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Apps not playing on the car audio via Bluetooth

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by Gjr003, Mar 23, 2016.

  1. Mar 23, 2016 at 8:30 AM
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    Gjr003

    Gjr003 [OP] Well-Known Member

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    Hey,

    I search for a few minutes and could not find a thread for this, I apologize if its been beaten to death.

    I am having a hard time getting audio to play from my phone onto the entune software suite.

    My phone is connected via bluetooth no issue their it works perfectly. But if I open a music playing app or Overdrive (audio books) and select Bluetooth audio nothing happens. I go in and select the device and click the music icon, still nothing. The music plays off my device in the car on speaker. I am not referring to the dedicated Music app in iTunes, but things more closely related to Pandora, streaming audio not built into the device.

    Any advice would be appreciated, I hope I explained that well.
     
  2. Mar 23, 2016 at 8:56 AM
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    ksdindy

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    I found that I have to enable Bluetooth Audio on Entune, then launch the app on my phone for the audio to work
     
  3. Mar 23, 2016 at 1:34 PM
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    Pktgumby

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    I've found that most of the time I have to select Bluetooth audio as the source, then open the app on my iPhone, force close that app and then reopen it again in order for it to start playing through the stero. It's stupidly annoying, but I haven't been able to figure out what the issue is.
     
  4. Mar 23, 2016 at 6:49 PM
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    Gjr003

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    Thanks!

    I played around with this today and finally got it working by going into Settings > General > turning on Hand Off and My Apps, not sure why that worked but I did that then picked Bluetooth Audio > My Phone > the music note in entune and opened Overdrive and it work.
     

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