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Uconnect, XM, Android, and Google Maps

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#1 ·
I have looked and looked and can't find how to do this anywhere. I have a brand new Moto Z Force Android phone and want to have the Google maps instructions come in on my speakers while XM Satellite is playing.

I have an iPhone and it works fine. Music plays, a new direction comes and the music turns off with the directions played over the speakers. Then the music comes back on.

I have Uconnect and my Android phone is connected and can do phone calls fine. But I can only have the directions come in over the phone, but car speakers.

I called UConnect and they said it was an XM issue. XM said it was an Android issue.

Can anyone get this to work? Thanks for any help here!
 
#2 ·
Android has separate audio paths for handsfree calling and for media/audio. There are two places in the Phone section of UConnect for them. Make sure both Phone and Audio show the pairing.
 
#5 ·
From Google:

Hear voice navigation from your car speakers

1.Turn on Bluetooth on your phone or tablet.
2.Pair your phone or tablet to your car.
3. Set the source for your car's audio system to Bluetooth.
4.Open the Google Maps app Menu Settings Navigation settings.
5.Next to "Play voice over Bluetooth," turn the switch on.
 
#6 · (Edited)
UN4GTBL brings up a good point, I forgot about the XM app, but that uses data.

Apple Phone or Android phone, UConnect will treat them the same. If you are listening to XM (Satellite), you will not hear any audio from your phone over the cabin speakers. However, if you have UConnect set to Bluetooth (or AUX or USB if that's what you're using) audio source and playing music From your phone, Maps should interrupt your phone's music to notify you of turns.

If you're using the 8.4AN built-in Navigation, it'll interrupt over all audio-sources to give you turn instructions.

It's not an Android vs Apple thing, it's UConnect only giving you the single Media source you selected on the head-unit (Satellite, USB, SD-Card, Bluetooth, Aux, etc) and rightfully so. It won't, and shouldn't, combine multiple audio sources or things would just get messy/noisy.


What I do, so I can hear instructions [from my phone] while still listening to XM Satellite Radio, and also still having my Phone connected as a phone via Bluetooth for calls:
go into Maps -> Settings -> Navigation Settings -> Disable [slide left] 'Play voice over Bluetooth'. It should then provide directions from your phone's speakers while still allowing calls through UConnect.
 
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#7 ·
That's what I was trying to get at.

The older uConnect radios we have only work that way, so that's why I was wondering.

Although, I've basically converted to only streaming music + Google maps on my phone in my car, as my GPS is so out dated, doesn't have traffic, and radio stations suck (I just want music, not a bunch of idle chit chat about hollywood gossip)
 
#10 ·
Can you describe how this works with your Apple phone? If you are on the radio tab and listening to XM on the car's UConnect system, I don't see how your Apple phone would be able to interrupt. Is your phone connected via a cable instead of bluetooth? If both phones are connected via bluetooth, I don't see how either phone can interrupt what's playing on the radio tab since you have to be on the bluetooth tab (audio source bluetooth) to be able to hear it from the cars speakers.

Edit: Is the interruption similar to the you received a text message from X interruption?
 
#12 · (Edited)
Apple changed its maps software in 2014 to use Hands-Free Profile (HFP) to make the car's head unit think a phone call is coming in and temporarily switch to BT from whatever source it's currently on: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/03/11/ios-7-1-in-car-navigation-improvements/...

Well, it’s like receiving a phone call through your car’s Bluetooth system: the feature basically tells your car to connect to your device over Bluetooth whenever a voice direction needs to be played. As a result, you can listen to music or radio stations through your car’s built-in audio system and at the same time hear spoken directions, which is really nice. So if you’re listening to FM radio, navigation prompts now automatically interrupt and play just like an incoming phone would.

I don't think Google Maps does this.
 
#13 ·
This... is interesting... Now I'm curious if it has the capability due to the recent Siri integration or the HFP that Array was mentioning.
 
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