Voice dial with Motorola V710?

Not an answer to your question, but, does the Bluetooth in the 710 otherwise work with the car?

 

Yes, it works fine. The issues are:

1. No ring (phone or car)
2. No xfer of phone numbers to Prius phonebook
(until fix is issued by Motorola next month).

 

The motorola v710 works great with the Prius. The only problem is getting the phone book from the phone downloaded into the phone book of the car. Also, is there a way to enter phone numbers and names into the phone book of the prius manually??

 

The only way to "manually" enter phone numbers is to call them, or have them call you, and then assign to quick dial. However, that doesn't do you much good, as the numbers disappear when the car is in motion, and you don't have a way to enter names to match the numbers.

Soon the v710 will be updated, hang in there.

 

v710 are you sure there will be an update?

I called Motorola today (or moto as they call themselves) to see when the update would come out. I had heard as soon as the 17th of this month on some boards. The person I talked to said it was not determined if they would release an update. See Motorola choose not to implement the standard method of data transmission in the v710 (or the v600 a GSM phone) I want to believe an update is coming but I am not holding my breath. Oh and one more thing to add that the v710 does not communicate to my prius and that is signal strength.

I have a full address book because I had a sony Ericsson before I got my v710 and I transferred the data. If Motorola does not fix this I may try and sync the prius with my power book. It is so crazy it just might work.

BTW just joined the Forum I am glad it exists I love my prius.

 

Prius phonebook

You can transfer an Outlook Express, or probably any other address book that supports sending to bluetooth, to either of the Prius phonebooks. If your bluetooth phone has a successful connection with the Prius, you can then transfer a phone list from a bluetooth computer/laptop or a bluetooth pda. A few caveats though. The phone numbers cannot be formatted. They need to be in the form 18182225555. If you have several numbers per contact, you will need to make them separate entries and give each one a unique name, eg BobsCell, BobsHome, BobsWork. I could not use my ipaq 4150 pda because the Contacts app insists on formatting the numbers. If you select all, or some, or one contact it can be transferred. Once contacts exist in the phonebook, you are given the opportunity to 'Overwrite' or 'Add' in subsequent transfers. Overwrite replaces the entire phonebook. So editing is basically deleting and adding.

 

I got a response from motorola about the V710

here it is

 Subject

When will you support transferring data over blue tooth. (OBEX) I purchased t...

 

 Discussion Thread

 Response (Kat C.)
08/20/2004 02:03 PM

Dear Mr. Huffman,

Thank you for your recent correspondence with Motorola.

First of all I would like to apologize for all the inconveniences that this issue might have cause you. If I were in your place I would also feel the same way, believe me, that on behalf of Motorola I apologize for all these inconveniences.

We regret to confirm that currently the Motorola V710 phone distributed in North America does not support Mobile Phone Tools over a Bluetooth connection. A solution will be available by November 2004.

We apologize for all the inconvenience this might cause you. We are always working on the enhancement of our products.

Finally, we would like to thank you for taking the time to provide us with feedback via E-mail support team. It is through valuable feedback like yours that we are able to continually improve to better fit our customer´s needs.

For further assistance with the installation and usage of our software applications, we recommend that you contact our Customer Support division at 1-877-331-6456 directly at ext. 2237. Our technical support staff offers assistance with PC or software related issues and will be able to further assist you in your inquiry. Our business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM until 7:00 PM CST.

For information about Motorola products and services, please locate http://www.motorola.com/
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Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to be of service to you.

Best Regards,

 

Thanks for the letter..

You know that people have said well there was very few prius's available for Motorola to have tested and find this problem.
But I would say they r wrong since the lexus models also have this problem so it could of been tested, just shows you that quality control has fallen off drastically.

For the people the phone does work for once connected even though the caller is only on the drivers side door speaker is the sound clear?
And do they hear you clear and loud through the cars mics or do you need to talk up?

Thanks,
Bryan

 

I just got my V710 and am generally very happy. Unlike my previous Sony Ericsson, when I dial a call on the V710, the Prius takes over and I can talk through the Prius.

My main problem is that I don't get a ring of any type, either on the phone or the Prius, when I'm in the car. As soon as I get out, my phone signals that I have Voicemail, and I find that a call came in while I was driving.

Does anyone have a V710 that interfaces with the Prius and gets a ring for incoming calls? If so, did you change any settings to make it happen?

Thanks.

Lou

 

No ring V710

Hi Lou
The V710 definitely has a problem with the ringer. Apparently the ring is disabled when bluetooth connected to the Prius. I think Motorolo expects the Prius to give you an audible alert. It would be nice if the Nav lady said "You have an Incoming Call" . I reported this problem to Motorola and they indicated they are working on a fix. I"m hoping they might give you an option on the phone to enable or disable the ringer with a bluetooth connection . There is also a problem with not being able to send your phonebook from the V710 to the Prius phonebook. I hope they resolve these issues as the phone is really very nice and performs well.
billyb

 

From what I also understand they will also add a fix in the new firmware to raise the earpiece volume level.

Trapperjohn

 

I hope so. I thought I was going deaf.

 

I just integrated my new V710 to the car today. Since the ringer doesn't sound, does the radio at least cut out when there is a call coming in? I noticed when I made a call on it that the radio cut out while I was on the phone. If the radio cuts out when a call comes in, to me that will work for a ringer since the radio is always on (and usually turned up too loud). Or it will work until they fix it.

Also when the fix comes out, how do I get it put on my phone? I'm sort of a cell phone novice.

 

Yep that will work. Unless.... you hit the hang up button rather than the pick up button. Of course if you have practiced this many times that will not happen but don't do that if your wife is calling you with an emergency. This is bad. Kind of like crossing the beams. (100 points to those who get the reference). I will be glad when this is fixed.

 

Who yu gonna call? Ghostbusters! Sort of ironic since we are talking cell phones.

I have the same problem with call waiting on a cell phone. I've hung up on people several times trying to remember which button to press to change callers.

 

Yes, even though you do not get an audible incoming call alert, if you are playing the radio ,tape, or cd, the audio is silenced so you will notice the incoming call message on the screen. That part works ok.
billyb

 

Soon the v710 will be updated, hang in there.[/quote]


How will we know when this will happen? Who knows first? MOtorola? Or Toyota? Or Verizon?

Getting my phonebook into the car is the final thing I need to do to have everything working fine.

Although I would like to be able to use the voice-dial feature of the Motorola 710. That doesn't work for me in the car.

 

I'm still waiting for Verizon to deny any update will happen, and to say that the phone is perfect as-is. Limited Bluetooth is secure bluetooth. That sort of crap.

I'd like to be wrong...

 

My phone is unanswerable from my car. By the time I hit the pick up button people have been shunted to my voice mail and I can't talk to them with out calling them back. Help what is the deal here?