Problem with Prius telephone

Suggestion

Try rebooting the cell phone. Sometimes my Prius does not connect with the cellphone the 2nd or 3rd time that day If I turn the cellphone off and back on, the Bluetooth connection will get made.

So it may have nothing to do with the 2 phones. Or it might.

 

Bluetooth

RTFS.
Bluetooth will only manage one phone at a time--that's why there are multiple profiles. Once you set up the profile you have to tell your phone to automatically seek it for sync-up. At least, that's what I have to do.

When I turn the car off and go into the house, it takes about 3 minutes before the phone stops looking for the HandsFree of the car. The profile should be stored in your phone when you set it up--this is something you have to accomplish on the phone.

When you connect a profile from HandsFree, that profile will become the active profile. You need to tell HandsFree you've got a different phone should you change it. The Prius does alot of things, but it doesn't read minds. Lucky for some of us, too...

Finally, different phones have different Bluetooth features. Check the compatibility listing provided by Toyota:

http://toyota.letstalk.com/brands/toyota-bt/home.htm

hope this helps.

 

Based on your description, I would suggestion you check the following:

(1) If you had both phones present inside Prius on start-up, and it failed to link with phone1 but OK with phone2, then...
-> make sure the Bluetooth of Phone1 is turned on by default, and auto-connect is on also.
-> if it still does not work, try delete the profile of Phone1 in Prius and re-establish the setup again.

(2) If you had only phone2 inside Prius, then it is normal. Prius tries to look for Phone1 but it is no where to be found. So, it went down the list to try the next phone to connect (phone2 in this case). Prius remembers this connection, and it will try phone2 first on the next start-up.

I hope this help. If all in vain, your phone1 might have problem with Bluetooth.

 

Solution

saluppp,

The bluetooth phone system in the prius only recognizes one phone at a time, the one YOU select. Since you entered the 2nd phone last, that is the one selected by the system. You need to use the display screen, go thru the various telephone screens until you get to the screen that displays both phones. One is highlighted and one is not. The one highlighted is the current selected phone that is connected to the bluetooth system. Just select the other phone symbol to highlight it if you want it to be the bluetooth phone for the prius.