I use the Hale Dreamer alarm clock app and dock. When the dock is plugged into the headphone jack, it auto launches the alarm clock app and allows the dock to control brightness and volume of the phone. I think it does this through a proprietary protocol through the microphone jack (the dock is TRRS). This is the companion app that I think makes it work: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonrlabs.docksignal.
On the stock XT1096 ROM, the app launches fine and the control works through the dock. On CM12.1 or CM13 the app doesn't launch and there's no control from the dock. Does anyone have any advice on how to troubleshoot this? Would it make sense to capture the logcat on the stock ROM when the dock is plugged in to see what gets called? I haven't done that before, but it seems like a place to start, although I don't know what I would do with the info. I've searched and haven't found any other posts on this (anywhere). The company also hasn't responded to multiple support requests.
Is there a workaround yet to stop Android Auto from disabling the phone.? Once I'm connected to the car I can't see any email notifications (sound/vibrate/LED). It's really irritating and means I have to disconnect my phone every 15 minutes to check email!
Thanks.
Isn't the whole point of AA not to look at your phone every 15 mins while driving ?
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Tell Apple that. Anyone actually have an answer? Thanks.
jamesbond_28_007 said:
Tell Apple that. Anyone actually have an answer? Thanks.
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You can hit the multi task button and open a recent app. Keep your email client open in recents and check it at stoplights.
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ireknole said:
You can hit the multi task button and open a recent app. Keep your email client open in recents and check it at stoplights.
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That's it! Brilliant thank you. So simple but hadn't tried that. I've now installed the caffeine app which also keeps the screen on permanently when connected to a USB. That way the email notification LED light now works when in Android Auto mode.
Thanks again
jamesbond_28_007 said:
That's it! Brilliant thank you. So simple but hadn't tried that. I've now installed the caffeine app which also keeps the screen on permanently when connected to a USB. That way the email notification LED light now works when in Android Auto mode.
Thanks again
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You're welcome!
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jamesbond_28_007 said:
Is there a workaround yet to stop Android Auto from disabling the phone.? Once I'm connected to the car I can't see any email notifications (sound/vibrate/LED). It's really irritating and means I have to disconnect my phone every 15 minutes to check email!
Thanks.
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Or not. That's kind of the point of Android Auto in the first place is to get people off of messing with their phones while they're driving.
The only solution that I am aware I was to buy an Android Wear watch. All notifications still come through on the watch even when connected to Android Auto.
Press multi task button then press home, quickly select app or open app drawer.
I use this method with Note 4
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jamesbond_28_007 said:
That's it! Brilliant thank you. So simple but hadn't tried that. I've now installed the caffeine app which also keeps the screen on permanently when connected to a USB. That way the email notification LED light now works when in Android Auto mode.
Thanks again
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After reading this I also installed Caffeine, it was the perfect app I was looking for to prevent my screen from turning off.
I enabled my email on Android auto unit, and I receive email notification on that..
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Hello and sorry for reviving such an old thread.
I have used for some time the trick suggested by @ireknole with a phone having hard buttons. My new phone, however, has soft buttons and Android Auto disables on purpose the multi-task button. (Mate 10 Pro, Android 8.0).
I have no other option left now to check my phone while AA is connected to the car and running. I need to check the phone for searching for a song or my wife needs to change the song while i'm driving - plus search the internet or whatever else she feels like on long roadtrips.
However, I can still access the notifications drawer and all the shortcut buttons found there (i did not give AA permission to draw over other applications).
Does anybody know:
1) How to place a custom button in the notifications drawer which specifically does that: activate multi-task function or any other function to just put AA in background and allow me to access other apps?
2) How to forbid AA to disable my multi-task button in the first place?
Thank you!
catalin.marin said:
Hello and sorry for reviving such an old thread.
I have used for some time the trick suggested by @ireknole with a phone having hard buttons. My new phone, however, has soft buttons and Android Auto disables on purpose the multi-task button. (Mate 10 Pro, Android 8.0).
I have no other option left now to check my phone while AA is connected to the car and running. I need to check the phone for searching for a song or my wife needs to change the song while i'm driving - plus search the internet or whatever else she feels like on long roadtrips.
However, I can still access the notifications drawer and all the shortcut buttons found there (i did not give AA permission to draw over other applications).
Does anybody know:
1) How to place a custom button in the notifications drawer which specifically does that: activate multi-task function or any other function to just put AA in background and allow me to access other apps?
2) How to forbid AA to disable my multi-task button in the first place?
Thank you!
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I haven't found a way to get the multitask button to reshow, but I have a built in app on my Samsung S8 that allows me to swipe from the edge of the phone and select the "shortcut" "recent apps" that acts like the multitask button. There may be an app that's similar in the play store that lets you open it with a swipe and map a "recent apps" shortcut as an option.
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another way is to install AAWidget. it display a widget on your Android auto screen.
but this only work for AA2.9 since google disable third party apk in AA3.0
AA widget will list down mails, whatapps messages etc as long as theres widget for those apk.
make a clone and aawidget and you can havemultiple widget to read your email/whatsapp etc
but you cant read full email or messages if the email or messages too long. just good enough to check what are the incoming email/messages
Thank you for your answers!
I did not try your solutions because in the meanwhile I found a way to gain complete control over my phone using Tasker.
For anyone interested, create a new profile in Tasker, set the trigger to Apps->Android Auto and the task to "Go home".
What this setup achieves is showing the home screen whenever AA tries to pop up on screen, which solves all the problems
I can use my phone as if AA was not running at all, while AA is completely functional on the car's screen.
I use AA 2.9.57xxxx.
If you are on Nougat you can add a custom tile using the regular android api to launche the home launcher activity. But please don't post any source code or ready to use apk somewhere. This should be something for the "pros" if its too easy to use they come up with a way to block the notification drawer
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If you are on Nougat you can add a custom tile using the regular android api to launche the home launcher activity. But please don't post any source code or ready to use apk somewhere. This should be something for the "pros" if its too easy to use they come up with a way to block the notification drawer
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Thank you! I will also try this approach when I'll have a few hours, as I have some Android development background
catalin.marin said:
Hello and sorry for reviving such an old thread.
I have used for some time the trick suggested by @ireknole with a phone having hard buttons. My new phone, however, has soft buttons and Android Auto disables on purpose the multi-task button. (Mate 10 Pro, Android 8.0).
I have no other option left now to check my phone while AA is connected to the car and running. I need to check the phone for searching for a song or my wife needs to change the song while i'm driving - plus search the internet or whatever else she feels like on long roadtrips.
However, I can still access the notifications drawer and all the shortcut buttons found there (i did not give AA permission to draw over other applications).
Does anybody know:
1) How to place a custom button in the notifications drawer which specifically does that: activate multi-task function or any other function to just put AA in background and allow me to access other apps?
2) How to forbid AA to disable my multi-task button in the first place?
Thank you!
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I just started using AA on my Nexus 5X running 8.1. AA hides the multi-task button, but if you swipe up from the bottom of the screen; the buttons re-appear for a few seconds and you can select it again.
My problem is that AA sets the screen timeout to 15 sec. So when I pull over to check/write an email; the screen constantly shuts off. The Nexus 5X is no longer a "fast" phone, so starting OWA (outlook) takes more than 15 sec. I've gone into the phone settings after connecting the phone and changing it back to 2 min., but this setting will re-set the next time I plug the phone in again.
Latest version and the version before it (3.1 is latest, can't remember exactly what the previous version is) has changed this.. you can now just swipe up on the phone and access it normally when it's connected to Android auto.
Hi guys,
I have new car with Android Auto supported and phone Huawei P8. I have installed the newest version of Android Auto (from apkm..., unfortunately the app is not available in my country) . When I connect my phone, the Smart Link in my car is started instantly but all I can see is just Google Home screen with tab to start navigation (map).
1) The navigation bar at the bottom of the screen is black without any button. No way how to change/run an application.
2) When I try to start voice recognition (voice commands), it flash to black and back to the "lock screen" (no tabs/widgets on the screen).
Any advice what could be wrong?
Thank you,
Filip.
I've been plinking with a new Fire 7 to use as a bedside alarm clock, to replace my Sony Dash.
I found that most apps (including everything on the web) displays much too small on the Fire. I can bump up the system font size but that does nothing on the web or apps.
I used adb to bump up the dpi and that did the trick...in general, text is roughly the same size as on my phones, there's just more real estate, which is what I wanted/expected.
The problem now is that the notification bar is too wide. Anytime it's supposed to come up...on boot, or when you try to pull it down, it displays for about one second and then goes to a black screen for five seconds or so. If you rotate the Fire, it's all good. The notification bar displays perfectly in landscape mode.
Any tips for resizing the notification bar?
ConnCarl said:
I've been plinking with a new Fire 7 to use as a bedside alarm clock, to replace my Sony Dash.
I found that most apps (including everything on the web) displays much too small on the Fire. I can bump up the system font size but that does nothing on the web or apps.
I used adb to bump up the dpi and that did the trick...in general, text is roughly the same size as on my phones, there's just more real estate, which is what I wanted/expected.
The problem now is that the notification bar is too wide. Anytime it's supposed to come up...on boot, or when you try to pull it down, it displays for about one second and then goes to a black screen for five seconds or so. If you rotate the Fire, it's all good. The notification bar displays perfectly in landscape mode.
Any tips for resizing the notification bar?
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I have yet to encounter an app, method or Xposed module for explicitly resizing the notification bar. However, you may find some relief with Xposed modules such as GravityBox that permit customization notification content and format. You can also turn some notifications into 'heads-up' toasts which may or may not meet your needs.
Device must be rooted to install the manditory Xposed Framework. A custom ROM is preferable as some controls do not work on FireOS.
Davey126 said:
I have yet to encounter an app, method or Xposed module for explicitly resizing the notification bar. However, you may find some relief with Xposed modules such as GravityBox that permit customization notification content and format. You can also turn some notifications into 'heads-up' toasts which may or may not meet your needs.
Device must be rooted to install the manditory Xposed Framework. A custom ROM is preferable as some controls do not work on FireOS.
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I was going to say the same exact thing.
ConnCarl said:
I've been plinking with a new Fire 7 to use as a bedside alarm clock, to replace my Sony Dash.
I found that most apps (including everything on the web) displays much too small on the Fire. I can bump up the system font size but that does nothing on the web or apps.
I used adb to bump up the dpi and that did the trick...in general, text is roughly the same size as on my phones, there's just more real estate, which is what I wanted/expected.
The problem now is that the notification bar is too wide. Anytime it's supposed to come up...on boot, or when you try to pull it down, it displays for about one second and then goes to a black screen for five seconds or so. If you rotate the Fire, it's all good. The notification bar displays perfectly in landscape mode.
Any tips for resizing the notification bar?
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I like Power Toggles, though I haven't been able to get it to override Amazon's panel. But it is nice to add shortcuts to it that aren't in Amazon's. If you've been able to resize it, any idea how to remove it or disable it? What is the file of Amazon's panel called? Is it an APK? Been trying to fool around with it, but can't find what directory the panel is stored.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys, but this unit is on FireOS 5.4.0. If it were rootable, or able to take a custom ROM, none of this would be an issue.
ConnCarl said:
Thanks for the suggestions, guys, but this unit is on FireOS 5.4.0. If it were rootable, or able to take a custom ROM, none of this would be an issue.
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I still want to know the package or packages name of the notification panel
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I still want to know the package or packages name of the notification panel
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Are you asking me or Davey? Because like my original post says, all I did was change the DPI using an adb command. If I figure something out, I'll come back here and update. For now, I just rotate the Fire if I need to read notifications.
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I still want to know the package or packages name of the notification panel
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ConnCarl said:
Are you asking me or Davey? Because like my original post says, all I did was change the DPI using an adb command. If I figure something out, I'll come back here and update. For now, I just rotate the Fire if I need to read notifications.
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Not a regular FireOS user. At one point I may have known this (FireOS v3) but have since stepped away.
So I'll try to keep this as short as possible but it is a bit complicated.
Basically I purchased a Chinese Android Radio for my 2014 Cayenne. I was very hesitant because I know that AliExpress type items can be very hit or miss (mostly miss) in terms of quality. Black Friday came around and I had the option to save $70 on the Radio so I just went ahead and ordered it. I have since received and installed the radio and am actually very happy with it overall.
Now like most Full Android Head Units this radio does not have built in Android Auto but has the option to use it via external USB dongle and the "Autokit" App.
My question stems from the fact that the radio has a dedicated navigation button that opens a default navigation app and also activates the split screen function so you can run the default navigation app on the top half of the screen and a media app on the bottom. The problem is that what I want to do is run the carplay interface on the top half of the screen (through the Autokit App) but it does not show up as an option for Default Navigation.
Is there a way that I could make the Radio see the Autokit app as navigation app so I have the quick launch feature and split screen option for Android Auto?
This is the radio I purchased:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/400...chweb0_0,searchweb201602_7,searchweb201603_53
And this video shows the functionality (Dedicated nav button and split screen function at 1:55 to 2:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8m_ogoY718