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?