Switched Cell Phones - Won't Connect

Oh well, here we go again. I just switched cell phones (from Motorola 710 to Treo 700) and after deleting the 710 entry on the Prius and then attempting to connect to the 700, entering passkey which agrees with requested passkey on Prius, they will not connect. What I notice is that the Settings screen on the Prius, even after deleting the 710, still shows the Bluetooth address of the old phone. This screen allows me to edit the name of the connection (which currently agrees with the name picked up by the cell phone) and the passkey which agrees with the passkey being entered on the cell phone however there is no CHANGE key available to edit the Bluetooth address. Anybody run into this??

 

I'm an IT guy also and I did the reboot thing and others that you would instinctively do. The oddity here is that there was one point where it appears that I was able to register the new cell phone because it did end up in the settings in the Prius as an entry but it never acknowledged the connection. That's when I decided to remove all settings and start from scratch but I'm still confused by the lingering setting which I know is related to the old cell phone (same bluetooth address). This may be meaningless and I'll try it again this weekend but this whole bluetooth linking process appears to be very unpredictable in its behavior.

Thnaks for the feedback and I'll look throught the other group but I'm not sure I'll find an answer to my specific problem.

 

Just for the record I was finally successful at getting the Treo 700 linked to the Prius. I'm not sure I could repeat the process in the exact same sequence but the trick, which I picked up from a chat group for the Treo, is that you have to make a phone call from the cell phone as soon as the Prius acknowledges the registration of the Treo and it shows when you touch the Select button in the Phone Settings screen. Once I did that everything clicked in and now we are back to normal.

Not scientific but at least it works!!