I only ever use the Assistant in the car, so I sometimes trip over my own words, but it's actually more intuitive than, say, Alexa... and I'm not just saying that because I left Amazon to work for Google. We're still all Alexa at home.
There may be some small things you do that aren't supported, but I haven't had that yet. I use my steering wheel to change songs on Pandora and my voice to look up POIs while navigating Google Maps. I just asked her to "play music" while running Maps and she said, "Sure, which app would you like to use?" Alexa would try to sell me Prime Music for 10 minutes before doing shit.
Also note that not all cables are equal. Many of the older cables don't support data transfer properly or at all. This probably accounts for your wife's issue. I'd be curious if your phone has issues transferring files with your computer via the same cable. That would narrow things down.
Lastly, my USB port on my Pixel 3 died with a few weeks left in my warranty. It was getting a shitty connection and eventually stopped working 95% of the time. I got a replacement without much hassle, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hardware issue with your port. I guess if it's charging, that's less likely.
I think it's likely your AA is just fucked and the only way to unfuck it is a factory reset. Or, just stop using that app because all it really is, is a "low distraction" skin on functions that mostly exist elsewhere.
There may be some small things you do that aren't supported, but I haven't had that yet. I use my steering wheel to change songs on Pandora and my voice to look up POIs while navigating Google Maps. I just asked her to "play music" while running Maps and she said, "Sure, which app would you like to use?" Alexa would try to sell me Prime Music for 10 minutes before doing shit.
Also note that not all cables are equal. Many of the older cables don't support data transfer properly or at all. This probably accounts for your wife's issue. I'd be curious if your phone has issues transferring files with your computer via the same cable. That would narrow things down.
Lastly, my USB port on my Pixel 3 died with a few weeks left in my warranty. It was getting a shitty connection and eventually stopped working 95% of the time. I got a replacement without much hassle, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hardware issue with your port. I guess if it's charging, that's less likely.
I think it's likely your AA is just fucked and the only way to unfuck it is a factory reset. Or, just stop using that app because all it really is, is a "low distraction" skin on functions that mostly exist elsewhere.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth