r/AndroidAuto

Looking for an app that can access Google drive on my car's screen thru Android auto. I'd like to be able to stream my mp3 collection, which is stored on Google drive, while driving. I currently have cloudbeats which can do this if i purchase the premium version, and came across AnExplorer but also needs the premium version. Any other suggestions? I'll likely go with cloudbeats if not

I have a Carpuride W903 that works great, except it has no way to tell Android Auto when to automatically change from Day to Night mode and vice versa. Usually AA uses a vehicle's headlight status or photosensor(s) to determine this, but I'm using an aftermarket screen.

My old screen had a setting to set specific times to change from Day/Night and Night/Day mode. The W903, unfortunately does not. Previous versions of Android Auto allowed you to force the phone to determine this switch via the Dev options, but AA 17 has lost that option.

Are there any tricks that anyone knows of to work around this?

Hi, is there way around this?

My wife gets annoyed she can’t type the location while the car’s moving with waze/google maps.

Carplay doesn’t have this limitation

Edit

Thanks everyone, so it's just disabled by default when driving. Voice is not an option because it won't understood us anyway with how places are named here in south east asia. I guess I wasn't expecting android to have that locked down while carplay allows text typing on their maps

The only thing that works is maps, and only if I enter the address while parked. I cannot connect any phone calls to my car. Replying to a text is impossible too. I keep getting a " phone is not responding notification". Have changed cords and restarted the phone, with the problem persisting. The car is 2018 Santa Fe. Phone is Galaxy S24U

When wireless connected to my new Jansite motorcycle carplay display with my One plus 11 it crashes within a minute. It seems like it is related to wifi network? Tryed to connect via cable but it only connects wireless. Already disabled automatic connect to wifi network at home.

I tryed AVRCP 1.5 instead of 1.6 no difference. Cant find A2DP Hardeware offload in developer settings.

Anybody else suffered with this version always crashing?
Will be downgrading to test 17.1 to see if that fixes it.

Recently bought a 2012 Honda Civic EX Coupe, and I want to get a portable android auto screen with a backup camera. I'm not looking to spend hundreds of dollars, I'd prefer to stick right around $100 or less. I don't care about independent app usage on the screen that some offer, I only care about the screen mirroring with android auto + the backup camera. I'd like it to be at least 10 inches if possible, maybe not at this budget I don't know. Any advice?

When we are driving down the road listening to our Sirius/XM and my wife is scrolling Instagram on her phone it suddenly kicks over to Android Auto when she stops on a video and flips the input to her phone. I've tried so many settings and I can't figure it out. I don't understand what flair is, so I apologize if I broke the rules.

Nord 3 OxygenOS 16.0.5. car civic hybrid. I have the correct usb, deleted cache and turned on wi-fi bluetooth gps. It says this device is not supported. Check car manuals. And ideas how to fix this?

Two years ago when I started using Android Auto, I was unable to disable autoplay. Whichever media app I was most recently using would automatically play when I started my car. This is despite having those settings explicitly disabled in my phone and my car. Since I couldn't disable it, I decided to hide all my media apps from Android Auto. I only use Android auto for my Phone app and my GPS/maps app. My media just plays through Bluetooth.

This worked fine until yesterday when I got the new Android Auto update. Now my media apps are playing through Android Auto even though I have them hidden. The autoplay bug still has not been fixed, which means my work around no longer works. Can someone please tell me a way to go back to just using Bluetooth for my media, or else fix that accursed bug and actually prevent autoplay?

Samsung Galaxy S10

2024 Honda Civic

The latest update, I'm a beta tester, is unusable!

On the wireless connection it could not keep connected for more than 5 minutes, awful!

Version: 17.2.662614-release (172662614)

Edit: Just sharing for anyone who might have the same issue know about it.

Spare me from "why on beta?" or "don't use beta". You are high class, honestly.

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I am stuck in an infinite connection loop. It's telling me that it is trying to connect, then blinks, then starts connecting again. Meanwhile, my phone's Android Auto is telling me to continue on the screen in the car.
Everytime it blinks on the car screen, my phone seems to very briefly open an app or something but it then closes again instantly.

I'm connected through bluetooth, I can't connect via USB.

Holding the power button on this screen on the top left doesn't seem to restart the system. The screen goes black instantly, and no matter how long or short I hold the button (I've tried everything from a few seconds to 30+ seconds), it remains black when I let go only to instantly show this screen again as soon as I touch it.

Does anyone know what I could try? My phone does show up in the bluetooth list in the car, so I am not sure why this is happening.

Also yes I know it's dirty. I will clean it don't worry.

A few days ago I was listening to podcasts with PocketCasts in my car, but wanted to switch to some music. I ask Gemini to play a specific song and Gemini tells me that they can't use YouTube Music to play it, but I can use a different music service instead. I tried saying it again and got a similar message.

Is this a stupid glitch or is Gemini really that bad? I know on my Nest Hub it randomly tells me it can't control smart home stuff like my smart lights, but works again the next day.

Hello all, PLEASE READ this time :)

Fermata Xtream Premium beta test is now available again, with a few changes:

- Free version will always be free. Even updated to new UI but available only though AAEnabler and the GitHub APK due to technical reasons. My commitment stands and everyone gets a free version of the app.

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Fermata Xtream Free: https://github.com/malebuffy/Fermata-Xtream/releases/

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- Email is now imediate, no need to wait. That said, it is very limited numbers so make sure you don't be a #°@°# and although AAEnabler is working for you, you still request a link.

-You need to enable Google Play developer options(Pessing About/Playstore version 7 times) and enable Internal App sharing

-AAEnabler license unlocks Fermata Xtream Premium

Also I am working on a better way still for everyone. So dont be greedy. If I see it is abused and doesn't work, I will pull the website offline again.

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My wife uses Android and I'm on iPhone, so every time we swap drivers we're also swapping phones and cables. It wasn't a huge deal at first but after doing it every day it gets old pretty fast.

The bigger annoyance lately is the cable. One of ours has started acting up where it'll randomly stop connecting unless you wiggle it just right, so we've already gone through a couple of replacements.

I'm not against sticking with wired if that's still the least annoying option, but I've been looking at wireless stuff too if it actually makes switching between phones easier and doesn't end up being another thing to troubleshoot.

Curious how people with one Android and one iPhone in the same car ended up handling it.