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How to connect a Bluetooth device to your Car Audio Organization

Bluetooth pairing & connecting your device

In this example, we will explain the pairing procedure betwixt a Car Sound unit of measurement/system and a smartphone. Bluetooth pairing is just required the get-go fourth dimension you lot desire to connect a new device to your Automobile Audio Organisation. The Machine Audio Unit of measurement and the smartphone will recognise each other and connect automatically from the side by side time on.

Note that you can always check the pairing process in your production manual, available on the product folio on this back up website.

  1. Activate Bluetooth on your Car Audio past pressing HOME, and going into the [Settings] menu.
  2. In the [Settings] carte du jour, observe [Bluetooth Connection].
  3. Select [Pairing].
    • This action volition put your device into pairing style, making it discoverable for other Bluetooth devices. That means that yous volition be able to detect it with your smartphone. Look in the list of "Available devices" in your smartphone'south Bluetooth menu.
    • Make sure that you have enabled Bluetooth on your smartphone too. Smartphones mostly will automatically be in pairing way once Bluetooth is enabled. Note that this is NOT the instance for Car Audio systems. You need to make information technology discoverable.

  4. The Car Audio Organisation should announced in the section "Available devices" in your smartphone Bluetooth menu. Click to select & pair.

    Depending on your model, you might accept to await in the "Available devices" section of your Motorcar Audio System and find your smartphone. (Opposite!)
    Click to select & pair.

  5. Depending on the model, you might be asked to enter a passkey (0000) or to verify if the passkey displayed matches on both devices.
    Information technology's a control mechanism to be sure that you're connecting the right devices.

  6. Once pairing is completed, the Car Sound System and Bluetooth playback device (due east.g. smartphone) will memorise each other's Bluetooth data, making information technology possible for them to connect in the futurity easily.

    If Bluetooth is enabled on your smartphone one time yous plow on the ignition, the Car Sound System searches for the last-connected Bluetooth device and automatically connects with information technology.

  7. In one case the connection is consummate, you'll see a verification message.
    Discover how the Bluetooth symbol on your smartphone ever slightly changes once information technology is connected with a device.

    Bluetooth difference connected - not connected

Additional tips & hints on Bluetooth pairing

  1. Y'all can only have ane agile Bluetooth connectedness. If y'all connect some other device, it will replace the previous Bluetooth connectedness.
  2. If a Bluetooth device is connected to the Car Audio system, it must be disconnected earlier a new device can be detected.
  3. You can have the pairing data of multiple Bluetooth devices stored in your Bluetooth listing (8 is the magic number).
    Once you store more viii devices, the oldest device'southward data gets deleted.
  4. The time window for pairing is usually limited to a couple of minutes, then if you've missed the window of opportunity, please enable pairing mode again.
  5. If you can't detect your Car Audio System in the Bluetooth device list on your smartphone (even though it'southward in pairing mode), quickly disable and enable your phone'south Bluetooth. This refreshes the list. Some smartphones offer a Refresh part. However, if information technology'southward not helping, please endeavour to entirely deactivate and reactivate Bluetooth on your smartphone.
  6. If your playback device supports A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Contour), you can listen to music via the Car Audio. You lot will accept to select "Bluetooth" in the music source list. (Other options might be AM/FM radio) or CD. Most modern smartphones are equipped with A2DP. It became a mainstream characteristic since 2009.
  7. If y'all're experiencing recurring issues with Bluetooth pairing, attempt to delete the electric current pairing information on the Motorcar Audio unit of measurement or smartphone, and recommence the pairing procedure.

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