AAWireless - General discussion and support

[Diesel80]

I enabled the develop build for your device. Don't think it will help, but you can try Please report back it it helped or not.

Hello. I have tested the new firware. The stability is better, and now after losing the connection (just 1 time on 10 time) the device resume connection in 10-15 seconds.

Sometimes happen one strange thing now, the phone lost all the BT pairing. Could be related to permission of the android auto app to manage the BT connection?

 

[afm]

Hi, I received my AAWireless but it is not working in my car.
Data from my car and multimedia system;
Car, Seat Ibiza year 2016
Multimedia: Tecnisat MST2_EU_SE_ZR369T
5QA035846
Hardware: H30
Software: 369
Telephone; Xiomi redmi note 11s, android 12, MIUI 13
Android auto 8.7.630264
AAWireless; AAWaa6aa8b5, firmware 2.0
I connect the AAWireless in my car, the green led blinks, on the cell phone it doesn't open android auto.

My Phone works well connected by cable.

I have tested it on 2 other cars and AAWireless works fine with my cell phone.

 

[italodance]

Hi, I received my AAWriless but it is not working in my car.
Data from my car and multimedia system;
Car, Seat Ibiza year 2016
Multimedia: Tecnisat MST2_EU_SE_ZR369T
5QA035846
Hardware: H30
Software: 369
Telephone; Xiomi redmi note 11s, android 12, MIUI 13
Android auto 8.7.630264
AA Wireless; AAWaa6aa8b5, firmware 2.0
I connect the AAWiress in my car, the green led blinks, on the cell phone it doesn't open android auto.

My Phone works well connected by cable.

I have tested it on 2 other cars and AAWreless works fine with my cell phone.

Update it to the lastest version first

 

[afm]

My apologies, the firmware is 2.2.0

 

[italodance]

By looking at the app with some previous various fixes for Cars, I wonder why there is not any fix for Xiaomi issue by far.
Since it is a miui/software issue, it would be dreamy if the dev work on it and update the app included a fix.

 

[festor]

By looking at the app with some previous various fixes for Cars, I wonder why there is not any fix for Xiaomi issue by far.
Since it is a miui/software issue, it would be dreamy if the dev work on it and update the app included a fix.

I'm not even sure it's technically (or legally) possible, but either way, it's definitely not the responsibility of AAWireless. It's not the responsibility of any dongle maker or even Google. It's entirely Xiaomi's problem to fix. Android Auto devs might be able to create some sort of inactivity timeout to cope with the dropout, but you can't expect a third party to mod an integrated Google app that updates frequently without changing the ROM.

I've never seen Xiaomi even acknowledge the issue and it's been well over a year. The issue continues with A13/MIUI 14 so they clearly DGAF. Even if they patched it tomorrow, I will never buy another Xiaomi product again.

There is a fix though, switch to a custom ROM. I had been testing various options on an older phone and decided on Pixel Experience for my daily driver just as they lost their maintainer for the POCO F3. I'm now waiting for a stable LineageOS 20.

 

[urmanio23]

I'm not even sure it's technically (or legally) possible, but either way, it's definitely not the responsibility of AAWireless. It's not the responsibility of any dongle maker or even Google. It's entirely Xiaomi's problem to fix. Android Auto devs might be able to create some sort of inactivity timeout to cope with the dropout, but you can't expect a third party to mod an integrated Google app that updates frequently without changing the ROM.

I've never seen Xiaomi even acknowledge the issue and it's been well over a year. The issue continues with A13/MIUI 14 so they clearly DGAF. Even if they patched it tomorrow, I will never buy another Xiaomi product again.

There is a fix though, switch to a custom ROM. I had been testing various options on an older phone and decided on Pixel Experience for my daily driver just as they lost their maintainer for the POCO F3. I'm now waiting for a stable LineageOS 20.

I'm not even sure there is close to enough people actually reporting the issue, there was a beta program for the MIUI 14 release and I'm sure most people just wanted an "early access" to it and didn't report any issues.

Also, I'm not sure the bug affects any other functionality other than us with AAWireless. Does this affect people with other AA wireless dongles?

Anyway, definitely gonna try flashing LineageOS 20 at some point, I'm testing it on an older Mi Mix. AND definitely I'm skipping any MIUI phone in the future.

 

[Neff_V]

@Snirpo @Emil Borconi
Are there any plans for AA via Carplay like Ottocast is doing?

Currently my Mercedes MBUX system does not support AA in full screen mode. With Ottocast it is possible to use AA in full screen mode when using AA via Carplay.

 

[festor]

I'm not even sure there is close to enough people actually reporting the issue, there was a beta program for the MIUI 14 release and I'm sure most people just wanted an "early access" to it and didn't report any issues.

Also, I'm not sure the bug affects any other functionality other than us with AAWireless. Does this affect people with other AA wireless dongles?

Anyway, definitely gonna try flashing LineageOS 20 at some point, I'm testing it on an older Mi Mix. AND definitely I'm skipping any MIUI phone in the future.

The bug affects all other dongles and also baked in android auto wireless.

I'm positive they are aware of the issue. I first found out from a beta tester that the problem continued with MIUI 14 then confirmed from other posts here and on reddit. I have sent bug reports with "Services & Feedback" on the phone and created several threads then replied to others on the official MIUI forum. I also reported the bug (feature?) on the POCO community site:

http://new.c.mi.com/global/forum-sub/10062

https://community.poco.in/feedback

If you look at the bug tracker they have obscure things listed like "Music app can not update" or "Charging indicator wasn’t displayed correctly" for individual handsets yet they have never listed the wifi dropout issue that affects all devices running MIUI 12.5.6 or later.

I suspect it's a side effect from battery saving. Some sort of tethering for mast hops. Xiaomi have always prioritised battery saving over everything else IMO. I still can't force non MIUI apps to keep running in the background even with the apps locked, no restrictions in battery saver enabled and the phone running in performance mode. Maybe their typical customer prefers battery life over apps actually working?

 

[Snirpo]

@Snirpo @Emil Borconi
Are there any plans for AA via Carplay like Ottocast is doing?

Currently my Mercedes MBUX system does not support AA in full screen mode. With Ottocast it is possible to use AA in full screen mode when using AA via Carplay.

Yes, we have it already functional, but it's still very much in development. Our main focus is now getting native CarPlay (with an iPhone) to work on as many head units as we can, which is hard. The plan is to release 3.0.0 soon with beta opt-in native CarPlay and AA over CarPlay functionality (plus whole bunch of other improvements).

 

[Neff_V]

Yes, we have it already functional, but it's still very much in development. Our main focus is now getting native CarPlay (with an iPhone) to work on as many head units as we can, which is hard. The plan is to release 3.0.0 soon with beta opt-in native CarPlay and AA over CarPlay functionality (plus whole bunch of other improvements).

Woah nice! Thank you

 

[Canadoc]

Everything was working great with my s22 ultra. Just got s23 ultra . And going through all the steps resetting clearing data etc I can't set it up. Driving me nuts after having all working perfect past year.

 

[Snirpo]

Everything was working great with my s22 ultra. Just got s23 ultra . And going through all the steps resetting clearing data etc I can't set it up. Driving me nuts after having all working perfect past year.

Did you plug it in wired first?

 

[knighthw2]

hi @Snirpo
The AAW should work without problems with high quality music on spotify premium and amazon music unlimited?
I have a s10+ and the wifi connect at 466mb, but i still expecience stuttering at last one time in every song

 

[Snirpo]

hi @Snirpo
The AAW should work without problems with high quality music on spotify premium and amazon music unlimited?
I have a s10+ and the wifi connect at 466mb, but i still expecience stuttering at last one time in every song

These issues make zero sense unfortunately. Depends on the car and phone. I once created a firmware where we up the max unacked messages a bit to enlarge the buffers a bit. May or may not help, you can try if you want. What's the name of the device?

 

[afm]

Hello, I managed to connect the AAwireless, AAWaa6aa8b5, firmware 2.2.0, in my car, with a samsung cell phone in 2.4 giga, with AA version 8.8.6.3, the problem is not the compatibility of the AAwireless dongle with my car, as I thought .

I updated the version of my Xiomi rednote 11s, to version AA 8.8.6.3, it still doesn't turn on, it keeps saying "looking for android auto" see my screenshots,

I appreciate your help. Thank you.

Edit: In setings/apps/permissions/autostart, I don't find the AndroidAuto app, is that why it doesn't start?

 

[knighthw2]

These issues make zero sense unfortunately. Depends on the car and phone. I once created a firmware where we up the max unacked messages a bit to enlarge the buffers a bit. May or may not help, you can try if you want. What's the name of the device?

Nice, let give a try, its AndroidAuto-AAWObe01e65, i just have to update the firmware?

 

[ener2k01]

Can a switch be implemented in the app so that when turned off the device won't connect to the phone and launch Android Auto?
My scenario is the following: when traveling long distances I usually plug the phone to the cable because otherwise the battery would be empty when I get to the destination. So I have to unplug the AA Wireless device and connect to phone via cable. I have 2 USB ports in my car. I would like to keep the AA Wireless permanently connected to the USB port and connect the phone via cable to the other USB port, but use the wired connection. If I leave both devices connected I get disconnections. Would some kind of a switch be possible?

 

[italodance]

Hello, I managed to connect the AAwireless, AAWaa6aa8b5, firmware 2.2.0, in my car, with a samsung cell phone in 2.4 giga, with AA version 8.8.6.3, the problem is not the compatibility of the AAwireless dongle with my car, as I thought .

I updated the version of my Xiomi rednote 11s, to version AA 8.8.6.3, it still doesn't turn on, it keeps saying "looking for android auto" see my screenshots,

I appreciate your help. Thank you.

Edit: In setings/apps/permissions/autostart, I don't find the AndroidAuto app, is that why it doesn't start?

I had this issue today, weird, Just reset manually the dongle.

 

[italodance]

By looking at the app with some previous various fixes for Cars, I wonder why there is not any fix for Xiaomi issue by far.
Since it is a miui/software issue, it would be dreamy if the dev work on it and update the app included a fix.

@Snirpo please work on it.