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[Android Auto General] DroidShift79:
Now I got a second aawireless for my wifeys car. Everything is working as aspected.

The only thing is, her USB ports are always powered and she's not driving that much. sure, she could unplug the device if not needed but can't there be a device power off/on function in the app?

Or maybe some sort of timer function where we can say device should always power off to a specific time or day?

The app has that start/stop thingy but I couldn't find any info for what's it for exactly. Where can I read about it or could one of you explain?

Also it would be nice to have a popup on longpressing options in the app, where it tells you what's it all about.

Another nice to have thingy for me would be the possibility to make settings in the app when not connected.

The settings get applied on the next connection.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Start/stop setting is designed for that purpose ! Just activate it...

It will stop AAW device (white continue light) when the head unit bluetooth is disconnected (generally, when the engine is stopped).
[Android Auto General] morhimi:
@Snirpo can you please add my device to beta firmware?

Device ID is 41fac828
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Hello, I have just a question : I am connected to the developer option of the AAWireless(dev) app, but I wonder why there are so many issuances of this app ? Sometimes several in one day, even in one hour !...
[Android Auto General] Radegast12:
@Dangze

Because they are adding and testing new features?

Because they promptly correct errors?

If you don't like it, opt out of the beta program.
[Android Auto General] Dangze:
Thanks, it was just a question ! ...:sneaky:
[Android Auto General] Medic97:
@Snirpo can I be added to beta firmware also?

Device ID 2nyCxa8X
[Android Auto General] pittrich:
@Snirpo

I use the dev version of the app and the firmware. Why do I keep getting a device firmware update?
[Android Auto General] takino:
hi, I managed to connect, via AAWirless, my Google pixel 4a ith my car, Toyota Corolla Cross. However, it happens that turning the car off and on (no start/stop) does not connect again. I noticed that it begins to do up/down with the bluethoot connection of both the AAWirless and the car (naming CAR MULTIMEDIA). While playing this game of up/down if I try to manually give the car bluetooth connection after a few seconds the Android Auto connection starts and goes successfully. At the next shutdown, start all over again as above. I have already tried with the various USB options but without success. Also clearing the cache without success.

Do you have any suggestions for me to solve this problem?
[Android Auto General] Andres.Navas:
@Snirpo lately my AAW has becone very unstable, I didn't do anythig different than updating the AAW (dev) app and AA app. Now it struggles to connect, and it's also disconnecting very frequently, which is super annoying... Do you have any clue what's going on? - I did clear caches, review all the setup and it's as before when it was stable...
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Because you're device is apparently not on develop firmware anymore. Can you give me the name of your device?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Can you try to uninstall the AAWireless app and check if it's stable again? Are you using start / stop? Please post the name of your device.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Can you post the name of your device? My guess is dongle mode is enabled (because it's enabled by default on 2.1.0 which is shipped with new devices). Dongle mode needs the car's handsfree connected, otherwise it will never start up AA. If the handsfree never connects, AA will never start up.

Possibly try this:

- Unplug AAWireless

- Remove handsfree bluetooth connection to the car. Do not remove the bluetooth pairing to AAWireless.

- Clear cache and data of Android Auto.

- Plug in AAWireless and wait for AA to start wirelessly, and let Android Auto setup the bluetooth handsfree connection
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Not sure what happened, but should correct itself now. Can take a while.
[Android Auto General] Andres.Navas:
I haven't try the uninstalling of the App .. 😞

Yes, I have start/stop enable.

Device:

AAWkrgOFsIh or AAWkrgOFslh 😅😅
[Android Auto General] pittrich:
Thanks for the information. I will watch it 👍🏼
[Android Auto General] takino:
@snipro: grazie per la risposta.

Il mio dispositivo: AAWe7bO24ef

Fino ad ora nelle impostazioni ho la modalità dongle disabilitata, provo ad abilitarla e faccio i passaggi che mi hai suggerito.

@Snirpo : Thanks for the reply.

My device: AAWe7bO24ef

Till now in the settings I have the dongle mode is disabled, I try to enable it and do the steps you suggested.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I see some odd behavior in the backend btw. Is it possible you have the production (Play Store) and dev app both installed? They will definitely will conflict if you use start / stop.
[Android Auto General] Andres.Navas:
Hi @Snirpo, yes, I had both installed during some time; but several weeks ago I uninstalled the production version and left only dev... I must say that during that time and definitely some time after uninstalling production the system was working good... I cannot say that the failures started when using both apps or immediately after removing production...

Any suggestions???
[Android Auto General] takino:
Meanwhile, I correct what I said: the dongle was activated. However, I did a test with it both active and deactivated but the result was always the same.

I performed the following steps:

- detached AAWirless

- removed the car bluetooth from the pixel 4a

- cleared data and cache from Android Auto app. All clean

- attacked AAwireless

- turned on car

at this point the BT AAWirless was connected, Android Auto was opened, the car was recognized and configured..all ok... however.. the BT of the connected car was also reconfigured. Everything working. Auto off... auto on... and everything restarted as before, i.e.... automatically nothing connected, the BT AAwirless started doing up/down... in a moment that was UP I touched the BT of the car and, at that point, Android Auto connected.

As I said, I then tried to do all the same procedure with the dongle function deactivated but it behaved in the exact same way.

I haven't had time to do other tests, I would also like to act on the car to cancel the connection and restart the whole procedure, I'll let you know how it goes.

In the meantime, if there are any other suggestions .... thank you very much
[Android Auto General] pittrich:
The update came yesterday. Everything is going great.
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Hello,

I was forced to update to Android Auto 8.5 a couple of days ago.

Now I'm facing a big issue: on 9 out of 10 connections I get a notification telling me that my phone is looking for Android Auto. Even after minutes Android Auto does not start.

My configuration is:

Gigaset GS4

AAwireless device (Firmware updated today to 2.1.0)

Renault car

Android Auto 8.5

I'm now a little bit further. As soon as the notification comes up, I have to manually connect to AAwireless by Bluetooth. Then it starts. Can anyone tell me why?

Edit: in Android developer options there is the possibility to increase the max number of Bluetooth devices. I increased it from 1 to 4. I will tell the results.

Does anyone have experience with AAwireless with this option? Thanks.
[Android Auto General] takino:
@Snirpo

Update

with no changes since last time everything seems to work now. When I get into the car and turn it on, after about 30 seconds my pixel 4a connects to AAWirless and AndroidAuto opens. The status I find of the BT connections on pixel 4a is: AAWirless connected, CAR MULTIMEDIA in error. I then tried to cancel the vehicle-pixel connection, both on the vehicle and in the pixel's BT connections, and it still connected correctly but automatically created the BT CAR MULTIMEDIA connection which remains in error. So the connection starts automatically and everything works fine.

Now it happens that in some stretches of road, and I realize that they are always the same, the connection is lost. After I attempted to erase all connections I noticed that the connection re-established automatically whereas before it failed to trace until after turning the vehicle off/on. But at the moment I've only had one such event and I can't guarantee it's always like this....we'll see in the next few days. Do you have any idea why it loses connection? Curious that always in the same area ...
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Short update from my side:

The developer option did not do the trick.

But I found out that I have to start my car to get my car's Bluetooth connected in a certain time frame. It is around 30 to 60 seconds after getting connected to AAWireless.

If I'm too early or too late AndroidAuto does not start. Then I have to force connect the AAWireless Bluetooth device again.

As a workaround I made a Tasker task which force connects to AAWireless Bluetooth if there is no AndroidAuto.

During yesterday it worked out well.
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
This is exactly the problem I'm having in my Pioneer HU with AA Wireless. I'm so frustrated that I'm about to go and buy the Motorola unit. Things used to work fine before the AA wireless guy started to update things. This used to start right away even if I was not close to the car. Now I have to go to the BT on my car and then Android Auto would kick in.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
What update? Firmware, app? You realize Android Auto also changes all the time? Please specify the exact problem and the name of the device. AAWireless in dongle mode is 100 percent native, so good chance you will have exactly the same issue with the Moto, but please try.
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
The problem that I have is the one that everyone's having here. That you would need to go to BT on the HU for the AA to start on the screen. My brother-in-law has the Motorola and I just tried it and it works all the time without any hiccups. Here are some of the things I have tried to rectify the problem: 1. Cleared Storage on Android Auto 2. Unpair the remove the AA Wireless from my phone. 3. Factory Reset . 4. Paired the unit using BT on the phone and not through the AA wireless App. Also, I have downloaded the beta AA wireless App as per your suggestion and use the start/stop and that does not resolve my issue. I love the unit when it works. In the beginning, when I received it was working fine. I was one of the backers on this project. I have run out of options here and I don't know what else to do. Any help is greatly appreciated it.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
What's the name of your device?
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
AndroidAuto-AAW6dad0647
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Since about when did it stop starting properly? So I can track back what changed.
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
About a month ago.
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
Also, I have tried different Android Auto versions to see if rectify the problem. Right now I have Android Version: 8.5.624594. My Device is a Pixel 7 Pro. It's the latest from the playstore and I'm not on Android Beta.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
I've been able to reproduce it once in my Kia Forte rental car here in the US. I'll try to play with it a bit. Also ordered a Motorola MA1 to compare in the Kia. Have you tested the Motorola MA1 multiple times or only once? I'm asking this, because for the first start / initial pairing, there's an exception in AA where it does not wait for the car's handsfree to connect first (because the dongle is not association with a handsfree device yet), so it will always work.
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
I tested it several times and I did multiple stops and shut off the car and every single time it started it. I have a remote start and I started the car it worked flawlessly as AAW used to when I first got it. It used to work so well that I have to turn off the BT when I started the car remotely because it would connect right away. The light on the AAW when everything's good is supposed to be solid blue, right?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Yes, but i guess it stays blinking green? Can you possibly verify when AAW is blinking green, resetting cache and data of AA will start the AA connection?
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
Yes, I can verify that. It stays blinking green. That's correct once the cache and data are reset AA starts again.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
And second time (full car shutdown) it will not connect after resetting cache and data?
[Android Auto General] Tseburek:
Hello. Been using my aawireless since summer of 2021. Occasional disconnects have always been a thing, but usually fast reconnects and life goes along. But now i have a more major problem. If i leave the car for couple of minutes, return, drive a bit, leave again and return, my aawireless will reset itself and i have to re-pair in the app. All settings resetted. Is this a known thing? For me it has been a thing mby a month? Phone is OP 8T, Car is 2020 Kia Proceed.
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
It Won't.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Please try to pair the dongle via bluetooth settings of the phone, not via the companion app. The companion device manager (Android API) seems to be broken on OnePlus phones, which makes the bluetooth pairing to the device get deleted randomly. Next version of the app we will exclude OnePlus phones from being able to pair via the app and automatically fallback to pairing via bluetooth settings.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Can you try to turn off dongle mode and re-pair the device? This should work every time without dongle mode, without the handsfree of the car needing to be connected. If this is not the case, then I probably need some logs to figure out what's wrong. I haven't been able the reproduce this issue anymore.
[Android Auto General] derausgewanderte:
I am sure this has been covered here before and I just don't see it. Mine is working a little more than 50% of the time. Many times, it works when I first get in the car in the morning and then stops working when the phone reconnects to the car or AAW. It does show AA on the screen but there is no menu or homescreen (see photo). The buttons on the bottom that show the AA icons is inactive (I can get some generic information about AA with the other buttons). Doesn't matter what I do. The only thing I can do is scroll through songs that are playing with the arrows.

Any idea what's going on here?

Also, I would love to try the latest beta to see if that helps.

cheers and happy new year all.

This is on a 2020 Nissan Sentra with a Galaxy S22Ultra. AAWwi48ZShe
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
@derausgewanderte

Try this:
[Android Auto General] Xtragyne:
Hello

I want to tell you about the problem I'm having;

My car is 2015 Opel Astra K, and the multimedia system I use is Navi 900.

Whenever AA Wireless is connected, the connection is constantly disconnected after a maximum of 1 hour and it does not work at all even if I apply the GM Fix option. After the first disconnection, there are constant disconnections every 30 seconds and when I listen to music, I noticed that if the music starts to hang, I realize that I experience this and whenever the music is stuck, the "Searching for device" screen comes up in a few seconds.

AA is up to date on latest version and not beta, my device is S22 Ultra Android 13. Dongle is also up to date and I think I followed all directions.

Can I get support from you on the subject?

Thanks
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Test it out on a different Wifi channel or change to 2.4Ghz (but on 2.4Ghz the data transmission is slower --> lower music quality and slower response of Android Auto).
[Android Auto General] llaugerm:
I disabled the dongle mode and it has been working fine so far. Thank you.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into it. In dongle mode it should work exactly the same as the MA1, but apparently not fully for some reason.
[Android Auto General] neilster2020:
Hi wondering if someone can help I have 2 X aawireless one is not behaving I got into my van after the Christmas break and aawireless is not working reset it can't get it to connect it will go as far as trying to start aa after Bluetooth pairing but seams to stop putting out WiFi I get flashing green light with occasional 1-2 seconds of red. my other phone will connect to it sometimes tried in two different cars with same behaviour the other aawireless will connect to both phones no problem
[Android Auto General] piri1312:
I bought AAwireless from a friend and it should arrive tomorrow, I wanted to ask you how to reset and then do the new configuration again on my Samsung Note 8
[Android Auto General] cript0n:
Just press the small button (like the one to remove SIM card from phone) for 5-10seconds and AAwireless will reset.
[Android Auto General] Xtragyne:
I have tried 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz nothing works.

It is working normally like first 1 hour then starting to disconnect every 30 second.

I have checked with my friends car Opel Insignia, still same problem
[Android Auto General] konieczny69:
I was hit by this, POCO X4 Pro 5g, MIUI 13.0.2.

Two questions:

1. Anyone happened to find a solution/workaround for this problem?

2. Until now I was certain that my phone connects to the dongle via bluetooth, not WI-FI. I don't quite understand how is the connection set up as I don't have hotspot set up.

thanks
[Android Auto General] festor:
No workaround, but changing to 4g as preferred network type and enabling 4G Call/VoLTE can help a little. Bluetooth can't provide enough bandwidth so it also needs a direct wifi connection... ideally 5GHz.

When I heard that the MIUI 14/A13 beta currently has the same issue I decided to switch to a Pixel 7 then all the reports of camera glass spontaneously cracking came out.

So I then decided to switch to the A13 PixelExperience ROM once they sorted the Bluetooth/dropped call issue, but the maintainer just stepped down from the project. So I'm now waiting for LineageOS 20 to roll out on the Poco F3 (should be soon) and give it a try. Not sure what's available for the X4 though.
[Android Auto General] Xtragyne:
How about my issue ?
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
@Snirpo

Just a short question: is it possible to modify the start/stop function to have a stop feature only?

My car provides power to the USB port for 20 minutes after locking the doors. During this time my phone tries to connect again and again to AAWireless.

I made a Tasker task to turn off Bluetooth on my phone after disconnecting from my car.

In my opinion it would be more convenient to have a stop feature as follows:

As soon as there is no car Bluetooth, turn off AAWireless Bluetooth for 5 minutes.
[Android Auto General] neonfreak20:
Hi, can I join the beta program?? Seems to be full in play store. I figured I'd try here. Thanks

Edit: Nm, I was able to get in through the play store.
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
Start / stop in full doesn't work for you correctly? We can already kinda do this, because in dongle mode, AA itself will prevent any AA connection when the handsfree is not connected. So the "prevent start" part is already available from AA. We can add "disconnect on handsfree disconnect" logic which bassiccly calls the same logic as the start / stop service does for stopping AA. If you want, I can add this to try it out.
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
Yes, this would be great. Thank you.

I don't use the start/stop function right now as I like to have a fast connection. Right now it works like that:

I open the door and my phone gets connected. As soon as I start my car Android Auto is ready within 2-3 seconds. This is incredibly fast. It is as fast as connecting only Bluetooth (without Android Auto).

With the start/stop function it takes more time to connect as I have to wait until the car is started before the connection process starts.
[Android Auto General] Nathan1995:
@Snirpo I would also appreciate that approach :)

Just a little site question: Is start/stop still companion app based? Or were your tests on device based start/stop already successful?
[Android Auto General] Snirpo:
We have two experimental options in the app from Firebase App Distribution (private beta build).

- Device HFP (to car) controlled. This will not work in 90 percent of the cars, because of the handsfree not being visible / connectable to non-paired device. In theory we could pair the AAW device to the handsfree of the car, but that will cause a whole lot of other issues.

- Device USB controlled: May work for some cars, AAW tries start up an AA connection to the car every x seconds, if not possible it won't connect to the phone. This might work for cars which keep USB powered, but do shut down the HU (and thus also AA).

But for example on Kia / Hyundai AA actually keeps running in the background (with screen off) after you turn off ignition. So for these cars this functionality won't help at all, because AA doesn't get killed, it's still running.

Both these options have been tested, but we found them not really usable. They are either not reliable or cause side effects. So they have never made it to production. They are still in the firmware though.

So to answer your question. We tried, but did not have success. So right now (in production) start / stop is still companion app controlled.
[Android Auto General] benrita:
My AAwireless always connects to my wife's Oppo phone when we are both in the car, even though mine was the last phone used.

It will even connect to her phone when it is in the lounge room and I turn on car ignition in the garage, I turn her phone off if I am going out alone and she turns it on when I'm gone.

I have the connect to last phone used option selected.

Any ideas why?
[Android Auto General] SOFO888:
@Snirpo

I did not think about the non visibility of the car Bluetooth. But yes, you are right. Our car's Bluetooth is also not visible for unpaired devices. Maybe a solution could be to pair AAWireless to the car's Bluetooth to have it visible, but afterwards never connect AAWireless to the car Bluetooth.
[Android Auto General] sibesaver:
I have the same issue between my pixel 6a and my wife's pixel 4a. @Snirpo has a fix in the works hopefully. A redesign of phone switching/priorities. I've been using the force connect widget as a workaround.
[Android Auto General] benrita:
Could you please explain what the force connect widget is and how to use it, thank you.
[Android Auto General] sibesaver:
Is a homescreen widget accessed at least on pixels, by long pressing the homescreen, choose widget, choose aawireless from the list and pick the phone override widget. When you wife's phone connects and AA starts press the homescreen widget and then your phone should connect after a brief disconnect of AA from your wife's phone.
[Android Auto General] benrita:
Thanks, I will try it when I go out tomorrow and report back.
[Android Auto General] benrita:
Went out sooner than expected and unfortunately the widget didn't make any difference.

Will just have to put up with wife's phone connecting and hope mine connects when out of range of the wife's phone.

Thanks for suggestion.
[Android Auto General] urmanio23:
I'll have to test it later, stoped using AAWireless, its was just too annoying to have it disconnect every now and then.

Edit:

Ok, this is exactly what happens with my phone, it's annoying. I've only experienced it on the road at certain locations but disabling the data from my SIM and enabling it triggers the same disconnection to the AAwireless. Sometimes it comes back faster.

What a shame... I could use the phone without cellphone data but that would kill half of the functionality and since Google maps no longer works reliably (GPS gets lost) I use Waze...but that doesn't come with offline maps.