tricking sync to pair the phone

[richy]

Forgive me if someone else had already discovered this and posted it.

 

 

The other day I had started driving my 11 MKX down the road and pushed the voice command button and told it to "phone home". It responded that Sync had been unable to pair the phone and was looking for previously paired phones with which to connect. I looked at the screen and sure enough "no phone connected" was showing. In the past, this had always meant that I would at a minimum have to shut off the car and restart it or delete the phone and re-pair it. I am using an Iphone4.

Well, what happened next was a pleasant surprise and why I am posting this thread. The message stopped and the phone paired and I was immediately able to make a call. I did not think much of it and thought that maybe I got lucky. Twice since then I have started driving only to observe the phone not paired again. It rarely ever happened before. So, I just hit the voice command and told it to make a call and I got the same message about trying to pair to a previously connected phone. Then, just like before, it paired it. So, for a total of 3 times, having viewed the non-connected phone message, I was able to use the voice command button to pair it by asking it to make a call. I'm assuming it's going to work this way for me all the time now if I have that problem. I have not updated sync in a few months and the sync site says I'm running version 2.4. I hope this helps someone else from having to re-pair their phone unnecessarily.

[RonnieEdge]

Hmm, thanks for this!

 

I got to try it next time this happens.