[ScarecrowBoat]

I have a Google Pixel. Relatively hassle/trouble free when using Google Play Music but I recently discovered and much prefer Spotify. Google Play Music app kept trying to hijack the connection everytime I connected to my car. I tried using an app to set preferences on what app opens when there is a BT connection but still won't work unless I use the iDrive "connections" menu and disable/enable BT. If I get a phone call the music pauses fine but it won't start up again, even if I hit play on my phone.

Does anybody have a solution or has dealt with this? I'm genuinely ready to give up on BMW over this. It affects me every single time I get in my car and then again everytime I get a phone call.

[steve@codemybimmer]

Originally Posted by ScarecrowBoat

I have a Google Pixel. Relatively hassle/trouble free when using Google Play Music but I recently discovered and much prefer Spotify. Google Play Music app kept trying to hijack the connection everytime I connected to my car. I tried using an app to set preferences on what app opens when there is a BT connection but still won't work unless I use the iDrive "connections" menu and disable/enable BT. If I get a phone call the music pauses fine but it won't start up again, even if I hit play on my phone.

Does anybody have a solution or has dealt with this? I'm genuinely ready to give up on BMW over this. It affects me every single time I get in my car and then again everytime I get a phone call.

Have you tried loading the USB/Bluetooth update on the BMW website?

[ScribL3]

Originally Posted by steve@codemybimmer

Have you tried loading the USB/Bluetooth update on the BMW website?

this is an issue with Google not BMW. I have the same issue since installing he new OREO update

[ScarecrowBoat]

Originally Posted by steve@codemybimmer

Have you tried loading the USB/Bluetooth update on the BMW website?

I checked that and it says my car is up to date.

[ScarecrowBoat]

Originally Posted by ScribL3

this is an issue with Google not BMW. I have the same issue since installing he new OREO update

I don't believe that. I am in rental cars all the time and never have any trouble with Toyota, Ford or Chevy vehicles.

[ScarecrowBoat]

Originally Posted by steve@codemybimmer

Have you tried loading the USB/Bluetooth update on the BMW website?

Update: I am in town visiting my parents and my mom has a brand new '18 530e. I tried hooking up to her car and seeing what happened. Spotify immediately shows up in the "media" menu, however, when clicking on it the track and album art will display and I can do nothing. No sound from the phone (though occasionally when initially opening Spotify on iDrive I hear 1 second of music then it cuts out). Additionally, I cannot get the car to play anything when just selecting my phone in the media menu. It just shows "Unknown Track/Unknown Artist" and no sound. Hitting "next track" through iDrive or on the steering wheel changes the song on my phone which is "playing" but again...no sound.

It's just so frustrating because my rental Toyota Camry connected immediately and had precisely zero issues. It even shows album art!! I have lost a lot of respect for BMW over this. It's just crazy to have so many problems with something as simple as bluetooth streaming in a 2018 car (and my 2016. I had a '12 328i a few years back that had the same problems so basically in 6 years they haven't bothered to fix Android compatibility). I would genuinely return my F30 right now if I could over this.

No issues, problems, concerns or complaints elsewhere on the car - just so so so frustrated. I have to take it in for an oil change in a couple weeks, I'm going to tell them to fix it or I'm going to escalate to BMW NA and try to get out of the lease.

[uncleruckus]

Do you use Google Play music at all, if not Perhaps uninstall (or disable) the application, and that should hopefully should resolve it ?

[ScarecrowBoat]

Originally Posted by uncleruckus

Do you use Google Play music at all, if not Perhaps uninstall (or disable) the application, and that should hopefully should resolve it ?

I've done that. I'm going to use my sister's old iPod for Spotify until I can get somebody to takeover my lease. If I used an iPhone this would be no problem but I can't due to work constraints so it's either the car starts working with the phone as it should or the car is gone.

[cptcrunch]

Did you recently update to Oreo (8.0)? My 2016 F30 340i w/nav was working on 7.1.2 but on Oreo BT Audio no longer works. Annoyingly it worked the first time I paired the car and then after that, no more. Sometimes I can get it to play from pocketcasts but no Artist/Track info is displayed. I too checked bmw.com/update and it said my car is up to date, but I don't believe it.

[ScarecrowBoat]

Originally Posted by cptcrunch

Did you recently update to Oreo (8.0)? My 2016 F30 340i w/nav was working on 7.1.2 but on Oreo BT Audio no longer works. Annoyingly it worked the first time I paired the car and then after that, no more. Sometimes I can get it to play from pocketcasts but no Artist/Track info is displayed. I too checked bmw.com/update and it said my car is up to date, but I don't believe it.

Yeah, I did. That was when it became completely unstable. I just hooked up my sister's old iPod touch and everything works great. It's annoying though because I must use a hotspot for things that haven't been downloaded already (podcasts).