Bluetooth Phone Disconnects

I noticed this morning that my iPhone 4S did not automatically connect when I started the car. I had to hit the phone button and manually press connect on the touchscreen. I was auto-connecting the last few days.

 

I have a 2010 Gen III and not a c but have recently had a similar problem with a new phone I just got at work about 2-3 months ago. I never had an issue with an earlier LG phone from Verizon. I have now switched to a Pantech Hotshot phone and am now having similar issues with it radomly not connecting at startup.

I have finally narrowed mine down to the fact that if I turn Bluetooth off on the phone and then back on and then manually reconnect from the Nav it will connect. I now get to have the fun of going back to Verizon and/or Pantech and see how much fingerpointing I get before someone finally fixes it.

Mine is definitely in the phone and not the Nav. Even though the c has an upgraded Nav system I would expect the Bluetooth to work similarly.

 

Yep...same issue with Iphone 4S. It does not connect on startup about 1 out of 4 times.

-M

 

I'm going to get in the habit of hitting the phone button on my stereo just to force it to connect every time. Annoying but at least I'll always have it working until some kind of software update comes out.

 

My iPhone 4 glitches sometimes as well and won't connect. It also doesn't connect to my Escort Live! BT. I reboot the phone and all is well. My iPhone has always had glitchy BT and I had similar problems with my Infiniti.

The problem seems to happen most when I forget to start The Entune app before plugging it in.

 

Kkim, pressing mode on the steering wheel will just turn the radio on, nothing will be I initialized.
Run over to Toyota.com - Connect and see if your phone's connectivity has been tested. My guess is that it hasn't and this exercise will be a waste, but give it a try. JDCOLLONS do e same please. And Jd, if u go back to Verizon, aske them to let you try and connect another pantech phone of the same model. Let's verify that the problem persists with a different device.

IPHONE users, I've been suggesting at you deactivate wifi on your iphone and see if that solves e problem. Do so regardless of weather you're connected to a wifi network. Let's see of there's some sort of interference.

ALL users could try a cell phone restart when this problem happens. Restart the phone and wait for it to connect to the cellular network, them start the car.

 

I have disabled my wifi on my 4S and will see how it goes while I'm out running errands in a bit!

 

Nate,

I went to Toyota Connect and verified that my phone connectivity has been tested.

I started out restarting my phone and this would fix the problem every time. Then I thought about the restart may just be restarting the Bluetooth so I tried just restarting Bluetooth without restarting the entire phone and this also worked. Turning the phone Bluetooth off and then back on is less time consuming than restarting the phone.

I will see if Verizon will let me try another phone. The problem is that in my case the connection issue is random and will take some time and I do not know if Verizon will let me keep another phone for any length of time.

Dwight

 

Really think this is an iOS problem. I've had this exact issue with multiple BT devices since iOS 4. I used to have a shortcut to BT so I could reset it quickly but iOS 5.1 broke shortcuts.

 

I don't have a a bluetooth phone but I used to have a bluetooth mouse for my laptop and it caused me all kinds of grief. I finally threw it in a drawer, bought a wireless USB mouse and said goodbye to the hassles. BT just seems to have such a picky connect protocol..


ron

 

Is your phone is designed to broadcast a wifi hot spot?
Is it always broadcasting?

 

Jnenj: is your iphone equipped To broadcast a wifi hot spot?

Wifi interferes with Bluetooth, and I wonder if that's causing these problems. The connection with the entune head units is pretty serious. There are 3+ different profiles connected at one given time, (voice, music, data phone book, playback control). A moderate amount of interference could cause problems.

Can anyone verify that things improved by disabling your wifi before you start the car?

 

Not that I know of.

It is configured for Auto Pair Handsfree like my other phone and should be broadcasting every so often.

It works 9 times out of 10.

 

Have any iPhone users tried to turn off the wifi on their phones? If so, has it remedied the slow connection at start-up or shown better connect ability?

 

No my personal hotspot is not turned on (no tethering allowed on my data plan).

I have tried turning WIFI off and it seems to still not auto connect 1 out of 5 times or so.

I've gotten into the habit of pressing the phone button next to the CD slot after starting the car just to make sure. If its not connected, pressing that button will force a connection. Gets the job done

 

I'm sorry, I'm out of ideas until I can see it again in person and understand what's happening. In person....I mean my messing around with it as I demo the car. Sorry.