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Originally Posted by Reach
If you have a phone that isn't on the "authorized" list, this will happen from time to time. Sucks but its just the way it is. BMW bluetooth is poor.
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Bluetooth has a standard protocol associated with it. If the phones that are on the "authorized" list work fine and others do not, it is quite possibly the bluetooth implementation on the unauthorized ones is the issue. I have an approved phone and it works flawlessly. Either BMW got together with all the approved phone people and created a non-standard protocol for that select little group or the unauthorized ones do not have proper implementation. Given the odds that Motorola, Apple and others would probably never agree with one another long enough to form a collusion, I suspect the unauthorized ones simply have a poor implementation rather than the BMW having the poor implementation.
Besides that, Bluetooth itself has had some flakiness - I've experienced it in connecting non-BMW devices.