Can MFT Simultaneously Link a Phone and Another Bluetooth Device?

[JimmyTwoTimes]

So here's the deal: I listen to a lot of audiobooks while I'm driving, and I usually do that over bluetooth because it's easier to have the device closer to hand than shoved in the center console and audio quality doesn't matter for audiobooks.

I'd like to not use my phone for that, because my brand-new phone has a habit of resetting itself at random intervals. It might reset itself twice in a minute; it might go an hour without resetting itself; but it always ends up resetting itself sooner or later. And then I have to think to turn the volume down before SYNC shuffles over to the next available audio source once it realizes the Bluetooth connect has been lost, and then wait for the phone to reboot itself, and then re-sync it to the car (because the Bluetooth connectivity on the phone always shuts itself off when it resets), and then switch the source back to Bluetooth and turn the volume back up again before reloading the Audible app and starting the audiobook again. That can be an obnoxious sequence to have to go through while I'm driving, so I'd rather just have my phone linked to SYNC for telephone calls, and have another device -- an old phone or an iPod Touch or whatever -- linked over Bluetooth to play audiobooks.

Is it possible to simultaneously link two devices by Bluetooth?

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[mkenny28]

So here's the deal: I listen to a lot of audiobooks while I'm driving, and I usually do that over bluetooth because it's easier to have the device closer to hand than shoved in the center console and audio quality doesn't matter for audiobooks.

I'd like to not use my phone for that, because my brand-new phone has a habit of resetting itself at random intervals. It might reset itself twice in a minute; it might go an hour without resetting itself; but it always ends up resetting itself sooner or later. And then I have to think to turn the volume down before SYNC shuffles over to the next available audio source once it realizes the Bluetooth connect has been lost, and then wait for the phone to reboot itself, and then re-sync it to the car (because the Bluetooth connectivity on the phone always shuts itself off when it resets), and then switch the source back to Bluetooth and turn the volume back up again before reloading the Audible app and starting the audiobook again. That can be an obnoxious sequence to have to go through while I'm driving, so I'd rather just have my phone linked to SYNC for telephone calls, and have another device -- an old phone or an iPod Touch or whatever -- linked over Bluetooth to play audiobooks.

Is it possible to simultaneously link two devices by Bluetooth?

Yes you can have multiple devices connected via Bluetooth. I usually have my phone connected to my Explorer and my girlfriend likes to connect her iPod at the same time. I already have my iPod classic plugged in via USB so she uses Bluetooth. It works great.

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

Awesome, thanks. The SYNC in my 2011 cannot do that.

 

[mkenny28]

Awesome, thanks. The SYNC in my 2011 cannot do that.

Now that I think about it, I have never tried it with two phones though. I will try it on my 2014 Explorer later this evening. I have a spare phone laying around (First World Problems).

 

[humster21]

First night I had my car I had this issue. My brother has his phone and I had mine. Mine is the default one and was still being used for the MFT. My brother needed to charge his phone and plugged it in to the front usb port. It played the audio from my brother's phone, but mine stayed connected to the car.

 

[mkenny28]

First night I had my car I had this issue. My brother has his phone and I had mine. Mine is the default one and was still being used for the MFT. My brother needed to charge his phone and plugged it in to the front usb port. It played the audio from my brother's phone, but mine stayed connected to the car.

Well if you have auto play (Not exactly what it is called but the name escapes me at the moment) set on MFT and then you plug in a new music source it automatically switches over to that source and starts playing whatever music player is the default or was last used depending on source.

 

[Brownw01]

I connect my phone and then set up the wifi hotspot and my son connects the iPad to that. He plays music from there while phone is still connected and he has access to net as well.

We do this in our 14 edge all the time. Have not tried in mustang yet but will when I get the opportunity.

 

[fionic]

I'd like to not use my phone for that, because my brand-new phone has a habit of resetting itself at random intervals. It might reset itself twice in a minute; it might go an hour without resetting itself; but it always ends up resetting itself sooner or later.

I gotta ask... what kind of phone do you have? Brand new phones absolutely shouldn't do this, and I've never had a phone do this before.

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

I gotta ask... what kind of phone do you have? Brand new phones absolutely shouldn't do this, and I've never had a phone do this before.

Samsung Galaxy S5. I bought it in September. It started doing it the very first day that I had it. I took it back to Verizon and they said they could give me a replacement phone, but it would be a reconditioned model -- I don't want a "new" phone that somebody else has held up to their face, so I said no thanks. It's really obnoxious, though; I have an app that keeps track of boots and sometimes the phone will reboot itself up to 40 times a day.

Before this, I'd had only Motorola phones for the last fifteen years. Never had a single problem with them. Samsung has awful build quality, I guess -- this is also the first phone I ever had to get a case for because it's too flimsy to survive a drop to concrete. Not happy with it; would have gotten the Droid Turbo if it had been out when I needed to buy a new phone.

 

[Todd15Fastback]

Samsung Galaxy S5. I bought it in September. It started doing it the very first day that I had it. I took it back to Verizon and they said they could give me a replacement phone, but it would be a reconditioned model -- I don't want a "new" phone that somebody else has held up to their face, so I said no thanks. It's really obnoxious, though; I have an app that keeps track of boots and sometimes the phone will reboot itself up to 40 times a day.

Before this, I'd had only Motorola phones for the last fifteen years. Never had a single problem with them. Samsung has awful build quality, I guess -- this is also the first phone I ever had to get a case for because it's too flimsy to survive a drop to concrete. Not happy with it; would have gotten the Droid Turbo if it had been out when I needed to buy a new phone.

You for sure have a lemon with your S5. There is no way I would live with that. The reconditioned phone is not something that was not cleaned before you get it. They put new face plates, etc on them. I would take it back ASAP and get a different model if you don't want a reconditioned phone. I would throw mine in the lake if it rebooted 40 times a day.

 

[wilkinda65]

I had my Galaxy S5 for a whole 2 hours before I took it back to Verizon. Hated it. Went back to my Droid Razr Maxx. now have an iPhone6. both worked/work flawlessly with my SYNC in my Fusion and my current 2014 Mustang GT.

My Fusions (2014 personal and 2015 company car) and my 2014 Mustang can connect multiple blue-tooth devices.

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