This toggle is annoying because what was once 1 press to turn on BT is now 2. It gets me every day.

  • cobysev@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    My wife’s car is extremely aggressive. The second she turns it on, it steals my Bluetooth connection. I could be mowing my lawn, listening to music on my phone, then suddenly hear nothing, and it’s because my wife got in her car and was suddenly blasted with my tunes.

    I tell my phone to forget her car’s Bluetooth connection, but then I’m constantly harassed by pop-ups on my phone every minute saying her car wants to pair with my phone. I can’t get it to stop pinging me. It sees a Bluetooth device in range and then spams it, trying to connect.

    So yes, I like to keep my Bluetooth off until I want to use it.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Have a dig through the cars Bluetooth settings and see if you can delete the pairing from that end.

      • cobysev@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I’ve done that, but it still pings every Bluetooth connection it sees, whether it recognizes it or not.

        Her car had some class-action lawsuit recently because its integrated satellite radio service was constantly pinging for a connection, whether you had the service or not. If the car wasn’t driven in a few days, the battery would be completely drained. And you couldn’t jump it yourself; it had to be towed to a shop so they could use some special machine to jump and charge it.

        That issue has been settled, but now its Bluetooth is basically doing the same thing. Fortunately only while the car is on, but still.

        • bus_factor@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Sounds like you need to give it something to connect to. Buy a cheap analog-to Bluetooth transmitter, charge it from the car and just never turn it off. You’d need to do some research to find one which doesn’t go to sleep. If you need to use your phone in the car, just turn the transmitter off.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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          7 months ago

          Hmm. Well that sucks.

          Personally; I refuse to connect a phone to a car via Bluetooth. Too many reports of cars harvesting every available bit of info it can access from the connection and storing/uploading it inaccessible/immovable to the owner.

          Aux cable, fm transmitter, or deal with the radio.

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        It’s a pain if you share a car. Whoever starts the car gets to interrupt the other one’s phone call.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Sounds like your phone is top priority. Either clear it off the car or move her’s up to the top spot.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        Some cars it doesn’t matter - it will attempt to connect to whatever device it sees.

        If it happens to see his first, it connects.

        I’ve seen these problems for years with integrated BT in cars. I hate it.

        The best answer I’ve found is to pair, then turn off all connectivity within that Bluetooth connection on my phone.

    • illi@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Our car does this as well, but then when I get in it sometimes just refuses to connect automatically, so this actually helps me immensly.