Pandora App And Bluetooth Audio Problems
06-30-12, 01:44 PM
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Hit or miss for me too! Ford took a hit with their poor integration on their iSync. Think Lexus is heading down the same path if they don't come up with a good fix soon. And they want us to pay for this crap?! And, I love Lexus...have owned 7 of them.
07-24-12, 08:04 PM
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sorry to bring this thread from the dead, but with apple iPhone's os6, lexus enform works flawlessly, except pandora, it loads the album cover and says its working but it doesn't play anything
07-25-12, 03:04 PM
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Lexus is not at fault here. Its the consumers with the phones that do not have the right specs and operating system. You must have the MAP bluetooth profile or otherwise it will not work for messaging and emails and also bluetooth profile 3.0 and greater. Update the software on the Android to 4.0 or the Iphone to IOS6 and everything will be fine. Stop blaming others for something you have that is not compatible properly. You can correct it by looking at the specs, software, etc. Thats how things are these days.
07-26-12, 09:08 AM
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I have had similar problems connecting to Pandora with my Blackberry. It would seem to connect - I would get the display, but no sound. I was going to switch my phone to the iPhone thinking that it would work better, but from what I'm reading here, I might as well save my money.
08-01-12, 08:52 AM
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On Monday I sent an email to Lexus, telling them all the problems I have connecting/staying connected/losing favorite stations/etc. with the Pandora enform app. (iheart is working). Have not heard back yet but, today, Pandora has worked like a charm! Wonder whether they pushed a new update to me (or to the user base)? Anyone notice any improvements? Is there a way to see what the latest version of enform is? (On the car, not the app on the phone). Thanks!
09-07-12, 06:15 PM
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Lexus is not at fault here. Its the consumers with the phones that do not have the right specs and operating system. You must have the MAP bluetooth profile or otherwise it will not work for messaging and emails and also bluetooth profile 3.0 and greater. Update the software on the Android to 4.0 or the Iphone to IOS6 and everything will be fine. Stop blaming others for something you have that is not compatible properly. You can correct it by looking at the specs, software, etc. Thats how things are these days.
09-07-12, 06:44 PM
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I posted on 8/1 where it seemed better...guess it was just an illusion! I am sick of this app and the lack of Lexus service. This is so in-Lexus like and can only hurt them in quality surveys. Yet, they still advertise this as a great new feature!
01-20-13, 04:23 PM
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2013 Lexus RX 450h
My HTC EVO 4G connects everytime. However, when I open Pandora to play it, the phone itself is the only thing playing and not through the car speakers. I must turn off bluetooth on the phone, disconnect the phone from the GPS screen, then reconnect phone on GPS, get Pandora started, wait until it starts playing through phone, press media button, and then go back to App and hope that it connects. This is everytime, but I've only had the car for 3 days now. I miss my MDX which just allowed me to start Pandora through the phone and press the Bluetooth Audio button and *BAM*! it played! Software in my phone is up to date, phone is rebooted daily, and bluetooth is constantly turned on. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! ;P
01-22-13, 10:22 AM
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Text reply FAIL
I have had intermittent problems with all the Enform apps that I attributed to not necessarily having a good data connection on my phone at the time I tried. I also can not get the bluetooth text messaging features to work with my phone properly, and I regularly have issues with a USB connected thumb drive containing music files. All of these things (except for the text messaging) I can usually get to work by retrying, or following various incantations. I think it's also true a lot of things depend on the phone or device you're using, so everyone gets slightly different results. I can understand someone with less patience who just expects things to work seamlessly and automatically would be very frustrated.
Personally, I'm encouraged that the capability is there and I can at least get it to work sometimes. When it works, it's very impressive. But then, I also like playing with buggy leading edge software. To me, much of these advanced capabilities seem like beta software. I have high hopes for it when Lexus hopefully refines it.
For what it's worth, when I was googling for solutions to the problems with some of these advanced features, it looks to me like a lot of cars with these kinds of features have the exact same kinds of problems, not just Lexus.
Personally, I'm encouraged that the capability is there and I can at least get it to work sometimes. When it works, it's very impressive. But then, I also like playing with buggy leading edge software. To me, much of these advanced capabilities seem like beta software. I have high hopes for it when Lexus hopefully refines it.
For what it's worth, when I was googling for solutions to the problems with some of these advanced features, it looks to me like a lot of cars with these kinds of features have the exact same kinds of problems, not just Lexus.
Also this text reply thing doesn't work at all and it's totally bumming me out. What a great thing to have if it worked.
Any way if it does start to work that we can edit to automated responses? I haven't looked hard enough because ci can't send anything out anyways.
Is it just an iphone problem?
02-02-13, 05:10 AM
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Pandora app problems
I have a 2013 rx350 with enform apps and have no problem with pandora , but when I want to switch back to music from my iPhone4s I cannot do this. The Bluetooth is connected but how do you turn off pandora ?
Another bad feature with enform is you have to open up app on your iPhone first before you can access these features! It will not synch up automatically from what I can tell!
Is there a way to turn enform apps on or off?
Also I think these apps will use up your data package!
How do you get voice recognition to play selected artist ?
I saw this command in the owners manual, but cannot find this command on my car ?
The dealership people don't seem to be very tech savvy , and are stumped by these tech issues !
Also the disabling of many functions while driving is absolutely nonsense !
If I can change radio and climate functions while driving then all other features should be allowed!
Anybody has any solutions to these issues please "enform me" !
Thanks,
Larryox
Another bad feature with enform is you have to open up app on your iPhone first before you can access these features! It will not synch up automatically from what I can tell!
Is there a way to turn enform apps on or off?
Also I think these apps will use up your data package!
How do you get voice recognition to play selected artist ?
I saw this command in the owners manual, but cannot find this command on my car ?
The dealership people don't seem to be very tech savvy , and are stumped by these tech issues !
Also the disabling of many functions while driving is absolutely nonsense !
If I can change radio and climate functions while driving then all other features should be allowed!
Anybody has any solutions to these issues please "enform me" !
Thanks,
Larryox
02-03-13, 12:13 PM
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I have an iphone 5 and when I start Pandora it loads but doesn't play. No sound and won't play no matter what. The solution I've found that works every time is to first load iHeart radio. That works flawlessly. Then when I switch back to Pandora, voila! Sound and everything works fine. Pretty hokey, but when I want decent music, Pandora sound quality is much better than XM. You would think electronics would be better coming from the electronics capital of the world...