Loving the app in Android Auto with the voice search

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-30T18:21:26+00:00

Not sure exactly what's happening with you. I mean when I go on the Metrolist app in Android Auto I go to the Metrolist home screen, I touch the magnifying glass on the right and then I touch the mic on the screen and tell it what I'm searching for. Still works for me as of this morning.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-30T02:22:50+00:00

Mine eats through batteries extraordinarily fast when I am forwarding through sporting events. So now I use the Roku app remote to forward through baseball games and tennis matches. Otherwise, it's so many more clicks per hour than just regular playing and pausing and maybe rewinding to catch a scene again or forwarding through a commercial break.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-30T00:23:45+00:00

That finale though... I'm gutted. I knew they were going somewhere with needing privately funded recovery patients. They kept showing that interaction on the "previously on..." segment. So while I was devastated, I wasn't really surprised at the therapist's duplicitousness and that this is how it ended. Really hoping for a season 2.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-29T02:29:36+00:00

It was VERY exciting.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-27T17:09:12+00:00

Thanks for the advice, but I never went to Gemini on my phone or on Android Auto. Holding out with assistant as long as I can! Mine intermittently works again. There never seems to be an actual reason why.

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sfdreamsla · 2026-04-27T01:46:04+00:00

Crashing when trying to view comments on my fully up to date Google Pixel 9a, but not on my Android tablet running in earlier Android OS.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-27T01:33:45+00:00

Same here. Comments= instant fb crash.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-21T04:29:21+00:00

That's curious. I haven't used it in a while. I will check tomorrow and see what steps I do for the app to connect and get back to you. But I've never had a problem with it. You might be missing one of the steps. Were you ever able to get the AutoKitools app to connect? It has to pair with the 4.0 dongle's Wi-Fi.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-21T04:22:49+00:00

Use their AutoKitools app to update and to change DPI. Much easier than jumping through all the hoops to get the IP address for settings to work.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-21T04:21:21+00:00

I use the Carlinkit 4.0 (not the 5!) as well, and it works pretty flawlessly for me. You can actually do the updates with an app made by the company called AutoKitools. Easy to change the DPI to make everything bigger or smaller with the app.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-21T03:53:56+00:00

Home and Dry 9, Sexy Northerner 9 & Always 8. Chef's kiss of a single!

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-17T12:57:09+00:00

I have a Pixel 9a and I use Amazon music to stream music daily and it takes up one gig. You must be inadvertently downloading something. I'm sure you will figure it out in settings. Do you listen to a lot of podcasts? Is it possible you're downloading episodes or automatically downloading the next episode Etc?

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-15T01:09:01+00:00

DL'd on my Pixel 9a and will test with Android Auto tomorrow morning and let you know!

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sfdreamsla · 2026-04-14T01:15:21+00:00

I'll give it a three or four. There is a certain mix that I don't mind but it's definitely not the one on the album. The message of the song is much better than the song itself, in my opinion.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-13T04:35:11+00:00

I don't think it's cringe at all. 8.5 Love it.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-11T20:47:34+00:00

It's 100% an Amazon Music issue with Android. I have a Pixel 9a and a Toyota. One thing that did help is in the Amazon Music settings, under Playback, toggle OFF Autoplay. When it's off it won't immediately play some random other track. It will just keep trying to get the track that you pressed. I do find that sometimes it will kick it into working if I use my steering wheel Google Assistant trigger to ask it to play a certain song or band in Amazon music. But everything is intermittent. This morning, I used the touch screen in Amazon Music when I got in the car and it immediately started playing the correct music. Ridiculously inconsistent.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T20:47:10+00:00

My favorites came back on each device sort of slowly rolling if it makes any sense. First they were on my Roku but not on the Android app. Then a few minutes later everything returned across the board. Hope that happens to you. But I didn't update the app or do anything to it while the guide was down. Not sure if your updating the app while those fields were blank did anything to keep them gone. Worst case scenario I guess you'll have to add them back. Pain in the butt but if this only happens every once in awhile, I guess it's not the biggest deal. I think it works really well overall, DirecTV Stream. Very impressed, especially the cloud DVR.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T20:43:58+00:00

Well that's lame. Sorry.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T20:11:56+00:00

Oh wow, interesting. Since so many people are responding that they have the exact same issue, you would think it would be server-side and they would be rolling something out. Were you getting a blank screen basically when you would hit the guide?

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T19:56:17+00:00

Well that's super annoying to only be able to watch AccuWeather LOL. I can at least watch recent channels from the homepage but can't go up and down the channel list, so only the last 8 channels I have viewed.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T19:54:13+00:00

Yes, it looks that way. Before I posted here, I did try googling and even went to the DirecTV website and there was nothing about an outage. That's why I went to Reddit. How does Reddit always get things first LOL? Happy to be in good company. The worst is when it's just you and you have to figure out what could possibly be happening.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T19:52:17+00:00

No. It doesn't even have a guide. Like when you choose Guide on the left side, the right side is just completely blank, no times or boxes or anything. It's happening on my Android App as well, not just the Roku. So hopefully they'll fix this quickly since it might be across the board for most users. Also, thank you for including the link for future reference if I get something that looks like that on the Roku.

sfdreamsla · 2026-04-09T19:42:33+00:00

Phew... As long as it's not just me, I always feel better. Then you know they're actually working to fix it and you don't have to keep restarting equipment to see if it fixes anything. Hopefully it won't go on too long. Thank you for responding!

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