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One Prius, Two Bluetooth phones

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Audio and Electronics' started by rag47, Apr 29, 2006.

  1. rag47

    rag47 New Member

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    I have a 2006 Prius and two Cingular RAZR bluetooth phones. I was able to pair up each phone with the car and they work fine. But there's a nasty problem: if the phone you have wasn't the last one used in the car, you get a "Bluetooth connection failed" message when you get in the car.

    To fix this, you have to drill down in the menus to select a different phone. I was hoping the Prius was smart enough to hook up with whichever phone was in the car. Is there a way to get it to do this, or are we stuck with using the menus to tell it which phone is there, each time we get in the car (my wife and I both use the car).
     
    #1 rag47, Apr 29, 2006
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    My recollection of the manual is that there is only one primary phone for auto-connect. However, I don't have two BT phones to help you out.
     
    #2 the fish, Apr 29, 2006
  3. jrfaris

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rag47 @ Apr 29 2006, 06:14 PM) [snapback]247357[/snapback]</div>
    No, at least not on a 2004. We have 2 Treo 650s. I just went through the "drill" this evening. Usually I just leave it set for my wife's and only switch when she is not driving it for a while. I thought maybe the general select user funtion (main menu) might be a way to avoid the drill down but I just checked, and it didn't seem to recover the phone setting for a different user.
     
    #3 jrfaris, Apr 30, 2006
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    yup, my wife just got a new phone w/bluetooth, so now she's gonna have to get her own Prius.
     
    #4 onerpm, Apr 30, 2006
  5. rag47

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    When we got the Prius with Bluetooth, I had a Bluetooth add-on unit installed in my other car (an Acura). Cartoys recommended the Parrot unit and I had that installed. I find that I like the Parrot better than the Prius built-in BT, because it can transfer my whole phonebook at once (in fact it automatically syncs up everytime I get in the car), and it automatically switches between our two Bluetooth phones, all very smoothly and trouble free.
     
    #5 rag47, May 1, 2006
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(onerpm @ Apr 30 2006, 08:27 AM) [snapback]247558[/snapback]</div>
    I think a Prius is a fine accessory for a Bluetooth phone.
     
    #6 356driver, May 1, 2006
  7. egret32

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    I am in techno overload here. Changed from Cingular to T-Mobile, got 3 family phones, bluetooth headset not to mention a second TiVo that had to be synced to the other...all in one weekend. (And all for free!) See Amazon.com for some incredible deals.

    Anyway....the phone is a Motorola V360. T-Mobile.

    I got it synced up to the Prius (2004). I cannot figure out how to send even ONE phone number to the car. I have all the setting right on the Prius--but I cannot figure out where to send on the phone. The T-Mobine guy was flummoxed and sent me to the Motorola guy. He told me to try:

    go to phone book
    Pick an address
    Hit top middle key that gets you to menus
    Send Contact

    This did not work.

    The same menu also has "Share Phonebook entry"
    Also did not work.

    I could type them in, but I'd like to get it to work.

    More importantly....what I really would like to do is use the voice feature on the PHONE through the car speaker to say: call Home or call Dad or whatever. Will this work?
    (I have the voices set up in the phone.)

    Anyone who can talk me through this...well...I'll send a nice prize!

    THANKS Chatters.
     
    #7 egret32, May 1, 2006
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