Its a weird way of doing it but... Waze acts differently depending on how settings are applied. If standalone it’s one thing. If connected to App play another. Try working your settings when they are paired. You’re still going to be doing it all from the phone though. You will have everything but the map on handset. That’s how I got my preferences to stick
Ahhh glitch mode! Yes familiar with that as well. Sometimes when pairing mine I get the same thing. Things will be missing or no report icon etc. I disconnect and then reconnect. It Re syncs and then all the functions work. Happens the most to me if I plug in my phone before starting truck. Just repair and off I go.
Have you simply tried google maps? If it's working fine it's probably a waze problem. If google maps also has issues then it's probably the phone. (I've had phones where the GPS just stopped working, so it is a thing.) If the only weird symptom is that the arrow doesn't seem to know which you're pointing, you might need to recalibrate the compass.
Thanks for the replies guys, good to know others are experiencing glitches also. The spinning compass happened to me yesterday, but upon reconnecting the phone it was fine. As far as the Waze speedo, it would sure be handy on some of these country roads where the speed limit signs are infrequent. I will try messing with Waze settings on my phone while connected as suggested.
Yea, crappy Google is working ok.
There are reports of waze+androidauto problems all over the internet, involving a bunch of different phones & vehicles. If yours is working that's great, but there's definitely something going on for a lot of people that google hasn't managed to fix and stuff like changing screens isn't going to help. The various symptoms are probably all related (the car isn't oriented right because waze is confused about which direction it's pointing, the display is choppy because waze is having trouble figuring out where it is and moves in jerks as it gets location info, and the speed limit/speedometer aren't displaying because...waze is having trouble figuring out where it is and thus the local speed limit as well as the speed of the vehicle). A lot of people started reporting problems after a set of android auto updates a few months ago (but obviously not everyone). It's been the case for years that waze doesn't initialize the location services as reliably as does google maps, and sometimes you can work around that by firing up google maps first and then waze (but not everyone and not always). Why things work fine for a while and then this same sort of problem periodically returns every couple of years is a mystery that only google might understand.
It was talked about in various forums before it hit me--part of what makes these issues so frustrating is that it's impossible to point to a specific time and say "it started then" because it affects different people at different times. So it could be that people are getting updates at different times, or there are distinct combinations of multiple pieces of software that cause problems, or there are completely different things leading to similar symptoms, or all of the above.
yeah, definitely true. I've dealt with various flaky behaviors of various apps ever since I bought my first smartphone. said flaky behaviors come and go, so it's impossible to pin them down. my favorite waze misbehavior has been when it shows me going the wrong way on the wrong road, but my wife with the same model of phone has no problems whatsoever with the app. yet my phone continues to flip out even after a reboot. haven't had that one for a couple years now, thankfully.
