My C8 Stingray wireless Android Auto generally performs well. But for several months it has failed to connect when I enter the car after a remote start. When this happens, a brief stop and start doesn't help, but stopping and leaving it off for a while usually resolves the issue.

Online search yielded workarounds, not fixes. I have had a couple of issues corrected recently with unexpected updates, does anybody know if this might be resolved in a future update? Any other suggestions would be welcome. And thanks in advance.

 

A year/model/sub model will help the armchair diagnosticians.

 

When you get in the car after a remote start, you still have the put your foot on the brake and push the ignition button before you can drive. I assume you are fully aware of that and it won't connect even after you do that, right? So...I do not know the answer to what is happening, but if it happened to me, I might look into the relevant parts of the menus on both the phone and the car to see what it may show about the status of the connections. When it all working right, you would see the in the car menu that your phone is connected via WiFi. In the phone menu you would see that the phone is connected to the car via WiFi. Does your phone even see the car (show in the menu as an available connection?)? Any chance the car has connected to a different phone? I have noticed either in my C8 or my other cars, that sometimes my wifes phone connects first which blocks mine from connecting to support CarPlay. Its possible its software flaw of course.

 

This same thing happened with my z51 prior to moving to my z06 (which is a 2026 and hasnt had the same problem)
i tried searching everywhere because it was so frustrating and couldnt find a resolution. Allowed on all settings, reset both infotainment and phone to no avail. i believe this happened after a specific android update, but cant confirm, so may be a compatibility issue from the version.

The largest irritation was no text messages showimg up on the infotainment anymore. I hope you fingld a solution!

 

2024 Stingray Z51.

 

No other phones, so no other phone connected.

The phone is connected to the car, and the car is connected to the phone, it's just that Android Auto is not launching.

Thanks.

 

Same car, here ('24 SR HTC Z51).
1) In the Infotainment Settings for Phone, is your main Android phone a "Trusted Phone/Device"?
2) In the phone's Settings > Connected Devices > Connection Preference near the end of the list are the Auto settings. Is Android Auto "car compatible" On?

 

His issue is that it fails to launch after he has executed a remote start, its not all the time. And he has verified that it connects after a remote launch. It would not seem be an issue of phone settings or connectivity. There must be something in the software that inhibits the launching of Android Auto after a remote start. I tried to duplicate this with mine - but I use Apple CarPlay. I remote started the car with the key fob. Then entered the garage and got into the car with the fob in my pocket. Before pressing the ignition, I checked my phone connection. The WiFi menu showed it was connected to the network in my garage. Then I put my foot on the brake and pressed start. The car woke up. My phone, without prompting, disconnected from the garage and connected with the car. The car of course connected with the phone, and within moments the CarPlay icon lit up active. It does not actually launch until I press the icon....but that is how it always works in mine. It connects and the CarPlay icon changes color and lights up to show it active. Pressing the icon brings up the CarPlay screen and there I can select from various apps hosted on my phone (music, pandora, Waze, etc.). When I pressed the CarPlay Icon, Waze showed up, with the other app choices down the left side. But it does not actually "launch" the CarPlay app until I press the active icon.

 

Apples, oranges? Not sure what year model you drive and you're an Apple phone user. I was just suggesting, from the point of view of a 2024 SR Z51 Android phone user some basics to check first. I had some similar connectivity blips when first using AA and was trying to help. Not questioning your expertise but it's easy to get defensive when others try to help. I get that. I'll leave it up to you to diagnose, further, going forward.

 

I thought of it more like a comparison of what how my Apple Car Play launches with a normal in-car start with what happens if I do a remote start since that is the condition that the OP described.

If you have Android Auto, why don't you try to duplicate his situation - as I did - it would be more applicable to the situation as you have pointed out. Do remote start, then enter the car and see if Android Auto will launch normally.

I never use remote start on my 2021, and so I was curious about whether I would have a similar issue launching Apple Car Play after a remote start. And I thought there might be some sort of block in the software to prevent the connection or prevent the launching when a remote start was being used, for safety reasons, and if so, maybe it is failing to unbolock after the start button is pushed. But I did not have a similar issue with mine so I could not help further. It took me some time to try that and I was happy to do it.

I do not know anything about Androd Auto. Do you think if it was the phone settings that you mentioned, it would connect and launch normally all the time, except when he does a remote start then? That's the situation he is describing. I was just guessing that if it was phone settings, his issue would not be specific to use of remote start - rather he would have the issue all the time.

 

It's difficult to diagnose the problems of others, across the internet, at the best of times.
I asked (him/her?) about two basic, critical, AA settings that are often overlooked during the frustration of "why doesn't mine work like others?" stage of troubleshooting.
Since the OP has ghosted the thread, perhaps one of us "hit the nail"?