After months of frustration with Bluetooth cutting out and not displaying correct album art...and the nearly unusable usb connection, I've had a bit of a breakthrough.
As I was pairing my new phone and playing with Bluetooth settings, I decided to set Bluetooth (in the ICTP Bluetooth settings) for phone only, not music/audio as it defaulted to. I wasn't expecting it to make a difference but it did. With Bluetooth music streaming disabled and used exclusively for calls, the usb-phone interface has worked faultlessly for the past week. It appears that having bluetooth audio streaming and usb both enabled at the same time could be what was causing the system to freeze up and kill the connection.
Maybe everyone has already tried this without luck and I'm just clueless and had a lucky streak this week, but I figured it was worth mentioning. It's been great.
It's also worth noting that I don't use the In Control Apps. I found them to be limited and awful, and I prefer the native media interface and nav built into ICTP. I deleted the "apps" app from my phone entirely. I figure the less complexity the better given the situation. This is with an iPhone X, but I assume would apply to recent iPhones the same.
As I was pairing my new phone and playing with Bluetooth settings, I decided to set Bluetooth (in the ICTP Bluetooth settings) for phone only, not music/audio as it defaulted to. I wasn't expecting it to make a difference but it did. With Bluetooth music streaming disabled and used exclusively for calls, the usb-phone interface has worked faultlessly for the past week. It appears that having bluetooth audio streaming and usb both enabled at the same time could be what was causing the system to freeze up and kill the connection.
Maybe everyone has already tried this without luck and I'm just clueless and had a lucky streak this week, but I figured it was worth mentioning. It's been great.
It's also worth noting that I don't use the In Control Apps. I found them to be limited and awful, and I prefer the native media interface and nav built into ICTP. I deleted the "apps" app from my phone entirely. I figure the less complexity the better given the situation. This is with an iPhone X, but I assume would apply to recent iPhones the same.