New Toyota Accessory Kit for iPod / iPhone $299

[timriley]

A bit more info on Toyota's adapter (again while using the iPhone (2G) in our 2009 Prius.

The ipod's music will mute when a call comes in (as expected) which is good. Music comes back on when the call ends (although I wasn't paying attention enough to tell if the music resumed from a paused state, or whether the music was playing through the entire conversation but was simply muted).... will let you know...

[CCC712]

I have questions for the new owners of the Toyota 09 ipod/iphone accessory kit:

1- Can you change songs, playlists, etc from the MFD while in motion?
2- Can you change playlists using the steering wheel?
3- Does it reorder the songs you put in a playlist to alphabetical?

[stacijill]

I just bought my Prius yesterday, 2009, and it came with the iPod kit and I am extremely dissappointed so far. I have an iPhone and when you plug in your iPhone it says the device is not campatible with iPhone. It charges the phone and you can play your music from it however, you can't see your playlists, songs, artists, albums, etc. on the navigation screen. You can press a button and it shows you what current song is playing, but who cares about that when all you can do is shuffle and can't see any of your music.

The other problem is that I can't see my contacts from my iPhone on the navigation screen. And as far as I know, it is not even possible to pull your contacts from your iPhone into your Prius address book unless you enter them by hand.

The iPod/iPhone accessory is in the glove compartment, which would be fine if everything on the phone was visible on the navigation system, but it is not. So while it is hooked up to the accessory, you can't reach your phone to make calls or to look at the songs, playlists, albums, etc. on your phone.

Ugh, am I making sense?

If anyone has any ideas about how the accessory can work with the iPhone, please let me know.

[EZW1]

Supply picture if you can!

[stacijill]

omg, you can see your songs from your iphone 3g on the nav screen? Can you see your contacts too?

I just bought my '09 prius yesterday with the feature installed and when i plug in my iphone is says the device is not compatible.

it charges the phone but i can't see any of the songs on my nav screen nor the contacts.

how did you get it to work?

[jpadc]

Originally Posted by stacijill

it charges the phone but i can't see any of the songs on my nav screen nor the contacts.

how did you get it to work?

That sounds like you have the non Toyota factory part (see discussion below). The Toyota factory part does show songs and play lists, but not contacts. Contacts must be synced with blue tooth and Apple decided not to include the bluetooth object push protocol (OPP) in the iPhone's implementation of bluetooth so the iPhone can not transfer contacts via bluetooth. That one is on Apple.

[Ibby]

Hi,

I have also this iPod kit in my new prius.
When i put in the connector the iPhone says it only works in airplane mode.

Everything is working fine then.
I see the Album, Tracks and artists.

Only problem i have is, that i only see 6 cd's.
But there are over 100 on my device.

Anyone knows how to select or see my other cd's on the device?

Tnx

[sometech]

Ibby, the cd's most likely indicate your different search options like "by artist", "by album", ect...

So I am very curious if anyone has figured out all the options on their Toyota version of the iphone hookup. After getting frustrated with the dealer at wanting to sell a $299 installed MSRP item for $299 parts and $150+ installation, I went to the guy who has done a few other custom stereo installs for me.

He recommended the "Vais Tech Ipod interface for Toyota" item # SL21up. $355 out the door.

It works basically flawless. 6 search options, steering wheel control, shows playlist/album and songname. The only problem is in file mode, none of the titles show up. It's like when you enter a cd with no title names.

The installer is calling the manufacturer in the morning to see if he has an answer. But my question is... Does the toyota OEM one work better than this? Can you list the titles in file mode like you can with a cd?

If it does, I will have the guy pull this one out and throw a fit at the dealer to give me at least the listed price.

[mrinstall]

Originally Posted by jpadc

I see in the new 2009 Toyota Prius brochure is a listing for a new iPod / iPhone integration kit for $299 installed. I can't seem to find any information about what it will do. All I get from my salesman is that it will work with my 2008, but no one seems to know what it will do. Anybody got any info? Will it let you control the iPod / iPhone with the touch screen? Show playlists, songs? Play / FF controls?

Anyone got the scoop?

To see it, go to the Toyota main website and then this file:

/prius-hybrid/ebrochure.html

it is on p.13 of the brochure

You can get the DICE Electronics I-Toyota-R from the DICE electronics website or from the priuschat shop and it will charge the iPhone.

The website only goes up to 2008 but I know it will work for the 2009.

[don_chuwish]

Hmn. I'm not really happy with my DICE. From what I've read of the VAIS solution I'm not really impressed with it either. So far this Toyota effort seems to fall short.
Best thing I've seen have been 3rd party head units with iPod integration, many of them come in under $200 too. Spend a little more for included Bluetooth, Satelite, HD radio, etc. I think I may have to start looking seriously in that direction.

- D