Anyone upgrade phones recently and lose the ability to launch and use the pandora interface on their 8100?

I can play pandora just fine with the headunit on bluetooth input, but can't use the pandora mode at all.

Is there a setting somewhere in Android 6 for allowing BT devices to launch apps? I had it enabled in android 5 in the developer options, but don't see it anywhere in 6... 

Thanks!

-- Dave

Try launching pandora through the pioneer AVIC app (download it from Google Play, launch the app and let it run in the background. Connect to the headunit with a usb cable, and touch the pandora icon on the headunit). As for launching from Android auto...you can try that if you get the above working... (I use Carplay since I have iphone)

I have the same problem with 5200 NEX, built in pandora worked fine for two months, just stopped.

My connection to Pandora also just stopped working correctly.  I have an AVIC 8000 NEX running 1.11 (the latest).  I did work, but now when I select Pandora from the head unit, I get a dialog box that just says Connecting...  It stays that way until I touch the dialog box, the the HU says ready.  Pandora will play, but the HU on screen controls are missing, and the volume controls on the HU don't work.

I bought my HU used.  Really glad I didn't pay full price. 

EDIT:  Power cycling my phone solved the problem, and Pandora is working again.  I suspect AVICSYNC might have had something to do with it, but I'm not quite sure.  I installed it, and then removed it when I found out that it wouldn't sync.