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by hunter2_ 788 days ago
Android Auto: I use the Motorola wireless dongle in a VW. It's great when only 1 phone is paired, but my wife and I share the vehicle in question. It allows multiple pairings (despite the instruction manual hardly mentioning that ability, if at all) but it's finicky as hell. Half of all attempts at swapping phones end in unplugging the thing and using a cable, to the point where I'm thinking I keep wireless AA for myself (driver 90% of the time) and have her use a vent mount with only BT audio (driver 10% of the time). Connection handshake delay before visible feedback is about 30 seconds, which makes troubleshooting an extremely latency-riddled nightmare. But the other half of the time, it's as simple as selecting the desired phone in the Bluetooth menu of the car. Once connected, the experience is identical to wired AA.

This problem didn't exist at all before going wireless.