More bluetooth woes

[vinnymac]

I’m right there with you. This is single-handedly the low point of my Maverick experience. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it now: my 2013 Volvo had a Bluetooth connection that didn’t drop once in 9 years. If CarPlay is the issue, I’ll go without it. It’s very frustrating. I’m considering purchasing one of the wireless CarPlay adapters so my stereo will quit guessing and by pass the factory Bluetooth.

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[Dmthomp32]

Works great

That’s what I’ve seen and heard! Thanks!!

 

[RichardCranium]

I don’t have my mav yet, but I have tried a couple different wireless CarPlay dongles in my Prius. A lot of them are all the same internals, packaged a little different. We were having problems with the usb port in the Prius (never tried to get it warrantied) but the wireless CarPlay dongle seems to be working ok. It disconnects sometimes and reconnects right away, but amazon music has quirks. I’m not sure if it is the amazon music app or the wireless CarPlay. It does it on all of the CarPlay dongles we have tried, and I don’t remember trying it wired.

 

[skinnyboy]

So I did the radio update thing and it seemed to fix the dropped connection issues I was having with the bluetooth - for a while.

Lately it's been dropping again. At this point, the best I can say is that it reconnects somewhat faster and more reliably than before, but even that isn't a given. Audio playing from the phone will suddenly cut out although it is clearly still running. If I wait it often reconnects automatically.

Sometimes it can't reconnect and defaults to the radio. If I mess with it, sometimes it will get into this state where it tells you it's disconnected and it won't play bluetooth audio, but if you go to select a device to connect, it says it's already connected. Then you have to manually disconnect then reconnect and pray. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't.

At this point I'm just going to get a bluetooth dongle and be done with it because I certainly don't have time to leave it at the dealer. I had one in my old car 10 years ago and it was rock solid reliable.

I can't imagine what's so difficult about engineering a reliable bluetooth module into a vehicle. Wish there was an AUX port so I could bypass the whole mess.

Same experience as yourself. Have had to reset the head unit three times after the "update" to sort the connection, never had to do that prior.

Hoping that this will let me utilize a couple of apps., one to play mp3's, and OSMand without having to connect my phone at all.

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Cheers.

 

[Montana]

I have not even bothered with bluetooth on this because mine doesn't even have GPS, so I use android auto and a direct connection. But in the Escape it was the same as you describe. Not the worst I have seen though, but I can definitely see some folks running into constant issues and being the worst experience for them.

TBH, I hate having to use a wired connection to actually connect to the truck and use GPS, but I don't mind it for charging. In fact, I prefer it since I mount mine where the cubby hole is to be able to quickly access it - which is rare and most during a stop. But it means I don't have to remove anything I can quickly check something like an email or my finance stuff while the phone is mounted.

I can't help but wonder if it's just a cheap adapter they are using or if it's the boards themselves - or both. Likely both knowing FORD. Even cheap bluetooth speakers don't disconnect like this so it's a little hard to blame the adapters. It's just a FORD Sync thing. The software sucks.

Plus, I've had mine need a hard reset multiple times already due to it just freezing.

 

[Decayed]

I just prefer ports. Never had a port give out on me only the cables and they are cheap enough to replace. It takes less than a second to plug in. And if Bluetooth causes issues and you need to keep fighting to get it to connect where's the convenience?

I have a aftermarket Sony radio in my current truck (Ranger). Cost a pretty good amount and it too has connection issues using Bluetooth. Love it when it works and hate it when it doesn't. Bluetooth is great when it works.

I've toasted the headphone jack and USB ports on a few phones. It was the major reason for having to replace them but I use them heavily, plugging and unplugging several times a day. It's the core reason I need a reliable bluetooth connection.

USB C seems to be more robust and the apple connectors are also well designed. My use case is weird though since I don't want to run carplay or android auto. I actually want the phone doing something different than the vehicle screen and when you use carplay or android auto the phone gets slaved to the vehicle.

 

[Ozarkbeard]

... I actually want the phone doing something different than the vehicle screen and when you use carplay or android auto the phone gets slaved to the vehicle.

If you just a want a plain BT connection (no AA/CP):

1. Disable AA/CP between your phone and the truck.
2. Remove the current BT connection, if any, from the list in your phone and your truck.
3. Reboot the phone & infotainment system.
4. Re-pair the phone to the truck.

If you need charging; to make sure the truck or the phone doesn't try to re-connect AA or CP, use wireless charging or a "cigarette lighter" charger, instead of the built-in USB ports.

 

[Decayed]

If you just a want a plain BT connection (no AA/CP):

1. Disable AA/CP between your phone and the truck.
2. Remove the current BT connection, if any, from the list in your phone and your truck.
3. Reboot the phone & infotainment system.
4. Re-pair the phone to the truck.

If you need charging; to make sure the truck or the phone doesn't try to re-connect AA or CP, use wireless charging or a "cigarette lighter" charger, instead of the built-in USB ports.

Um, thanks? But that's what I am already doing.

 

[801Maverick801]

Someone just needs to sell a plug and play Sync3/4 upgrade kit.

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