topic Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work in Apple

Car Bluetooth doesnt work

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:42:11 GMT

I have 2 iPhone 6s. One works perfectly in both of my cars, the other doesn't work at all. Rather, it connects says " no network", downloads the contacts but you cannot call through the headset.

If you dial a number on the handset, the music isn't muted and the head unit doesn't display the call. If someone calls, the handset rings but the music doesn't mute and the call isn't shown on the head unit.

According to ok "guru" tonight, I need to download a car Bluetooth app ( any one at all in the App Store, most of which are games ), and then suddenly Bluetooth will work. What a load of tosh.

Anyone else got Bluetooth issues on iOS 8.0.2 ? The phone is less than 1 day old and came as an upgrade from o2

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

viridis — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:45:31 GMT

The fact that one works and the other doesn't would make me either book a genius appointment at your nearest apple store, or failing that, get it exchanged by o2.

Hope you get it sorted.

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:48:40 GMT

I would tend to agree with viridis.

Book an appointment here http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/geniusbar/ and let them run a diagnostic on it.

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:09:33 GMT

Do both phones have different names? Is the phone that works out of range, or have its blue tooth turned off when you try and connect the second phone?

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:13:57 GMT

Well...after 5 hours I fixed it. I did a soft reset, then a restore. They didn't work. Final straw was to reset all settings and rename the phone ( it wasn't the same name as my other phone anyway but.. ).

Fixed. Yaaay

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:15:02 GMT

Great, glad you got it sorted! I had a funny feeling it might be something to do with the name

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

viridis — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:16:06 GMT

Excellent outcome,

Keep your eye on it and hopefully it's not an intermittent fault.

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

jonsie — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:07:40 GMT

Cancel the trip to Apple

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

anticpated — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:49:08 GMT

You could have disassociated the bt link in your car and iphone and set the car to discover the iphone again. Would have been less hassle.

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:49:09 GMT

That didn't work- I'd already done the obvious things. Shame the guru was useless too

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work

gemz4the1 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:19:19 GMT

Hello @Anonymous

I had a similar problem with my iPhone 6 - it would connect ok but when I made a call, as soon as someone answered, it disconnected from the car and wouldn't let me use handsfree. I had a few other network issues so I went to the Apple store twice. The first time I was advised to restore it to a new phone - it didn't solve the problem. The second time I was given a replacement. It has been a week and *touch wood* it is working fine now

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work - TomTom traffic services

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:05:01 GMT

Hello,

Ive been having on going trouble getting my iPhone 5c on iOS 8.3 to connect to my TomTom which allows it to connect to the personal hotspot to get traffic services.

I have tried renaming the device as you have suggested here which didn't work. I have got it to work in the past by restoring my iphone but this is really annoying as I cannot restore it form a backup as thats where the problem seems to be.

Maybe geting a replacement and restoring it to my latest back up is the best way to go? If so how do I do this.

For a more detailed explanation of all the attempts I have made to fix this please see this post in the Tom Tom forum; https://en.discussions.tomtom.com/go-and-start-40-50-60-series-go-400-500-600-5000-6000-mydrive-176/tomtom-go-500-not-connecting-to-iphone-with-ios-8-907061/index8.html#post1001665

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work - TomTom traffic services

MI5 — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:18:18 GMT

The only way to get a replacement phone is to contact Apple and tell them the problem.
It seems they have suggested it previously as a possible fix to the problem.

Re: Car Bluetooth doesnt work - TomTom traffic services

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:55:15 GMT

I've spoken to one of the senior Technicians at Apple and proved that a new handset wouldnt fix the problem as it is within the backup data.

Does anyone know how to get old messages back? I'm just about managing to get most othet things back manually. Still a really long work around thats using a lot of time.