Hi!

Just a quick one really, I have a new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge + which connects to sync and blootooth etc perfectly. However, whenever I try and plug it in via USB I always have problems and the car never seems to pick it up/load it up.

I have sat there for about 10 minutes whilst it said it was downloading the phone information (for it to read music from my phone via usb I guess) and the only way I can listen to music though my phone is via bluetooth....however the sound quality through the USB is much better..

Does anybody else have issues with Samsungs, or phones failing to pair up via USB and play music through it?

Anyway I can reset it?

Cheers!

I don't think it works through USB with Android phones. It does with Apple I think but not Android. I've tried it myself and it doesn't work. Seems to charge but thats all. Perhaps something to do with the MTP that Android uses? I think your only option is using a USB stick or bluetooth.

I don't think it works through USB with Android phones. It does with Apple I think but not Android. I've tried it myself and it doesn't work. Seems to charge but thats all. Perhaps something to do with the MTP that Android uses? I think your only option is using a USB stick or bluetooth.

Thanks....sigh :(. I don't understand why they cant do it for android..... oh well bluetooth it is :(

right well i do have android phone HTC ONE getting a little old now but still works perfect with sync and bluetooth apart from text message names it comes up as unknown but doesnt bother me as the message still can be read

but i did this by mistake one day plugged it into the usb then came up on phone a clicked on media something and it said downloading music etc from phone a was surprised because i have like 8gb of music on my phone a dont know how long it took to download but did take its time to be honest but once done it worked perfectly mate :)

next time it downloaded the music from phone etc within a min :)

right well i do have android phone HTC ONE getting a little old now but still works perfect with sync and bluetooth apart from text message names it comes up as unknown but doesnt bother me as the message still can be read

but i did this by mistake one day plugged it into the usb then came up on phone a clicked on media something and it said downloading music etc from phone a was surprised because i have like 8gb of music on my phone a dont know how long it took to download but did take its time to be honest but once done it worked perfectly mate :)

next time it downloaded the music from phone etc within a min :)

Yeh I'm unsure if its because mines a new phone or not.

When I plug it in my phone gives me two options (Camera, and Media) and I need to select which one the car can have access to. Once I press media it comes up with a message on the screen (Really can't think of what it is as I'm not in the car at the moment - but its something similar to syncing to my phone/downloading) However I keep it there for about 10 minutes (whilst in the mean time can't use radio or whatever as it'll stop it..) and last time I attempted it it ended up failing... may try again but had no luck yet (Dont have much music on as I use spotify etc) - however my phone book has been downloaded successfully via bluetooth.

My next little gizmo is a new dashcam that should be arriving by end of week. Just got to find out where to put it since there's a black box thing behind the rear view mirror (gps?)

Thanks for help and I suppose Ill give it another go!

yeah thats the gps buddy

and not got a clue then bud as it sounds like a hard one but isnt spotify used with the sync system?

This may be an issue with where the files are stored on the Android device. If they're on local storage, rather than an SD card, maybe that's the issue? It's been a while since I had an Android phone, but when I did I seem to remember it doing that sort of thing with the radio in my old Polo.

All the data is on the phone as mine has no option for SD. Spotify easily plays through bluetooth etc - I'm just fussy and know it sounds better via a USB cable (a lot better) but thats just me being fussy!

All the data is on the phone as mine has no option for SD. Spotify easily plays through bluetooth etc - I'm just fussy and know it sounds better via a USB cable (a lot better) but thats just me being fussy!

To be honest on a car audio system I'd doubt you'd notice a huge difference. Perhaps different on a good quality Home Hifi but car audio, though a lot better than it used to, is far from High quality Hi-Fi. Providing you have spotify set as fill 320 Kbps setting (extreme quality) Bluetooth these days is very good at limiting the loss of quality. I don't think that, even if you could play your files through the USB, Spotify would do that anyway. Buy a USB stick and put your music files onto that and plug it in. Thats what I have done.

If you're doing it over USB with Spotify, then it's probably going to struggle with the DRM. I have a Lumia 930 (Windows) and it won't play the DRM Xbox Music files over USB because of the DRM. I think Apple uses different protocols, effectively streaming the music from the device to the car's system, while Android and Windows devices just present themselves as a USB stick, and lets the car's system access the data on the phone. I wouldn't be surprised if it coped fine with DRM-free tracks (eg those downloaded from Amazon or iTunes, or ripped from a CD). I've not tried it with a Ford system, but with the basic iDrive system in my dad's 3-series, it finds all the track listings but then can't play them. Xbox Music simply has DRM-enabled WMA files IIRC. It's now all changed with Windows 10 Mobile, and I've not tried it yet, but I doubt that it's any better.

I don't know what the Ford system is like, but over the summer I rented a brand-new Polo in Spain, with VW's excellent touchscreen system. It pulled track listings etc off the phone over Bluetooth, and it functioned like it was all on a USB stick. Very, very, clever.

Well interesting. I went out this afternoon and plugged my phone into the USB and switched to the USB input and it started indexing. Then I was able to play and access all the albums on my phone. Last time I tried that it didn't see anything. Also charges which is handy. My phone has been reflashed since last time I tried it so perhaps something there, but it definitely didn't do anything before.