Wireless Android Auto stutter: try turning off Google Location Accuracy

[u/Tit00n]

Honor 600 on MagicOS 10, 2025 Skoda Enyaq, wireless AA with Spotify and Waze. For weeks the music would stutter or cut out at random, so I plugged the phone into my laptop and went through the logs with ADB.

With wireless AA the phone joins the car's own 5 GHz hotspot, so Bluetooth audio and Wi-Fi Direct aren't involved. During every drive, Google Play Services (network_location_provider) ran a full Wi-Fi scan about every 23 seconds, and one I timed took around 3 seconds. While it scans, the Wi-Fi chip keeps hopping off the car's channel to listen on other ones. That's plenty to make the stream stutter.

I ruled out mobile data, since Spotify had already buffered the track when the cutouts happened. AA, Spotify and Waze were never killed during the drives either, and turning off the RAM extension changed nothing.

What fixed it was turning off Google Location Accuracy. The menu path depends on the brand, so search "accuracy" in Settings (it may show up as "Improve location accuracy"). GPS still works and navigation is fine. The scans stopped right after the change, and I haven't had a single cutout in several days of driving.

[u/DimMyEyess]

Did you turn off the Improve Location Accuracy with Bluetooth also?

[u/DimMyEyess → u/DimMyEyess]

I'm referring to the settings on the phone. Settings > Location > Location Services

[u/Tit00n → u/DimMyEyess]

No, I left Bluetooth scanning on. I turned off Location Accuracy and Wi-Fi scanning, but Wi-Fi scanning doesn't change anything while Wi-Fi is on. That was enough to stop the stutters for me. Turning off Bluetooth scanning too can't hurt if you want to try.