Can AA Torque activate torque pro in the background

[Taza13]

Ok what is want to know is if torque pro isn't running on the phone is there a way when you select AA Torque on head unit it make the torque pro adaptor start so the plugins on AA Torque start instead of it saying connecting until I open the torque pro app on my phone. I swear it use to do this

[TechiTim]

I have the same question...

Something appears to have changed about a week ago (an app update??). I have been using AA Torque for about a year without issues (except for a connection issue to my AA wireless adapter if my phone is not continuously nearby).

My AA screen is now stuck on 'connecting to ECU'. If I manually open the Torque Pro app on my phone, then everything works as expected, and as it had for the past year. But if I exit the Torque Pro app on my phone, or make a different app the foreground app (I have since set Torque Pro so it can run in the background, which helps), the AA Torque's connection to the ECU is lost and the screen looses all data. I never had to manually open the Torque Pro app previously in order to make AA Torque work!

My suspicion is that previously, when AA Torque was started in AA then Torque Pro, it would automatically open and close in the background on my phone as needed for AA Torque to work. Is this true? Why else would AA Torque have stopped automatically connecting to my ECU when AA Torque is opened on my AA head display?

Thanks.

PS. I am running AA Torque 2.0.29 & Torque Pro 1.12.108; My phone is a Samsung S23 that has been running Android 14. It did a 'security update' several days ago... Could that be a factor in why AA Torque stopped connecting automatically to my ECU??

I have looked for ways to roll back my phone security update to see if that is what broke AA Torque, but find no way to roll back security updates. I have also looked without success for a way to give AA Torque elevated privileges, to see if that would help. I also tried running
Torque in the background, but if I am not in my vehicle and stay in my vehicle, Torque does not connect or reconnect automatically. I must now exit Torque and re-open it, which is a nuisance every time I use my vehicle.

[Taza13]

I have have samsung s23 ultra but i have a feeling it might be torque pro may have had an update. Version i have is 1.12.108

[nugg1985]

I just checked when mine last updated and it was well before I started getting this problem, I'm running the same version, I have noticed that I have started getting an error with the torque app in the last week where it appears to be not responding

[Taza13]

Ohh i thought the please wait error was just me that's been happening around same time thinking about it

[nugg1985]

Might have had a bit of a break through with a work around to get it working, I went into my phone settings and created a mode that when my phone connects to aawireless it auto launches torque and then also went to apps in the phone settings and found the torque app and selected battery and set it to unrestricted.
Seems to work on my phone would be interested to see if it helps others

[evan-aep]

It is very odd how the auto connect all quit working for us at the exact same time, across different phones and OS versions. I am , so far successfully, making use of my phone routines successfully. Hopefully it sticks.

[TechiTim]

THANK-YOU nugg1985 !!

Your work-around worked for me. In fact, it even made AA Torque start up a little faster since Torque Pro had already started and connected to my ODBII module by the time I got to the AA menu to select the AA Torque app.

FYI, I wasn't aware my phone had a Mode/Routines option. So in addition to the fix, I learned something new today!

For those less familiar with nugg's fix-it steps, here's what I did:

Android Phone Settings;
Modes and Routines;
Driving;
Turn on automatically - when Android Auto Connected;
Open an app or do an App action - Torque Pro

Worked like a charm... Now somehow this workaround needs to be disseminated to others.

[nugg1985]

Everything is the same as setting the open app but instead of clicking open an app go to add action and then look for the apps section and if the same as mine you should see close an app

[TechiTim]

Thanks. I realize now that I needed to make this a Routine rather than a Mode. When I opened the setting, it defaulted to Mode so that is how I proceeded - and then it was stuck in Driving Mode!

[nugg1985]

Have you found torque isn't closing itself down, it doesn't seem to matter what I set it won't close down unless I close it myself

[TechiTim]

Update: I have not thoroughly researched and verified all the INs & OUTs of dealing with the auto-starting&stopping of Torque Pro, but this is where things stand for me currently...

I could not get Torque Pro to start as a Routine, but I was able to get is to start as a Mode triggered by the connection to Android Auto (Battery setting for Torque Pro is 'Optimized' to minimize battery drain).

I could find no way to stop Torque Pro as a Mode, but I think I have been able to accomplish that as a Routine (it is hard to confirm that the app is not still running in the background). The Trigger I use in my 'Close Torque' Routine is when my phone Bluetooth disconnects from my OBDII adapter (which happens when the car is OFF for >10min or I am >30' away). At first I tried triggering on Android Auto quitting, but I discovered that the AA Service runs all the time in the background - I confirmed this by going into Developer Options in my phone Settings and checking 'Running Services.' (Google how to access Developer Settings.)

One remaining nuisance I have is that my AA Wireless adapter can connect to two phones. If it connects to my phone first, things work OK. But if my wife & I approach the car at the same time and AA connects to her phone first, it takes quite awhile to get it switched over to my phone - and then there is a much longer delay to get my phone to open Torque Pro and then connect to my ODBII adapter.

[Taza13]

Had to do this also but I am curious as to why it has stopped auto connecting i cant find whats changed