You can disable auto updates in Aurora Settings and F-Droid Settings. If that isn’t stopping them, please start a new thread with this issue.
@gc35sdd after enabling Android Auto in “Preinstalled Apps” (and reboot) did you then update AA from Aurora before attempting to use Android Auto? This is needed as the “Preinstalled App” version is effectively a stub that enables it to be installed, but it won’t fully function until the full Google version (from Aurora) is installed (via “installing the update”).
I see that. Thanks. If I see where an update has worked for other people I will update. Otherwise I will keep these from updating.
When I first focused on AA I let it update, which now I see was necessary. I just don’t want some Google update to be applied that will stop it from working. Thanks again.
@rik yup, i did update AA via AuroraStore. Just not able to run it on VW Tiguan 2019. May be it is car maker issue… But normie phones, both Apple and Android system, are working fine. When iodéOS Pixel5 is connected, it prompts me, that AA needs to be updated, but after pressing the update button, nothing happens. And AA recently cannot be found in Aurora Store no matter what I try.
No major problems here – just had to download some “stub” (fake) Google apps for it to work, but the weather widget doesn’t integrate with AA. (Probably because Google’s getting more locked down with it.) I also had to replace CoMaps with Organic Maps since I had a problem with it only updating the position every second, instead of being constant and smooth.
I use fairphone 5 and would like to use Android Auto. I have downloaded and installed the stub apps following Rick’s instructions. Everything has worked so far, except that I couldn’t install the Fake Maps app. It asks twice in a row, “Install this app? Fake Maps”. After confirming twice, it says, “App not installed.” This is also confirmed when I check installed apps and Android Auto confirms that maps are missing.
Can anyone help?
I installed google maps for connecting end deinstalled ik again but that doesn’t work. So I reinstalled it, revoked all permissions and disabled all network connections.
Is it enough to block the connections in the app settings? Or does Maps still make connections, and do you need to block them via NetGuard or iode as well?
I understand that “App Info > Mobile data usage (yes for wifi too) > Allow Network Usage” is the most direct way to disable network access. Via iodé app or 3rd party DNS blockers, etc. will be less direct.
Indeed, VLC seems to be crashing for me as well since last update.
Curiously, it never stops playback, it makes other mapping apps like Comaps stop responding and crash, also VLC never full-screens on the car display, but playback is never actually interrupted somehow.
I still have the issue where if I have my wifi turn off automatically within say 2 mins android auto (wireless) turns off when it turns the wifi off. For some reason the wireless turn off feature overrides when android auto is connected to a network with no internet. Does anyone else have that issue?
Tried connecting AA to a car from 2021, no success yet.
P5, Iode 7.6
AA preinstalled and activated
MicroG activated and everything disabled
No stub apps installed yet
I plug in, the car asks me, I tell it to use AA,
AA starts up on the phone, sends a short message “Payment function not available” then skips to “updating” and hangs there for a while. then the car says “connection failed”
I tried updating AA from Aurora before connecting to the car, but there it seems to be the latest version already
What would you guys sugest in which order?
Do I need to activate something in micoG setting, as an AI suggested me? And if I do, how much data will that transfer to Google?
Do i NEED to install the stub apps? (i dont need Gmaps, i just want to see my osmand on a bigger screen)
or something else…
Thank you
PS: if stub apps are absolutely necessary this should be made more clear on Android Auto - iodé, because I guess I’m not the only one who always tries to skip permissions and installations and gets away with it a good number of times
I could not get OsmAnd to work reliably in AA. Even when it displayed okay on the car head unit as soon as (and everytime) there was any notification on the phone (SMS txt, call, alert from a calendar or another app, etc) it then locked up AA and the head unit; and you had to disconnect the phone.
My vehicle is 2018, but I had the Carplay/AA module installed in early 2021 so its likely the same generation unit as in your 2021 vehicle… People with newer vehicles seem to have better luck, but I don’t think ayone has AA running both 100% and reliably.
The documentation does say to install the Google apps or instead the stub apps?
Side note: I am getting a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 for user support as I now sell them through OpenMobile, and I am planning to test “Headunit Revived” on it to let it act as the Android Auto headunit for my cars as all are too old for AA.
Android auto needs 3 google apps or the mentioned stubs, as documented.
And as you can read everywhere, it’s often buggy on iodé & co. Not all apps work properly. And it’s worth mentioning that Android Auto is still run by Google and is tracking software. It remains a compromise. I’ve given it the miss again.
