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iPhone 6 iOS 8.3 - MZD Connect - Mazda 3

Hi there. As you can tell very new to this forum, however where best to try and find the solution!

I am in the UK and taken delivery of a Mazda 3, with what they claim to be the all singing all dancing Infotainment system, which it is until I try and connect my iPhone 6 with iOS 8.3 to it as a wifi hotspot to unlock the additional features of the Sat Navigation system, which includes live traffic/weather etc.

I followed the connection instruction by the book, and keep getting 'Network Error' pop ups, although a colleague of mine connected his Samsung Galaxy to it without issue, therefore leads me to believe it is an iPhone issue rather than a Mazda hardware issue. Has anyone encountered a similar issue and got it resolved. I did look at some forums about jail breaking and downloading an app which does the trick but unfortunately a) don't really wish to jailbreak my 6, and b) not sure one even exists for 8.3.

Hope someone out there can help, if not might be looking at getting a WiFi on the go device.

Posted on Apr 29, 2015 3:39 AM

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Wezy2087

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Posted on Mar 7, 2017 4:44 AM

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.

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Feb 29, 2016 6:42 AM in response to GoingCook-koo

I have read some of the complicated and risky information about connecting to wifi, however you don't need to do anything too complex. I have mazda 6 2015 model and these are the steps I follow.

turn off blue tooth on your phone, turn on the car

make sure mobile data is on

make sure your hotspot is on

DO NOT connect the phone to a USB

go to the network connection part of the system on your car

click on networks

enter Iphone

choose wpa2 on connection type

type in a password that you have on your phone, make sure the password is no longer than 8. The mazda system automatically creates an upper case letter as a first letter, so either make sure that your first letter is a capital on your password or press the uppercase arrow twice to take it to lower case

connect to the phone

this works for me everytime.

you can then connect to usb and turn on blue tooth

hope this helps, it took me awhile to work out the problems

purecelt

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Jun 15, 2016 8:52 AM in response to GoingCook-koo

I was also having this problem and the information re. the 8 digit exactly password was really helpful.

I did however still have problems initially. Then I realised that it's not obvious from the Mazda touch screen if you're entering Upper or Lower case letters despite what the screen shows.

So I tried again with the opposite shift key and hey presto it connected perfectly !!

iPhone 6 iOS 8.3 - MZD Connect - Mazda 3