PaaK Phone Performance

[tomthetenacious]

Hi All,

I'm curious what phone(s) might work best with Phone as a Key for passive entry / passive start. Can you post the phone model you're using in this thread and let me know how satisfied you are with the performance in the poll?

Thank You

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[Papapoil]

Samsung Galaxy A13, works half the time. Sometimes, it unlocks the doors, but it is impossible to start the car (no key recognized).

 

[dtbaker61]

Initial setup when I first got my car was not great.... running on an old Android. Thru several iterations of Samsung-Android OS, performance and reliability have improved. One major phone update that included some changes to Bkluetooth forced me to un-install and re-install FordPass and reconfigure PAAK.... but it's been fine ever since.

 

[thekat03]

I intentionally handicap mine because I don't want Fordpass running in the background all the time, chewing through my phone battery. So mine has worked, but it isn't primarily what I use.

 

[bshaw]

iPhone 12 Pro Max
*Keep FordPass app running background 100% of the time* (Doesn't seem to impact battery life)

Sometimes a second press of the door button is required, but otherwise its worked pretty much every time to open door or start the car.

 

[hartmms]

Pixel 6 Pro running latest OS updates (July and August). I could not get PAAK setup at dealer during purchase. I messed with it when I got home and struggled to get it to connect. After deleting phone bluetooth pairing for everything multiple times, it finally connected. I'm not sure what the magic sequence was.

 

[T_to the_A]

iPhone 13. I’m 100% PaaK - works well enough for me, but not without some annoyances. A couple times a week, have to wait for the phone to ‘connect‘ with car when I’m walking up and pushing the door button endlessly. Usually taking phone out of pocket and opening fordpass (even though I always leave it “ON”) helps things along.
My biggest gripe is crappy Bluetooth connectivity after the main screen Alexa update….but that’s on another thread.

 

[Mirak]

iPhone 11 Pro. Mine is a work device running some device mgmt, but that shouldn’t impact the Bluetooth/Wi-Fi.

Same experience as most everyone, I think. I only get the “no key detected” maybe once a month tops, now. Acceptable.

But there are still plenty of times when I have to stand around waiting for 5+ seconds for the car to wake up and let me open the door.

I keep the app running on my phone, but I don’t do anything else special. Nor should I. PAAK is supposed to be a substitute for the fob. I shouldn’t have to take my phone out of my pocket, wave it around, etc.

 

[MacherAWD]

Pixel 6a running beta builds, I am 100% PaaK. Initially worked flawlessly, over the course of last year performance degraded. Around Dec/Jan got continual failures, "no key detected". That has since resolved with the Android 14 lastest Beta release, PaaK has now been flawless over the last 3 weeks.

 

[ReverendPete]

iPhone 14 Max. Seems to work reliably, although, as others have mentioned, sometimes opening the door takes a couple presses. It's as if it doesn't start looking for the phone until it realizes someone is trying to get in. But I primarily use my fob anyway.

 

[itzbilly]

funny enough 21B36 update broke PAAK on my phone. it thinks that it completes as soon as I attempt to pair with the vehicle and never completes the setup. prior to this, my iphone 12 pro max was working fine and 90% of the time unlocked and opened the door on the first click.

tested with a second phone and it's able to complete setup and able to unlock/start/frunk/trunk. i'll have to do a restore on my phone to determine whether it'll resolve itself but waiting on ios 17 before i attempt that.

 

[GERChris]

Iphone 14Pro - works fine so far... only thing I noticed is that it doesnt automaticially load my personal profile? (and it's the only one I have set up...)

Did someone else have that happen ?

 

[ArthurDOB]

I just activated PaaK after two months when I heard about the Frunk button in Ford Pass. It's only been a few days, but it works very well for me so far.

 

[Richard L.]

S22 Ultra. No issues.

 

[kltye]

Sony Xperia 1 II running Android 12. It's been the same issue year after year - it takes about 10+ seconds to connect once I push the door button, but once it connects, it works flawlessly.

I carry the fob around for daily use (mostly because I leave it in my purse), but PaaK is nice to have for when I don't bring the purse for one reason or another. Ironically enough, it seems that PaaK is doing the walk away lock 100% of the time, probably because the app lacks bluetooth calibration for my phone, so the phone/car thinks it's very far away from the car at the drop of a hat.

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