MRA lagging and freezing on AA

[Adrian Avram]

Hello everyone,

After testing the latest version of the app today (following a clean reinstall and downloading only the current map for my country), I noticed that the app is lagging and frequently freezing on Android Auto.

I am using a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra connected to the car display. While the app freezes and lags on Android Auto, it works perfectly fine when opened directly on the phone at the same time.

For comparison, I also tested it with my iPhone 13 using CarPlay, and everything works smooth as butter, both on the car display and on the phone itself.

I have attached a video recorded with my iPhone while Android Auto was running from my Samsung device.

Thank you!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KUhaO5VDmIPNKSdHYe273PTgQGAhWv6f/view?usp=drive_link

[Adrian Avram]

After some troubleshooting — including installing the app on another factory-reset phone, which worked fine — I finally figured out what was causing the issue on my device. I’m sharing this in case it helps anyone else who runs into the same problem.

In my case, the lag was actually caused by Android Auto itself. After the most recent update, it seems the location permission was automatically enabled for the Android Auto app, and this was causing MyRoute App to freeze and lag.

Interestingly, MyRoute App was the only app affected. I tested OsmAnd, TomTom, Sygic, Maps, and Waze, and none of them had this behavior.

Once I changed the Android Auto location permission to “Don’t allow,” everything started working smoothly again.

Sorry for the confusion in my earlier post, and I’m glad I can enjoy the app properly again.

[b0hd1]

@Adrian-Avram Thank you so much for your contribution. Any ideas for those of us who are experiencing or have experienced problems with AA wireless are very welcome!

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Adrian-Avram hi Adrian.
This is indeed interesting. Do you meen that you’ve installed, or updates Android Auto in your car.
I would have to check if setting thé location permission on my AA is possible. I can’t remember setting that at all. Even stranger that it worked fine while using you IPhone. Basicly it’s the same screen.

[Con Hennekens]

@Adrian-Avram, my theory about this is that big tech companies can spare developers to program all kinds of workarounds for "not nice functioning" AA/CP devices. It could be as simple as maintaining a list of problematic devices, for which the use of the phones internal GPS is being forced, instead of the GPS built into the AA/CP device. For the MRA app we will have to do this manually I am afraid.

@Marinus-van-Deudekom said in MRA lagging and freezing on AA:

I can’t remember setting that at all.

Usually you do not need to set that. Android Auto is a system app on your Android phone that by default has location permissions. Normally when you connect to a AA device, the GPS of that device is being switched to, if it has one (some don't, some do). If it does not have a GPS onboard, it falls back to the phones GPS. Also when you deny the Android Auto location permissions, the MRA app will fall back to the Phones own GPS.

[Adrian Avram]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom said in MRA lagging and freezing on AA:

Do you meen that you’ve installed, or updates Android Auto in your car.

Hi @Marinus-van-Deudekom this happened after a Android Auto update on my phone, as in the Android Auto app, from Play Store.

[Adrian Avram]

@Con-Hennekens said in MRA lagging and freezing on AA:

For the MRA app we will have to do this manually I am afraid.

@Con-Hennekens I totally agree ! Just one setting can really mess things up !

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Con-Hennekens That's what I suspected. I've got the idea that @Adrian-Avram would have set something in the AA device itself. Thats explains why it works with the Iphone and didn'twork on his Android phone.