UPDATE: IOS5 has done awful things to the interface. It’s not just with Volvo, but many other GPS and Bluetooth units. Apple is working on a fix. If you’ve noticed you battery life on the Iphone/Ipad has gone south, Apple noticed too and are working on it. If you media streaming and/or ipod dock no longer work correctly, Apple are aware and are on the case. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RATHER MORE HELPFUL HAD APPLE NOTCED THIS BEFORE RUSHING IOS 5 TO MARKET WITH ILL CONCEIVED INCLUSIONS AND DREADFUL SIDE EFFECTS.
My Iphone 4 has Navigon. I put an address in and the phone is muted! HELP! Volvo can’t help, Navigon says it an Apple problem and Apple says its Navigon or Volvo, but in any case certainly NOT Iphone. Iphone never goes wrong! Yeah right!
I’ve driven a lot of cars and there are very few I haven’t liked. This week I am in the Volvo S60 so keep your eyes peeled for the pearls of wisdom to follow.
My problem was a simple one: some of the cars I get don’t have (can you believe it) Satnav installed. Not to worry because the trusty iPhone has been equipped with Navigon. But I have been driven to distraction after entering the destination and starting the navigation and finding the sound had vanished. I checked the volume and the mute but no joy. Not even the Ipod played. this is where the luck happened. Until now I had been restarting my iPhone. this seemed to fix the problem for a while but like a bad penny it would return to haunt me.
It happened again today. I tried everything including plugging the cord in to the USB connection. I discovered that if I switched the phone source back to “Iphone” the sound came back. I then thought if this was the case, perhaps switching the infotainment to “Media Streaming” and the Iphone to Volvo, I might get it to play through the cars’ speakers, and hey presto, there were my directions, IPhone tones and music playing via the Volvo’s media system. It was magnificent. St Kylie of Minogue was briefly interrupted so Navigon could relay some sensible instructions. Right on cue, a message tone alerted me to the arrival of some very important texts. Like magic my problem is solved. Here is the Janet and John bit:
Problem: Iphone with Navigon goes silent when destination entered. (no music, Navigon or phone sounds)
Fix: If the car has Media Streaming, try either disabling the Bluetooth Media connection, or switch the cars’ infotainment system to the Media Streaming (or Bluetooth Streaming)
Hope this helps some other poor sole who has been tearing their hair out!
It depends on what car you have. On some cars you can’t switch to bluetooth unless a bluetooth device is connected. You will use the “source” selector or “media” button. Switching your phone an and off works as well as selecting “phone” as the source on your iphone disconnecting it from the cars bluetooth. The problem is your phone is trying to stream the audio to the car radio which means all output from the phone is directed to the car stereo. This issue only seems to occur on cars with bluetooth audoio streaming. Not all cars fitted with bluetooth can stream music as well. Let me know how you go.
Sorry, a little confused with the fix you posted. How do you switch to the ” cars’ infotainment system to the Media Streaming ”
I am having a similar issue where it keep switching from accessory doc to bluetooth with cause the sound to mute in my iPhone 4s.
It seems some models don’t like being connect via cable and bluetooth at the same time. If it persists in changing from dock to bluetooth then disconnect bluetooth temporarily. You might also find that when you go to “music” on your iphone that the sound is on the wrong setting so switch back to dock. As an update, I have the Volvo V60 this week and it has the same problem where is keeps changing from the dock cable to bluetooth but won’t play bluetooh streaming while the cable is connected. I’ll ask Volvo about this today and get back to you. It might well shed some light on the problem.
The feedback from Volvo is that this particular problem was a result of Iphone IOS 5. Apple knows about it and is doing a fix. That being the case it could also have been a problem with other OS iterations. Volvo says the IOS5.5 will be out shortly so one assumes this means that more Satnav’s than just Volvos. Let’s wait and see if the fix makes it all better.