I'm having a very frustrating issue with my new phone. I cannot get it to complete the pairing process. When I get to the point where I have to name my device, the process just stop in the middle of me saying the name of the phone. I have no idea what to do. It seems to be related with the new "Trusted Device" policy in Android 5.0 that causes the issue.

I took up the issue on XDA but no help there. Here is my OP on XDA:
I have also posted a video on youtube hoping somebody would eventually have the same issue


I will be so grateful to anybody that can help me pair my phone.

Thank you in advanced

 

Forgot to attach the XDA thread link: Can't pair S6 edge to Acura TL...trusted dev… | Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge | XDA Forums

 

My s6 edge searches for device but never finds my 07 tl-s. I think it my be my phone.

 

I've searched all over and i saw a lot of people are having problems pairing or keeping a stable connection with the S6 / S6 edge. I dont know what's causing the issue but it seems to be related to the newest generation of samsung phones. Hope they fix the problem soon. 😣

 

May have to do with the BT radio inside the s6. I have an s4 on 5.1 and it works fine.

Does your car connect to any other BT devices? Make sure it's not the problem with the car.

 

Ya, I had all the Galaxy S devices since the S2 and also the Note 3 and 4 and they all worked fine.

 

My s6 edge will find other phones on blue tooth. I am about to try to connect my phone to a co-workers 15' fusion. He tried to connect his s6 edge to my car and it didn't work and my wife's iPhone 6 plus did not work.

Starting to think it my be the car with the problem.

 

bad HFL?

 

no, it works with every other phone.

 

The HFL-compatible phone list does not include the S6 or S5, but does include the Galaxy S1-S4. If there was a change in operating systems, that's probably what's causing incompatibility.

 

enable the car mode on your phone first then try it should work

 

I have my Galaxy S5 paired. Works fine.
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By 5.1, do you mean Lollipop?
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I had S5, Note 4 and all previous phones worked fine. Will try car mode and report back

 

Same problem with car mode. I'm able to register the car within the app but when it brings me to bluetooth screen to select the Handsfreelink it disconnect while naming device. Are there any firmware upgrades i can install for that? Will buying a more recent navi DVD upgrade the systems firmware in some way? I still have the old 2005 DVD and never bought a newer one.

 

My Samsung S5 use to pair with my car automatically with no issues, but recently I can't even find HandFreeLink from my phone. My car says the HFL is okay but yet I can't even find out.

I don't know what to do about it.

 

Try with another phone or see if a laptop/PC gets the signal while in pairing mode

 

I'll have to try that.... If that doesn't work, maybe I'll disconnect my battery.

I tried with my iPad and never found it. My phone and iPad found eachother tho.

 

I paired my T-Mobile Galaxy S6 regular just fine on my 05 TL

 

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but Android 5.0 Lollipop is loaded with all kinds of bugs. My Galaxy S5 was a dream machine until I upgraded to Lollipop. Since then, it's been a nightmare with 1 problem after another starting with having to charge the phone 3 times a day. Bluetooth paired OK, but never really worked quite right. If I initiated a call from the phone, and tried to do a 'TRANSFER', it wouldn't work so I had to voice dial all outgoing calls even if they were in the call log. Beware, there's Lollipop horror stories all over the internet. T-Mobile and Sprint users are all pissed off too as Lollipop turned their S5's into bricks as well. Don't know about 5.1 as they may have fixed all the problems. Time will tell.

2 weeks ago, I had had enough and after several dozen calls to Verizon Customer Service and Tech Support over these last few months, I screamed loud enough for them to finally send me a replacement phone, a 'Recertified' unit. Low and behold, it had KitKat on it, Android 4.4.4. Yayyy! Now all is right with the world again and my Galaxy S5 works just as it did when it was new last November. The Bluetooth even works the way it's supposed to too. Toto too? Yes, Toto too!


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I have not paired my S6 to my TL yet because i have not fixed/replaced my HFL unit. I have however connected it to my 2014 Ford Focus(work car) and can say that it has some weird issues but seems to work ok. I stream most music, sometimes it will connect automatically, sometimes it won't. When it does connect automatically the music is choppy for a few seconds and then goes really fast and then plays fine. I had a note 4 previously and it also had BT issues but only on Kit Kat, while connected to my galaxy gear watch the fidelity of music was reduced, after upgrading to Lollipop it worked perfectly however.

 

Important update.

I was able to pierce the mystery of my pairing problem. It seems as not all S6 edge are created equal.

Long story short, my dad got himself a new car, Benz GLA250, thats comes with networking capabilities when paired with a smartphone. His company supplied iphone didnt share the network connection with the car so he asked me to try with my S6. As i tried to enable bluetooth tethering, i couldnt find it. I made a few searches on XDA and found that some people are complaining about missing functions on their edge, BT tethering was one of the main features some people didnt have, others were missing some toggles also. It seems as some phones dont have it. Don't ask me why because its not a carrier restriction, some people on T-Mo had it, others didnt.

The only solution was to flash a custom rom with BT tethering enabled. As I didnt want to go through the entire flashing process, and also because i didnt want to trip knox in case it break SamsungPay, i called up my friend that had the same phone I didnt and found out he also didnt have BT tether. Since he didnt care about knox or Samsungpay, i flashed him a custom rom and was fianlly able to pair my TL with the edge, and was also able to connect to my dads car.

So i guess it's a software problem. Not sure why that option was left out for some, but i guess it'll be fixed in the upcoming 5.1.1 update. Also worth noting that samsung did release a fix for the missing toggles through an app in the galaxy store.

 

Welcome to the club. My S5 always worked and stopped communicating with the car's BT just yesterday. Both the steering wheel and the phone BT controls all work, but for some reason all of a sudden the car's BT and the phone's BT don't wanna know each other. The phone's BT does however pick other BT devices in the vicinity. I guess the only thing left to is try is pairing the car with another phone.

Stay tuned .............
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I bought myself a Galaxy Note 5 and i'm having the exact same issue. I ended up buying a Kinivo bluetooth receiver and just plugged into the AUX. Not sure why my TL stopped liking my phones since the S6