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Android auto beta crashes at startup

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 7:40 pm
by Giggig
Hi, i've been encountering an issue since yesterday when Android auto crashes completely (flashes a black screen and then closes) on startup.
I suppose this is caused by a new server side change that occurred in the past days in the beta branch, the version i'm currently running is 17.4.663004.
I initially thought it was some sort of incompatibility with the old version of hudiy i was running: 1.2, but even after upgrading to trixie and to 2.18 the issue sadly is still there.
I've tried another phone running the standard release version 17.2 and it worked fine. I've also tried completely wiping all data of my android auto installation on my main phone and it briefly worked while still running the old UI, as soon as the server side changes occurred it broke again.
I've also attached a log hudiy made when I was trying to connect to my phone multiple times
this is a brief video showing the issue: https://streamable.com/66dj9o

Re: Android auto beta crashes at startup

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 8:21 pm
by hudiy
Hello,
We have Android Auto 17.4.663004-release on one of our devices (Pixel 7a), and both wireless and wired connections are working without any issues. Based on the uploaded logs, it appears that the connection is being dropped by the phone. Does this also happen when connected via USB?

Re: Android auto beta crashes at startup

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 10:15 pm
by Giggig
When connected to USB it goes a bit further, I can just get it to load until the home screen, but then it freezes to then crash soon after. I've attached the log of it happening.
Given google's nature to staggered server side rollouts could it be that I got something that is making my android auto unstable with hudiy? I can try tomorrow to connect it to another car that supports AA natively to see if it has the same behaviour but other than that i'm a bit lost.

Re: Android auto beta crashes at startup

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 11:17 pm
by hudiy
Android Auto depends strongly on Google Play Services and the same versions of Android Auto may behave differently on different devices. We've just uploaded a new version which you can download via the updater. Please let us know if the issue still occurs with this version and send us the logs.

Re: Android auto beta crashes at startup

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 9:24 am
by Giggig
I updated and now AA works again! Thank you so much for the update.