Starting navigation in Waze with Android's Intents

Fix you uri to:

String uri = "waze://?ll=40.761043, -73.980545&navigate=yes";

(added navigate=yes) and you should be good.

If this is still relevant you can use this:

String uri = "geo: latitude,longtitude";
startActivity(new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                        Uri.parse(uri)));

Today's Waze base url is https://waze.com/ul so to navigate you have to use

https://waze.com/ul?ll=45.6906304,-120.810983&navigate=yes

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