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2005 Prius with unlocked Treo 650
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| Hi everyone,
I just purchased the Treo 650 thinking that it was going to work
swimmingly with all of it's features in and out of my car --- ooops...
my 2005 Toyota Prius doesn't seem to want to talk with the phone?!?! I
know there was a Palm patch about 6 mos. ago, but my phone is up to
date according to the site. Can anyone suggest a solution, or at least
a glimmer of hope!
One reason I bought this phone was it's Bluetooth capability - and now
I'm a bit disappointed to say the least. AND where I bought the phone,
no refunds unless it is defective - J&R in NYC.
Help?!
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| mindesign 2006-01-18, 5:48 pm |
| try and describe the fault - do they see each other but won't talk or what?
"Rich" < jazzersaxman@hotmail
.com> wrote in message
news:1137512429.061733.269050@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just purchased the Treo 650 thinking that it was going to work
> swimmingly with all of it's features in and out of my car --- ooops...
> my 2005 Toyota Prius doesn't seem to want to talk with the phone?!?! I
> know there was a Palm patch about 6 mos. ago, but my phone is up to
> date according to the site. Can anyone suggest a solution, or at least
> a glimmer of hope!
>
> One reason I bought this phone was it's Bluetooth capability - and now
> I'm a bit disappointed to say the least. AND where I bought the phone,
> no refunds unless it is defective - J&R in NYC.
>
> Help?!
>
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| Initially when I tried to pair the car and the phone, I followed the
regular instructions for the car by having the car wait and the phone
send/look for my bluetooth device. Once it found my car, I selected it
on the phone, entered in the passkey and waited...the phone said it
paired, but the car was still waiting to connect. I tried to place a
call to see if it worked, and then the phone paired up and said it was
"talking."
But, here is the problem. When I went driving later in the day, my
phone was on, and I started my car, and the phone kept trying to
connect with the car and vice versa. No connection. This dropped
search process kept repeating until I finally turned off the BT on the
phone, because after about 10min of search,drop, search, drop - off it
went.
I have been reading on many groups that because the Treo is BT1.1 (I
found out after fact) the Prius will not be compatible. But it is a
brand new phone! Only 4 days old. I don't know of a way to "upgrade"
the BT to 1.2 which is supposed to be a software-only change that will
allow the Prius to work ok.
Any ideas?
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"Rich" < jazzersaxman@hotmail
.com> wrote in message
news:1137680112.867375.273450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Initially when I tried to pair the car and the phone, I followed the
> regular instructions for the car by having the car wait and the phone
> send/look for my bluetooth device. Once it found my car, I selected it
> on the phone, entered in the passkey and waited...the phone said it
> paired, but the car was still waiting to connect. I tried to place a
> call to see if it worked, and then the phone paired up and said it was
> "talking."
>
> But, here is the problem. When I went driving later in the day, my
> phone was on, and I started my car, and the phone kept trying to
> connect with the car and vice versa. No connection. This dropped
> search process kept repeating until I finally turned off the BT on the
> phone, because after about 10min of search,drop, search, drop - off it
> went.
>
> I have been reading on many groups that because the Treo is BT1.1 (I
> found out after fact) the Prius will not be compatible. But it is a
> brand new phone! Only 4 days old. I don't know of a way to "upgrade"
> the BT to 1.2 which is supposed to be a software-only change that will
> allow the Prius to work ok.
>
> Any ideas?
>
BT 1.2 is suposed to be fully backwards compatible with BT 1.1
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| Bob the Printer 2006-01-21, 2:48 am |
| Have you tried pairing the Prius (where did they ever come up with THAT
name?) with a regular bluetooth headset? I would try that and if THAT
doesn't work, then there's apparently something wrong with the Prius
(besides the fact that it's a Japanese rice burner)...
Whether it's BT 1.1 or 1.2 shouldn't have any effect on the pairing and
normal operation.
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