Just tried Android Auto on my S23 and I had to disconnect and reconnect once I think to get through some setup stuff but then it worked fine.
Just tried Android Auto on my S23 and I had to disconnect and reconnect once I think to get through some setup stuff but then it worked fine.
Wired or wireless?
Thanks for the update. I waited long enough for the gray color to sell out, and the green to be delayed until 3/10 for me. So it will be a minute before I get mine.
Since the Android Auto update hit my phone with the new UI, I've had a handful of situations where my phone screen will look active while connected, but be dimmed a bit and non-responsive. If I hit the power button, it brightens up and becomes active again.
This was wired. I really dig the green as well.
Edit: also, the fingerprint scanner is soooooooo much better compared with the s20.
Since the Android Auto update hit my phone with the new UI, I've had a handful of situations where my phone screen will look active while connected, but be dimmed a bit and non-responsive. If I hit the power button, it brightens up and becomes active again.
I get this all the time. Might be something intentional, to discourage use of the phone during driving.
I dislike that sometime in the last year or so, they eliminated "now playing" controls from the bottom of the car screen. I use Waze, and now you have to switch apps to pause something. This week I learned that if you use Google Maps, you have the option to do a splitscreen thing where part of the screen is Maps and maybe 2/5 of it is a now playing screen with controls. Great, now add that to Waze.
MannishBoy wrote:Since the Android Auto update hit my phone with the new UI, I've had a handful of situations where my phone screen will look active while connected, but be dimmed a bit and non-responsive. If I hit the power button, it brightens up and becomes active again.
I get this all the time. Might be something intentional, to discourage use of the phone during driving.
I dislike that sometime in the last year or so, they eliminated "now playing" controls from the bottom of the car screen. I use Waze, and now you have to switch apps to pause something. This week I learned that if you use Google Maps, you have the option to do a splitscreen thing where part of the screen is Maps and maybe 2/5 of it is a now playing screen with controls. Great, now add that to Waze.
The inactive screen is new to my phone in the last few weeks. Never happened before.
I do like the split screen with Maps/Audio that just rolled out in the new UI. I've got an aftermarket box that is kind of a hacked in solution for my car that wasn't sold with Android Auto, and the stock screen isn't touch in the first place. I navigate by the dial and navigation buttons on my console or wheel. But if I had touch, it looks great 
I've thought about buying one of the screen replacement systems available that does similar to mine, but is a whole android device that also allows for Android Auto and Car Play with touch screen. It still allows for you to switch to the stock interface for real car stuff. Probably will break down and buy it soon. Seems like over the past year, a lot of the jank from those systems have been worked out. Question is, buy from AliExpress and pay $100-$300 less, or buy from one of the places that advertises and has some semblance of direct customer support and play a bunch more money? They're probably all made in the same Chinese factories with slightly different firmware and maybe core processor chips.
I will probably never buy a car that doesn't have Android Auto, but if I do, I will 100% buy a third party solution.
I will probably never buy a car that doesn't have Android Auto, but if I do, I will 100% buy a third party solution.
I bought a used end of gen S4 3 years ago. Current gen has AA, but last gen didn't.
I'm a Waze user too - and after being really frustrated by the new screen layout I dug into the Settings and found you can switch back to the older view with the audio controls across the bottom. You have to load the app on your phone to change the setting from the new default one, or at least that's how I did it.
I'm a Waze user too - and after being really frustrated by the new screen layout I dug into the Settings and found you can switch back to the older view with the audio controls across the bottom. You have to load the app on your phone to change the setting from the new default one, or at least that's how I did it.
The Android Auto app? This is great information!
You know what, turns out I was wrong about the Android Auto app settings. I just double checked this on my phone and I must have made the change in the settings in the car, not in the app on my phone. Sorry about that. I would've mentioned it sooner but I've been away from the site for some days.
You know what, turns out I was wrong about the Android Auto app settings. I just double checked this on my phone and I must have made the change in the settings in the car, not in the app on my phone. Sorry about that. I would've mentioned it sooner but I've been away from the site for some days.
No worries. I'll try to take a look at it this weekend - would be very nice to get that back.
I got it back, and I owe it all to you!
And weren't you the one who first mentioned Perilaxe Occlusion in the metal thread a couple years ago? I still love them (and listen to them in my car, to keep it topical 
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I got it back, and I owe it all to you!
And weren't you the one who first mentioned Perilaxe Occlusion in the metal thread a couple years ago? I still love them (and listen to them in my car, to keep it topical
Indeed that was me! You're welcome
This one might scratch that same itch for you, also great car listening! Ok now back to your regularly scheduled Android posts...
Are there no alternatives to the .nomedia files to keep images in a particular folder to being picked up as something Google Photos might want to back up? I'm tired of dealing with audiobook covers every time I add a new book to /audiobooks folder. Can't even right the file to that folder.
It's been broken for a long time, I'm just finally getting around to trying to figure out an alternative.
I assume this is just another thing Google did away with that's annoying for users that do things slightly more sophisticated than the norm.
I thought that still worked. You can also name the directory with a . in front and that should keep anything in there from showing up in most apps. Unless the app has a show hidden files option.
But if it's a default directory you can't change, not sure.
I think photos itself also has options to exclude directories. Like I exclude text message images from getting backed up again. They should already be saved with the texts.
I might be misunderstanding, but Mannish are you saying you don't see a settings option to unselect folders that Google Photos backs up? Under settings/backup:
From there I can select any folder I want Google Photos to avoid backing up.
I might be misunderstanding, but Mannish are you saying you don't see a settings option to unselect folders that Google Photos backs up? Under settings/backup:
From there I can select any folder I want Google Photos to avoid backing up.
It's not just google photos, it's also OneDrive.
And I've set that in the past, but what happens is it sees a new subfolder, and helpfully tries to back up that one, or show book covers in "recent images" in the phone's file manager.
I thought that still worked. You can also name the directory with a . in front and that should keep anything in there from showing up in most apps. Unless the app has a show hidden files option.
It might still work some places, but I have a folder called /audiobooks . As soon as I drop a .nomedia file in that folder, it deletes it. Found some mention of that around the web, so it's not just me.
Interesting. My Google Photos never tells me anything about new folders. I also use OneDrive and disable folders from being added here:
If it ever asks me to back up a folder I just hit cancel. I can see that being annoying if it asks for every single subfolder though. Not a fan of Samsung's file browser, for that and other reasons.
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