Bluetooth issues w/ IPhone 6 & Chevy Traverse

I Had the iPhone 5 and my Bluetooth worked great in my Chevy traverse. Now that I have the iPhone 6 I am experiencing constant issues with the Bluetooth and traverse functions. The phone number shown on incoming and outgoing calls does not match the actual number, the vehicle buttons don't answer incoming calls, the Bluetooth connection seems to drop after you make the 1st call once connected (2nd call made requires disconnect and reconnect to work). Is any one else experiencing Bluetooth issues with their vehicle or with the Chevy traverse? Anyone know how to fix these issues?


thanks,

Robert

iPhone 6, iOS 8, Bluetooth issues

Posted on Oct 1, 2014 3:29 AM

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Oct 1, 2014 3:43 AM in response to Rjshimanek3

Hello Rjshimanek3,


I have an issue with bluetooth on iPhone 6 Plus not working properly with my car as well. My iPhone 5 worked fine with the car. My iPhone 5 used to have iOS 7.1 and it worked. I upgraded my iPhone 5 to 8.0 (a few days before iPhone 6/6+ available in the store) and it also worked. Now my iPhone 6 plus did not seem to work with my car BT properly. If I play music, I can hear the sound through my speakers. However, when I placed a phone call using BT in the car, it dialed out but as soon as the call is connected, the audio source (as seen from the iPhone 6 plus screen) switched from car BT to just "iPhone". Most of the times now when I tried to connected my iPhone 6 Plus to the car BT, my car menu is frozen like the phone is dialing out, which it is not doing. So I have to turn off BT of the iPhone 6 Plus in the car.

Here are a few things that I tried

> I tried to delete the bluetooth device from my car and repaired it and it did not work

> I tried to reset network settings from the iPhone 6 plus and repaired it with the car BT and it did not work

> I tried to restart the iPhone 6 plus and repaid it with car BT and it did not work

> I upgraded iPhone 6 plus to latest iOS 8.0.2 and it did not work with my car BT

> I tried my iPhone 6 plus on another car (same make though, different model) and similarly can't make phone call and car menu frozen with "dialing" on the screen.


I would like to try my car BT with another iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 + which I don't have so I can see if it's my particular iPhone 6 plus or the car. At this point, I am thinking.


I'd like to hear if others are having issue with Bluetooth on iPhone 6/6+


thanks

Oct 3, 2014 7:15 AM in response to Rjshimanek3

+1 on this issue


I too am having trouble pairing the iPhone 6 to bluetooth in the Chevy Traverse. It worked with the iPhone 5s hardware on iOS 7 & 8, but not the iPhone 6.


Does anyone know if this bug has been submitted to Apple officially (or how to do so)? Is there a bug tracker to know whether this is something they are working on?


Bain

Oct 7, 2014 8:17 AM in response to Rjshimanek3

I was having consistent troubles with my GMC Acadia (I could get it to pair but when I tried dialing out or someone would call in the call would drop off bluetooth and back to my phone). After several calls to Apple and reading boards here I finally got it to work.


Before I get into that I will tell you that I found an article yesterday that with the new IOS 8 update scheduled to be released at the end of October where this problem will also be addressed with the update.


Okay here are a few things that I did that somehow finally have gotten it to work consistently.


1) Delete all your phones from your car blue tooth list .

2) Delete your car from your phone. Settings blue tooth by your car there should be an "i" press that and hit forget this device.

3) Reset your network settings. Settings- General - Reset - Reset network settings


I finally got it to work this way but once I powered down the phone the problem came back (but I have read where this worked for people and stayed working)


Next this is what I did that has solved my problem for the time being with no issues (fingers crossed).


Did all 3 steps above but I also went to Settings - General- Reset and Rest all Settings ( I backed up my phone to be on the safe side but I didn't lose any contacts, apps, etc.) It just sets all your settings to what you started out with...like ring tones, location services, etc.


Did a hard reset on my phone after that then re paired the phone, etc. and now it works!!


Hope that helps.

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