topic Re: Car Stereo Control in Android

Car Stereo Control

GazF — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 07:08:59 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

New Zealand

Device

Huawei Mate 20 Pro - JVC kwv230bt

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

Have suddenly been unable to control the phone on the car Stereo..

Used to be able to skip tracks, pause etc but cannot do anything suddenly?

This is via Bluetooth and USB

Re: Car Stereo Control

VonWafflehelm — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 20:31:56 GMT

Same here, has been wonky since 2 updates ago, now it stopped working all together.

Moto Z Play on Android 8

Re: Car Stereo Control

GazF — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:08:55 GMT

Still haven't figured out a solution...

Re: Car Stereo Control

VonWafflehelm — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:13:32 GMT

I re-installed Spotify and that seemed to have fixed it for a couple of days, but after 2 days it just stopped working again. My current hypothesis is that other apps that do bluetooth streaming interfere; I've uninstalled Sonos and will check if this fixes it.

Re: Car Stereo Control

Morgan23 — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:15:32 GMT

Exact same problem since a few weeks, before that it all worked fine.

Skipping a song while im driving shouldnt really require me to access my phone, unlock the screen, go to spotify and find the little 'skip track'button.....

Re: Car Stereo Control

GazF — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:17:56 GMT

Still no result for me

Can get it to skip 1 or 2 tracks initially before it stops. . .

When will Spotify fix this?

Re: Car Stereo Control

GazF — Sun, 05 May 2019 09:08:33 GMT

Still **bleep**ed . .

Re: Car Stereo Control

Morgan23 — Sun, 05 May 2019 09:15:28 GMT

Same....

Re: Car Stereo Control

Morgan23 — Thu, 16 May 2019 17:18:33 GMT

And just like that its working again....yay!

Re: Car Stereo Control

VonWafflehelm — Fri, 17 May 2019 07:49:17 GMT

Still broken here :'(

The weird thing is Spotify is now constantly claiming that it's "connected with Waze" with a permanent notification, while I don't even have Waze installed.

I think I have found a way to restore the functionality, but it's very cumbersome:

Start Spotify
Disable bluetooth
Go to developer options, running services and kill any running Spotify service and cached process
Go to app settings and stop the Spotify process
Re-enable bluetooth and reconnect

This has worked 2 times now but failed this morning. Usually this only works until the next time my device is connected to the car stereo. I have no idea what's going on to be honest.

Re: Car Stereo Control

Peter — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 06:39:50 GMT

Hey folks,

Just to let you know that there's a separate thread here where we are gathering more info from users in order to investigate this issue.

Make sure to head over it and leave the requested info. We'll make sure to keep you posted and let you know as soon as we have any updates.

Thanks!

Re: Car Stereo Control

GazF — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:57:26 GMT

Still not working for me....

Paying full subscription for a broken app...

Re: Car Stereo Control

alexDDDD — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:25:46 GMT

Updated spotify app and now controls in my cat stopped working.. Is tgere a solution already??