AAWireless - General discussion and support

[Genebaby]

One issue I'm having that others don't seem to have talked about is that more often than I'd like everything is pretty much working, but I am unable to hear the Google Assistant? Have I mentioned this before?

So if I ask for a song, I'll get the song, but won't hear anything back about it playing on Youtube Music etc, and if I ask for the weather I won't hear anything, and if I ask to open my garage door I have to watch the screen to see when it's expecting to hear my pin code.

 

[nmnikolov]

I can confirm I have also issues with my S21 Exynos version. A few weeks ago I installed Xiaomi Mi Wireless Car Charger, 20W to prepare fo AAW. Last week I received my AAW device and did some long trips. So after 30-90 minutes the phone gets hot and not so resposive. What I mean is when I pick up and unlock my phone it's very unresponsive sliding between screens and opening apps. This also reflects on the Android Auto becomming too laggy. So the music is no more playing smoothly and Waze is responding slowly on my car head unit. This happened even on a long trip without charging the phone. During a long trip of about 300km decided to put the phone in the glove box where I have air conditioner so the phone was very cold during the whole trip and had no issues with AA at all.

The last few days those issues started even on small trips of about 10-20 minutes. After the last software update decided to wipe the phone cache partition but that didn't help. Also I tried different AAW settings without success. Other that that I have no other issues. The connection time is great, when the phone is cold the music is playing without any issues and my car heaunit is very responsive without any delay. My car is Skoda Octavia 2019 MIB 2.5

 

[Achim1964]

Hi, I am an AAWireless beta tester and have been helping test the device.

I have four phones that I use with AAWireless.

Samsung Galaxy S20 5G [Android 11]
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G [Android 11]
Moto G Power (2020) [Android 10]
LG Q7+ [Android 9]

I have a 2020 Hyundai Palisade with the 10.25 inch head unit.

I may be able to help with questions that you may have hh

 

[Achim1964]

Hallo, ich bin ein Betatester von AAWireless und habe beim Testen des Geräts geholfen.

Ich habe vier Telefone, die ich mit AAWireless verwende.

Samsung Galaxy S20 5G [Android 11]
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G [Android 11]
Moto G Power (2020) [Android 10]
LG Q7+ [Android 9]

Ich habe einen 2020er Hyundai Palisade mit der 10,25 Zoll Headunit.

Vielleicht kann ich Ihnen hier bei Fragen weiterhelfen.

LeRoy

Hallo, ich bekomme mein Samsung Galaxy A20e nicht mit dem Dongle verbunden.
Er leuchtet dauerhaft grün. Was muss ich machen?

 

[Saison2018]

I used an Exynos S10 for a year and never got the wireless charging working reliably in my car (Kia e-Niro). The phone always got way to hot and just stopped charging, even without running AA. I blamed the car for this back then, but my current OnePlus 8 Pro does not have this issue even with AA running wirelessly. It gets warm / hot-ish, but keeps charging and running AA just fine.
From the reports we get in general Samsung phones are the most problematic with wireless charging + AA wireless. Maybe only the Exynos based ones? Not sure. I can probably extract such data from our database, but never had the time to do that.

I also have a Niro Niro EV 2020 and my phone is a Google Pixel 5. Wireless charging is working fine in winter but not really great from spring and especially in summer. It became hot very quickly. And same as @Genebaby, my phone is a warm when running wirelessly.
Because Pixel 5 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, I am not sur this is only related to processor. It may be related with wireless behavior, needing much more energy than running wired.

 

[tallleroy]

Hallo, ich bekomme mein Samsung Galaxy A20e nicht mit dem Dongle verbunden.
Er leuchtet dauerhaft grün. Was muss ich machen?

The translation of your question that I have is:

"Hi, I don't get my Samsung Galaxy A20e connected to the dongle.It glows solid green. What do I have to do?"

The solid green LED should only appear for less than 20 seconds while the device is booting. If it goes for a longer time, there may be something wrong with the dongle hardware. It does not appear to be loading the AAWireless firmware.

Please create a New Support Ticket with AAWireless support, they may be able to help with a replacement device.

AAWireless Support

LeRoy

 

[Notor1ouS-]

I can confirm I have also issues with my S21 Exynos version.

yea. Samsung is the worst when it comes to optimization and cpu. so expensive and still horrible phones.

 

[peetoe]

Samsung note 20 ultra tacoma 2021. I lose android auto on the head unit when I lose data connection. Once I have data again I can reconnect to AA on the had unit.

 

[kgollop]

Hi All,

After the investigation why AAW is not working, here is the conclusion:

It looks fine after connecting, but after few minutes it disconnects from my head unit and after around minute, sometimes 30 seconds, it connects again automatically, and so on. Any clues? My car is Opel Astra MY2019 and Galaxy S21 5G.

So:
It looks like it is dropping the connection between AAW and head unit of the car. When loosing the connection, Spotify still plays the music. When connection dropped there was a track A playing, after reconnecting, there was another track from the playlist running.

Someone saw something like this?

Sounds exactly the same as the issue I'm having on my 2017 Vauxhall Astra with a Samsung S20 plus. Were you able to find a solution?

 

[psmedley]

Sounds exactly the same as the issue I'm having on my 2017 Vauxhall Astra with a Samsung S20 plus. Were you able to find a solution?

Have you updated to the 1.5.0 firmware?

 

[kgollop]

Have you updated to the 1.5.0 firmware?

Yes, I'm running firmware 1.5.0 and companion app 1.9.3

I've tried passthrough, 2.4Ghz WiFi mode and various USB modes

 

[TomNguyen87]

I used an Exynos S10 for a year and never got the wireless charging working reliably in my car (Kia e-Niro). The phone always got way to hot and just stopped charging, even without running AA. I blamed the car for this back then, but my current OnePlus 8 Pro does not have this issue even with AA running wirelessly. It gets warm / hot-ish, but keeps charging and running AA just fine.
From the reports we get in general Samsung phones are the most problematic with wireless charging + AA wireless. Maybe only the Exynos based ones? Not sure. I can probably extract such data from our database, but never had the time to do that.

I have an Exynos S10+ with aftermarket fast qi wireless charger in my car, but I dont have any problem with its fast charging + AA wireless. Maybe I'm just lucky then

 

[psmedley]

Yes, I'm running firmware 1.5.0 and companion app 1.9.3

I've tried passthrough, 2.4Ghz WiFi mode and various USB modes

USB mode 'Default' is the recommended - and works for my with a MY20 Holden Astra..

 

[kgollop]

USB mode 'Default' is the recommended - and works for my with a MY20 Holden Astra..

Thanks, I still get issues in default mode. It connects quickly and works for a few minutes but then just drops connection

 

[1qazwsx4]

I have the latest firmware on my aawireless, android auto and android 11 etc but I have a few issues. So far the device connects fast every time without issues there however, one that is quite a deal breaker: once I end a phone call, music that I was previously streaming then comes through the phone speakers instead of Bluetooth (on aawireless default settings) I understand this issue has been reported already but thought it's worth mentioning incase Devs think it's an uncommon issue - I see another thread about this here: https://xdaforums.com/t/aa-using-my-phone-speaker-after-ending-a-phone-call.4274111/ The second issue is Google assistant seems to get cutoff with its responses quite often and I can't work out why. Car is 2018 Holden Commodore

 

[xubilly97]

PLEASE HELP (MAZDA 3 2018 AND SAMSUNG GALAXY S20+)
Can anyone help me? I recently just received my aawireless and my first setup process went smoothly. However on my second attempt to wait for my phone (Samsung S20+) to connect, it took awhile so I became a little worried (should of waited abit more) and I tried to troubleshoot the waiting time by unpairing it from my bluetooth devices on my phone so i can pair to it again, which i never happened. I then proceeded to do a reset by sticking a pin on the reset button, which i dont know if it worked because it doesnt signal me if it worked. (Attempted to click the reset button multiple times) The reset button did not help or change anything. However, when i went to reinstall my aawireless app, it is now prompting me to connect to an aawireless unit which I did attempt multiple times. As i tried multiple times for the app to find the device, it said device cannot be found. The LED light is always flashing a slow steady green light. Can anyone help? I have messaged Emil via Indegogo.

 

[DMac1900]

A quick FYI for the devs;

Good news- since my phone updated to Android 11 it has been connecting to AAW and switching to mobile data without any fuss. AAW is starting up and running reliably. AAW doesn't seem to interfere with the car's app connecting & gathering trip data any more.

Bad news- I am getting regular (several times per minute) "stutters" in the audio when playing music (Rocket Player) via AA/AAW and occasional flickering of the screen. Sometimes the audio from AA just stops working altogether (even the tone when the Assistant is woken up). This happens with passthrough on or off (USB set to default). It doesn't happen with a cable connection.

2019 Citroen, Realme x2 Pro, AAW 1.9.3 firmware 1.5.0

My thanks to the AAW team for their continued efforts.

 

[stan79]

Thanks, I still get issues in default mode. It connects quickly and works for a few minutes but then just drops connection

Same as me. I'm using oneplus 7 pro on android 11. The connection will drop within a sec or so and app such as waze and spotify are still playing on the phone where on the phone it still shows AA is connected.

If i leave it untouched, it will try to connect itself again after x minutes... AAWireless is unusable for me.

 

[hyp89]

For those how have problems with vw MIB try to change the usb mode to direct (without passthrough). With default mode i had random disconnects. With direct mode aa is working stable without any disconnects or other problems for me.

Car: VW Polo 2020 with MIB 2,5
Phone: Mi 9 with crdroid and nikgapps
Cable: Cheap one 10cm cable from amaz...

 

[stan79]

For those how have problems with vw MIB try to change the usb mode to direct (without passthrough). With default mode i had random disconnects. With direct mode aa is working stable without any disconnects or other problems for me.

Car: VW Polo 2020 with MIB 2,5
Phone: Mi 9 with crdroid and nikgapps
Cable: Cheap one 10cm cable from amaz...

Ok let me try direct mode.