On my Samsung Galaxy S6 phone, when I used bluetooth to connect to my car, the contact pictures would show in my car's phonebook. The Nexus 5 and Nexus 5x won't display any pictures. Does anyone know why and it there are methods to enable this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android_rsap.irmc I found this, which brings back the photos on my car hud. Let me know if anyone else has used this...
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I just bought a new 2012 Mazda 3 and noticed that the song name is not being displayed on my car's dash. I looked in the owner's manual and it said it will if the phone supports this and I figured this phone would. Anyone else notice this?
Hi all, I've discovered a strange problem with my new HOX. I have a Kenwood KDC-BT61U in car stereo with built in parrot bluetooth which I used with my old Galaxy S over bluetooth with no problems. Now since switching to the new HOX, when I connect my phone to the headunit, certain contacts don't transfer to the headunit. It always worked in the Galaxy S and my contacts are all managed with Google contacts so I don't know whats going on.
Has anybody had any similar issues?
I just picked up a my new Note II yesterday, have done nothing to it except install the latest update. This thing is STOCK. My issue is with the Bluetooth connection in my car. I have a 2009 BMW with IDrive which has the Bluetooth integration built in to it. My HD-2, Sensation, GNexus, original Note all connect very nicely to the Bluetooth but my Note II is struggling. I paired it yesterday on the way home from the AT&T store and it worked fine. When prompted to allow the phone book during my initial pairing I checked the box "Don't ask me again" and clicked "Yes", same thing I've done on all my other phones. This morning however it would continue to drop out. It would connect for 15-20 seconds and I would see the little icon that tells me the phone is transferring the contacts then it would simply drop out. 15 -20 seconds later it would recycle and do the same thing again. When I was looking at the contact list on my car's screen it was showing AT&T address book which I do not use (it was just one contact, "something" AT&T) and in fact froze everything AT&T I could through the settings menu . I then deleted the phone from the car's menu and repaired it to the IDrive but this time I said no to allow the phone book. It was not dropping the connection but was constantly trying to obtain the contact data based on the icon on my car's screen. Then all of sudden I received an alert stating an "SOS Call System Failure", my car has a built in SOS function like Onstar....I deleted the phone again and the warning in my IDrive regarding the SOS failure went away.
I searched the BMW forums and found other people with this problem but these were from the '07-'08 time frames and that fix was software to the car. The software in my car is updated and so is the B/T profiles I also found a thread here regarding a similar issue but there was no resolution. Has anyone else had this experience with the Note II? I know enough to get myself in trouble but not enough to figure this out. Is it possible the Bluetooth in the phone only wants to transmit the AT&T address book vs. the Google contacts?? I guess it could be the software in the car but my other Note, whether running stock or CM 9/10 ran flawlessly with regards to the Bluetooth.
Weird, yesterday it's fine and today not so much. Did the last software update have anything in it that affected the B/T?
Any insight would be much appreciated, thanks.
UPDATE-appears my car cannot handle a Bluetooth profile of 4.0. All my previous phones were no higher than 3.0. Hoping BMW will offer a software update at some point but in the mean time if I go with a custom ROM will they probably keep the Bluetooth profile the same as stock or is that something they change??
Anyone have or heard of an issue where the galaxy nexus syncs perfect, can make calls, etc with a my ford sync system but if the phone is connected via bluetooth the GPS navigation does not work and the system either has to be hard reset or the phone has to be unpaired and then the navigation works. This is problematic for obvious reasons especially while driving. I have reset this persons phone, and the navi system works with other galaxy nexus's. His is the only problem. The guy at ford said weird characters in email contacts/contacts can mess it up but with over 4,000+ contacts this is not a viable option. any ideas?
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Anyone have or heard of an issue where the galaxy nexus syncs perfect, can make calls, etc with a my ford sync system but if the phone is connected via bluetooth the GPS navigation does not work and the system either has to be hard reset or the phone has to be unpaired and then the navigation works. This is problematic for obvious reasons especially while driving. I have reset this persons phone, and the navi system works with other galaxy nexus's. His is the only problem. The guy at ford said weird characters in email contacts/contacts can mess it up but with over 4,000+ contacts this is not a viable option. any ideas?
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I had my contacts give weird characters with my Ford Sync but that was with my Nexus S, my Gnex doesn't have that problem. As far as the navigation, it works fine for me when BT is connected. You might need to go to your BT options and make sure you have your internal GPS selected not Ford Sync.
For the contacts issue, you may need to flash some older Roms maybe a 4.11 or maybe even ICS. If it clears up flash back to your Rom of choice. Which one are you currently running? I can try to reproduce the error with my Nexus S and see what causes it.
FYI I have a 08 Ford Fusion.
Did the reset include pulling a fuse out of the vehicle for a period of time (like 10 minutes) and then reconnecting the devices after the fuse is put back?
That's what it took a friend to have both continuously in sync. Radio system got reset though.
Sounds crazy, but it has continued to work flawlessly since. Owners manual should indicate the correct fuse to pull out.
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Just an FYI,
Instead of going through 4,000+ contacts that have weird characters, we decided to not sync the phonebook to the my ford touch after factory resetting his phone. This seems to have solved the problem as of now. A weird side note... when phone is connected via BT it takes considerably longer for GPS in car to compute the route even after the phonebook fix, compared to no phone being connected.
I have a new Note 4 (Verizon) and a 2011 Kia Soul. Prior to the Note 4 I had a Note 2 (Verizon) that I paired with my car for the last 2 years without issue. I am able to successfully pair the Note 4 and the car and use all of the Bluetooth functions I would expect to work. The problem is, often (not 100% of the time), the next time I try to connect the phone to the car that connection fails. I then have to unpair and re-pair them to get them to connect. Neither side gives me anything useful in the way of error messages.
I'm at a loss as to how to troubleshoot this further. Is there a way to pull Bluetooth connection logs out of the phone?
I have the same issue, but worse. I have a 2011 KIA Sorento, and a Samsung Note 4. The Bluetooth connectivity is very intermittent. One minute is works and then stops. One minute it plays music fine and all of a sudden, the music will start going in and out, like a bad cellphone call and then disconnect. I try to reconnect and it won't. I've gotten in the car and it works great and the next time it works like crap! I've been on a cell call, talking through Bluetooth and it will automatically disconnect, but still shows connected. I have to switch to speakerphone to talk and then it all of a sudden reconnects back to Bluetooth. Does anyone know if this is a known Samsung issue? I saw a previous post from Dec 2014 which stated, " Apparently, the Note 4 and Edge all use the newest AVCRP 1.5, which nobody else uses yet. Nissan told me that they were told by Samsung, that in their next update, they're going to revert the phones back to AVCRP 1.3, which is the standard in the industry." Has this occurred?
I had the same kind of problems with my Galaxy S 6 on my 2013 F150 with Sync. I was only able to fix it by getting rid of the S6. The Note4 I had before (on 4.4.whatever) and the Note4 I have now (on 5.0.1) have no issues.