youngdoc

Android Auto is slowly killing me. Before I dive into an exhaustive process of trial and error through many variables, I wanted to check here to see if anyone is having the same issue.

Generally, I have no difficulty getting my Android phone (Pixel XL) to work with my 2017 Q7 via Android Auto. I use Google Maps everyday on the MMI through Android Auto, I listen to audio books stored on my phone, also through Android Auto, and I listen to Google Play music, also through Android Auto. All of those things work as they should. However, when I receive a message on my cell phone from someone (SMS or Google Hangouts, typically), the following sequence of events occurs at least 50% of the time:

1. I select the message notification when it appears at the top of the MMI screen
2. Android Auto/the Q7 reads the message to me through the car speakers and then asks if I want to reply
3. I say "yes"
4. It responds, "What's the message?"
5. I dictate a message
6. It responds, "Here's your message," then reads back my message to me, then says, "Do you want to send it or change it?"
7. I reply "Send it."
8. The little dots on the MMI screen, which normally change to a sort of animated series of lines showing that you are being heard, remain static as dots on the screen. Even if I shout, "SEND IT" (and I confess I have shouted more than once, repeatedly, in great frustration," the dots do not move and the car/phone appear not to hear me.
9. If I wait long enough, Android Auto will eventually speak to me, indicating that it is still waiting for me to "send it, change it, or cancel," but it never hears me. I have to hit the BACK button and start all over.

I thought perhaps it was a cell reception issue, i.e., when I receive a message, I am getting good cell coverage, but when I get to sending my reply, I have passed out of good coverage; but I have determined that this is not the case. My cell signal is excellent throughout these little misadventures. That leaves multiple other variables:

- the phone (a Google Pixel XL with the latest Android OS)
- the microphone (car or phone? whichever one is "hearing" me -- I assume the car)
- the cable (which works fine for everything else in Android Auto)
- the app on my phone (which is the latest version of Android Auto)
- the Q7's MMI firmware (something has to allow it to process the data on some level that it sends and receives to and from the phone)

Anyone? Kill me?

Dasaint

i get the same issue....i does get annoying. I have an s7 edge.

Keyser Wi

Don't even start .... My Toyota Corolla Entune system has much better BT connectivity and integrated messaging system compared to the Android Auto / Audi BT connection.
Audi's is so annoying I seldom use it now. Text message doesn't even pop up when the phone is connected with BT. I only use Android Auto for Google Search & Nav, so I don't get attached to the Audi "rip-off" Connect.

GaryK4

For reply, did you try just saying "yes"? I don't have an Audi (yet), but that is what I uses on my other car. Android auto commands is not as flexible as Google commands to date.
Ex: say navigate to contact often fails, but works with Google. Instead say take me to contact. That method works.

youngdoc

I have not tried that. That said, if you wait long enough, it does specifically tell you, "you can either say 'send it' or 'change it.'" And as I mentioned, it only fails about 50% of the time -- when it does work, I am saying "send it."

bigHUN

I figure whenever fails to me I turn my head slightly towards the microphone and repeat the commend and that works...even with open windows