Bluetooth drop out

[Blueman]

The built in mobile phone Bluetooth link on my 2013 Octavia works perfectly with my Samsung Galaxy phone. However, when driving through some parts of the country the link fails. The only way of restoring it is to stop the car, switch off engine, remove key and then re-insert key and restart. Is this a common problem? Any solutions?

[TeflonTom]

Topic moved to octavia section.

[Farsider]

Do you have more than 1 phone in the car with Bluetooth on?

[iDENTITi]

Mine constantly drops and reconnects... If that's any help.

The dealer has blamed it on my phone.

[Dodgy]

Might be helpful to post precise phone model, perhaps a trend will develop.

 

iPhone 5s on iOS 7.04 - no problems experienced so far.

[kalpat]

My "steam driven" Nokia C1, albeit almost feature free works fine in my Octy 3.

[iDENTITi]

Htc legend (my iPhone took a swim)

Dealer "tested" my unit with a galaxy s4, and it worked. Apparently.

[mailme]

Try this app from Google play " bluetooth auto connect" from Uniqtec.

[Sheldon.Cooper]

No problems with Galaxy S4

[Farsider]

If I have 2 phones in my car both using Bluetooth (1 on a call through the car and the other streaming music through the car), the quality of the music goes to pot for the duration of the call.

[luxdog]

It depends on the Android version, seems android 4 has a lot of Bluetooth problems...

[Kenfold]

I have an iPhone 5 with bluetooth plus in my Octy 3 and so far i have had no issues.

[hawkster]

Nokia Lumia 520 windows phone works fine - no dropouts or bad connections so far

[andyvee]

It depends on the Android version, seems android 4 has a lot of Bluetooth problems...

It does, my HTC ONE X has awful call quality, it was fine with my previous Octavia. And HTC have dropped support for it so no more updates, stuck at 4.2.2

 

If only they would release 4.3 or even KitKat for it as the Bluetooth stack was standardised from 4.3 from what I can find out.

 

Samsung have a lot better Bluetooth implementation, it even supports rSAP.

[Dempsek]

iPhone 4 iOS 7.4 basically no problems.

 

I have found that in some clothes pockets the connection breaks up.

[Blueman]

Thank you for the comments - I will try the suggested app. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy SIII and is the only one in the car. The same phone in my wife's Fabia using an added Parrot Blue Tooth system does not have the same problem when driven through the same areas where my Octavia Blue Tooth fails. 

[morty]

my HTC desire is still on Android 2.3.5

 

Ive never updated it ... bit of a technophobe is I

 

Lee

[barlborough]

I have also had problems with Bluetooth since my phone Google Nexus 4 got updated to KitKat 4.4.

 

Bluetooth keeps turning itself off, only way to turn on again is power phone off then reboot. 

 

Thinking of going back to previous Jelly Bean 4.3 Never had a problem with that.

 

Alan

[PUFPAF]

I have been using it for a week now and have nothing wrong to report. My mobile is Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android version 4.3, the bluetooth in the car works like a dream so far.

The first time I paired my mobile with the car, after I parked and stopped the engine, the Bolero asked me whether to remember the device and I clicked Yes. This should be standard I think.

[freddyg]

Hi,

I've just taken delivery of my new car and I'm unable to connect my S4 with the vRS (Bolero). Any tips?

I make my phone visible then scan for devices on the Bolero unit. I haven't had any problems with it on my previous car (a 2011 BMW 320D).

Thanks in advance :-)

[freddyg]

Never mind. All sorted by rebooting the S4 and restarting the car.