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Comment by criddell

4 years ago

I think the blame has to lie with Lexus. My current phone is an iPhone and my previous phone was a Pixel and both work perfectly in my Subaru, although the head unit was replaced 3 times because it was triggering some type of SOS signal to Subaru.

Frankly, I've had fewer BT issues with my iPhone than I had with my Android phone, but the Android was from three years ago and I think things have probably improved since then.

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hellweaver666  4 years ago

I haven't driven for a few years but my iPhone 4 always used to connect and work with my Peugeot 307 perfectly.

  • dmix  4 years ago

    Everyone in this thread who is complaining has either a Lexus or a Toyota (who owns Lexus) so it’s obviously a problem with some version of their infotainment system. The U2 thing was obviously an Apple issue.

    Not sure why they don’t use CarPlay but maybe some people prefer Bluetooth.

    • bpicolo  4 years ago

      I was in a Volkswagen rental last week and the Carplay integration was a disaster. 50% of the time, attempting to play a song on spotify would crash Carplay. It would refuse to work again (or hey, crash again) until you'd left the car off for a lengthy amount of time. Presumably the car turns off the infotainment system at some point, so this is a reboot, but there was no way to reboot manually... So it would remain broken for the drive.

      Seems like manufacturers aren't integrating particularly robust systems on the average

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