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Old 02-05-13, 06:07 PM
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Ok, every time I try to play Pandora it never plays anything it will look like its playing and nothing is playing. Anyone else having this problem.
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First thing is what phone do you have? Iphones have issues where the enform is shut off after a period of inactivity and the enform application has to be opened for the car to stream it.

My Motorola Droid Razr Maxx works flawlessly with Pandora for 1 year and I use it several times a week with no problem. I am very happy with it. I noticed if there is an issue, log out of the enform and log in again. Then turn on the car and the Pandora should work. If it doesn't, then open the Pandora software. Also make sure that the phone does allow the enform to run in the background so that i can connect automatically when the bluetooth connection with the car is established. How about your other programs? Are they working well? If so, then Pandora software could be the issue. Is your bluetooth audio volume at max? If its off or low then you will not hear anything even if its playing in the car.
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Originally Posted by Rexus300
First thing is what phone do you have? Iphones have issues where the enform is shut off after a period of inactivity and the enform application has to be opened for the car to stream it.

My Motorola Droid Razr Maxx works flawlessly with Pandora for 1 year and I use it several times a week with no problem. I am very happy with it. I noticed if there is an issue, log out of the enform and log in again. Then turn on the car and the Pandora should work. If it doesn't, then open the Pandora software. Also make sure that the phone does allow the enform to run in the background so that i can connect automatically when the bluetooth connection with the car is established. How about your other programs? Are they working well? If so, then Pandora software could be the issue. Is your bluetooth audio volume at max? If its off or low then you will not hear anything even if its playing in the car.
Yes I have an iPhone 5 and I have not tried to turn the app of and then restart it. The volume is always up and I'm not sure could be the Pandora software causing the problems. I think it has onlu worked once and after that was when I picked up the car.
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Try double pressing your home button on your iPhone, then slide to right and ensure your Bluetooth is set to your cars multimedia (not iPhone). This will make the audio play from the car speakers.
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Originally Posted by Kraezed
Try double pressing your home button on your iPhone, then slide to right and ensure your Bluetooth is set to your cars multimedia (not iPhone). This will make the audio play from the car speakers.
Yeah it usually is but I think its the software on the phone.
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Hmmm.... That happened to me as we'll today, I rebooted the phone, launched enform, deleted and re-paired my iPhone and tried again with no luck. However, I found that after I unplugged my phone from the USB charger, and set my phone to car multimedia it worked again.
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I don't use the enform app to play Pandora. I just set the audio to bluetooth and open Pandora on the phone, works just fine.
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never had any problems with the enform app.
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Enform in general just sucks. There's a reason the app has 1.5 stars / 5
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Yeah, but then you don't get the cool cover art.
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Originally Posted by Kraezed
Yeah, but then you don't get the cool cover art.
You can get that through your iPod.
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Lol totally forgot about using the Bluetooth method.
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Try Songza over BT. It is far superior to Pandora IMHO
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I have an HTC Sensation and works all the time. You guys with iPhones need to put more pressure on Apple to get their stuff working correctly. MAP works perfect on Sensation as well, the only problem is my Sensation doesn't support the content of an email, just content of text and subject of emails. On my blackberry, both of those work perfectly, including email text.
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i have the same issue w iphone 5
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