Pandora and UConnect 8.4 (iPhone 4 USB Connection)

[bpatton]

Howdy folks!

Just purchased my first ever new car on July 19 - 2012 Dodge Journey SXT. Absolutely loving the car!

However, one thing is stopping it from being absolutely perfect...the ability to stream Pandora from my iPhone 4 to my UConnect system. I've scourged the internet, and can't seem to locate much help on the topic (most of the topics I've seen have been devoted to Bluetooth connectivity - which my vehicle does not support at this time).

What I've found - that with my iPhone 4 connected to the UConnect system, it works flawlessly with my library of songs. So I can move around my playlist and control my iPhone music from the steering wheel controls.

Now, if I load the Pandora app and push play on one of the Pandora stations, I am able to hear about 2-3 seconds of the Pandora station, before what appears the UConnect system proceeding to go back to my iPhone library to play another track. I hit the Play button again on the Pandora app - same thing, get about 2-3 seconds of music from Pandora, then the UConnect system takes back over and tries to play another iPhone music track.

I've tried hitting the pause button on the UConnect system to halt the iPhone music playback, then hitting the play button in Pandora - doesn't seem to have much different effect.

Only time I'm able to get it to work, is to exit the Pandora app and relaunch it after it's been connected to the UConnect system - or disconnect the USB cable and reconnect it. This usually takes several tries to get working.

On top of that - once I do manage to get it working - the UConnect screen will show tracks from my iPhone library instead of the track currently playing on Pandora. I can use the steering controls to control Pandora (such as skipping a song) - but it just ends up showing the next track on my iPhone library (even though Pandora is playing correctly). It was my assumption from reading posts from around the web, that the UConnect system should be able to detect the Pandora track and display the information on the screen.

Am I doing something wrong? Anyone else have better luck with streaming Pandora through the USB connection? Something different I need to set up on my UConnect system or iPhone? Any assistance or insight is greatly appreciated!

Thanks all and thanks for reading my first post!

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Brandon

[Mcgusto82]

No. You're not doing anything wrong. I have a grand caravan that does the same.

Seems that systems that have iPod connectivity always prefers the library in your iPhone that music apps.

It's annoying cause my car would play the same stupid song everything I connected the iPhone.

My solution was to remove all music from my iPhone library.

Now pandora works OK. Still can't fwd songs from the radio though. Not my caravan, not my wife's journey. But her old sonata with a eBay nav radio could. Lol.

[bpatton]

No. You're not doing anything wrong. I have a grand caravan that does the same.

Seems that systems that have iPod connectivity always prefers the library in your iPhone that music apps.

It's annoying cause my car would play the same stupid song everything I connected the iPhone.

My solution was to remove all music from my iPhone library.

Now pandora works OK. Still can't fwd songs from the radio though. Not my caravan, not my wife's journey. But her old sonata with a eBay nav radio could. Lol.

Thanks Mcgusto82 - at least I know now I'm not crazy (well - at least in regards to the Uconnect system).

Might have to eventually rig up an iPhone cupholder dock that allows me to plug both the USB cable and an AUX cable in to the system (Aux for when I want Pandora / USB for the iphone music).

Thanks again for your insight!