I have a 2012 PIP and all of a sudden the display on my head unit won't show the song title or artist that is playing from my phone and it won't automatically start playing when I start up the car. I also can't use the steering wheel controls to change the track. This all used to function perfectly fine before. I'm not sure if it's something I need to change in the car settings or the phone settings. The car has the JBL option, and my phone is a Galaxy S10+. Help! Thank you! Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
Bluetooth is always flakey for me, half the time it doesn't display the track details, and occasionally doesn't want to connect unless I turn off/on the head unit. I haven't seen the problem with changing the tracks though - except for the occasions where the head unit doesn't want to work at all (e.g. even volume control doesn't work) and the only solution is to restart the whole car! It's not a great experience in general.
Is it a new phone? or has that feature worked with it before? It might be worth seeing if you received an update to your phone recently. You might also try un-pairing from the head unit, delete the paring from your phone, then re-pair it.
I agree with Nick. Re-pair up. See what happens. Also, if anyone else drove your car and paired up, it really messes things up. Even if you are sitting in your driveway and the other person is in the house and haven't disconnected.
I was also having issues like you, title won't show and bluetooth won't connect sometimes. What seemed to have fixed it for me was doing an entune firmware update. Can be downloaded online, although there are some risks to doing a firmware update, I bricked my router from a failed firmware update lol.
Had the same issue with Prius 2015 and a new Android phone today. Got it fixed by lowering the Bluetooth AVRCP version to 1.3 in the Developer options on Android. Go into Settings -> About phone, find "Build number" section and keep tapping it until it says that you are now a developer. You should see a new menu option show up: Settings -> System -> [Advanced] -> Developer options. Inside Developer options menu you should see "Bluetooth AVRCP version". Set that to 1.3. That's it. Disable and enable back Bluetooth so that your phone re-connects to the car and everything should work now. You can hide the developer options menu with a toggle at the top of Developer options section if you don't want it to be shown, or you can leave it be.
