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Discussion in 'Prius v Audio and Electronics' started by harold, Jul 30, 2013.

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  1. harold

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    In my other cars, the Bluetooth system would discern who was in the car , my wife with her phone, or me with mine and link that phone via Bluetooth. Somehow, it seems like the Prius v Five we just bought doesn't do this unless you physically go in and choose the phone to link. Is this the way it works or am I missing something?

    You'd think it would make sense to pair any phone already registered with the cars' Bluetooth, but I'm not a Toyota engineer.
     
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    According to the manual, it can link up to 5 devices, one at a time. I'd assume that whichever one links first will be retained unless you manually switch.
     
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    No, it seems to pick up only the phone that's selected in the menu. Last night I drove the car, my wife's phone is the one that was last manually selected, she wasn't in the car, the phone rang and didn't go to Bluetooth. Needs to be manually selected each time we change drivers . Not the way any of my other cars worked. Is this right?
     
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    I noticed that my partner's phone was connected once when I was the only one that was in the car. Apparently his phone was physically close enough at the time for the car to connect to. I manually told it to connect to mine, but I could have driven away and it would have connected to mine after it lost the connection with his.
     
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    True dat, it connects to whichever is available. When I'm wearing my BT earpiece for my phone and get in the car, the car does not connect to my phone till I shut off the earpiece.
     
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    Tried again. Didn't connect to my phone until I manually choose my phone from the Bluetooth paired devices list? Am I doing something wrong?
     
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    Harold, help us help you. What phone do you and your wife have. It seems the Bluetooth functionality varies a lot by phone model (and how that model implements the Bluetooth interface).
    Sometimes even known good phones stop synching and need a reboot.
     
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    iPhone 5.

    Thank you!
     
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    Same thing happened to me. Sounds like your wife's phone is close enough for the car to connect to it.
     
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    I have the same phone, added mine to the car, activated Bluetooth, my phone doesn't pick up unless I manually choose it?
     
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    Harold, when was the last time you fully powered down your iPhone? Try a iPhone reboot by pressing and holding on/off button and confirm power down, then turn back on and see if it connects with Prius better.

    If that does not help you can try to delete the phone connection and try pairing the phone and Prius again. There are some options you can play with, like initiate pairing from phone or Prius. I have had only one bad pairing experience with my iPad and Prius v w/ ATP, and it went away after a iPad reboot.

    Good luck.
     
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    Thank you. I'll give it a try. The car does have both phones on the list though? I'll install and repair both.
     
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    Sorry to report, this Bluetooth system sucks! I still can't get it to recognize my phone (when my wife's was previously selected and she's not in or near the car) I need to manually select it. Also. Find the voice recognition system doesn't recognize speech well at all.
     
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    I'm pretty sure each bluetooth device on the menu has a menu,providing,among other things, to "connect automatically. I'm not in the car, but I believe you access this menu from a button on the right side of the device list for that item.
     
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    Thank o for the reply.
    I did what you suggested, there wasn't any such feature/function I could find. My car is a v , no ATP pkg. if you could, I'd greatly appreciate any help when you do find a moment and you're in your car.
    Thank you!
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    Sounds like we have the same car. I'm using it tomorrow and, usually, spend some time just sitting in tbe car listening to music when we first arrive..so I should have time to dig around and see what I can re-discover. I may not be back with an answer until Monday though, so hang in there.
     
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    Thank you! Appreciate your help.
     
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    your right!
     
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    Do you have the same problem?
     
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    Okay...here's what I found: Follow the procedure I mentioned earlier. Then, when you select the individual phones, on the resultant menu, you should find the following three options: "connect for phone; connect for music, and connect for internet". Click the option(s) you wish and they should now state: "dis-connect for phone, dis-connect for music and dis-connect for internet". If this doesn't help, then there's something else going on about which I have no clue.

    Hope it works for you!
     
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