I have had my car a few weeks and love everything about it, great car so far!

 

The only problem I am having is with my iPhone 4S through the matshui connection. When bluetooth is off I have full control of the music via the selection button on the Amundsen  head unit, however when I switch bluetooth on and the phone is paired up with the car....I loss this control of music...would be grateful of any pointers on this, thanks

You just need to change the media 'input' selection from Bluetooth to mitsumi connection. Of course you need to have your phone plugged in

I leave my Bluetooth on all the time. If I plug the phone into the mitsumi it automatically overrides the Bluetooth.

Dont get an IPhone?   Sorry, couldnt resist!!

JJ I see you're as helpful as ever :P

JJ I see you're as helpful as ever :p

 

I try my best!!

The trouble is, he's not wrong either.

 

Apple is a right pain in the bum when it comes to Bluetooth & files, you can't send music at all and trying to pair an Ibone & anything other than another Ibone is a pointless & futile exercise.

 

Android on the other hand is easy as anything to do both and both my SGS3 & 4 have paired quickly & easily with the car and I just use the player on the Galaxy to play the music as it shuffles everything (unlike a memory card).

I'm sure you can also tell the head unit which phone (if any) to use for bluetooth music. Can't remember how as I'm currently sitting in a childrens soft play area (with my child I hasten to add!).

If you go into either phone or media and press the settings options I'm sure you'll find it. Just I untick your phone for the bluetooth media option. That way bluetooth should still work fine for phone functions but not interfere with the mitsumi

I managed to pair my phone very easily. Also paired my fellas phone. I used to be on android and found pairing them fine and really not much different. Can't say I've tried to send music files to another phone though?

You can't send a file, be it a picture, MP3/4 or any other file between an Iphone & Android.

 

It's one of the reasons why I'd never have an Iphone, That & the screen's are too small. 

Horses for courses and all that lol. I only have little hands so can't be doing with a massive phone

Use spotify instead. Having music on your phone is totally old and over the hill. Stream direct to radio via bluetooth and have all the controls on your radio. Let the phone stay in the pocket. Its so easy anyone can do it.

Use spotify instead. Having music on your phone is totally old and over the hill. Stream direct to radio via bluetooth and have all the controls on your radio. Let the phone stay in the pocket. Its so easy anyone can do it.

 

Which is perfectly fine if you never stray far from a large town/city, it's completely & utterly useless for those of us who live out in the countryside or go out into Exmoor/Dartmoor or other National Parks where phone signals are a rarity, let alone a data signal.

 

And with 4G only very slowly being rolled out and dependent on TV transmitters old frequencies it will be a very, very long time before any streaming service will offer any sort of viable alternative option to storing your favourite music on a MiSDXC card or a decent FM/DAB radio.

Jailbreaking let's you send files over BT. Can't say I've ever needed to use it. I have used air share between iOS devices a lot. Maybe it's my friends I have or the industry I'm in but 90% of people I know use iOS.

Spotify works fine out of reception as you can cache 3999 files for offline play. Does me for flights as well as streaming whilst driving in areas of low or no reception.

Use spotify instead. Having music on your phone is totally old and over the hill. Stream direct to radio via bluetooth and have all the controls on your radio. Let the phone stay in the pocket. Its so easy anyone can do it.

Music on your phone is over the hill? I still often use CDs. What do you call that? Well, whatever you do call it, it is often a better quality of sound, so it'll do me.