Phone Disconnecting

[Dippo]

My android phone seems to connect then disconnect frequently. On a recent 5 mile journey around town, it seemed to disconnect and then connect again about 5 or 6 times. I'm not sure whether or not it does it in rural areas, because I'm not looking at the display so often. Is anyone else having the same thing happen?

[peniole]

Have had two android phones connected to mine; a really old (8 year old) and a more recent android offering. IIRC the old one was on Android 7 (Sony Xperia Z5 premium) and the new one on 13 (Google Pixel 7a). Neither have given me connect/disconnect issues.

I would recommend you first try having the car forget your phone, and delete that pairing on your phone too. Then start the pairing from scratch. If it persists, then try another phone if you have one to test with. If at that point it still persists, it's dealer time. Otherwise my bet is on the phone being the problem.

[Mincey]

My Samsung S22 has a habit of misbehaving after being on Android Auto for a while. I drove to Wales on Monday and in the evening I wasn't able to make any calls - "Emergency Calls only". I put this down to being in a sh*thole in the middle of nowhere, but as the situation persisted when I returned to civilisation, I thought I'd try a restart. It was fine afterwards. As it did a similar thing after another trip some months ago, but that time I couldn't get it to use mobile data, I think there's something sinister going on.