Frequent Bluetooth disconnects with v6.0 (15) and iPhone 6

[pete8314]

Up thread I reported that IOS8.1 fixed my issues, but I was wrong. Very wrong. We just came back from a trip to Austin (around 200 miles) and the streaming dropped, more or less, every 5 minutes. There's absolutely no apparent pattern, it'll happen regardless of source (Podcasts, BBC Radio Player, TuneIn, Spotify, Songza). Waze is generally running at the same time. For the last hour of the drive we reported the bug via the voice recognition, but I've done that maybe 20 times now, so I'm not sure what impact it's having. It's getting really annoying though, and is a safety hazard as I constantly have to reconnect. The routine it goes through is always the same:

- Audio source stops
- the phone drops off the Bluetooth menu
- The phone re-appears
- I select the phone
- Audio starts, or I hit play (depends on the app).

If I try to speed up the process, then I get the spinner and a message on the center screen saying that the Bluetooth is initializing.

this occurs on an iPhone 4, 5 and 6. Very annoying. The voice calls do the same thing, though my calls tend to be short, so it's not always an issue.

 

[Stoneymonster]

this occurs on an iPhone 4, 5 and 6. Very annoying. The voice calls do the same thing, though my calls tend to be short, so it's not always an issue.

Yup, still a mess for me too. A phone reboot sometimes takes care of it for a while.

 

[bollar]

Up thread I reported that IOS8.1 fixed my issues, but I was wrong. Very wrong. We just came back from a trip to Austin (around 200 miles) and the streaming dropped, more or less, every 5 minutes. There's absolutely no apparent pattern, it'll happen regardless of source (Podcasts, BBC Radio Player, TuneIn, Spotify, Songza). Waze is generally running at the same time. For the last hour of the drive we reported the bug via the voice recognition, but I've done that maybe 20 times now, so I'm not sure what impact it's having. It's getting really annoying though, and is a safety hazard as I constantly have to reconnect. The routine it goes through is always the same:

- Audio source stops
- the phone drops off the Bluetooth menu
- The phone re-appears
- I select the phone
- Audio starts, or I hit play (depends on the app).

If I try to speed up the process, then I get the spinner and a message on the center screen saying that the Bluetooth is initializing.

this occurs on an iPhone 4, 5 and 6. Very annoying. The voice calls do the same thing, though my calls tend to be short, so it's not always an issue.

Did you try rebooting the car, and do you have a Pebble, or perhaps another BT peripheral? The Pebble still causes this problem for me when it's connected to the phone.

 

[pete8314]

Did you try rebooting the car, and do you have a Pebble, or perhaps another BT peripheral? The Pebble still causes this problem for me when it's connected to the phone.

Yes, I rebooted everything, and 'forgot' everything, but it didn't help. I do have a Pebble, but it doesn't cause any issues in our other car, but I'll turn it off on the way home today to see if it makes a difference. Still, even if that's the cause, I'd still like it to work as designed, I don't have issues streaming music at any other time when connect to the Pebble, or my Bluetooth headset in the office. It's due for a service now, so I'll mention it again.

 

[bollar]

Yes, I rebooted everything, and 'forgot' everything, but it didn't help. I do have a Pebble, but it doesn't cause any issues in our other car, but I'll turn it off on the way home today to see if it makes a difference. Still, even if that's the cause, I'd still like it to work as designed, I don't have issues streaming music at any other time when connect to the Pebble, or my Bluetooth headset in the office. It's due for a service now, so I'll mention it again.

Yeah.

I have Pebble issues with things like Wahoo Fitness HRM and other devices, so I always look at it first. I know I have a problem with Pebble and Tesla Firmware 6.0 (as well as prior versions).

 

[jomo25]

Up thread I reported that IOS8.1 fixed my issues, but I was wrong. Very wrong. We just came back from a trip to Austin (around 200 miles) and the streaming dropped, more or less, every 5 minutes. There's absolutely no apparent pattern, it'll happen regardless of source (Podcasts, BBC Radio Player, TuneIn, Spotify, Songza). Waze is generally running at the same time. For the last hour of the drive we reported the bug via the voice recognition, but I've done that maybe 20 times now, so I'm not sure what impact it's having. It's getting really annoying though, and is a safety hazard as I constantly have to reconnect. The routine it goes through is always the same:

- Audio source stops
- the phone drops off the Bluetooth menu
- The phone re-appears
- I select the phone
- Audio starts, or I hit play (depends on the app).

If I try to speed up the process, then I get the spinner and a message on the center screen saying that the Bluetooth is initializing.

this occurs on an iPhone 4, 5 and 6. Very annoying. The voice calls do the same thing, though my calls tend to be short, so it's not always an issue.

Wow, this is exactly what is happening to me. My family just got back from Disneyland and both ways of the trip had very frequent issues exactly as described. It happened with both my and my wife's iPhone 6’s.

And here's the kicker, we both have Pebbles. So it seems that is an obvious common thread, and interestingly, my wife does have similar issues in our Leaf, though I haven't.

We're both on the latest Pebble firmware and we're both on iOS 8.1 though it happened on every version of iOS 8 we've had on our iphone 6’s. We don't recall ever having issues with our iPhone 5’s running iOS 7. But that could be coincidence since our Pebbles were running older firmware then...

 

[jomo25]

Oh, and we also have very frequent GPS failures still too. Not sure if it's related in any way. But it gets stuck at least daily now. And we're on .43 variant of 6.0.

 

[pete8314]

Yeah.

I have Pebble issues with things like Wahoo Fitness HRM and other devices, so I always look at it first. I know I have a problem with Pebble and Tesla Firmware 6.0 (as well as prior versions).

Yup, you're spot on, it's the Pebble (or some kind of conflict as a result of the Pebble/Model S). I've been turning off the watch for the past couple of days, and not had a single issue. Like Jomo25, both my wife and I have Pebbles, so it's kind of tedious to have to turn them off all the time (plus they're being used as step-counters, and I need to catch everything pathetic step I make!). Sigh. I've said it many times before, but I'll say it again, Bluetooth sucks.

 

[bollar]

Yup, you're spot on, it's the Pebble (or some kind of conflict as a result of the Pebble/Model S). I've been turning off the watch for the past couple of days, and not had a single issue. Like Jomo25, both my wife and I have Pebbles, so it's kind of tedious to have to turn them off all the time (plus they're being used as step-counters, and I need to catch everything pathetic step I make!). Sigh. I've said it many times before, but I'll say it again, Bluetooth sucks.

Too bad! I was hoping you were going to come up with the magic answer!

 

[Stoneymonster]

Well, installed 8.1.1 today and still screwed up. Folks who have fixed things with turning off Pebbles, are those Bluetooth LE or Classic devices? I thought they were LE, which shouldn't interfere with the car.

 

[jomo25]

Well, installed 8.1.1 today and still screwed up. Folks who have fixed things with turning off Pebbles, are those Bluetooth LE or Classic devices? I thought they were LE, which shouldn't interfere with the car.

I haven't had the BT issues since disabling the BT on the Pebble (which sorta defeats the purpose of the Pebble). The Pebble communicates with the iPhone via both BT LE and "Classic". So, not sure which is interfering.

My wife and I plan to get Apple Watches anyways, but not sure if it will encounter the same issue?

We still have the GPS hangups and occasions where it thinks we're in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean or in Russia. That's really getting annoying...

 

[Stoneymonster]

Edit: Never mind the below, it broke again. I give up.

Just a quick update: I think I've fixed the issues I was having. When looking through this site: http://www.autoconnectedcar.com/201...bluetooth-connected-cars-use-the-nuke-it-fix/ I noticed that one suggestion was to rename your iPhone. My old iPhone 5 had the same name as my new phone, so maybe it had some stale configuration hanging about I guess is the reasoning. I didn't expect it to work, but it did! I've played audio all afternoon with no trouble so far.

So maybe something worth trying if you had a previous iPhone paired to the car with the same name. I deleted the old phone BT entry from the car as well.

 

[Father Bill]

I just disabled my Pebble and so far no bt drops.... ARGH! i am returning my pebble and just ordered an Apple Watch. Oh well....

 

[Stoneymonster]

I just disabled my Pebble and so far no bt drops.... ARGH! i am returning my pebble and just ordered an Apple Watch. Oh well....

Yeah, I eventually tracked my issue to a Tile bluetooth beacon in my wallet. Got rid of that and disabled the app and no problems since.

 

[pete8314]

I just disabled my Pebble and so far no bt drops.... ARGH! i am returning my pebble and just ordered an Apple Watch. Oh well....

Yep. One of the best things about my Apple Watch is that all the BT issues in my car are gone. Finally!

 

[DoubleDownOn9]

I had this same issue. I unpaired my Pebble and it worked perfectly. Has not failed once with the Apple watch. Interesting.

 

[Bruiserbob]

Just to add to the pile, I also figured out separately that my pebble was causing these exact same problems. Came here to confirm and found this. Ughhh

 

[jomo25]

So, I too have replaced my Pebble with an Watch. Had it since day 1, though I was out of the country til this past week.

I had previously noted the Pebble causing the BT disconnects in the Tesla. Disabling the BT in Pebble solved my problems. I had hoped the Watch wouldn't lead to the same issue. At first I thought all was clear (as noted by others here too).

But the last couple days, I had the BT disconnect problem re-appear. Now, it might be Watch-related, but I noticed that I ONLY seem to have problems when using Facebook on my iPhone 6. I can't understand why this would be, but I have recreated it a couple times.

Can anyone else try and see if you have similar issues?

 

[jomo25]

BTW, I'm on the latest 6.2 variant now. Just got the upgrade 4 days ago or so...

 

[Father Bill]

No problems with my new watch, streamed a long time today no breaks, and I was getting notifications on the watch throughout the whole trip.