I have a 2017 Ford F-150 and when I bought the truck in February, Pandora worked fine streaming both wired through Android Auto and wirelessly via bluetooth on my Samsung S10e and then my Samsung S23. Sometime in early spring, I updated the app and now it usually crashes within 10 seconds to a minute when connecting wirelessly. I do normally get the Ford screen on the phone when connected, but there have been times when it doesn't display. Wired, it's a crapshoot, whether it works or crashes on my phone, but the connection is more stable. I no longer have the S10e to try.
If I do get it to work wirelessly, sometimes the song will change but the information and picture don't. Sometimes it displays the song time info bar and sometimes it doesn't. The other thing I noticed is that the album name is no longer in line with the rest of the info. It used to display like this:
Title Artist <Album Art> Album Sometimes song time bar <Controls>
Now it displays like this with the spacing formatted strangely:
Title Artist <Album Art>
Album <Controls>
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Pandora multiple times cleared the data and cache multiple times, tried different USB cables, and updated Ford Sync, with no improvement.
I have been getting messages on my phone even when I'm not using Pandora that the system sees a bug and is going to put the app to sleep or has encountered a bug.
I tend to think this is a Pandora software issue, and not an issue with the Sync software since it happened after an update. Another user is experiencing the same issue on Reddit.
Any ideas?
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