AAWireless - General discussion and support

[psmedley]

Any ideas why my setup won't project without intervention? So 2.01 is not the 2.1 that was mentioned before?

Any idea when 2.1 is out?

My understanding is that 2.01 is a bugfix for 2.0 - new features will be in 2.1

 

[Snirpo]

Any ideas why my setup won't project without intervention? So 2.01 is not the 2.1 that was mentioned before?

Any idea when 2.1 is out?

Because you have start / stop enabled and for some reason it doesn't work correctly. 2.0.1 is a bug fix release for 2.0. 2.1 will be released end of next week.

 

[Genebaby]

Ahh, so my start/stop is misbehaving?

I kind of thought it would do a quick disconnect when BT to the car died, despite there being power to the USB port for a bit after in some cars.

 

[Snirpo]

Ahh, so my start/stop is misbehaving?

I kind of thought it would do a quick disconnect when BT to the car died, despite there being power to the USB port for a bit after in some cars.

It should normally indeed. Bassiccly every change we do in the start / stop mechanism it breaks for half of the people and fixes stuff for the other half.
We have a way now to make it device controlled, so we can finally get rid of this horrible functionality.

 

[Genebaby]

Ah cool, I thought it was a bit strange and unnecessary.

 

[Paetsch]

Hi,

I got a new Car (Toyota Corolla) and an Aawireless and I set it up yesterday.
My mobile phone is a Samsung galaxy S10 with Android 12.

Everything worked fine at the beginning, but after driving 5-15 Minutes, the box will lose the connection with the head unit and the LED starts to blink blue. And it won't regain the connection until I restart the car and the MMI.

I already tried a reset and two different usb cables and tried some of the usb modes.

Is it a known problem and what else can I do. As I said, it will get a connection at first but will lose it after a few minutes of driving and won't regain a connection even after trying another usb mode.

Thanks for an advice

 

[osm0sis]

It should normally indeed. Bassiccly every change we do in the start / stop mechanism it breaks for half of the people and fixes stuff for the other half.
We have a way now to make it device controlled, so we can finally get rid of this horrible functionality.

Will the new Start/Stop be compatible with Dongle mode? I find Dongle mode good on its own for Start, but bad for Stop where my Hyundai Elantra 2018 keeps the USB powered ~2 min after turning off the engine and locking the car.

 

[Snirpo]

Will the new Start/Stop be compatible with Dongle mode? I find Dongle mode good on its own for Start, but bad for Stop where my Hyundai Elantra 2018 keeps the USB powered ~2 min after turning off the engine and locking the car.

Yes, that's because the start part (waiting for handsfree) is built into AA itself. Why Google did not built in the stop part as well (kill AA on handsfree loss) is a mystery to me.

 

[ZacJ]

@ZacJ
Thank you for your information. I think this helps a lot of people to decide.

Do you feel any difference concerning the battery drain/heating of the phone between AAWireless and Carsifi?

I didn't notice any difference between the two

 

[worldonfire]

@festor tried to use companion app also. Looks like in known places (one big crossroad in the city) there is no drop, but random disconnections still appear (at least today morning it appeared). Changed wifi channel to as big as possible, also region to Estonia as it should.

Will try to change network modes (already tried to disable VoLTE).

About other phones - As i have possibility to use three aawireless devices atm, then two of them are in other cars. My wife has Oneplus 6. It was so unstable that she did not want to use it any more. Other device is in Tiguan with technisat headunit and Samsung Note10. He said that sometimes, et is more stable, sometimes drops very often. Also told that quite unusable.

I'm not sure what HW these devices are, but mine and the one that my wife is using, they are produced this year. The one that my friend uses - should be one of the earliest devices.

 

[Genebaby]

I decided to sit in my GFTI, testing the first time connection and projection, instead of just doing one thing before I go for a drive and then seeing if that works the next drive.

Seeing as I now knew Stop/Start was not working/behaving correctly I decided to disable that and it seems to have done the trick. I look forward to getting AA projection nice and easy/quickly again, and the driving without disconnections/dropouts.

Again for those with disconnections, is your AAW device secured or moving around in the cabin? If it's not stuck still it may be affecting performance during driving.

 

[Cipcino81]

Hello,
can you please roll my device back to firmware 1.8 ? I have a lot of disconnections with 2.0 .
AAWireless-F4wB1ju5

 

[Gee11]

Hi,

I got a new Car (Toyota Corolla) and an Aawireless and I set it up yesterday.
My mobile phone is a Samsung galaxy S10 with Android 12.

Everything worked fine at the beginning, but after driving 5-15 Minutes, the box will lose the connection with the head unit and the LED starts to blink blue. And it won't regain the connection until I restart the car and the MMI.

I already tried a reset and two different usb cables and tried some of the usb modes.

Is it a known problem and what else can I do. As I said, it will get a connection at first but will lose it after a few minutes of driving and won't regain a connection even after trying another usb mode.

Thanks for an advice

this is the main problem with AAW.. soo many peole including me has this problem.. and theres no solution atm

 

[festor]

@festor tried to use companion app also. Looks like in known places (one big crossroad in the city) there is no drop, but random disconnections still appear (at least today morning it appeared). Changed wifi channel to as big as possible, also region to Estonia as it should.

Will try to change network modes (already tried to disable VoLTE).

About other phones - As i have possibility to use three aawireless devices atm, then two of them are in other cars. My wife has Oneplus 6. It was so unstable that she did not want to use it any more. Other device is in Tiguan with technisat headunit and Samsung Note10. He said that sometimes, et is more stable, sometimes drops very often. Also told that quite unusable.

I'm not sure what HW these devices are, but mine and the one that my wife is using, they are produced this year. The one that my friend uses - should be one of the earliest devices.

I'm not sure disabling VoLTE would be a good thing, for my setup anyway, but it's just a theory. I don't really need 5g so I set 4g/LTE as preferred network and enable VoLTE in the hope it keeps the phone using 4g instead of switching down to 3g for calls. Lowering to 3g/2g cuts wifi briefly on my phone which obviously disconnects AAWireless. It seems to help, but it's hard to measure with an intermittent issue.

This should only affect Poco/Xiaomi/Redmi phones running MIUI 12.5> but it's easily tested if you manually lower the network while connected to AAWireless. Now you're using the companion app, double check VAG crash fix is enabled too for your Technisat head units.

Do you ever get disconnections while stationary? I know you tried other cables, but it might be worth another try. I think it's more to do with the AAWireless socket and a change of cable and mounting with velcro and VHB tape seemed to stop hard crashes for me. Also for others:

AAWireless - General discussion and support

This thread is dedicated for AAWireless users. AAWireless is a device which allows you to transform your existing wired Android Auto compatible unit into a Wireless Android Auto unit. General chat, experience sharing and community support...

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[Gee11]

Hello,
can you please roll my device back to firmware 1.8 ? I have a lot of disconnections with 2.0 .
AAWireless-F4wB1ju5

still waiting for 1.8 downgrade too AAWq8VE7mWR

 

[festor]

this is the main problem with AAW.. soo many peole including me has this problem.. and theres no solution atm

Oh really, the main problem? How many people have this issue?

 

[Gee11]

Oh really, the main problem? How many people have this issue?

very few.. just look on the forums nearly every single post have connection stability issues

 

[Cipcino81]

My disconnection is strange, aawireless stays blue and audio still plays , but android auto interface goes away and I got a black screen with a text like "for using android auto please stop and check your phone". When I am using maps and I can't stop immediately , I must rely on audio guidance . Then I simply turn off and on my pioneer unit and Android auto starts back. Sometimes I have to do it 4 times in a row to make it work again.

 

[worldonfire]

I'm not sure disabling VoLTE would be a good thing, for my setup anyway, but it's just a theory. I don't really need 5g so I set 4g/LTE as preferred network and enable VoLTE in the hope it keeps the phone using 4g instead of switching down to 3g for calls. Lowering to 3g/2g cuts wifi briefly on my phone which obviously disconnects AAWireless. It seems to help, but it's hard to measure with an intermittent issue.

This should only affect Poco/Xiaomi/Redmi phones running MIUI 12.5> but it's easily tested if you manually lower the network while connected to AAWireless. Now you're using the companion app, double check VAG crash fix is enabled too for your Technisat head units.

Do you ever get disconnections while stationary? I know you tried other cables, but it might be worth another try. I think it's more to do with the AAWireless socket and a change of cable and mounting with velcro and VHB tape seemed to stop hard crashes for me. Also for others:

AAWireless - General discussion and support

This thread is dedicated for AAWireless users. AAWireless is a device which allows you to transform your existing wired Android Auto compatible unit into a Wireless Android Auto unit. General chat, experience sharing and community support...

forum.xda-developers.com

Just checked - VoLTE was disabled. Still random drops. My phone lets only choose fro example 5G&/LTE/3g/2g or LTE/3g/2g or 3g/2g. At the moment the one LTE/3g/2g is selected.

Tiguan with techisat has VAG crash fix enabled.

My car is somewhat more stable lately. Not so often drops any more. But have had drops even when standing (no one touching the aawireless or wires).
Same goes with my friend - we did the setup, aawireless was standing still and lost connection.

All cables seems to work idally directly with phone (wired aa).
Have tried at least 5 different cables - existing ones I had and event bought some new ones. Have also tried to move those cables when device is connected and working. But did not manage to make the connection to drop.
I don't know what cables should I try more...

 

[Cipcino81]

Just checked - VoLTE was disabled. Still random drops. My phone lets only choose fro example 5G&/LTE/3g/2g or LTE/3g/2g or 3g/2g. At the moment the one LTE/3g/2g is selected.

Tiguan with techisat has VAG crash fix enabled.

My car is somewhat more stable lately. Not so often drops any more. But have had drops even when standing (no one touching the aawireless or wires).
Same goes with my friend - we did the setup, aawireless was standing still and lost connection.

All cables seems to work idally directly with phone (wired aa).
Have tried at least 5 different cables - existing ones I had and event bought some new ones. Have also tried to move those cables when device is connected and working. But did not manage to make the connection to drop.
I don't know what cables should I try more...

Yes I have tried moving aawireless with my hand and the cable too, and I got no disconnection. So I think it is not a problem with moving it. At least for me. I was thinking about a heat problem, I have noticed I got more disconnections when is hot weather. I will try to put aawireless on top of a 12x12 cm usb fan