Recent content by PqP

One should hope NONE !!! Unless by purely voice.

Fully charged - that's my experience as well, having used AA navigation on my Nexus 5. I plug the USB into the Nexus, then hide the Nexus in that little storage cubicle under the console arm rest, where the USB connection lives. BTW, the nexus doesn't seem to suffer any heat problems in there...

Makes sense. The problem is not AA navigation in general but rather Google Maps's short-term memory lapses AND the non-availability of other Android navigation apps that operate on a memory-resident mapping DB (rather than a dynamically downloaded one). So your AA navigation right now is as...

In Google Play Music, can you make a playlist from plain stored mp3 files? I have over 40GB of mp3's, many of them classical music, none of them downloaded (IOW ripped from CD). If that's possible and you know how, can you please explain? I'd like to have such playlists on my phone, and be able...

Man, if you've read my various earlier comments, you know that I'm aware of all these problems. But AA is **NEW**. It's a new platform operating under severe constraints (like, make sure drivers don'y play Candy Crush while on cruise control). It needs hardware platforms (my Pioneer AVIC-8100NEX...

Right you are. That's what I've learned to do. I live in Cambridge, MA. My Nexus 5 service provider is Metro PCS (=T-Mobile). Whenever it's sunny, I hop into the WRX to try out the new toys. One thing I enjoy doing is to at some point deviate from the route and go into the wild blue yonder, and...

I have the AVIC-8100NEX and the Nexus 5. For GPS navigation I prefer Google Maps, whose visual display is simpler and more comprehensible, as are the voice instructions. But am I glad I have the 8100's native GPS as a backup service when I need it, because Google's navigation doesn't work where...

As I posted above, with the same problem, the Android Auto app running on my phone had the "Only connect to known cars" thing checked, which precludes the phone from being able to make that first connection. So you want to open the AA app in the phone and do two things: (1) make sure that the...

MORE QUESTION: This still doesn't answer how I can play my playlists on the car sound system. The playlists are NOT a Rocked Player peculiarity. They are imported Android-native playlists -- I make them on my computer using Windows Media Player, then connect the phone via USB and let Media...

As I posted above, with the same problem, the Android Auto app running on my phone had the "Only connect to known cars" thing checked, which precludes the phone from being able to make that first connection. So you want to open the AA app in the phone and do two things: (1) make sure that the...

As I posted above, with the same problem, the Android Auto app running on my phone had the "Only connect to known cars" thing checked, which precludes the phone from being able to make that first connection. So you want to open the AA app in the phone and do two things: (1) make sure that the...

New Question: Now that AA works for me, all I can access is Maps (which is the reason I wanted AA in the first place) and Play Music. My favorite music-playing app is Rocket Player. My 32GB Nexus 5 is stuffed full of music, and has lots of carefully-constructed playlists. How do I get to be able...

When you sit in a supercharged performance rocket (sorry, I meant "car") with manual transmission in Neutral and engine running, believe me that the parking brake is ON, tight! The problem was a stupid software one. The Android Auto app had the "Only connect to known cars" thing checked! But...

When you sit in a supercharged performance rocket (sorry, I meant "car") with manual transmission in Neutral and engine running, believe me that the parking brake is ON, tight! The problem was a stupid software one. The Android Auto app had the "Only connect to known cars" thing checked! But...

I just had a Pioneer AVIC-8100NEX professionally installed in my 2015 Subaru WRX. My cellphone is a Google Nexus 5 with Lollipop 5.1. And yes, the first things I did were (1) do the Pioneer firmware upgrade to 1.03, and (2) install the Android Auto app on my Nexus 5. When I connect the phone...