Can't play music in Sonata 2011 after ios6

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Can't play music in Sonata 2011 after ios6

I have an iPhone 4 (not 4s) and after upgrading to ios6, I can't play music in my Hyundai Sonata. As always, I connect my phone to the Sonata using the manufacturers supplied cable. The car will begin to read it, but will eventually just stop reading and revert to whatever media was playing before or to the radio. The iPhone is left in an odd state where the Music app will just cycle through my albums until I shut the unit down and restart it. I tried using an Apple iPhone USB cable, but that generates a "Connection Error" right away. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a solution?

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iPhone 4, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 27, 2012 8:17 PM

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ChrisJ4203

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Oct 27, 2012 8:36 PM in response to hammerski

I have an iPhone 4S with the Infiniti Nav system. I have a 2012 Sonata Hybrid and it worked fine with iOS 5.1.1 when I first purchased the Sonata, and after updating to iOS 6 it has continued to work. As far as the iPhone is concerned, is everything else working fine on it? Have you checked to see if there is an update to the Sonata's system. It is possible you could need a software update for the system to work properly with iOS 6. Do you have Bluetooth and does that work with the iPhone?

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hammerski Author

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Nov 7, 2012 8:59 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

Sorry to take so long to reply, but I figured out the problem. Apparently, if you select a song to play on the iPhone, and the song is not available, the Music app will cycle through your music, until it finds a song that is actually on the iPhone. I believe this is a change with iOS6. Its my wife's car and I don't drive it that often, so there was a lag between installing iOS6, clearing space on the device and actually trying to use it in the car. Now to be clear, not all of my music was missing, just most of them and while troubleshooting the problem I actually played a couple of songs on the device to make sure nothing was wrong with the iPhone. As luck would have it, I selected two of the songs that were still on the device, so I neglected to consider my space clearing. I google'd my question and after much filtering, found the answer.

Apple should fix this such that at least one of two things happen in this situation:

1) The iPhone tells you that the song is not on the device.

2) The iPhone does not list songs, playlists, artists, etc. that are not actually there.

Although both of these fall into the 'duh' category, the second one makes the most sense as I would have seen right away that my music was gone.

Anyway, thanks for the reply. It made me look deeper.

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ChrisJ4203

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Nov 7, 2012 9:48 AM in response to hammerski

Let me see if I understand you correctly. Your phone displays music on it that is not in your iTunes? This is music that you have synced from your library? Or is the car displaying music from your wife's phone instead of yours, like it downloading a music database? I've not seen that type of action on my device. If you have songs listed in your phone that are not on the device, you have some other problem there, especially if it is being displayed on the vehicle's system. If you do a sync on the phone with music again, it should clear off the songs you have that are not on the device, unless this has something to do with iTunes Match, which gives you the option to download songs on the go.

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hammerski Author

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Nov 7, 2012 1:54 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

The music was in iTunes, but not on the iPhone. Instead, everything that I sync was listed on the iPhone as though it were on the iPhone. To fix it, I had to sync my iPhone after first, unchecking the "Sync Music" checkbox and then re-sync with the checkbox checked. Oh, I should clear up a couple of points:

First, the cycling occured on the iPhone, not on the car's device. And no, the car was not displaying music from my wife's car. If you check my initial post, you'll see that I said the car would eventually "time out" once the iPhone was connected, so I never got to select anything using the car.

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ChrisJ4203

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Nov 7, 2012 1:59 PM in response to hammerski

Okay, I guess I understand now. There was a problem with how the music was synced to your iPhone. I guess I misunderstood your comment about it being your wife's car, so that threw me off a little. If you have it all fixed, I'm glad to hear that. I know how much I enjoy how my Sonata handles my iPhone, both with the supplied cord and via bluetooth.

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