Money2536

All, I like to think of myself as tech savvy, but I'm having trouble. I prefer to plug my iPhone in directly as Blue Tooth streaming compresses the signal, degrading quality. By the way, all functions work with BT streaming.

When playing music through iTunes, files stored on my phone, or Spotify; I used to be able to control the tracks and see the song/album on the car's display when plugged in through lightning/USB. A few months ago it stopped recognizing my phone. I can still play music through it, but it just doesn't show on the display. The display says no iPod connected, and I can't change tracks.

I tried deleting the stupid AHA app, thinking that might have something to do with it. That didn't work.

Any ideas?

VIC_50th

Is Bluetooth turned off on your phone?
If not, could there be some interaction between BT and your direct connection?

Money2536

I guess it's possible, but I don't think so. I just learned on 6speed that there is a PCM update. Maybe that will help.

MarcusG

Money.

I've noticed the same with my 5s.

If I hard reset my phone and start the car with it already plugged in directly to the USB port it will display the art and allow me the control the tracks from the head unit.
At first I blamed the PCM but now I blame iTunes.

OldGuy

Same issue wiht Pandora, cant seem to get the best quality, either with Bluetooth Aux or IPod selection. Pretty crappy quality. Sounds almost like AM stereo

Porscheforever

I got the same prob until I figured out to manually select the unit in the bluetooth menu.

I fiddled with the bluetooth connection and selected the iphone device as default instead of the factory default. With factory default (not iphone as selected default), it will still play the songs, just you cannot select songs/change tracks directly on the head unit.

OldGuy

Dag nabbit!!! where is a 14 year old when you need him????!!!!!

Money2536

Pandora, even in high quality mode, has a samples at a maximum bit rate of 192 kbps. BT will compress even more. Spotify provides 320 kbps for premium subscribers, which is still not equivalent to CD quality but is much better.

Money2536

I just tried this. It still doesn't work. I think I'm going to book an appointment at the dealer to have this and a few other things checked out. I think a software update my help. I usually try to avoid the dealer, but this is annoying me.

StudGarden

I always use the cable. There is massive inconsistency between songs. Some sound quality is incredible, others pathetic, all from the same source (iTunes). I've never seen art or anything like that on PCM though.

MarcusG

Shoot Money.

Sorry it didn't help. I find that some evenings I just simply forget to turn off my phone when I leave it plugged in on the counter overnight. Sometimes a few days go by without turning it off and then back on. I'm only reminded of that because apps or other things don't work quite right or an app becomes frozen. I just hard reset it and it usually solves the issues including connecting to the car. I also have the base stereo in my car so I'm sure connectivity issues are going to be different with the base to Bose to Burmester.

Hopefully you can wait while they perform an upgrade on your PCM.


Cheers!

Homeles

Was just at the stealership on Friday. No PCM update, just door arresters.

TTCarrera

Seems strange. In my car the sound quality from my iPhone/Pandora is the best of any music sources.

You probably already know this, but just in case:

The Sound controls (Treble, Bass, Fader, Balance & Surround) are specific to each music source. if you have your FM tuned up perfectly, that doesn't mean CDs or iPod/iPhone are. You need to tune each one.

Money2536

Pandora is compressed roughly 7:1 versus a CD. So a CD would be a far superior audio source in comparison. Also, I'm not sure how Pandora sources its content. There may be further compression if they compress an already compressed file.

TTCarrera

CDs. Oh yeah, those.

I don't have any of those any more. Ripped them to my MAC and then sold them for $1 apiece in a garage sale about 10 years ago.