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What do you do when Bluetooth says waiting for a long time?

Discussion in 'Technical Chat' started by tacomanto, Sep 29, 2014.

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Jun 23, 2019 at 5:53 PM

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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Thanks this fixed my Bluetooth !!

da taco man, Jul 2, 2019

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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This worked for me, as well - thank you GFF taco! My problem started when a friend connected their phone. I think it must have pushed the number of registered devices above the unit's maximum. With GFF Taco's method, I was able to start out fresh, no registered devices.

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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Old thread but thanks a ton and love the forum. Son had to move his stuff home from college so he borrowed my truck. He called me and said he can't connect to Bluetooth. When he got home it would not work. I figured I was screwed. The Bluetooth would not even come off gray. I tried to repair and got the waiting on Bluetooth forever. Above worked like a charm

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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Wanted to clarify some things, that were not obvious to me, about this explanation:

When you turn your headlights on and off when doing this, you have to turn them ALL THE WAY ON AND ALL THE WAY OFF, three times. Meaning turn the dial as far as it'll go down, and then as far as it'll go up.

If you just tap the INT button when you make it into the menu, it won't do anything. You have to hold it for a moment until the prompt pops up.

Just thought I'd specify in case someone else out there has a slow brain like me.

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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Worked great! Though I would add that you may need to long press the INT button for the Yes/No option to appear. Many thanks GFF Taco!

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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I can’t believe it worked! Thank you

Mack83 said: ↑

Wanted to clarify some things, that were not obvious to me, about this explanation:

When you turn your headlights on and off when doing this, you have to turn them ALL THE WAY ON AND ALL THE WAY OFF, three times. Meaning turn the dial as far as it'll go down, and then as far as it'll go up.

If you just tap the INT button when you make it into the menu, it won't do anything. You have to hold it for a moment until the prompt pops up.

Just thought I'd specify in case someone else out there has a slow brain like me.
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Thank you so much for posting this. Worked for my 2014 Tacoma

GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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Whoa this fix from answer 15 seemed a little over the top and it took a few attempts to get to that screen but once there I followed the instructions he laid out and boom! BT working again. Thanks GFF Taco

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GFF Taco said: ↑

Okay so "waiting for blue tooth" tried to connect any and all the phones that have ever been connected with the radio failed to fix anything. Then I read about turning ignition to on but not starting engine and letting the radio power on then holding in the "app" button at the same time turning lights on then off 3 times (I thought someone was jerking my chain) brought up a diagnostic screen. In the bottom left corner toggle button "INT" it will say something about personalize data yes or no, I pressed yes and exited out by holding in the power button and then blue-tooth was working again.
Hope this helps, if your like me there was no way I was going to wait a month for it to magically start working again.
Cheers
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Thank you. I was so surprised when screen popped up after turning lights on/ off 3 times... who would have known!

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Just bumping this up as I was unable to load spotify via bluetooth all of a sudden. Got the dreaded Please wait when under bluetooth.

I happened across this thread, but for my headunit on my 2013 ,I had to hold my SETUP ( vs APP) button then do the lights three times. Issue I am running into is, when I hold the INIT button, I dont get the yes or no option. Any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong.

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