Hi,

 

At first I thought it was an iPhone problem but I am now thinking it's the Yeti

 

Senerio

 

Yeti Bolero has my Moto G paired, Wife's iPhone and my son's iPhone.

 

Now, my Moto G has died, so my son has given me his iPhone 6 (as he has just upgraded to a 7)

 

I went into the Maxidot, and deleted my Moto G and my son's iPhone just leaving my wife's iphone on the maxidot

 

Then over a few hours I did a factory reset on the iphone 6 and set it up in my name etc.

 

I have just gone outside and tried to pair it.

 

The maxidot shows it found the iPhone by showing the BT Name (Sniff's iPhone) and then connects to it and pairs up with the correct code.

 

Now this is when the issue happens, now it's pair instead of showing Sniff's iPhone it show's Peter's iPhone

 

It seems that even though you delete the phone from the maxidot, some how the yeti remembers the phone and changes the bluetooh name from Sniff's iPhone what it should be to the previous phone usewr's name Peter's iPhone

 

Anybody else had this issue? or how to fix

 

Thanks

 

 

When you say the phone's bluetooth name is now Sniff's iPhone rather than Peter's iPhone, did you change that name on the phone itself rather than on the car?  If so then I'd guess that maybe the car has somehow remembered the hardware bluetooth address of the phone as being associated with the name Peter's iPhone.  I think you should be able to change it by editing the name within the bluetooth settings on the Maxidot.

When you say the phone's bluetooth name is now Sniff's iPhone rather than Peter's iPhone, did you change that name on the phone itself rather than on the car?  If so then I'd guess that maybe the car has somehow remembered the hardware bluetooth address of the phone as being associated with the name Peter's iPhone.  I think you should be able to change it by editing the name within the bluetooth settings on the Maxidot.

 

On my gold Mk6 (which was the same hardware) you could rename an existing phone to whatever you want (regardless of what the phone was called on the handset.

 

I know that doesn't answer your specific question, but if all you want to do is change the name that appears, then it is possible.

You say you did all this via the MFD display (which, personally, I've not tried) but I would be tempted to go into the actual phone setup settings on the bolero itself. You may find that the 'old' iphone 6 is still 'there'. .

  I think you should be able to change it by editing the name within the bluetooth settings on the Maxidot.

Could you let us know where that option is?

I have found nothing in phone options on the Maxidot.

In the phone menu on Maxidot select Bluetooth, and then User.  In that menu you should see Connect, Disconnect, Rename and Delete.  The Rename option allows you to change what the car calls the phone.  It doesn't change the name on the phone itself.

 

Bear in mind that my Yeti is six years old so yours may be different.  From what you said in your OP you've already deleted two phones, so if you didn't see the Rename option just above the Delete option when you did that then maybe it's no longer present in newer vehicles.  Similarly, people are referring on here to changing the bluetooth settings on the Bolero.  There are no bluetooth settings on my Bolero, apart from a button to select bluetooth as an audio source.

Have just changed my wife's iPhone so had to sync up again and found it was quite easy to go back to factory settings on the radio and to sync both our phones up again ,all done in a couple of mins.

Thank you for your replies.

 

It appears that when you DELETE a user , the Bolero and Maxidot do actual remember the details but just obvioulsy hide this instead.

 

I tried deleting and adding several times with out luck as the Yeti just remembers it, so in the end I did the rename option, however the rename option in Maxidot just has CAPTIALS and no lower case, so I could not keep the name in the same format  as the other names so instead of Sniff's iPhone I have SNIFF IPHONE. At least it has a name though now.

 

Thanks

Mine definitely has lower case available for the rename option: my phone comes up as "Xperia Z3C" when it connects.  Can't remember how I did it but can check later.

 

(IIRC, the name it first allocates to a phone it's not seen before is not the same as that on the phone itself, if that's been changed from the default.)