Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by criddell on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:35AM (#32164238)

I think the blame has to lie with Lexus. My current phone is an iPhone and my previous phone was a Pixel and both work perfectly in my Subaru, although the head unit was replaced 3 times because it was triggering some type of SOS signal to Subaru.

Frankly, I've had fewer BT issues with my iPhone than I had with my Android phone, but the Android was from three years ago and I think things have probably improved since then.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by hellweaver666 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:52AM (#32164406)

I haven't driven for a few years but my iPhone 4 always used to connect and work with my Peugeot 307 perfectly.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by dmix on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:19AM (#32165379)

Everyone in this thread who is complaining has either a Lexus or a Toyota (who owns Lexus) so it’s obviously a problem with some version of their infotainment system. The U2 thing was obviously an Apple issue.

Not sure why they don’t use CarPlay but maybe some people prefer Bluetooth.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by bpicolo on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:47AM (#32165727)

I was in a Volkswagen rental last week and the Carplay integration was a disaster. 50% of the time, attempting to play a song on spotify would crash Carplay. It would refuse to work again (or hey, crash again) until you'd left the car off for a lengthy amount of time. Presumably the car turns off the infotainment system at some point, so this is a reboot, but there was no way to reboot manually... So it would remain broken for the drive.

Seems like manufacturers aren't integrating particularly robust systems on the average

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by TylerE on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:18AM (#32166111)

I've owned a VW for 6 years and Carplay has always worked flawlessly.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by criddell on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:25AM (#32165470)

I think CarPlay (both wired and wireless versions) requires Bluetooth.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by dmix on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:30AM (#32165527)

I’ve never used a wireless version of CarPlay, I always plugged it in which worked reliably in every modern budget car I’ve rented (Toyota included).

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