topic Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO in XZ Series

XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

AF16 — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:36:32 GMT

Recently upgraded myself with a XZ Premium from a Z5 Premium. I connected the phone to my BMW's iDrive system using Bluetooth to play music.

Apparently the media audio doesn't work. I increased both my Xperia's music player volume and the car players volume.... Press play and even though the music plays.... No music can be heard from the cars sound system.

I tried Xperia software repair, still doesn't work.

The XZ P is a stunning device. But these sort of errors shouldn't be present on a flagship Sony device like this. It can be frustrating.

Any help or is there any update coming soon to rectify this issue?

Looking forward for your reply.

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

Yet1Bluesky — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:06:29 GMT

I also have volume control issues with the XZP, when connected to car audio

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

MarlonUk1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:12:25 GMT

have you contacted the the stereos manufacturer if they support bluetooth 5.0? or if they have software update ?

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

admad — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 17:33:07 GMT

Many people are having different problems with bluetooth on Android 7.1.1 (not only Sony devices), I heard there is a fix on bluetooth on newer version of Android so I'm waiting impatiently for a new software from Sony

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

Karim — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 21:27:57 GMT

Mine working fine... car CLA45

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

Gdwheel — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 02:39:57 GMT

Works fine on newer Ford and Chevy.

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

Sindre1 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:36:52 GMT

Hi,

I also have some issues with media streaming to my BMW audio system. Tried everything to solve this, but it doesn't work. I have a VW T5 aswell, here everything works fine. But in the BMW it only works to place and receive calls.

Looking forward to a fix for this..

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

lledo54 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:33:53 GMT

Music beta support android auto

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Bluetooth Connection issues Car Hands Free xz premium

Frontosafishchr — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:28:47 GMT

Hi I've just upgraded from Z5 premium to xz premium. The car (mazda) in car system connects to the phone and identifies it correctly but cannot connect for phone use. It sais audio media only.

Straight after connection it will play music but on second connection I disconnects every 2 minutes. Utterly useless.

The hands free phone use is very important and I see this has been an issue for sometime,

Is there a fix or planned update I love the phone but may have to return it if I can't go hands free

Re: Bluetooth Connection issues Car Hands Free xz premium

najodleglejszy — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:25:18 GMT

as far as I can tell, Android 7.1.1 has got some issues with Bluetooth in general. some of those were fixed in 7.1.2 so a future update to 7.1.2 or 8.0 should remedy that.

Re: Bluetooth Connection issues Car Hands Free xz premium

HUMger1 — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:35:52 GMT

Works fine on my VW Passat. In fact it even connects faster than my Z5P. But then again, VW only builds basic Media technology in their cars and are not so advanced as BMW.

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

Frontosafishchr — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:52:06 GMT

Thank you I will see what mazda have to say today, the cars only 6 months old but their software is probably older

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

4156 — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:06:51 GMT

I also have this problem on both my BMW since upgrading to Sony xz premium. I'm not getting car audio only calls etc. I still have my old xperia which works fine so I'm using both one for music one calls.. Hope this gets rectified soon.. Hopefully they will do an ug soon..

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

sanzhongsandy — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:14:26 GMT

XZ Premium BT connect to Audi , can't play by Audi play button , and can't transfer music infomaction to car , but press phone music button , there has sound . and I has samsung S7 ,is android 7.1 , no this issue .

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

yuunanase — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 01:13:18 GMT

You actually have to select the source of music from the car. Even if you connect the phone with the car, you will not be able to hear any sound unless you select bluetooth as the source, as well as the device selected.

By the way, there is this really big issue with the XZP's bluetooth. It just keeps on disconnecting, on phone calls and music. Even my Moto 360 has to be re-paired every few hours.

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

KungVictor — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:20:01 GMT

If you look att bwm homepage you can find out witch phone are compatible with the car, xzp is not one of them, yet but I think the problem lays on bmw

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

Hangerhead — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 23:41:44 GMT

I have an audi a3 just 3 years old and all previous phones have worked flawlessly with it.

Not the xz premium however. I can make a recognised Bluetooth connection but I don't receive calls and cannot play music from the phone via the car head unit.

My headphones also appear to disconnect quite often.

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

KungVictor — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 23:45:18 GMT

I have bmw 430 gc and everything else I have works fine with xzp it's just the audio stream with the Bluetooth that dosent work

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

scottvsaunders — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:19:48 GMT

There is a definitely a bug with this phone and BMW - mine just won't work with anything other than calls - can't even access the phone book.

Brand new 420D with the latest firmware for idrive and the XZP is running the latest version of the unbranded software.

Checked at the car supports Bluetooth 5 so there is nothing wrong with the protocols not supporting each other.

It does seem that there might be some truth in the problem being made worse by Android 7.1.2 as I also have a Galaxy S8 plus (running Android 7 but still using Bluetooth 5) and that works beautifully with the car, no issues and even the compatible apps such as Spotify stream across to the car's screen.

Re: XZ Premium and Bluetooth Car Audio = NO GO

KungVictor — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:48:15 GMT

On bmw.com you can check what phone that is compatible with the car there is on for S8 but not for xzp

@scottvsaunders wrote:
There is a definitely a bug with this phone and BMW - mine just won't work with anything other than calls - can't even access the phone book.
Brand new 420D with the latest firmware for idrive and the XZP is running the latest version of the unbranded software.
Checked at the car supports Bluetooth 5 so there is nothing wrong with the protocols not supporting each other.
It does seem that there might be some truth in the problem being made worse by Android 7.1.2 as I also have a Galaxy S8 plus (running Android 7 but still using Bluetooth 5) and that works beautifully with the car, no issues and even the compatible apps such as Spotify stream across to the car's screen.