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Old 11-24-15, 01:52 PM
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Default 13 GS350 infotainment / backup camera rant

Just getting to know my car, I installed enform app on my Samsung GS5 and it plays the tunes etc on pandora. Here is the rant. If I turn off the car and return, enform starts playing again but it it literally like 8 clicks to get back to the pandora app on the screen. Is that normal ?

Next rant, when I start the car, I usually end up backing up, to drive off. Back up out of garage, parking spot etc, the alerts basically end up blocking the top of the screen for at least 3-5 seconds, if I recall, I see the following messages in succession.....Phone connected, transfer successful, and external audio device connected Really really really annoying as it is hard to see cars further away (hence near top of the screen) any way to turn the notification feature off ??

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Old 11-24-15, 06:17 PM
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1) you can press the radio button on the dash, then on the Apps tab you can press the button at the bottom (View Application Screen). That will take you directly back to Pandora.

2) All those alerts can be turned off, I believe they are under Setting --> Bluetooth settings. Some are also under the phone settings. I have all my notifications turned off.
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you my friend are a genius, thank you for pointing these basic functions out
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There's alot of these little hidden gems that make using some of these features so much easier!
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Also its best to use the Pandora App from your phone, streaming through bluetooth because apps on cars are slow, clunky and super annoying to use.
Hope this helps
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Originally Posted by MEAHT
Also its best to use the Pandora App from your phone, streaming through bluetooth because apps on cars are slow, clunky and super annoying to use.
Hope this helps
correct me if Im wrong but the pandora app on phone keeps running when car is turned off and for me the car does not start the pandora app via BT setting consistently though it can start it I think ? But if running enform app, it starts and stops the phones pandora app
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