Anyway to get Android Auto installed on this Tab S4?
I drive a Ford Escape and the crappy Sync 3 system that Ford uses causes BT lag. Both for audio and video. I don't watch videos whilst driving, I'll explain.
So when I discovered that whilst using Android Auto on my phone (Note 9) the sound that I'm listening to comes in perfect, no lag and when I change tracks via the button on my steering wheel (or volume buttons on my phone) there is no lag, unlike when I'm only using Sync 3.
So, with video the BT lag is bad. Like almost two seconds. I get to campus super early because of construction on a new parking garage. So typically, I'm chilling in my car until the library opens. That's when I'm sometimes watching stuff on my phone so the BT lag gets super annoying. Android Auto relieves this issue perfectly so I'd like to be able to enjoy that benefit on my Tab S4.
But when I try to install it I see the message saying this device is not compatible. Kinda makes sense since this is a tablet. But as you can see, being able to enjoy lag-free video (using any video app/service on the tablet) would be super duper cool on this tablet whilst inside my car.
Anyone know how I can bypass this restriction?
By the way, there is no aux input in this car. It's a 2018 Escape. I'm assuming Ford removed this useful feature the year before? If I had an aux input this would be no issue. But BT is my only option if I can't get Android Auto to work on this Tab S4.
Thanks!
Odd. Installs (and runs) just fine on my Tab S4 directly from Google play.
You can always try to install from other sources, apk mirror for example.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-auto/
So I tried it out and it doesn't seem to work. It installed just fine on its own but when I connected the tablet to my car the tablet started vibrating from the notifications of AA. Like crazy. It just kept flashing the notification icon and vibrating but nothing showed up on the infotainment screen.
I don't know if this is the same as you are talking about, but I've got a couple apps that "aren't compatible with your device," being my Tab S2 or S4. The Jetblue flight app is one. I found that if I install them on my S7 Edge phone, back up the app, I can copy and install it on the tablet. Of course, they need to be manually updated. The Android Auto gives me the same message as roadardo, plus it says "the app may not be optimized for your device." That could explain the bugs when running. I know for chromecast it says my Tab S4 is not optimized for casting and it is a disaster.
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This is an issue I've noticed with my previous S3 and now with my S4, and it has to do with how Touchwiz-based ROMs deal with Pandora auto play upon Blueooth connect versus AOSP-based ROMs.
I have my phone Bluetooth paired to my 2012 Honda Civic EX. When I turn on my car, my phone automatically pairs to the audio system via Bluetooth. With Touchwiz ROMs, Pandora then automatically begins playing (so long as it's still open in memory) where it left off when I previously turned off my car. This is extremely convenient for me, because it doesn't require any action on my part. When I turn off my car, Pandora automatically pauses (it does not continue playing via phone speaker). When I turn the car back on, Pandora picks up where it left off automatically (so long as it's still open in memory).
However, whenever I use an AOSP ROM, Pandora does not automatically begin playing (although it does remain open in memory). I have to manually open Pandora and hit the play button. I prefer AOSP ROMs, but avoid them because this issue annoys me too much.
I realize there are workarounds using all sorts of third party apps, but does anyone have any input on what the difference between TW and AOSP is that is causing this disparity?
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Hi guys, here is the problem that for some reason popped just recently, started maybe 2 weeks ago or so. I'm using Jay bird blue buds x as my main wireless headphones with my tab s. Everything was working fine but now whenever I connect the headphones and either start listening to music, music player or Google play music, or listen to a video clip, be it from YouTube, gallery or Google play video, the headphones cut out after 30-60 seconds. Now I did test the headphones with other tablet, an Asus one, and with my audio setup I use with my pc and I can use them without any problems for hours at a time. Which kinda led me to a conclusion that it's not the headphones but the tab itself. Now my question is, did anyone experience something similar? Any chance it's a Bluetooth driver mixup of some sorts that came with most recent tab update? Any help would be appreciated. I'm running complete stock with the most recent update, with just a couple of apps "turned off" in application section.
Jaybirds work with stock and skyhigh kernel.
VittoCornelius said:
Hi guys, here is the problem that for some reason popped just recently, started maybe 2 weeks ago or so. I'm using Jay bird blue buds x as my main wireless headphones with my tab s. Everything was working fine but now whenever I connect the headphones and either start listening to music, music player or Google play music, or listen to a video clip, be it from YouTube, gallery or Google play video, the headphones cut out after 30-60 seconds. Now I did test the headphones with other tablet, an Asus one, and with my audio setup I use with my pc and I can use them without any problems for hours at a time. Which kinda led me to a conclusion that it's not the headphones but the tab itself. Now my question is, did anyone experience something similar? Any chance it's a Bluetooth driver mixup of some sorts that came with most recent tab update? Any help would be appreciated. I'm running complete stock with the most recent update, with just a couple of apps "turned off" in application section.
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Well, my Samsung HS3000 Bluetooth headphones work w/o a problem, but I just encountered an issue with a bluetooth gamepad I bought. It started to lag every 30s - 2 minutes for like 10 seconds and than worked normally again. On the Nexus 7 of my girlfriend it worked for hours w/o a problem. I ended up factory resetting and updating to a newer firmware only to find out (just now) that one of my apps with accessibility access is responsible, probably Tasker or some of its modules / plugins.
Since your issue sounds a bit similar, you might want to investigate in that direction.
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Well, my Samsung HS3000 Bluetooth headphones work w/o a problem, but I just encountered an issue with a bluetooth gamepad I bought. It started to lag every 30s - 2 minutes for like 10 seconds and than worked normally again. On the Nexus 7 of my girlfriend it worked for hours w/o a problem. I ended up factory resetting and updating to a newer firmware only to find out (just now) that one of my apps with accessibility access is responsible, probably Tasker or some of its modules / plugins.
Since your issue sounds a bit similar, you might want to investigate in that direction.
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Sounds like you might be right, tho I am not using Tasker atm. I'm thinking maybe it's one of the apps I turned off.
Hi folks,
New D851 running 20G stock (but rooted).
I paired it with my car (late model Toyota) and as soon as it connects every time I get in and start the car, it starts playing music. Something about LG Life is Good themes. They are in the default Music app.
I don't use my phone to play music, and had never opened the music app before this started. I use the paired audio for streaming apps (This American Life, in the current situation). Anyway, I manually stopped the music and got my TAL streaming. As I was driving along, I got a text message. The car read me the text message (my son found his homework, yea), then reconnected the audio player, and started playing the MUSIC again, not my This American Life.
It has done this repeatedly, even after a reboot.
My prior phone (running stock android 5.1.1) didn't have this problem... it would pick up in whatever app it left off, and wouldn't START playing something if nothing was running already.
How do I stop this aberrant behavior?
FWIW, I deleted all those stock LG songs and the problem "went away" but I'm sure if I put other music in there it will start up again with automatic play.
I haven't tweaked anything in the phone to cause this, and it's the stock ROM, so someone else has got to have seen it... Anybody?
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FWIW, I deleted all those stock LG songs and the problem "went away" but I'm sure if I put other music in there it will start up again with automatic play.
I haven't tweaked anything in the phone to cause this, and it's the stock ROM, so someone else has got to have seen it... Anybody?
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What folder was the music in that you deleted? I have a major issue with bluetooth pairing with my 16 Honda Accord. Bluetooth has stopped occurs over and over when phone and car are trying to connect to eachother. Seems to connect then phone bluetooth drops. Only time it seems to work is when the music app starts automatically. That on happens once in a while, maybe twice in the week that I have had the car. It's really frustrating, but think it has something to do with the automatic start of music.
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What folder was the music in that you deleted? I have a major issue with bluetooth pairing with my 16 Honda Accord. Bluetooth has stopped occurs over and over when phone and car are trying to connect to eachother. Seems to connect then phone bluetooth drops. Only time it seems to work is when the music app starts automatically. That on happens once in a while, maybe twice in the week that I have had the car. It's really frustrating, but think it has something to do with the automatic start of music.
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I believe the music I deleted was simply in the "music" folder ... it was the stock music LG puts there as part of the stock ROM. I don't store music on the phone; my Bluetooth pairing is for phone and streaming various radio shows, so I never put any music into that folder. I'm quite certain if I put my own music there, it would auto-play as well.
I usually leave Bluetooth on (on the phone) all the time, and when I turn on my 2015 Toyota, the phone and audio player (or whatever it's called) pair as soon as the car is finished booting up. (that sounds weird, describing a car as booting). If my car is in Bluetooth audio mode (instead of FM radio for example), nothing much happens now that I've deleted those song. I simply go into my streaming app, start it, and it works.
What I have found, is that that if I get a text while I'm driving and streaming something, if I press the button on the car dash to read the text to me (in the car's soothing feminine voice), after it's done reading it aloud, I have to mess with stuff to get the streaming to pick up again, which sort of defeats the purpose of "hands free." So I pull over, mess around, and get back on the road.
It's possible that the car's defaults are conflicting with the phone's defaults, in a way my prior phone/rom didn't trip over. I will try to sort it out, and report back here.
Would you be willing to start a thread over in the LG G3 main forum (not this T-Mobile one)? I hesitate to cross-post, but maybe a wider audience would help us. I doubt this is a T-mo specific problem.
Frankenscript said:
I believe the music I deleted was simply in the "music" folder ... it was the stock music LG puts there as part of the stock ROM. I don't store music on the phone; my Bluetooth pairing is for phone and streaming various radio shows, so I never put any music into that folder. I'm quite certain if I put my own music there, it would auto-play as well.
I usually leave Bluetooth on (on the phone) all the time, and when I turn on my 2015 Toyota, the phone and audio player (or whatever it's called) pair as soon as the car is finished booting up. (that sounds weird, describing a car as booting). If my car is in Bluetooth audio mode (instead of FM radio for example), nothing much happens now that I've deleted those song. I simply go into my streaming app, start it, and it works.
What I have found, is that that if I get a text while I'm driving and streaming something, if I press the button on the car dash to read the text to me (in the car's soothing feminine voice), after it's done reading it aloud, I have to mess with stuff to get the streaming to pick up again, which sort of defeats the purpose of "hands free." So I pull over, mess around, and get back on the road.
It's possible that the car's defaults are conflicting with the phone's defaults, in a way my prior phone/rom didn't trip over. I will try to sort it out, and report back here.
Would you be willing to start a thread over in the LG G3 main forum (not this T-Mobile one)? I hesitate to cross-post, but maybe a wider audience would help us. I doubt this is a T-mo specific problem.
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Downgraded from lollipop to kit kat and bluetooth is no longer dropping. However I did have music start automatically playing as you posted here. I will follow the same steps you outlined to stop that from occurring.
i get it where if i've changed the battery(i use the free charger and extra battery) and get in the car, it'll play my ringtones i downloaded from zedge, unless i've started/paused the music before hand...one thing that's irritating to me is that it'll start track that was playing when i got out of the car over when i get back into the car...so if i'm making a bunch of little trips, i hear the same song, over and over and over and over again, unless i skip to the next track each time
Hi,
For several months, I have used my three Chromecast Audio units, in a multi room setup. It has been working flawless, but without changing anything in my network, suddenly the multicast feature stopped working. When I select to cast to the multi room group, only one of the devices connects, let's call it "Living room", and plays music. If I take that device out of the group, only one of the remaining devices connects, "Bed room", and plays music. If I take that out of the group, the last device, "Kitchen", starts to play. If I the select all three devices again, still only the "Living room" device starts to play, and the other two don't play music - yet still gives me a sound if I select one of them, and adjust the volume...
I have tried to reset every device and rerun the setup procedure, but it doesn't make any difference. I'm running the Google Home app, version 1.26.30.8. on my Samsung S8 with Android 7.0.
Does anyone have an idea, to solve my problem?
Thanks in advance.
TorbenKB said:
Hi,
For several months, I have used my three Chromecast Audio units, in a multi room setup. It has been working flawless, but without changing anything in my network, suddenly the multicast feature stopped working. When I select to cast to the multi room group, only one of the devices connects, let's call it "Living room", and plays music. If I take that device out of the group, only one of the remaining devices connects, "Bed room", and plays music. If I take that out of the group, the last device, "Kitchen", starts to play. If I the select all three devices again, still only the "Living room"
device starts to play, and the other two don't play music - yet still gives me a sound if I select one of them, and adjust the volume...
I have tried to reset every device and rerun the setup procedure, but it doesn't make any difference. I'm running the Google Home app, version 1.26.30.8. on my Samsung S8 with Android 7.0.
Does anyone have an idea, to solve my problem?
Thanks in advance.
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Do factory default and then try
Another option is update System Operative
I've been experience a few issues with the new update. One of them, which is more a nuisance than anything, is my bluetooth connection to my car. It's a 2015 Mustang with MyFord Touch. The phone is a galaxy S8+. About 1/3 of the time when I start the car, the phone shows up named a bunch of random characters, instead of Galaxy S8+. Not a huge deal. My music player starts automatically (even if I close it, and kill the process). The thing that's weird is that the audio is kind of hollow sounding when it starts up UNTIL I turn on the phones display, then it kicks into a fuller sound. It's never done this before. Not only that, but it decides when it wants to display track information from Samsung music player only a small portion of the time.
If I'm playing music through Amazon Music, it updates the track information, no problem. If I switch to Samsung's music player, it just displays the last track I played on Amazon music, and never changes. If I start the car with the music player going, it won't update track information until it gets to the next song, and even that is spotty.
Aside from these issues, and the issues I'm having with the default browser, I think it's a pretty good update. But this music thing is really bugging me. For the record, I've tried rebooting the phone. I've tried changing through the AVRCP versions in the developer options, I've toggled Dolby Atmos on and off, changed the sample rate, channels, etc. Nothing seems to be affecting this problem.
On a side note, how do I close the music player so it doesn't automatically start playing when connected to bluetooth?
Thanks in advance. If this doesn't belong here, let me know.
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I've been experience a few issues with the new update. One of them, which is more a nuisance than anything, is my bluetooth connection to my car. It's a 2015 Mustang with MyFord Touch. The phone is a galaxy S8+. About 1/3 of the time when I start the car, the phone shows up named a bunch of random characters, instead of Galaxy S8+. Not a huge deal. My music player starts automatically (even if I close it, and kill the process). The thing that's weird is that the audio is kind of hollow sounding when it starts up UNTIL I turn on the phones display, then it kicks into a fuller sound. It's never done this before. Not only that, but it decides when it wants to display track information from Samsung music player only a small portion of the time.
If I'm playing music through Amazon Music, it updates the track information, no problem. If I switch to Samsung's music player, it just displays the last track I played on Amazon music, and never changes. If I start the car with the music player going, it won't update track information until it gets to the next song, and even that is spotty.
Aside from these issues, and the issues I'm having with the default browser, I think it's a pretty good update. But this music thing is really bugging me. For the record, I've tried rebooting the phone. I've tried changing through the AVRCP versions in the developer options, I've toggled Dolby Atmos on and off, changed the sample rate, channels, etc. Nothing seems to be affecting this problem.
On a side note, how do I close the music player so it doesn't automatically start playing when connected to bluetooth?
Thanks in advance. If this doesn't belong here, let me know.
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Did you ever try to update your car's firmware or going to your dealer and ask for it? I think it's because Android 9 is "too new" for your car
I updated to the latest firmware about 6 months ago. No new updates since then. It would be kinda bogus if android 9 made a 4 year old car obsolete, but i suppose it's possible.
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I updated to the latest firmware about 6 months ago. No new updates since then. It would be kinda bogus if android 9 made a 4 year old car obsolete, but i suppose it's possible.
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It could be possible that you have to expect for a new car firmware or ask to your device forum if anyone else have your same problem with android auto
Good call. I'll pop the question over to my mustang forum. Thanks.
DarcSystems said:
Good call. I'll pop the question over to my mustang forum. Thanks.
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Post it on your mobile device forum too