Just got this email! Dear Toyota Owner, Thank you for your recent purchase of a new 2012 Toyota. We hope you are enjoying all of the great features and functions in your new vehicle, especially Toyota's revolutionary new multimedia system– Entune®! We are very pleased to announce that in the coming weeks, you will be receiving an upgrade for your Entune system. This upgrade will be delivered at no cost to you and will provide three new applications for your Entune equipped vehicle: iHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com™ and OpenTable®. In addition, the upgrade will add voice recognition capability for all of your Entune apps, making the use of Entune easier than ever! This Entune upgrade will be delivered to you via US Mail on a USB memory stick (flash drive.) In case you are not familiar with these devices, a USB memory stick is a computer memory device that will be preloaded with the Entune software. You will need to follow the simple instructions that will be included with the package to complete the upgrade and the entire process should take around five minutes. The USB memory stick will be arriving in your mailbox in the next few weeks. It will be in an envelope that is clearly labeled "Your Entune Update is Enclosed". Please be on the lookout for it and be careful not to discard it as junk mail. The Entune upgrade will also be delivered to your smartphone app. You may see the new applications on your smartphone before you receive the USB memory stick in the mail. Please be aware that the new apps will not work until you have installed the upgrade from the memory stick into your vehicle's multimedia system using your Toyota's USB port. Thank you again for your purchase and we hope you enjoy the new capabilities of your upgraded Entune system. Sincerely, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A, Inc. Wow more voice commands! Just think as time goes on what more improvements entune will have for us! Thank you Toyota!!!
The benefit for the Pandora on Entune is that you can skip tracks and thumps down and up while you drive so you don't look for the phone and all of that to do it. For me I love it! I don't brake laws and risk an accident searching for my phone and messing with it. I personally have been impressed with Entune. Its very cool to be able to speak your POI on popular or go through bing and find anything. Also another feature i love is voice commands to find tracks or artist you want to hear.
You're missing a subtle point. Yes you can stream audio from any app on your phone (including Pandora), but you then only have basic functions at your fingertips. You can skip a track or change the volume, that's it. If you use the Entune Pandora App instead, you can thumb up/down songs and choose different Pandora stations. It's debatable whether keeping your eyes on the Toyota Display screen is any better than keeping them on your phone to do these actions, but in some states it is illegal to use your phone so the Display Screen option is necessary if you want more than just the basic skip function.
OK I am warming up to this Entune. AFter doig the regular NAV we've had for so many years and cars, this ol' dog was NOT liking the new tricks. After having my own PHEV with Entune for 2 months and 6,000 miles, I'm getting pretty good at the Entune and its follies! I rather appreciate a lot of things about it, especially music related and phone related. The NAV still can frustrate me... it's not terribly intuitive and isn't as user friendly as the last one.... but every change has its ups n downs.
I still don't think you can just say something like "Go Home". I would think you would have the ability to say any name on your Address list and it would ask you if this is where you want to go. But, you have the ability to verbally enter in the address. Go figure! Another pet peeve ... if you are using the browse function to find a song/artist/album and if for instance you select the "TUV" tab, it should show you a list that starts with a "T" at the top of the screen. It doesn't ... the first "T" may be in the middle of the screen.
If you hit the voice button it should also give you a list of commands. One of the side-effects of Apple's Siri marketing is that people expect all voice recognition systems to be of that "natural spoken language" variety. The reality is that almost every other voice recognition system is like Toyota's where you have a list of commands and they can only be activated in one (maybe two) precise ways. I'm sure in 10 years our cars will use natural language voice recognition and Apple will have moved on to thought-recognition
Is anyone having an issue with getting the entune data to transmit over bluetooth. I updated my entune system and also updated the entune app on my verizon iPhone to the latest releases as of 7/18/2012. Music and phone work over bluetooth, but no BING, Weather, pandora, traffic or other apps. I also tried with and without tethering (via jailbreak). Data transmits when I plug the phone into the car, but not over bluetooth like prior to the update.
Is there anyone who has this thing work without using the Entune Iphone App? I believe I'm using the Latest update of Entune in the Nav. The Apps thing is ridiculously slow. I'm not impressed at all. Does the original Entune software with the tethering work faster?
Yes, the entune system does not seem to be intuitive (perhaps Toyota needs to have Apple write the software). We did however get a manual with the Prius C specifically for the Entune system. Our problem at first was that we hadn't put a country in when we put in the address. Really, a country! But it is working through the bluetooth and we do have the iphone4. So odd that yours is not working. They really need to trash the entune navi and start over with something entirely different.
The first time I had Entune Nav guiding me at the same time as the bluetooth phone call I was on, ie talking against each other, I was shocked. Intuitive, no, that's not Entune. But, there are things very cool about it. And, there are things VERY aggravating about it too! I agree that the screen display with the ugly battleship gray background is awful looking. So's the bright lime green. Makes me miss the old system display a bunch. Also the new POI icons? Thumbs down. They loook OLD like so 90's on an old Nav system.
Opps, you are all right. The entune is not compatable with the iphone through the bluetooth system. You have to use the USB port. Not a very friendly system at all. I hope Toyota pulls it together on this one!
Soooo....any thoughts or predictions on how the IPhone 5 (supposed announcement of release tomorrow) will work with Entunes? I currently have a very old, cracked screen 3g and I'm so excited for a new phone. My only concern is Entunes - so far, I've had zero issues, period. Everything works as described and my only dislike is the auto music start when I connect the phone via USB. Wonder if there will be another Entunes update pushed out after the iPhone 5 goes live?
I wouldn't think there would be a specific upgrade to Entune for the iPhone 5. It's not going to bring anything special to the table as far as Entune goes. We will see later today!
