Originally Posted by chrisjones

I do actually stream music from my phone via bluetooth, using Google Music, and mine is perfectly smooth. I have my entire music library out in the cloud on Google Music , and using the stock music player in 4.4 (Kit Kat) and now 5.0 (Lollipop), streaming from the cloud, I get no glitches or hesitation or skips or anything, ever. It would only get better with local storage -- no chance of interruption due to 3G/4G signal inconsistency.

Further, pretty much everything works fine with my Nexus 5 connecting via bluetooth. It connects very quickly every time, stays connected, doesn't drop out, takes steering wheel controls correctly for music/podcast control, takes voice dialing commands correctly and passes on to the phone, and receives and reads out loud text messages that have arrived. I can then reply to those through the system with the quick reply list. Finally, all of the expected metadata from MP3 and podcasts appears correctly on the display.

My carrier is Straight Talk, a no contract AT&T reseller.

To get all of this working, I did absolutely nothing more than pair the phone as directed and accept all of the "do you want to enable/allow ____?" prompts on both sides.

I feel for the guy who is having bluetooth connectivity issues and parts not working, but mine has worked perfectly as far as bluetooth should be expected to work. We would get even better integration if Honda were to finally get HondaLink working for Android as they promised long ago, but that involves HDMI. No further feature improvement is likely with standard Bluetooth.

EDIT: I failed to mention that caller ID works for me. I do get a visual on the 7" car screen of the identity of the incoming caller as long as the phone itself is able to determine that (i.e., obviously it won't work for anonymous calls, where caller ID is blocked by the originating party).

Originally Posted by MarcB

I would like to use one of the newer model Android devices such as yours. But get this. They are not on the compatible device list. I have a new device, but an older model (Galaxy S3 running Kit Kat) as that is all that is "compatible" at this point. I have linked a newer model (S5) but have the same issues with stuttering on playback, and only partial caller ID display. It is the Honda unit, not the Android device. The technician at dealer could not figure out the skipping and stuttering issue, the faulty display issue, or the caller ID issue. Neither could the "Honda In Car Technology department". The latest from Honda (in writing 11-5-2014) "Honda is aware of some other issues with the audio unit and they are working on either a hardware or software update in order to fix issue"

Originally Posted by chrisjones

I think they're pretty awful at identifying a comprehensive list of compatible devices, especially with the crazy number of models of Android phones that come out every single day. I doubt anyone at Honda is bothering to test many of them and update the list, and I'm not so sure that they test more than a device here and there. I'd wager that most of the new models work fine whether it's on the list or not, and especially anything running a stock or nearly stock Android 4.2 or newer.

Originally Posted by chrisjones

I think they're pretty awful at identifying a comprehensive list of compatible devices, especially with the crazy number of models of Android phones that come out every single day. I doubt anyone at Honda is bothering to test many of them and update the list, and I'm not so sure that they test more than a device here and there. I'd wager that most of the new models work fine whether it's on the list or not, and especially anything running a stock or nearly stock Android 4.2 or newer.

Originally Posted by djpuckfl@gmail.com

Well I have a 2016 EX, and I have to report that its still not any better. I get Pandora, and, phone and message, but that's it, Aha doesn't even work. Hopefully they will get on the ball with that but as of yet no such luck.