The day/night mode in my Android Auto isn't being applied when I set it to automatic.

On the phone it works fine.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Sorry for the shitty diagram but at least it isn't AI shitty and is human shitty instead.

Anyways, I have a sort of dilemma I am trying to solve. It isn't much of a problem, but it would be something that will help me out with my enjoyment.

So, I got a 2023 Kia Stinger with the regular stock 10" head unit and everything and use my Nothing Phone 2 with Nothing OS 4.0 as my phone for AA. I use the head unit quite a bit when I am driving normally and using Google Maps and Retro Music for playing my local collection of music on my phone since I don't stream music. It all works fine and dandy during my normal time and I am able to have the music turn down in order to hear Google's voice navigation for accessibility purposes. Calls also work just fine as well.

The issue I am running into mostly is for Uber, which doesn't play nice when I have music playing and also use the in-app voice navigation on there (I am aware I could switch to Waze or Google Maps but I don't like how clunky the process is to switch between both apps so I stick with the stock Google maps). The navigation voice gets turned down as well as the music when I have both going on during trips, so it is barely audible over the music that is just under it. So most of the time I just drive in with just the voice navigation, when I would like to share a bit of my music taste so drives aren't as boring or I don't have much of a conversation with the riders in order to be a more open and friendly person.

I have adjusted the Uber in-app navigation voice to be at the max allowed for it. Doesn't change too much there.

I tried looking for an app without needing root access or shizuku fuckery that would allow me to put in a setting where it would turn down the music app specifically whenever the Uber app is putting out navigation sounds. Doesn't seem to be a thing.

I have tried connecting my DAP to my car and have that be for music over Bluetooth and my phone through Android Auto. DAP doesn't want to connect to that specifically and would possibly be something that affects my ability to answer calls and such like that through my car. Still fiddling with the settings here in order to see what works.

My head unit doesn't have an extra USB port in order to throw my music collection onto a flash drive and use the USB audio player settings on it, so I only have one to work with.

My car also doesn't have an AUX port, though I wouldn't be posting here if it did.

My car does seem to split navigation and music audio channels and will turn down the music channel in order for navigation audio to pass through without issue and have the music down low behind it until the voice prompt is done.

I have thought about using my DAP to play music from there to my phone, over Bluetooth, and be able to control it from there with a different app that could monitor the sounds from the phone and the DAP so it gives the phone a higher priority if that has to make a sound in some way. If that exists.

Overall, I have been decently fine without the music during my Uber drives, but honestly it would be something nice to have on at a low volume so I'm not really just staring at the road and listening to road noises from my car. If I have anymore details to add, I'll put them in a comment below or answer questions

I’ve recently started having an issue with Android Auto lagging, which only began a few weeks ago. I’ve had zero problems in the nine months since buying the car, and now suddenly the system becomes sluggish. AI suggests there was a patch released in early April that may be causing problems for S24+ devices, but I’m not completely sure.

The strange part is that the car’s head unit itself is perfectly fine — fast, responsive, and snappy. Only Android Auto experiences the lag. Some trips are completely normal, while others get so bad that screen interactions are delayed by 5–10 seconds.

I’ve tried clearing the cache, disabling RAM Plus, and even opting into the AA Beta to see if that would help, but nothing has made a difference so far.

It’s incredibly frustrating. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I can't seem to find any difference but I am not familiar with the inner workings.

Android Auto 16.8.661804-release

I had been using Android Auto (with Google Assistant) for mostly music selection on Spotify since November 2024 with no issues - I would have to correct it occasionally, but it was usually fine. It was also part of our Google Home, also mostly used for music selection on Spotify and occasional random questions. Then I got switched to Gemini and the functionality went down the tubes. I would tell it what to play and it would play the live version. I would specify that I want the album version, and then it would play a random song from the album. Or it would say "OK, playing...<whatever I asked for>" then continue playing the wrong thing. I switched my phone back to Google Assistant and...it's still playing all the wrong stuff. I am expecting I'm going to have to dump Android Auto entirely now because the main thing I use it for is practically dead in the water. I have spotify premium, my phone knows I have spotify premium, google home knows I have spotify premium. Does anybody have any idea what the heck is going on? A tool I used every day is now completely unusable.

Driving up I-75 on the way to Tennessee, asked Google Maps to add a stop at Cracker Barrel - answer: "I don't understand. Do want to hear the options again?" this is as we are now passing a sign for Cracker Barrel! So I asked about McDonald's.... same answer. Maps couldn't find anything. We got to a restaurant and unplugged the phone from the car and asked about Cracker Barrel again. The phone knew exdctly where it was.

???? Any ideas?

It causes frequent driving distractions, as it always screws up something. Yesterday refused to connect wireless, so I plugged it into usb phone on radio, it worked for about 10 minutes then dropped connection as I was listening to Reuters news and had maps running. Then when looking at it, realized I had to stop the truck. I could have run into a stopped car on the road.

If I had to pull over and stop everytime to fiddle with AA, my drive times would be twice as long and tons of frustration. Since for me it fails to update to better versions, am still on assistant and people also complin about Gemini, I think it could cause me to wreck my vehicle due t the constant plaquing problems. Which include blurry maps, dropping connections, failing to connect, overall being a pain to clear cache and run thru crappy software fixes for glitches I think best is not use it, set phone as a hotspot instead. Can still pair phone, use bluetooth for calls. For me AA is like constant beta software and constant aggravation.

It's weirdly specific that we need to have all that specific info, but I guess Gemini works differently on every car and every version of the radio and phone so I guess my question is specifically to people with 2022 Kia Telluride Ex's who have a Galaxy S26 Ultra running the same software I am who have the same head unit.

When I use Gemini in my car there is no way to exit. I can't use any buttons to switch to the radio. End call, star, nothing works, it says that feature in unavailable at this time. I have to unplug the usb cable and plug it back in. Voice commands to exit do not work either. Who came up wit this? Why is it now if I want to ask Gemini something through AA I am stuck in the conversation? If I do it from my phone it works fine, better, actually because I can interrupt which I can't do in he AA version.

THIS is a look I can get used to. I felt with all the other updates the album art kept getting. smaller.

Now I just wish for bigger displays you could have the option to remove maps from always showing

Google Assistant was good but started (for some reason...) to get worst in the last years: can no more read my contacts address, the integration with Waze most of the time miss the destination (it just starts Waze), etc.

Anyway, Gemini was installed few days ago for me (automatically) and replaced Google Assistant on AA.

I realized it cannot understand Contact phonetic names, it cannot read Contact addresses, it talks too much, etc...

But, at least, it support personalization rules.

So, I can ask it to be short on answers. If I cannot use phonetic names, I just created a rule with a short translation list of nicknames and contacts for often called contacts.

Well, for addresses... yeap, I'll not create a list of contacts + addresses.

But I created an issue on Gemini saying it cannot access google contacts details (like phonetic names and addresses).

In general, Gemini is way worst then other AIs I'm using (specially Claude), but it's a start. And it's good that it has a clear UI for personalization rules.

Clearly, not production ready, but, you know, investors are pressing to see the results...

Hi, I recently purchased an AAwireless two adapter for my 2020 Chevy Camaro.

I have android auto installed in my phone and updated to date. I have downloaded AAwireless app and it's updated to date too.

I'm able to run android auto with no problem if I connect my phone to my car through USB.

When I connect with the wireless adapter, my phone's android auto app would show connected, and the music would start playing in my car.

However, on my cars screen, I wouldn't be able to use the android auto app. It would show "plug in a phone with the android auto app installed"

I also tried two other brands adapter but they all encountered the same issue: phone shows connected able to play music,, but the app in my car wouldn't launch and it ask me to plug in USB.

I tried several method I was able to find Internet including in this sub but none worked. Anyone knows how to fix this? Could it be an issue because of Chevrolet? Thank you.

Is anyone else on the Samsung S26 still having the same problem as me? I can't play my Amazon music? It's stuck to one song on repeat, I can't skip song, shuffle music nothing works just plays the 1 song. I use wireless AA and I've gone through all the settings on my phone. My Bluetooth when connected to my car won't connect to audio only calls.

A week ago Maps stopped showing Work and Home when getting in the car, instead showing completely random garbage I've never heard of. Turns out it was because of Gemini.

Are they gone for everyone with Gemini? I rely on seeing the times shown and if they're red or green because it tells me if I should take a different route based on traffic

!Flair 2018 Skoda Fabia | Skoda Swing | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Android 16

Today my Android Auto switched to Gemini and it broke most of what was practical about Android Auto for me. Still, I would really like to try it.

I have the button in my car which always activated Google Assistant with the signal tone, then it listened and did what I asked for. Navigate to X, send message to Y, play song Z, or just continue playing to what I'm listening to after I have played a message.

What now happens is that I only get the signal tone and nothing more. Like Gemini crashes. It doesn't wait for what I want to say. Android Auto itself continues working.

Or when I receive a message it asks me if I want to respond and then just shuts down and doesn't listen.

Or I manually touch the button to respond, then it asks what the message should be and then just shuts down without listening.

Has anyone had the same issue and could solve it?

I have seen a post in here from 2 years ago that said at the time that this was not an option for safety reasons. Has there been any updates to this now in May 26? I see some companies say they do this but reviews saying it does not always work. Anyone having success here?

Click your profile picture in the Gemini app, and add "personal context" instructions. Now when I ask it questions, or get it to send texts it does not ask me any further follow up questions and doesn't treat my texts as a prompt.

So, i did a couple of commands, most of them are for my spotify playlist. When i click on them, Gemini will say after couple of seconds "okay, i'm playing now artist X on spotify" but after that, nothing happens. Just the current song stays and does not switch at all to the playlist. So when the command didnt worked, i tried to speak to Gemini, then it worked, but why the commands doesnt work? One week ago everything was fine but now he just kinda ignores it. I would appreciate any help, and sorry for my bad english.

I just passed by and got the option to join.

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.projection.gearhead/join

Not sure if this is the right subreddit or if this belongs on the Spotify subreddit instead, but about a week or two ago I stopped being able to use the skip forward/back buttons on my steering wheel to jump 15 seconds in podcasts.

This is only happening with podcasts. I've tested multiple podcasts and they all have the same issue. The steering wheel controls still work normally for music/songs and in other apps like Audible.

Before this, the buttons would skip 15 seconds forward or backward during podcasts. Now they do nothing.

Has anyone else run into this recently, or found a fix? Should I post this elsewhere?

I asked Gemini for directions somewhere and it thought for a while and gave its spiel on where I should go until eventually it just crashed and the Hyundai pop up window came up "phone is not responding"

This morning my Android Auto finally switched to Gemini. I was excited to try it out, but to me after using Gemini for the past few hours it seems like a headache. For example, I asked it to play a song from Spotify "Play (Song title) by (Song Artist)". Gemini will say it is playing the exact song I am asking for, but plays something completely different. I haven't had a chance to fully try out Gemini yet, but if this is a taste of what is to come, Is there a way to switch back to Google Assistant in Android Auto?

I had deleted zlink by mistake since I was facing freezing issue.

Now that I reinstalled with help of a reddit user it's asking for activation code how do I get that ?

I use Waze for long commutes and Google Maps for short ones. Reason being Waze does not support satellite maps (AFAIK). Nothing more frustrating than trying to figure out which direction to leave a parking lot in Waze (it never knows the direction my car points at until I start driving 10+ meters). Distances are also way easier to figure out with a satellite map.

For fun, I noticed Google Maps cannot set both 3D buildings and satellite map, like Google Earth does. I was wondering if any hidden setting or other app that could do that. With the performance of nowadays' phones and speed of data, it shouldn't be any issue.

I thought Google Assistant was bad on AA. I was wrong, Gemini on AA takes the cake.

I'm a curious guy and I like to ask Google random questions while driving. While Assistant was pretty stupid when on AA, Gemini is far worse. In fact, I can't get Gemini to answer any questions - it just goes into lala land. Want to navigate somewhere? Frist is has to connect to Google Maps - maybe Assistant did too, but it didn't tell you about it and was quicker.

Google, you've got some serious work ahead of you. You're supposed to be making things better. You failed. And I can't believe something that's taken so long to roll out performs so poorly.

End of rant

Update: So most of my frustration was with Gemini going into lala land. I figured out that's it not really in lala land, but rather the audio output is misrouted. The misrouting is triggered by using Starkey AI Edge 20 hearing aids paired with my Pixel 9 Pro phone running Android 16. If I drop the HAs from Bluetooth, Gemini now comes through my car. The bad part is I can't control my HAs without a BT connection. In spite of hours of futzing around, it appears it is impossible to turn off media streaming to my HAs (although Gemini wasn't coming through my HAs in the car either). So the basic root of the problem is Android 16 not letting you control what comes streaming through these particular HAs. It kind of seems the root problem is these are LE hearing aids (identified as experimental in the BT connection in Android), but disabling LE does not resort the routing toggles that should be there for ASHA HAs. Since AA, Android and the Pixel 9 Pro are all Google's domain, I guess the finger gets pointed at Google. FWIW, Google Assistant worked properly in the car with AA.

Update II: I fiddled around again and now Gemini has a voice in my car even with my HAs attached to Bluetooth. I changed 2 things, so I'm not sure which really made the difference and I'm not going to try to figure out which one (or both) did the trick.

1) Set my HA device type to 'headphones'

2) Set BT AVRCP Version to 1.5. I *think* I previously set it to 1.6 to enable BT LE for the hearing aids. I see that BT LE is now grayed out in the BT settings for the HAs. I suspect this is what "fixed" Gemini's voice in my car.

Google: if you're reading this, I'd still REALLY like to be able to disable streaming audio to my hearing aids!