Android Auto Issues on Phone (3)

Mrstonecold

Hey all

Got a nothing phone 3 on launch day (UK)

I’ve always had android phones and never had an issue with wireless or wired android auto. But the nothing phone 3 has random disconnects/timeouts on wireless. Spotify will stutter and cut off. Seems very intermittent. Ive also noticed if hotspot is enabled (for my kids tablets in the car) then android auto is so sluggish in general.

Everything up to date on the phone , car is also up to date . Anyone had this issue or able to suggest anything to check?

Car is a Toyota CHR 2025

Thanks 👍

Kristyan_

Mrstonecold same for me. I also get some timeouts while connected to the car. Spotify stutters and after a while Android Auto is no longer available from the phone. Only a restart can fix it, but not for long time…

JamesSuen

I had the same issue. Did you get any response from the Support Team or finding any workaround for it.

shreyashshah_7zcWvdUOU1

I can also confirm the issue is there on NP3 (India), even on NOS 4.0. I had been using CMF Phone 1 for last ⅞ months, it didn’t had any issue with the same car, only when I upgraded to NP3 this month I started facing this issue. 20% of the times when I seat in car android auto keeps connecting and disconnecting every few seconds rendering it useless. Happens both wired/wireless AA.
If that helps car is: MG Windsor EV Pro (Wuling cloud ev)

EdgarasVodeikis

I have the exact same issue. With my Nothing Phone 3 and Toyota CHR 2024, Android Auto keeps disconnecting. At first the music starts glitching and later it disconnects. Then it connects again but the problem just repeats - music starts glitching and it disconnects again. After restarting the phone it starts working, but only for the first drive after restart. Later is starts glitching in the same way.

I had no problems up until ~2 weeks ago. It was working flawlessly previously so maybe something updated?

Mrstonecold

Still have the same problem and 'put up with it' , couldnt find any fix but it does seem to be all related to wireless android auto. As much as i do love nothing phones, im tempted to go back to my pixel just to solve this issue!

Sergio_NpbMkKfUso

I'm a daily AA user connecting via AAWireless 2 and have hardly any issues at all except for a couple of known WiFi interference blackspots along my route causing stuttering and dropouts, so, I'm surprised to see multiple users reporting these issues. However, I'm a Deezer user for music streaming rather than Spotify. Also, at the back of mind I've a vague memory of needing to enable certain Developer Options back when I used to connect by USB… (Albeit different handset then…)

n4free

Hey! New NP3 user here. In my case, I only use wired Android Auto and I’ve been getting the same issues as @Mrstonecold : random disconnects every 2-5 minutes.

After doing some debugging using ADB (and with Claude’s help!) I have managed to pinpoint the issue (though I haven’t tried it yet!): it seems to be related to the way Doze (the power management system) works. The Android Auto app simply doesn’t seem to be included in the Doze whitelist, therefore after a certain period of time, the OS kills the app in order to save battery.

AGAIN, I could be wrong since I haven’t tried anything yet, but that would seem like a reasonable cause!

Kristyan_

@n4free I noticed the connection issues when the battery is below 30%, they’ve released an update to fix the connectivity but the problem persists. Maybe you are right 🙂

n4free

I might try forcing the Android Auto app to be whitelisted by Doze using an ADB command (adb shell dumpsys deviceidle whitelist +com.google.android.projection.gearhead), but I want to explore other options first. In my case, it has happened at about 50-60%.

marcelheidtmann

I have the Same issue, reboot helps for a while in my Case. I notice this very often on my way Home from Work, so Low battery could be a reason.

Np3 nos 4.0

_maurodf

I have sames issue, but not happen Always.

Delete AA cache data helped

n4free

Hey!

I was having the connectivity issues independently of the battery level; I managed to finally completely fix the problems in mine by adding AA to the Doze whitelist using the following adb command:

adb shell dumpsys deviceidle whitelist +com.google.android.projection.gearhead

In order to do this, it is necessary to have enabled the developer options and USB debugging.

Adding AA to the Doze whitelist has completely fixed all my connectivity issues (in fact, after using AA for a couple days, I haven’t had any issues whatsoever). Though I didn’t try other solutions like deleting the AA cache, this seems to work as well. Battery life has not been impacted, not that I can see yet.

Hope this helps! 🙂

Mrstonecold

I eventually sold my phone and went back to a pixel 10, no issues. Pretty sad to see this from nothing. Interesting tho, I sold it to a friend, asked if they had the issue still and yes, still a problem!

n4free

aw, that’s a shame 🙁

at least your friend can now try the ADB command, and see if it fixes it! if it truly does fix it, then i guess we’d have a somewhat “official” fix (though i’m sure the dev team can do something more classy, if you know what i mean)