Inexpensive phone for Prius 2012 with Nav

I have an LG Encore for which I paid, I believe, $70on amazon. My service is ATT's Gophone pre-paid service for which I pay $100/annually. With Tax, $108. No other fees involved. Bing, Traffic and weather work just fine. I suspect the rest do as well, I've just not yet tried them. The only thing that doesn't work is text messaging. Not a big loss and I don't think that feature works with most phones anyway.

 

You can get a free iPhone with contract now. Though iPhone is quirky on the Bluetooth. You would want to get the Hotspot option on the phone as your data plan. That makes it perfect and having the hotspot is great all around can save you bucks on iPhones and tablets, you can get them without the 3G option.

 

So far, I've not even taken out a data plan. I pay the data costs that are applicable to the basic plan. Obviously, i don't use the system too often. I "played" with the apps when new, but now, use them only when I have need. I see traffic, I check "traffic". I see bad weather forming..I check "weather", or, I"m looking for point of interest not included in the gps data base. Over the years, I've accumulated the maximium amount to my phone: $500. My car gets it's hardest use between the months of August to October. Right now, I have $393 dollars as my balance. I'd anticipate that, over this first year, I'll have drawn down my balance by about $150. Next year, I' antipate it'll be under $100. If I used the car more, I'd subscribe to a data plan. By my calculations, even if my cell bill amounts to double or triple what I pay now, I'm still WAY AHEAD of the game compared to the average person's cell bill. I'm content!! Oh..incidentally, I'd estimate that about 2/3's of the usage for this year stems from the car's apps; Basic cell use: voice and text, making up the bulk of the balance. (my cell is NOT my regular phone.)

 

The app does NOT run on this phone! But, the good news is: you don't need it!!! If you dig around the menu screens, I forget exactly where, you'll come across a screen where you area asked to enter your entune info and password. Do so! If you've done this correctly, everything will work!

After the thumbdrive upgrade, I started a thread bitching about how the update screwed me out of entune. Toyota reps all stated that entune would work only on smart phones with the app and there's no way it would work on my phone. The fact that it did, originally, they proclaimed to have been a fluke!! They were WRONG!! Look up that thread! In it, one of the responses steered me to where to go and what to do to get it working again. After a few minutes digging, I discovered what needed to be done and I've been fine ever since.

Let me know how you make out!!?

 

That stinks! I believe there was one parameter on that set up screen about which I had to guess. You might play with that. Just to make sure we're talking about the same things: you DO have the display audio system (6.1 inch screen) and not the upgraded unit (7 inch), right?

 

I"ve been away all weekend and only now just read your post. I'm sorry to hear you've given up. If, by chance, you've not yet returned the phone, he's the thread that got me back on track (if it works: Entune update: Beware!! | PriusChat