Blue hedgehog
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If you have a device plugged in to the USB port you won't have the option for Bluetooth. It's 1 or the other. Also sometimes it takes a min to get Bluetooth music. Close the source menu wait a min and try again.
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davecerv
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Thanks blue hedgehog! This worked. I guess it's a iPhone thing...because my iPod is ALWAYS plugged in the USB and when I had the GS3 on Bluetooth it was a playable option too when I going through source options. Well anyways still thanks hedgehog I would've never though about doing that.
It's still weird though I will still receive and make calls through BT and hear it on the speakers but it won't give me the source option to listen to music if I have the USB occupied.
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KartRacer
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Sorry, that is incorrect. They are independent of one another. Stream pandora via Bluetooth while using Bringo. Source has to be set on Bluetooth.
ColonelPanic
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I have to say what you said there is incorrect.
In my car at least...We seem to have some variables in play that allow this to work for some of us but not others. Perhaps phone model, MyLink revision, etc. Seems hit or miss whether you can have both available at the same time.
This thread has a few people who like me, CAN NOT select bluetooth as an available audio source if the phone is connected to USB. The bluetooth audio source greys out as soon as my iPhone 4S is plugged into USB. Yet this arrangement is working for others. Confusing.
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Blue hedgehog
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It may be an iPhone thing, I can't speak for android devices. I have the iPhone 5. If my wife's iPhone 5 is plugged in for charging, I can't listen to Bluetooth music from my phone. But, I can use the Bluetooth to make and receive calls.
KartRacer
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I have to say what you said there is incorrect.
We seem to have some variables in play that allow this to work for some of us but not others. Perhaps phone model, MyLink revision, etc. Seems hit or miss whether you can have both available at the same time.
This thread has a few people who like me, CAN NOT select bluetooth as an available audio source if the phone is connected to USB. The bluetooth audio source greys out as soon as my iPhone 4S is plugged into USB. Yet this arrangement is working for others. Confusing.
Very interesting, there does seem to be variables. What is grey ing out? I am using IPhone 5 and as you see by my signature a 13 RS. With the phone plugged in running Bringo my ITunes library or Pandora will play when selecting Bluetooth with the steering wheel selector. You are correct in that the icons in MyLink only allow one connection. My RS is still at the dealer but I just went out to my 13 Sonic loaner and it works the same as described above.
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KartRacer
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Are you trying to use 2 different phones? I am sure that would be a problem.
Blue hedgehog
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No it's the same if my phone is the only 1 in the car also. My point was if there is any device (may only be an i device since this is all we have) plugged into the USB port the Bluetooth music icon in the source menu is greyed out, not white like the other sources. If I disconnect the USB device the Bluetooth source icon will turn white and it can be selected. I would understand not letting me listen to Bluetooth and USB off the same device, but it locks out Bluetooth music if there is a iPhone plugged in even if its not the same phone I'm trying to use for Bluetooth music.
KartRacer
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Blue, where is this Bluetooth music icon. On MyLink? On Iphone? I don't see such a icon.
Blue hedgehog
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Blue, where is this Bluetooth music icon. On MyLink? On Iphone? I don't see such a icon.
It's on the mylink. When on the radio screen, top left, press source on the screen. It lists am, fm, xm, aux, USB, and Bluetooth. am, fm, and xm are always white (except for when that item is selected then its blue). Bluetooth, aux, and USB are white when available, grey when not.
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ScarabEpic22
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I have an iPod Touch 2G I plug in every day to the USB port in the glovebox but often I also stream music via Bluetooth from my Moto X. Youtube, Pandora, Spotify all via bluetooth then hit the USB source and listen to whatever I want.
13 RS so I have the MyLink touchscreen HU.
13 RS so I have the MyLink touchscreen HU.
KartRacer
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I have never used that button always the steering wheel control. If you start Pandora or iTunes or whatever, then start BringGo. They will both run. BringGo on screen and Pandora and phone over Bluetooth.
Blue hedgehog
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I'll have to try that. When I get home tonight. I don't have a cord with me.
ColonelPanic
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Just tested it on mine... iPhone plugged into USB and paired by bluetooth, this is what I get:
Source menu: AM, FM, XM, iPod are available. Bluetooth is shadowed as is aux (which is not connected anyway.)
From the steering wheel controls, it goes from AM --> FM --> XM --> iPod --> back to AM. No bluetooth.
Source menu: AM, FM, XM, iPod are available. Bluetooth is shadowed as is aux (which is not connected anyway.)
From the steering wheel controls, it goes from AM --> FM --> XM --> iPod --> back to AM. No bluetooth.
KartRacer
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iPod is Bluetooth , press play on pandora on the iPhone.
ftwphoto
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No, iPod is not Bluetooth. When you have an iPod cable device plugged in, and it's also your Bluetooth phone, it automatically removes Bluetooth on the assumption that you'd rather be using the hardlined connection. Bluetooth still functions for phone calls, but your audio isn't streaming via Bluetooth, it's playing over the cable.
Regardless of this, playing something from an App will work and will play behind Bringo. However the issue I have run into, is that as soon as Bringo says a direction command, it leaves the audio app your using when it pauses to say the direction and then can't return to the audio app and defaults back to iPod music folder when direction is done. I remedied this by turning off the spoken directions so it wouldn't cut out.
KartRacer
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Well ok then.
Blue hedgehog
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Ok there have been a few posts from members who say they can select bluetooth, or USB off of the same device while its plugged in to the USB jack. None have had an iPhone. So this is an issue with the iPhones.
Another issue I have with the iPhone is watching videos. The mylink says no device detected or connected if I try to watch a video from my iPhone. Yet if I plug in my antiquated blackberry storm that is 6 years old, mylink will play the videos off of it.
Another issue I have with the iPhone is watching videos. The mylink says no device detected or connected if I try to watch a video from my iPhone. Yet if I plug in my antiquated blackberry storm that is 6 years old, mylink will play the videos off of it.
KartRacer
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I have tried to make it clear that my iphone 5 can indeed send pandora, iTunes or any other audio via Bluetooth while the phone is connected via USB and running Bringo. People want to tell me I'm wrong, so screw it. That is how I use my iphone 5.
Now Bluetooth does not auto connect properly which is the issue that GM is working on for me. If hard connected via iPhone it stays connected properly.
