Bluetooth hard crash - RNS 310

[TDIStevestr]

Bluetooth went boom today in a hard lock for the first time.

Received an incoming call and ignored it. Noticed after the call went away that BT dropped the connection.

Pulled over to the shoulder to see what was going on. In the center display went to Phone and saw the message "No Phone Found. Connect? [Cancel]".

Clicked [Cancel] - no response. System locked. Could go to other functions, such as audio, etc. Go back to Phone and the same message was stuck.

Attempted to reset to factory through the voice prompts. Computer said OK all set. Went back in again and message still frozen. Attempted another factory reset. Again bot claims OK all set. Still frozen.

Finally got to my destination. Went inside and came back out an hour later and this time got "New device found. Pair now?" - went ahead and repaired and no issues since.

Whatever was locked must have needed the radio power timeout of an hour of non-use in order to unlock.

Weird.

Phone - iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0