo @zaang

Switched to an pixel and issue is gone.

So i blame Xiaomi for the issue!
[Android Auto General] matrixx1:
Well PassThorugh is just big no no for me, in this case I loose the dpi change feature, which is most impoartant to me
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Yes, that's correct. But does it have any impact on night mode working?
[Android Auto General] matrixx1:
I will test it, in the night in the past couple of days I didn have the chance
[Android Auto General] ElIT3ShOOT3R:
General question: Is a lower resolution AA like 480p better in terms of battery than 720p?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Possibly yes, less strain on the phone. Marginal probably though.
[Android Auto General] Silvio1977:
Does no one have an idea how to get the sound of the Google Assistant running again?
[Android Auto General] nvleafs:
Just got a Z Flip6 and I can't pair via Bluetooth. I've factory resetted the device from my last phone (s22 ultra) and it still won't connect.

Thing is, I can connect no problem with my old phone, even after a factory reset.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Can you push a bug report with your old phone? (Settings -> top right icon)
[Android Auto General] nvleafs:
I've pushed a bug report with the following description"

Do you need a report with any specific steps prior, or will this one do?

Thank you!
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Thanks, the device has not been reset in between? So there's still some pairing attempts of the Z flip?
[Android Auto General] nvleafs:
Good question, I've done a lot of resetting so I'm not sure, I've submitted a new report right after trying to pair with the Z flip:

1. Put S22 in airplane mode, bluetooth & wifi off.

2. Tried pairing two times with the Z flip.

3. Paired with the S22, submitted bug report.

Same description as before. Thanks again for the quick responses!
[Android Auto General] GOFTC:
Hi,

Yesterday I found about the Android Auto safety pause that forces you to wait while scrolling a long list. I find this feature very annoying, specially when who is doing the scroll isn't even driving (it's the copilot, trying to search for a specific music folder). So I learned that with the AAwireless companion APP, I could attempt the 'remove tap limit' advanced option, which I tried but it did not work. The safety pause is still present while scrolling. Now my question is ... is this a bug or this option should not work in latest AA versions ? Is there anything that can be done to remove the AA safety pause once and for all ?

Thanks in advance
[Android Auto General] McFlypants:
I'm using my Pixel 8 with zLink on an android head unit (xtrons). Via USB it's good, but wireless is lagging and giving me stuttering and problems - i guess it's the connection/hotspot of the headunit.

Would AAWireless be able to solve this issue? Because it should create its own hotspot which might work better (because it is optimized for this task).
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Maybe, but we don't have good experiences with zlink + AAWireless. May or may not work. With these Chinese products it's always a bit of a gamble.
[Android Auto General] peter_baz:
Hello,

I am using a OnePlus Nord 2 and been having some issues.

The AAW connects nice and fast but at random times I get a message on the head unit of my Toyota with Touch 2 (no wireless AA support) that AA has disconnected - Unplug and plug back the device.

If I unplug and plug again the AAW, most of the time it will not work. If I just leave it in, it will not connect again but the light remains dark blue(as if it's connected). On many instances, the light turns to LIGHT blue which I do not know what it means.

After the AA disconnects, the phone is immediately connected to the head units bluetooth.

I have tried most settings and found out that the most stable connection is on pass through mode and the WiFi set to 2.4.

On the phone, I managed to whitelist the AA app from the battery optimization.

Any ideas?

Thank you