Opening all doors

If you "click" the open button twice on the remote, it will open all the doors. I don't know about grabbing the door handle.

After noticing that if I grab the driver's side handle, it didn't open my wife's door, I started opening her door for her first (besides it seemed to be the right thing to do).

 

you need to hold the lock and panic button on your key until you hear the car beep TWICE. if it doesnt beep twice, then you have to do it again. It will cycle through all the different settings

 

Howdy MaggieDDD

The "2004 Owner's Manual" - Page 30 - Contains a Paragraph entitled "CHANGING THE DOORS TO BE LOCKED." Instructions found there enable you to control which doors are locked/unlocked using the "Smart" functions. Your 2005 Manual's information is most likely on the same page. The process is a little tricky, so it may require 2 or 3 attempts to get it to work.

There is a wealth of helpful information in your Owner's Manual. :idea:

 

As I approach the car from the back, I'll touch the trunk latch and that will unlock all doors. You can touch it enough to trigger the smart key 'unlock all doors', without actually opening the hatch.

 

My 2005 Prius doors open when I grab the front passenger door.

--Hilore
--Palm Springs, CA

 

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I second that, just go to the index of the manual, it takes you right to the section you want. It tells you the instruction to change the unlock modes.

 

The remote unlock mode can be changed, but the dealer has to do it.

 

:idea: If you want the remote to open *ALL* doors, click the "Unlock" button TWICE with a 2-second pause between clicks. I do this when my wife reaches the car before I do so she can enter sooner. [Makes me a *HERO" 0r "Gentleman" ] For me this works from as far as ~25' away, even through the Living Room window.

 

i don't wait two seconds between clicks, just two pretty quick (about half a second). and you notice when it works cause the beep will be different.

 

My '05 doesn't beep when I unlock/ lock the doors with the remote. However the parking lights and rear lights blink. One press for driver door lignts blink once or twice and two quick presses for all doors and the lights blink I think 4 times.

I have to dig in the manual and check this out. Maybe I disabled the beep when I turned off the reverse beep' because I did it only after having the car a few days...still cant remember a lock/unlock beep So I don;t think this did it.

Probably just set up this way from the factory

-Al

 

well mine beeps and flashes lights. i think it's two and four, but i usually let the smartkey system unlock for me so i can't remember for sure. i did not turn off reverse beep (and probably won't, not in reverse much). prii was delivered in late june '05.

 

If you don't have SKS, you don't get auditory answer-back. I have no idea why Toyota decided not to install the outside buzzer for non-SKS packages.

 

Success! I have now reprogrammed my key fob, following the instructions in the 2005 owners' manual. When I touch either of the front door handles, with the key fob in my pocket, all the car's doors unlock.

This is very handy for people with kids.

 

This section has been bumped up a page to p. 31 in the 2005 Owner's Manual.

 

Slight technical observation, however you haven't reprogrammed the fob, but have changed the behavior of the body ECU to a different unlock program. The fobs are dumb, with SKS they respond to a query from the vehicle when they are nearby to verfiy their presence and allow the vehicle to unlock with a handle touch and to boot the vehicle when the power button is pressed. They also transmit unlock, lock and panic commands to the vehicle when you use the buttons on the fob. Beyond that, you can't actually program them, they are a fixed entity with fixed functionality.

 

You can program the Prius to unlock all the doors with one push on the fob. But you need top take it to a dealer to change the Customize feature. I recently did that for a local member.

 

Thanks again Rick!

 

No problem,Chase. Glad to be of help. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns, :wink: .