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Retrying the connection to the phone

Discussion in 'Gen 5 Prius Main Forum' started by jonberger, Aug 5, 2024 at 12:40 PM.

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  1. jonberger

    jonberger Junior Member

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    I have a shiny new 2024 Prius Prime plug-in, which I mostly love, though it's super weird that they don't have a rear wiper.

    Here's my question. Most of the time, the car connects politely to my smartphone, and starts up Android Auto, and everything works just fine. But every once in a while it doesn't. The most obvious example came up yesterday, when I started the car, realized I'd left my phone in the house, put the car in park, and ran inside to get it. At this point, obviously the car hadn't been able to connect to the phone because the phone wasn't there when I started it. Is there any way to say "please try again to connect to the phone" short of stopping and restarting the car? No problem doing that when I'm sitting in the driveway, but sometimes I don't realize it hasn't connected until I've driven a little way, and at that point it's inconvenient to stop and restart.
     
    #1 jonberger, Aug 5, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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    Hammersmith Senior Member

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    Two ways.
    1. (I'm going from memory, so this won't be totally correct, but it should be close enough to get you there.) Tap the gear icon, tap personal devices, select your phone, tap connect to device.
    2. Press and hold the radio power button for 3-5 seconds. This will reboot the head unit and it should then automatically connect to your phone.
     
    #2 Hammersmith, Aug 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM
  3. jonberger

    jonberger Junior Member

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    Thank you! I'll give that a try.
     
    #3 jonberger, Aug 5, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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    The reconnect option almost never works for me. I just do the reset by default now.
     
    #4 PhoS, Aug 5, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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