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Reminds me of an issue I've been dealing with. The bluetooth in our car picks my wife's phone every time. Not a big deal, one might think, but then if I turn
by enobrev 5y ago
Reminds me of an issue I've been dealing with. The bluetooth in our car picks my wife's phone every time. Not a big deal, one might think, but then if I turn off bluetooth on her phone, it turns right back on and reconnects! I tried updating the car's settings not to prefer her phone (both were preferred), still a problem.
I believe at some point when we got our new phones, she accepted a dialog that set the car to a "trusted device" which means it will automatically turn on bluetooth and connect as soon as it's in range. But I couldn't find a way to turn that setting off.
Finally I had to force the car to forget both of our devices and I was able to get my phone to connect to the car while my wife was anywhere within a few feet of our garage.
- raisedbyninjas 5y agoJust a guess, but location services can use bluetooth scanning for getting a location fix even when bluetooth is off. Sometimes these pings will turn it back on. You might try disabling bluetooth location scanning.
- enobrev 5y agoMakes sense. Will try if we run into this again. Thanks!
- wildzzz 5y agoIn one of our cars, the car will just connect to whoever last was connected although sometimes this means it connects to someone's phone that isn't even in the car. The other car has a preference selection that will try the preferred phone first and then will try whoever else is in range. I like this one best since I'm usually alone in this car. Either option really doesn't work great if you are sharing the car, the car would never really know who it should connect to if both phones are in range. I wish the car would somehow factor in RSSI into the auto connect decision, like don't pick the default or most recent phone if it has significantly less signal strength than the other devices in range.
- enobrev 5y agoAgreed - or "simply" a UI that shows "Multiple favorite devices detected - which should I pick?" That could show for 10 seconds or something and then pick whatever the default would have been. In this case, I think it's a mix of both the car and the phone picking favorites, and my phone loses the toss every time because of some setting that I couldn't seem to find.
- notfed 5y agoWhen I turn my car on, no, I don't want Bluetooth to autoconnect, and play music on full volume.