I must be doing something right here....So I am driving to work this morning and have the map display on my unit. I see the traffic info ( red for high traffic and green for low traffic) on the freeway I am driving on my HDD unit. I have no subscribed to XM Traffic or anything but is the hdd unit talking to Google maps through my BT connected iPHONE? else how is it showing the traffic..
When did you purchase your car? If I'm not mistaken you get a free 6 month trial of XM on a new car. Could it be?
Funny thing is while coming back home it did not work.. I will try in the next few days and see if works again. Mine is a used Prius which I got 4 weeks back but has been on the road since April 2012.
Okay this morning it worked great. I set my office address as the destination and I think thats why it worked. Last evening I did not put my home address as destination so even though I see the map and my car location on the map there was no real guided navigation. I have attached pictured .. Guided navigation is from Stevenson Ranch to Glendale in Los Angeles .. I am on I-5 south towards LA. The first picture shows YELLOW arrow for slow traffic going south. The Green arrow points clear traffic on I-5 north .. The second picture even has slow traffic depicted with a set of cars in a yellow block. The lady announced a couple of times "slow traffic 2 miles ahead". I take the Western exit for work but its closed for traffic since yesterday. So even though my office is close to Western ave , it routed me to Alameda exit which was cool. There are signs on freeway since yesterday that folks going to Western should take Alameda detour...and the HDD navigation knew that.... This is cool..I have no idea how it works. I checked with XM and they said my radio id has no active XM subscription at all.
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I'm a Gen 3 guy, so take this with a grain of salt. I've paired my smartphone to my headunit, and I still have my XM trial. I turn bluetooth off on my phone, and I don't get traffic. I turn the bluetooth back on. I get traffic. So, my guess it's using the Bluetooth for the dataconnection.
Driving back home the lady warned -"stop and go traffic in 2 miles". Guess what in 2 miles, I encounter stop and go traffic. I'm luving it
I checked with XM on that and they said Toyota has not mentioned anything about 36 months free XM on my car. First usage of car was on Apr 2 , 2012.
Here's some further testing. You need the toyota Entune App loaded on your smart phone. I had removed the application from my phone a week ago. Today I went to the "Traffic Messages" button, and it said it "couldn't connect to toyota Entune, make sure it's running on my phone". So you need Entune, Bluetooth, and a smartphone.
Look at your original documentation it should say 36 months free data. It's standard with ALL entune capable headunits from toyota. Look here: Toyota - Entune then click on "pricing" under the "What is Entune?" section Also I've had my car about two weeks less than yours and went through the same issue. My data was turned off after the trial sat music expired. Eventually I got my data turned back on and the apps work fine again. Here's a thread about it: LOL just when I thought the nav was as useless as it could get | PriusChat
Finally got all XM data services working including Entune apps like Pandora, XMWeather etc. However the XM sports and stocks still say it requires XM service (not sure why). Everything else like traffix, xmweather is working fine..
