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I tried searching but couldn't come up with anything. Curious to know if anyone else has this "issue".

 

I have a USB connected hard drive in my truck for music. I get in the truck and my phone connects to bluetooth, normally it will default to the phone and I can play whatever I was listening to on the phone via the bluetooth audio. However, as soon as the USB HD is noticed (sometimes quickly other times not) it kicks over the to HD no matter what. This is extremely annoying to me as it wasn't set it just found the media and thinks I want it.

 

Anyone else notice this or have a fix? At this point I'm just thinking about removing the USB HD altogether as it's pretty annoying.

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I’m sure if there’s a similar option, but I know you can turn on auto Apple & Android car play for the 16s through settings


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Yeah, I use android auto daily, which I think is a large part of why I no longer rely on the USB drive. I do like to keep it in just because of the amount of songs I have on the thing, but maybe I should just pull it out and be done with it.

Dr Awesome Enthusiast

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What kind of hard drive, format, etc. are you using?  I have tried a few different ones and can't get it to read anything from the HDDs and flash drives I have.  Either way, maybe if you have it wired to a constant power USB (might require modification) it could prevent it from doing that.  It might drain you battery ever so slowly if you don't drive the truck much, but wouldn't be an issue for a daily or weekly driver.

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Yeah I’d say unplug it since it’s going away from the phone. I know I’ve had multiple phones plugged in and the one that was plugged in first always worked even if my Bluetooth was on but I plugged in second


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A 256GB thumb drive at Co$tco is ~$40 ...a far better choice than any spinning or SSD based EXT HD.

 

Formatted Fat32 and music in correct format works perfectly plugged in inside the console.

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I'm going to assume you're using a mechanical HDD, so when the car turns on, it is immediately connecting to your phone and at the same time the USB ports are powering on. The HDD takes some time to spin up, initialize, and mount. Once that process is done, the head unit believes you just plugged in the HDD, so it is going to automatically switch to that source. You may try and SSD or a flash based USB drive. The mounting process will be faster and it may then be able to mount before your phone connects, and then your phone with connect afterwards which is what you're trying to achieve. Also, a typical HDD doesn't like the heat and the bumps/vibrations so it's life may not be as long as if it was sitting on a desk.

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On 6/7/2018 at 10:49 PM, ChristopherDB said:

I'm going to assume you're using a mechanical HDD, so when the car turns on, it is immediately connecting to your phone and at the same time the USB ports are powering on. The HDD takes some time to spin up, initialize, and mount. Once that process is done, the head unit believes you just plugged in the HDD, so it is going to automatically switch to that source. You may try and SSD or a flash based USB drive. The mounting process will be faster and it may then be able to mount before your phone connects, and then your phone with connect afterwards which is what you're trying to achieve. Also, a typical HDD doesn't like the heat and the bumps/vibrations so it's life may not be as long as if it was sitting on a desk.

I should have known to check this being a tech guy and all but it never crossed my mind. I had thought I purchased a SSD for this but now I'm wondering if I used that for something else and just went with a standard. I'll have to check that out, great catch!

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On 6/7/2018 at 7:03 PM, Pearl2017 said:

A 256GB thumb drive at Co$tco is ~$40 ...a far better choice than any spinning or SSD based EXT HD.

 

Formatted Fat32 and music in correct format works perfectly plugged in inside the console.

I thought FAT32 was limited to 32GB, but apparently that limit was set by windows and not the file system.  I was trying exFAT and it would not read at all, even though the GM manual says it works.  I guess I'll try FAT32 with a 3rd party formatting tool and see how it works.  I was using an ipod instead, but that was glitchy, too.  It would cache music until it reached around 10k songs, then crash and disconnect and re-cache, so I had to cut down my collection to get it to work consistently.

 

OP, if you have less than about 50 gb you could go the ipod classic route as well and leave that in the console.  That has worked for me.

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