The Android Auto screen went black: this is what I tried until I found the solution

While it is true that Android Auto is the car infotainment system that I like the most due to the quality of the applications available, in all honesty it has something to improve: reliability. And beyond occasional failures, it is not uncommon that you try to connect the phone and it does not recognize it or that other errors appear. For example, we can try to initialize it and that Android Auto screen turns black. What to do in these cases?

Android Auto screen has gone black: causes and solutions

Normally, when faced with failure in general, I always do the same thing: turn off and on and Android Auto is no exception. Sometimes there are small errors with no apparent explanation that are simply resolved by turning the system off completely and turning it back on a few seconds later. In fact, sometimes I turned off the screen and other times I took the ignition key out of the car directly for a deeper reset.

If the problem is not resolved, do not panic, because this black screen does not necessarily have to be a serious fault. The next test passes cut off mobile connectivity, which is after all what Android Auto provides to the system. If it’s a connection issue, removing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and reinstalling them may fix it. However, in my case, I always tend to go for the wired connection as it poses fewer problems and if the error continues to appear with wireless connectivity, I would definitely go for the wired connection.

After these three solutions proposed which are quite quick to implement, the Android Auto screen continues to turn black, my tip to solve almost everything with Google’s infotainment system is to resort to clearing the cache. Because? Because although they help to have a more agile experience, if there are too many files accumulated and some are corrupted, this way we will resolve specific errors. To clear the cache, go to ‘Settings‘ > ‘Applications” and scroll down to find “Android Auto”. Once inside, let’sStorage‘and we continue’Empty the cache‘.

I want to emphasize that deleting the cache does not lose the applications, settings or personal information that we added or installed before. Of course, when you reopen Android Auto later, it may go a little slower since the files will need to be downloaded to stay in the cache again.

Likewise, we cannot ignore causes of phone use this results in a black screen, as for example if our mobile phone has a low battery, generating connection losses that cause the screen to not respond adequately, or even the device is too hot. So, it’s best to leave it charging something (again, we’d resort to the wired connection) and rest it in a cool, dry place.

As I’ve mentioned before, I never spend more than five minutes testing for possible Android Auto failures and all of the above shouldn’t take much longer. If there is still a black screen in Android Auto after these attempts, I am clear that what I would do is restore Android Auto to start from scratch.

Reset Android Auto This is a quick and easy procedure, given that Google’s in-car infotainment system is a projection of the mobile phone, so applications are not lost nor are there many options of personalization. To do this, we will simply go to the mobile and there, in the settings, we will follow the route: ‘Applications‘ > ‘Android Auto‘ > ‘Storage‘Yes’Delete data‘. Then you just need to reconnect the mobile phone with the cable and it will start again with the initial configuration from scratch.

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