Limited Bluetooth Music functionality (iPhone)

[pwinn]

New Sonic, delightful. Paired up my iPhone 4S for both phone and music, which works great.

Except... when playing music via Bluetooth, the Info button says information is unavailable, and the previous/next controls do nothing. I figured this was just how Bluetooth music worked until a friend paired up with Blackberry and it transmitted track information and was controllable by the car.

I searched a bit, and determined that my phone *should* be supporting those features.

Is anybody else having success with track information and head unit controls? I'm using an iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1.1.

 

[pwinn]

Re-pairing doesn't quite do it

After reading a bit more online, I couldn't remember what version of iOS I'd been running when originally pairing my phone, so I unpaired and repaired with 5.1.1, just in case.

The Info button still says only "No Information," but the next/prev buttons work. Maybe they did before, though, and I just didn't notice.

I'd really like the Info button to work.

 

[furygoat]

I'm having iPhone issues as well. When I use pandora or iheartradio while connected through USB, I can't skip tracks without my app freezing. When I connect through Bluetooth, the app works fine but I only get audio from the left side of the car and the quality sounds awful. Hope I can get this crap straightened out.

 

[sonic#1]

I'm also having similar issues..

And Bluetooth streamed music sounds terrible to the point that id rather not listen anything at all... is there an iPhone setting to change this?

Alternatively, i connected the iPhone via the USB cable and now it sounds great, except that when using Pandora, the song finishes, and sometimes i have to disconnect and reconnect the cable to the phone to hear the next song.

Any ideas?

 

[Johnny Alien]

iPhones will no transfer track info via Bluetooth. You can use the controls though. So the phone in the original post is working correctly. This probably has alot to do with Apple to be honest.

 

[Dags]

iPhones will no transfer track info via Bluetooth. You can use the controls though. So the phone in the original post is working correctly. This probably has alot to do with Apple to be honest.

Actually, I'd probably place the blame on Pandora. I run into the same scenario on Android.

The bluetooth wackiness isn't specific to iPhones either, it seems.

 

[RS Turbo]

it also depends on the radio option in the vehicle.

 

[jjfinnan]

My Bluetooth sounds better then when I hook it up via the usb