Android Automotive Crashes and Enters Bootloop When Connecting via Bluetooth

[kvn-stgl]

Hi @KonstaT , first thanks for your great work!

I just got this strange behavior with bluetooth on Android 16 (r3 and r4) Automotive:
When attempting to connect a mobile phone (Android, Pixel 7) via Bluetooth to the Android Automotive device, the device immediately crashes and subsequently enters a persistent bootloop.

The bootloop renders the device unusable. The only way to recover the device is to re-flash the SD card with the operating system image.

Here is the logcat for the bootloop:
logcat.txt

[KonstaT]

Disable SMS access from your phone's settings when connecting it with bluetooth. I was able to reproduce this/similar issue during android-16.0.0_r3 bring-up (IIRC didn't test this on android-16.0.0_r4) and it was resolved by disabling the SMS access.

Most likely upstream AOSP issue as I'm not aware of anything apparent that's wrong with bluetooth configuration on car build target. There's been similar issues before (e.g. #205) and it's been resolved upstream later.