If anybody can please help or know of any issues? Ive been using the Bluetooth via the portable Sat nav and it was working fine up until yesterday where if it's plugged into the car it won't play anything Bluetooth howevrr i can still answer calls, just not play any music where as if the screen is disconnected from the car it plays music fine? Anybody had a similar issue? Thanks - 2015 Skoda Citigo Monte Carlo

Try reattaching the cradle back on the dashboard sometimes the contacts do not quite make a good connection.

I have found that only turning phone Bluetooth on your phone on (or turning it off then on) once you have turned the ignition on by one click solves this for me. The PID seems to like to start up prior to fully accepting all Bluetooth functionality. It’s a few seconds pause to getting going but I live with that.

Edited 19 June, 20187 yr by sixer

My main issues with the bluetooth on the garmin are that it can be flaky to connect (very occasionally) and I need to restart the device.

I've also found that sometimes it seems to get "congested" in that the audio data appears to be overwhelming the bandwidth of connection or possibly the processing bluetooth data

in the Garmin unit itself. 

 

Sometimes I get dropouts  (effectively like 1990 Real Audio "buffering"), but more often I find it changes the pitch of the music up and down in a wave pattern which sounds terrible. 

I've tried different phones and operating systems and file formats etc and all have the same issue. Sometimes it plays perfectly - intermittent issue of some sort. 

I have a 3.5mm to 3.5mm stereo jack cable which I use between phone and AUX if I want to do some serious listening on a longer journey.

 

Certainly the starting order for bluetooth on the device is significant as @sixer says. Via igntion  followed by enabling bluetooth on the phone seems more reliable for me too. 

 

Bluetooth connectivity is broken up into profiles, your phone may have some options to enable/disable some of them. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles

 

A2DP is the one related to music streaming, maybe make sure that's "on" perhaps if you can see that. That's about as much as I know!

 

Fun useless fact: Bluetooth comes from the name of a Norse King that got some fighting tribes communicating with each other.