topic Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system in Z Series

Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

fahrbot — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:58:35 GMT

I'm having a problem with automatically connecting to my car's handsfree system, I have to go to bluetooth settings every time to get it to connect. Connecting manually works ok though but is very tedious in the long run and not how bluetooth should work to my understanding.

Does anyone know if this a bug or some feature I'm missing?

The car is a 2013 Subaru Impreza.

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

jaggerkieth — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:02:04 GMT

Have you tried to unpair then pairing again?

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

fahrbot — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:57:47 GMT

Yeah, it also does not connect if I have car running and then switch BT on on the phone. Installing one of the "bluetooth autopairing" programs from the app store fixes that but obviously not the full-on automatic pairing.

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

jaggerkieth — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:32:23 GMT

Have you received the latest bug fixing firmware?

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

Rickard — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:35:03 GMT

I don't have access to any Subaru so that i can test this myself but i've tested with different bluetooth headsets and the phone connects fine for me.

If you've been out of range with the phone and come back it might take while for them to reconnect automatically but if you press the answering button in your car they should connect. Do you get a connection when pressing the answering button in the car or do you need to reconnect from the phone?

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

fahrbot — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:53:47 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately, no luck so far.

Hitting the answer button in the car just results in "Could not place the call, please check your phone" message. I also tested whether the phone was just slow to pair with the car so I left it untouched during the drive to work this morning and it never paired up (30 min drive).

So yeah, only way to connect it is to do Quick settings -> hold Bluetooth -> Bluetooth and then tap the Car m_media device.

Manual connection works perfectly, I have both Phone audio and Media audio selected and both music/phone work as expected afterwards.

Running the latest (17.1.A.2.55) build.

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

fahrbot — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:32:14 GMT

So I did figure this out eventually.. basically there's two ways to remove previous devices (on the car's side) one is to just select the device and then delete it and the other one is to do full wipe by going to setup -> initialize. Apparently the system just needed a fresh start..

Thanks!

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

Gregorz48 — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:27:16 GMT

hey I have a 2012 subaru impreza with a sony xperia Z3. i have been having trouble with auto connecting my phone to my bluetooth radio. Can you expain to me (in detail if you can) how you made yours work properly? how do you get to these settings?

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

imprezablue — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:53:00 GMT

I'll add to that. Apparently this is something to do with the factory head unit. I have a 2013 Wrx and I just experienced it today. But this will really bake your noodle. It has something to do with the phone too. I just got a Z3 and it's all screwed up. What's the kicker is that my iPhone never had an issue, auto connected all the time. Anyways I would like the answer to all this too please

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

Ckb01tx — Wed, 27 May 2015 11:23:32 GMT

I have a 2012 impreza and am having the same issue. I only deleted my old phone which has worked for swapping between my and my husband' s old phone. I will see if the initialize thing works. I am really tired of manually connecting every time I get in the car. Enough to consider returning the phone.

I just sat and messed with it in the car. I have no initialize option in the setup menu. I tried deleting and re-pairing. No good. I have to either select the phone on the car system or select the car on the handset and tell it to connect. Half the time it only connects audio, even though I have both audio and phone checked in Bluetooth settings on handset.

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

DOOMdoomDOOM — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:47:12 GMT

I know this is an old thread but just thought I'd post since I found a solution to this. Apparently the Sony phones (Xperia Z3 in my case) automatically try and pair with the code 0000, and many cars have the default password of 1234. If you go to your BT settings(on the car) and reset the password to 0000, the phone pairs just fine. This works with my 2014 Subaru Impreza.

Hope this helps!

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

RodeonRaskolnik — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:43:10 GMT

you need to remove electric connection of stereo and reconnect. it will give a good reset.

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

tomazic89 — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:05:42 GMT

Came across this thread few days ago while having the same issue. I resloved it the other day, here's what it was:

The car is BMW e91 (2011) and my previous phone re-connected without any issues. So I was sure the problem must be the phone. Interestingly enough phone did connect for playing audio, but not for phone function.

One thing raised my attention: discoverable phone name was "Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact", which is rather long (compared to previous Mi5s). So I tried and changed the name visible to others in phone bluetooth settings to "Xperia". My phone now reconnects automatically immediately as I start the car.

Hope it helps someone.

KR!

Re: Bluetooth does not automatically pair with car audio system

Gammon — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:40:16 GMT

I had this problem when I bought a new phone. Delete the phone in Bluetooth settings and in Phone settings. Then Initialize the pair the phone through the Phone settings rather than the Bluetooth settings. Probably not how it was designed to work, but it finally did the job for me.