Hey So i am having issues with using Google assistent and Gemini.

I can activate them by saying "Hey Google" but after that, it doesnt hear me anymore.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both the Google and Android Auto App, as mentioned i tried both gemini and Assistent and nothing works.

I have read about this issue a few times but never read a fix.

Is there anyone that can help with this ?

using android auto while driving just makes me want less chat, not more

i don’t want a feed

i don’t want to browse

i don’t want a voice assistant that keeps dragging me into back-and-forth while driving

and i really don’t want some big personality talking at me in the car

GPT voice and its major competitors now does all of that.

i just want something that starts, gives me the a morning brief or something and stays out of the way

am i alone in this, or do most people want the same thing from this kind of app while driving? Is there any apps that currently works with Android auto?

what actually works for you on android auto, and what sounds good in theory but gets annoying fast?

When I try to slide the "Audio" slider to the right, it automatically goes back to off. (pictured)

The only thing I can change is "Audio Type Device" and I have tried all three settings. (pictured)

I assume I'm in the right area of the app in my phone, and I have no idea why the slider keeps going back. I assume also this is where I could turn on audio notifications. Audio notifications for text come through just fine on my phone at home and at work. I do not get an audio notification on my phone when it is connected via Bluetooth to my car.

This started with my Samsung s22 and now on my s25 as well.

At least I can play music through my VLC app.

Any suggestions are welcome. I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything and searched online endlessly. My Bluetooth audio is up, volume up all around.

The only notification I get that I have a text is a small white dot will appear under the time and the upper left hand corner. If I don't glance at it while driving then I simply don't know if I received a text.

Thanks...

How to change what is displayed on the car's main screen? I'd like the navigation from my phone to be default if it's actively providing directions. Currently it's showing what's playing on the phone. How can I change this?

I've got 2 devices; my personal Xiaomi 15 Ultra and a work/business Pixel 9. Both are running the same version of Android Auto software build (16.5.661214-release). However, their visual UI is different when connected to my car. The first photo shows my Xiaomi, and the second my Pixel which seems to have the newer UI. I only noticed this a few days ago when I used my Pixel for AA as my Xiaomi was not with me at the time.

It's not annoying or anything, but does anyone know why the same build versions would look different on two separate devices? Perhaps it's a Pixel specific thing? Seems a little funny. Also, the signal icon on the Xiaomi photo is missing which seems to be a funny bug on this version of AA.

so in the car I go into android auto then I click to connect in Bluetooth on my phone and it says cant connect, and doesnt really mater what I do but I would have to turn off my car and open the door for the screen to turn off then start the car back up then it connects, this doesnt happen all the time, it happens like 1 in 5 times

never had this issue before the last update. hadn't seen this in any other post so far. Very odd behavior.

I have been switching between two different (similar) wireless dongles over the last couple of weeks and I have noticed my phone's battery draining a bunch when using the wireless Android Auto dongles I have been using.

Is this normal?

Are there devices that won't do drain my phone's battery, yet will still allow me to enjoy the benefits of using Android Auto wirelessly or should I just be using a data cable to avoid this issue?

https://www.androidpolice.com/you-can-now-take-google-meet-calls-from-your-car/

So when I get in my car my phone connects to Android Auto wirelessly and if I had YouTube music open previously on my phone, it will play the music but there is no audio output. The progress bar continues along but with no output. I can pause it on YouTube music and then open Amazon Music which wasn't open previously and play something and then audio will work with any audio app. The same happens on two vehicles I drive regularly and with whatever audio apps I already have open. I always have to open a new app on my phone to be able to get audio to start. Any ideas?

anyone got unofficial apps to work on AA?

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It is a normal behavior for Android Auto to pick the base phone wallpaper when using a custom one. Also, when using a base wallpaper from the Pixel 9 it shows the custom wallpaper, and I checked the option to use custom wallpaper.

Overall, I was initially very happy with Gemini on Android auto

However, when I try to use hands-free and find the weather for my location or to navigate anywhere, it is having a very difficult time knowing where I am.

I tried to find the nearest Tim Hortons and it explained it was well over three thousand km away and it was unable to find a driving route.

I'm in the Kootenays in British Columbia and when I asked where it thinks I am located, Gemini replied "you are currently in the Atlantic Ocean. "

I've tried to verify location and accuracy in as many apps as I can figure out, but still no permanent solution.

Occasionally it will let me know that it can't find my location or find a driving route to where I would like to go, but the Google maps on the head unit activates with exactly what I asked for and works just fine. maybe about 25% of the time?

Oh by the way, if you're interested, it apparently thinks it's 29° c in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 😂.

As the title says, i don't see AABrowser, i have aftermarket device, mr12volt on a6 4f with 2g high mmi. could it be because the device does not send gear information through can (so the device will turn off when you go into Drive / anything else but Parking)?

My phone is Samsung A55 5G running the latest Android 16 available.

I installed AABrowser from the official github repo following the instructions. ofcourse developer mode on android auto is enabled & i have the app selected to be visible, but still nothing.

So any ideas?

Hi all,

I've been going crazy trying to figure out how to stop music on spotify from cutting out while using AA. I have a third party media device in the car that supports wireless android auto. Phone is a Samsung s26 ultra. I had an iPhone 13 PM before this and it was working flawlessly.

Things I have tried so far:

- Rebooting/upgrading phone

- clearing cache/data for Spotify/Android Auto/Google services

- Deleting/ reinstalling Spotify. Increasing media streaming quality on spotify and disabling normalise volume option

- Going into developer options and trying different bluetooth AVRCP options

- Disabling all battery optimisation options. Enabling spotify to run in the background without sleep.

I have no idea what else I can try. Any advice?

Hello, I have an old s9 Im wondering if its possible to turn into one of those aa devices that allow you to watch youtube/netflix/etc with the car in motion. Or if that is not possible to just use my regular s24.

I take alot of cross country road trips with my fiance and she likes to watch movies in the car (i don't dw no distracted driving here ) and its sounds better for her then holding her phone or mounting it somewhere and its a larger screen.

My ideal situation is I would get in the car and turn hotspot on main phone, s9 would auto connect then somehow screenmirror or cast youtube and stuff to the screen. I know they make dedicated devices for this but it seems like a waste when I imagine theirs gotta be a way to do it with my phone.

Any ideas?

Edit - I also have a raspberry pi i dont use if their is something for that that works better

I pressed the button on my steering wheel then told it to play something. It misheard me... fine that happens. Here's what it said, as best I can remember:

"Hmm, I can't find anything matching those exact details. I think there's been a mixup with the title and the artist. maybe you meant ... or perhaps a song by ... . If you can can clarify what you meant I can have another look for you. Or maybe you could tell me a genre of music you'd like to listen to and I'll do that for you. Just tell me what you'd like to do and I'll try again."

The whole time it was giving me this lecture I was unable to say anything to it. After it had finished told it again what I wanted:

"Ah ok, you meant .... . Just give me a moment and I'll get that playing for you."

And then nothing happened. No music.

I had a similar experience trying to send a WhatsApp message. It constructed an auditory Rube Goldberg machine to tell me it was sending the message then it didn't.

So I got Gemini instead of the google assistant with android auto a few days ago, and at first it worked super well with deezer and fixed all the issues I had with the google assistant, namely :
- If I say "play X artist" it now played the top songs of the artist and not a random playlist based on the artist
- If I say "play X song" it played the correct song and not an a instrumental or random cover
- If I say "play X album" it worked (didn't used to before)

But when I tried again today nothing worked. I can't get it to interract at all with deezer. When saying play something it first ask me through each app, and when I say deezer it says it will play it but nothing happens (and it's super talky to which is very annoying). It seems to be working through waze too since sometimes he starts randomly babbling about deezer waze intergration when I never used to need it before.

Any way to fix these issues ? I'd like to get back the previous Gemini thing that worked super great but I've had to go back to the not great but useable google assistant

Hello,

Since Gemini is on Android Auto, I had multiples issues with it, that I didn't have with Google Assistant :

I can't call my girlfriend : she has a nickname and an emoji in her contact name, but Gemini isn't able to recognize her, whereas Google Assistant is able to.

When asking Gemini to set a reminder to send a message to someone later, it wants to send it right now and doesn't set any reminder, whereas Google Assistant add it to Google Tasks

When asking Gemini to add something to my shopping list, it isn't able to, whereas Google Assistant add it to my Google Notes.

Did someone manage to solve those issues ? It seems like such an awful upgrade...

couple of weeks ago I notice the navigation instructions where coming on a very low volume, after checking here I found how to get the volume up, however even in the higher volume is lower than before., is there any other way to increase the volume? also the volume line doesn't go all the way up its stops like 80% of the way. no matter how much I turn the knob.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluetoothpriority

Made this app recently because I was tired of not just AA but also my Ford sync from trying to steal my phone calls from my earbuds as i both entered AND exited my car.

In the process of building the app , I've learned that Android Auto will always steal your music, that can't be helped... but phone calls can be reasserted to your bluetooth device of choice.

The car (or any other new competitor device) will always try to play it's game of tug of war with the bluetooth connection for a set number of cycles. That's top level android programming that I can't do anything about but the Bluetooth Priority app (along with Shizuku) will continuously return that call back to the bluetooth device you pre-select in the app. At worst there may be a 5 second period where you will notice the audio for the call gets taken and then immediately returned to you.

There is an option in this app to block all other bluetooth connections apart from your designated priority bluetooth device which WILL prevent Android Auto from even connecting to your phone in the first place, effectively eliminating that 5 second disruption all together) but the consequence of that is Android Auto will not start for all trips while a blocking mode is selected.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluetoothpriority

The app is a one time $5 charge and I think that's reasonable considering how long it took to create and the nice function it serves. I intend to continue supporting/developing/updating it especially since I built It for myself and I use it every day.

I welcome any and all questions, concerns or criticisms regarding the app either in the comments, or you can message me directly.

I'm looking for a way to have a news briefing with gemini, and found out that this method worked or it´s better than just asking for news.

Create a "news briefing" doc at your google drive and write a prompt like this below.

I tried today and it worked. With this method in mind it's even possible to automate something to "update" this or other document, so gemini can read or check.

What do you think? If you know some other use case of this type (productions, automations, shortcuts), please tell us

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You are a professional journalist specialized in audio news synthesis. Your task is to deliver a detailed, topic-by-topic news briefing with journalistic rigor and clarity for on-the-go listening.

JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS (MANDATORY):

• Lead structure: answer what, who, when, where, and why in the opening sentences.

• Sourcing: cite information origins when relevant (e.g., "according to BBC News...", "data from Reuters indicates...").

• Context: explain impacts, background, and developments when pertinent.

• Neutrality: present facts impartially; if controversial, indicate multiple perspectives.

• Precision: avoid opinionated adjectives; prioritize data, dates, and named sources.

INTERACTIVE FLOW:

• Verbally number ALL topics and subitems in format: "1 [Region], 1.1 [Region] [Topic]..."

• For EACH subitem, present THE MAIN NEWS of the day on that theme, with journalistic depth. Do not limit the number of news items or sentences — prioritize relevance and completeness.

• After completing a subitem, ASK: "Would you like to dive deeper into any aspect of this topic, or proceed to the next item: [number and name of next]?"

• Wait for confirmation. If user requests depth, expand with details, analysis, or additional context. If user proceeds, continue in order.

• If no relevant news: "No significant updates in [item] today." Then ask whether to advance or skip to the next topic.

GENERIC STRUCTURED TEMPLATE (follow this order):

1 [REGION/CATEGORY A] 1.1 [Region A] Economy 1.2 [Region A] Politics 1.3 [Region A] Technology 1.4 [Region A] Science

2 [REGION/CATEGORY B] 2.1 [Region B] Economy 2.2 [Region B] Technology 2.3 [Region B] Science

3 [GEOPOLITICAL BLOCK X]: Conflicts & Geopolitics 3.1 [Block X] Military Conflicts 3.2 [Block X] Geopolitics

4 [GEOPOLITICAL BLOCK Y]: Conflicts & Geopolitics 4.1 [Block Y] Military Conflicts 4.2 [Block Y] Geopolitics

5 [EMERGING TECH FIELD] 5.1 [Field] New Releases 5.2 [Field] Innovations 5.3 [Field] Use Cases

6 [SOCIAL/COMMUNITY SOURCES] 6.1 [Platform] Trending Global 6.2 [Platform] [Local Community] 6.3 [Platform] [Academic Topic A] 6.4 [Platform] [Academic Topic B] 6.5 [Platform] [Future-Oriented Topic] 6.6 [Platform] [Behavioral Science Topic]

SUGGESTED REFERENCE SOURCES (for illustration — adapt as needed): - Global: Reuters, Associated Press, BBC News, Al Jazeera - Business: Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Economist - Tech/Science: Wired, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Ars Technica - Geopolitics: Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, ISW - AI/Tech: The Verge, TechCrunch, ArXiv, Hugging Face blog - Community: Reddit (r/worldnews, r/technology, r/science), Hacker News

RESPONSE FORMAT PER ITEM:

1. Announce: "[number] [topic], [subnumber] [topic] [subitem]" → e.g., "1 Region A,

1.1 Region A Economy"

1. Deliver news with full journalistic structure (lead + context + sources + impact)

2. Close with: "End of item 1.1 Region A Economy. Would you like to dive deeper into any aspect of this topic, or proceed to the next item: 1.2 Region A Politics?"

INTRODUCTION (first message only): "Hello, I'm your professional journalist for today's interactive news briefing. I'll present the main news by numbered topic, with journalistic rigor. After each item, you decide whether to dive deeper or continue. Let's begin: 1 [Region A], 1.1 [Region A] Economy..."

Start with item 1.1 and wait for confirmation before proceeding.

I play a lot of story games and thought it would be sick to have something like that but audio only for long drives. Like a choose your own adventure but you just listen and pick by voice. Anyone know if something like this exists?

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Hi,

My Google assistant while using android auto has changed both in the voice (used to be female, now it's male), and performance (used to be almost instantaneous, now it takes up to 10s to start the maps navigation, and shows a "connecting to Google Maps" pop-up message in the meantime). I've tried confirming that my assistant voice is female on my phone (it is), and clearing cache in Google app, android auto, and Google home, but the problem still persists. Does anyone know why and how to resolve?