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XV non-nav BlueTooth won't pair with second phone

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#1 ·
The only way to add another phone is to delete the first one. It wasn't a problem when I was the only one using the XV. Now that my wife and I are sharing it we have to delete the other phone in order to add our own each time one of us uses the car. Has anyone found a way around this issue?
 
#3 ·
I do have 2 phones recognized in the system. What I do find is, when the car starts up, it takes a little longer for the system to "read through" and find whichever phone is active and it wants to engage with at the time. When it doesn't find the first phone, it does auto-engage with the second. Admittedly, a little kluge, but does seem to work. Where your system may be getting stuck is... if you and your wife are both in the car at the same time and the system is trying to engage with both active phones. I have never found a "this is default phone" setting in the system, but then again... the subie software is not known for being all that great.

You might try figuring out which of the two of you drive the car the most. Then sync that phone in to the system first. Then, add the next person/phone. This might at least get the system to put the most often used phone in 1st place of the system, so at start up, it finds that phone and engages first. Not a great solution, but maybe a work around.
 
#4 ·
My problem has been that it doesn't let me add the second phone, regardless of whether another phone is there or not. When I try to add the second phone it says that the memory is full, even though there is only one phone configured on it. When you delete that phone it lets you add the other. But that's a pretty big hassle to deal with every time you want to use bluetooth with your phone.
 
#5 ·
New Iphone 5s for Christmas - it will not automatically go to Bluetooth on this car like the Android did - it has to be manually done each time when getting in the car. The car has been paired to the Iphone and it works great as Bluetooth but it is bothersome to have to go into the phone settings on the Iphone each time to get it to work - any ideas?
 
#6 ·
Update - Just went down to the car and deleted the old phone from the system and re-paired the Iphone - it now recognizes it automatically - I guess that old phone was the primary and it needed to go...
 
#8 ·
I am having this problem too, i had an iphone 3s witch pared automatically, it died and i have replaced it with another iphone 3s. i had to delete the first phone to put the second one in. now it wont auto pair. what did you do differently?
i can't find anywhere in the settings that shows perviously paired phones..