I have package 6, which includes Bluetooth-based hands-free telephony.
cannot perform the phonebook transfer to the car. My phone is a
Motorola Razor V710 and does not seem to be able to do this. Can anyone
confirm this? Also, there does not seem to be any way to manually enter
numbers into the phone book' it's Bluetooth transfer or nothing. Is
this the experience of others?
--Greg
Option package 6? Stating an option package number doesn't tell us
much. For the US, the 2004 Prius had 9 option packages, the 2005 had
6, and the 2006 has 8. That, and each region likes to renumber the
packages (so option package #4 in New England could be the US package
#9 for 2004 or something like that...). It is much easier to
understand you if you stated the option package code. (2004 #6 was
package BI, 2005 #6 is BC, 2006 #6 is HK.)
as for the Motorola RAZR, you can get a guide for it here:
http://toyota.letstalk.com/bluetooth/toyota/v3razr_bt.pdf
However, if you have the V710 from Verizon, note that it has mostly
been crippled and cannot do transfers...
If you have the newer Bluetooth system in the 2006 Prius, you can
manually edit the phone book. This is a new feature for the 2006.
Bill - 22 Jan 2006 18:22 GMT
> If you have the newer Bluetooth system in the 2006 Prius, you can
> manually edit the phone book. This is a new feature for the 2006.
Does the 2006 also facilitate batch transfers?
kari - 23 Jan 2006 04:09 GMT
With my old Sony/Ericsson T610, I can transfer the whole book as a batch to
my 2006, so my guess is that if your phone can send batch transfers, the
Prius can accept them.
Kari
>> If you have the newer Bluetooth system in the 2006 Prius, you can
>> manually edit the phone book. This is a new feature for the 2006.
>>
> Does the 2006 also facilitate batch transfers?
Bill - 23 Jan 2006 05:05 GMT
> With my old Sony/Ericsson T610, I can transfer the whole book as a batch
> to my 2006, so my guess is that if your phone can send batch transfers,
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>>>
>> Does the 2006 also facilitate batch transfers?
That's the first batch transfer I've hear of. I wonder if there is a
firmware upgrade for the 2005.
mrv@kluge.net - 23 Jan 2006 15:03 GMT
Yeah, the Sony Ericsson models typically can upload the entire
phonebook at once. The Nokia models typically can only do one contact
transfer at a time. The Verizon phones are notorious for not being
able to transfer anything at all. It's a function of the phone, not of
the car's system.
(My husband tried the phonebook transfer with his Sony Ericsson T68i,
but the problem is that the car only takes the first number for a name,
so that could be a fax number or someone's emergency cell number or...
and not the one that you want. It was too much work for him to
rearrange his phonebook as John Doe - H and John Doe -W, so if he needs
to call someone he just uses his phone (deleted the phone book on the
Prius).)
-mrv
2001 US Aqua Ice
2004 US Black BC Pioneer
Michelle Steiner - 24 Jan 2006 06:00 GMT
> > If you have the newer Bluetooth system in the 2006 Prius, you can
> > manually edit the phone book. This is a new feature for the 2006.
> >
> Does the 2006 also facilitate batch transfers?
That is strictly a function of the phone, not of the car.

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Mr. Skeptic - 24 Jan 2006 01:13 GMT
yes, sorry. It was package 6 on the 2005, but I forget the code. My
V710 is for CIngular. The bottom line from my experiments, and from
other replies, is that I'm out of luck.
It is disapointing that I cannot even manually enter phone book
entries. I'll complain to my dealer.
B. Peg - 24 Jan 2006 01:38 GMT
> "Mr. Skeptic" wrote:
> yes, sorry. It was package 6 on the 2005, but I forget the code. My
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> It is disapointing that I cannot even manually enter phone book
> entries. I'll complain to my dealer.
Seems every time a question arises about the phonebook and Prius it involves
Verizon. Then, if you search long enough, you'll find the "Verizon is
re-thinking it policy regarding Bluetooth in it's phones" responses.
Seems they've (i.e. Verizon) has been thinking about it for far too long....
B~
Michelle Steiner - 24 Jan 2006 05:59 GMT
> > It is disapointing that I cannot even manually enter phone book
> > entries. I'll complain to my dealer.
>
> Seems every time a question arises about the phonebook and Prius it
> involves Verizon.
The only problem I've seen involving Verizon is that the phone book
can't be transferred to the car.

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Glenn Shaw - 25 Jan 2006 02:01 GMT
Michelle Steiner wrote in alt.autos.toyota.prius:
>> Seems every time a question arises about the phonebook and Prius it
>> involves Verizon.
>
> The only problem I've seen involving Verizon is that the phone book
> can't be transferred to the car.
That's because Verizon disables the Bluetooth Object Exchange (OBEX)
Profile on all of their Bluetooth devices in order to steer their
customers over to their pricey data exchange services, AIUI. :/

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