iPhone 6 iOS 8.3 - MZD Connect - Mazda 3

I found that once you have paired the iphone as per HanJuOE instructions, thereafter everytime allowing the Mazda Connect to boot up and be ready to select which ever option (i.e Nav, Entertainment etc) you wish then switching on the Personal Hotspot on the iphone works. However it looses the connection when you switch the vehicle off and you have to toggle off/on the hotspot again. Downside is the iphone keeps dropping its bluetooth connection when making voice calls with the hotspot enabled. I ended up buying a Vodafone R216 4G mobile wi-fi dongle which works perfectly, keeps the connection and allows you to use your iphone for calls etc.

Hi,

for me the following workaround was finally succesful (nothing else helped):

FIRST start your MZD Connect Unit

Make sure wifi is activted within the MZD setup (hooked)

THEN you start your iphone´s Wifi-Hotspot (it doesn´t work vice versa)

Your WiFi-password must not exceed max 8 characters

Don´t use special characters within your password.

Be patient and wait for about 30 secs until the connection is established (you`ll see the lighted wifi icon then)

The connection will be lost when mzd is shutdown for more than one minute (don´t mean istop but complete ignition off)

you´ll then have to repeat all steps again

That´s how I get my system running every day.

JHA

Hi GoingCook-koo

the 8 digit-password situation was the one i finally succeeded.

I didn´t try to pump up my 8 digit password any more, because i have spent hours in this problem.

In the end i was so happy, so i left the system running without further experiments.

For me it would be useful to inform Mazda Germany, because they also were really unable to get this problem solved.

Hi,

yes it´s unreliable.

It works in about 90% of my connection trials.

In 10% of all tries it´s nearly impossible to establish a wifi link.

I use IOS 8.2 (didn´t like IOS 8.3 because of this fingerprint bug) and mzd version 33.00.0500

If you try long enough at least it will work. But of course that´s not the way it´s supposed to be.

I think it depends on the wifi-channel your last wifi link (e.g. homenetwork) was established at.

With Android-OS you can choose your channel, with IOS it´s not allowed unfortunately.

When i drive from home to office it works 100% reliable.

When i return from office to home there are faults in link establishing.

The problem occured on my iphones 4s, 5s, 6+ with IOS 6/7/8 and from MZD V19 until 33.

It´s really poor that in that period of time MAZDA wasn´t able to manage a simple WF-connection between it MZD and the Apple high end flagships.

I hope Mazda UK is listening to you, because Mazda Germany didn´t understand what i was talking about (so i capitulated).

Cheers

i already thought of buying a "Huwai E5776 LTE Mobile wifi Hotspot" for 150.- euros and connect it to the lighter jack

but there are three reasons against it:

* will this thing work with MZD-connect or will it be similar to the iphone-drama ? will it turn off, when car-ignition is Off ?

* i´d have to rent a second 4G SIM Card from my cellphone provider or rent an extra prepaid-card.

* i nearly payed 1000.- euros for an iphone 6+ where masses of people were queued up in front of apple stores over the world to get it. Why should i buy an extra mobile router ? That´s ridiculous.

I´ll crawl the web for any solutions like i did the last 18 months.

Let´s keep contact.

Cheers

Thanks following your outline and changing the hotspot password to max of 8 characters (no special) WORKED ..... thanks again

I have tried this procedure step by step. Unfortunately i'm not able to connect my iphone6 to the MZD connect system in my Mazda CX3. Sometimes, it seems just like connectivity is going to be successful as the top part of the iphone screen turns blue, and indicates one active connection. But then shortly after connection fails.

Try the whole procedure again as described above.

But try to make sure that no WiFi-connection to another network (e.g. iPhone <-> Home WLAN) is already established while doing so.

Some of my problems do result from this situation (especially at my workplace. when i leave my company building it´s hard to get my MZD network connected. When i´m leaving from home everything works fine).

Thx! I had the same problem here in the Netherlands with my new Mazda3.

HI yes replacing the CMU works. Just had mine replaced this week and now working a treat. My car now finds wifi networks and phones it never found before. speed of overall system has markly increased and a lot more usable. My top tip don't take mazda saying its your phone that is the problem and to refer them to this site!