jb's2014CX5
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My phone was upgrade to 4.4.2 (kit kat) this week and now text messaging is working with my CX-5. It had not worked for the first 15 months that I owned the car
Text Messaging not working
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I have a 2015 GT with tech so it should have all the latest stuff. I have tried everything to get the messaging working on my Galaxy S4 with the latest kitkat version but I get as far as it asking if I want to download the last 15 messages and then message fail. I also have the Ipod problem but I can work around it by pushing the shuffle button and waiting a second before skipping to the next song. It does take a long time to load but I listed to Sirius or the radio until its ready. Not acceptable but hopefully a fix will be out. I am going to use another Ipod on the AUX for audio books and see how that works.
The only way to let the text messaging work for me is:
- disable the bluetooth function of the phone
- start the car and wait till the small buetooth sign appears on the left side of the screen
- then enable the bluetooth function again.
If I do it this way,the text messaging works and also the volume doesn't drop a second every few minuts.
btw I have a sony xperia (witch is compatible)
- disable the bluetooth function of the phone
- start the car and wait till the small buetooth sign appears on the left side of the screen
- then enable the bluetooth function again.
If I do it this way,the text messaging works and also the volume doesn't drop a second every few minuts.
btw I have a sony xperia (witch is compatible)
Hey everyone, I finally figured out the issue (well at least my issue, hopefully this helps others). So first I switched to the Moto-X which is supposed to be compatible...so when I first got it activated the text messaging worked with my car. Then I migrated all my info from my old phone (contacts, pics, text messages, phone logs, etc) and it wouldn't work anymore. So I did another reset of my phone and didn't transfer my old info from my old phone and it worked! So then the next day it stopped working again! I did some googling and someone mentioned this which seems to be the answer. if ANY of your text messages have Emoji's in them, it will fail to download. So make sure that you don't have any emoji's in your text messages, and then it will work! Mine had stopped working after my mom sent me some emoji's so I told her she can't send them anymore haha. But now it's working smoothly!
Emoji's have nothing to do with it on my end. I tried everything mentioned SEVERAL times and now I get a text notification when I get a text but it has never been able to download it after trying for several minutes, always download failed. I have the latest Kitkat Samsung S4 on Verizon which is compatible. After having my car almost a month I can see the frustration with the Text messaging feature, the TOM TOM issue not letting the passenger input data or even give a microphone feature so you can get directions when driving without having an actual address and of course the infamous Ipod issue. I don't know what I'm going to do when my Sirius free trial runs out and this is still not fixed.
Edited to say after trying several things I went and deleted ALL of my texts messages (saved them to SD card first) and now it works! I wish it would let you send an automatic text instead of only when the car isn't moving. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
Edited to say after trying several things I went and deleted ALL of my texts messages (saved them to SD card first) and now it works! I wish it would let you send an automatic text instead of only when the car isn't moving. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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I've been doing some experimenting with my Samsung GS4 phone (US, Verizon with latest updates). I'm finding that if I have MMS text messages, the NB1 head unit will refuse to download the messages. If I only have SMS text messages, I have yet to have it fail to download. This may explain why sometimes it works and sometimes if fails for people. So now, I'm deleting MMS messages after reading them.
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jpaulatkinson
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Wow. How on Earth did you figure that out!? I get the "Fail to download" message (same phone as you). So, I decided to turn-on the "Do Not Disturb" option, to avoid having to "not" receive messages. Now, in a booming computerized female voice, every time I get in the car I am reminded I have this feature turned-on, and to turn it off in the preferences menu.
Holy "Tech Package" fail, Mazda: The iPod function is "dysfunctional." The Bluetooth for the phone alphabetizes the names by first,last (!), it won't play music from my Galaxy using the head-unit screen (I have to choose the song/playlist from the phone), and it connects when it "wants to." To top it off, my gas mileage has been abysmal: I am averaging around 16 MPG, driving at turtle speeds. The design and the driving manners are keeping me from feeling buyer's remorse, but I'm not far off. - JP
My phone was brand new when I bought the CX5, and it worked great with text. Now it NEVER Downloads text messages when someone sends one. It always fails!
Are you saying that it wont DL MMS messages, or that the MMS messages just being present on the phone will cause a SMS to not DL? I hope it's not the second one.....
I think the basic problem is that there isn't a lot of memory in the head unit to download messages, and for some reason it needs to download all your saved messages each time. MMS messages generally take up more room (due to the attachments), so it seems logical to think that MMS messages will fill up the memory faster, causing the download to fail. I backed up and cleared my messages on my phone, and I was able to download new messages to the headunit again. I didn't re-pair or anything like that.
I'm not familiar with the bluetooth protocols to know why all the messages are downloaded each time, and not just 'new' ones, so I don't know if we blame the headunit, or the bluetooth standard...
EddieFord33
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can someone help, are u suppose to get an audible alert when getting a text MSG, and have it read it to u. i have a iphone 5S
WOULD LOVE A NICE VOICE TO SAY, YOU HAVE A TEXT MSG, WOULD U LIKE ME TO READ IT.
AND THE JUST SAY YES.
WOULD LOVE A NICE VOICE TO SAY, YOU HAVE A TEXT MSG, WOULD U LIKE ME TO READ IT.
AND THE JUST SAY YES.
