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Prius v CD & bluetooth audio unpause when car is started or phone call ends

Discussion in 'Prius v Audio and Electronics' started by rhvh2000, Apr 2, 2012.

  1. rhvh2000

    rhvh2000 Junior Member

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    I've got the Prius v with nav system. The audio system displays the following (undesired) behaviors:

    When there is a CD in the player (and on "pause"):
    - If turn off the car and restart it, the CD starts playing
    - When I end a phone call the CD starts playing

    Alternatively, if the last thing I was listening to was bluetooth audio (on my android phone):
    - when turn off the car and restart it, the bluetooth audio starts playing
    - When I end a phone call the bluetooth audio starts playing
    To make matters worse, the audio that starts playing isn't always the last track I was listening to. Sometimes it will make a seemingly random selection from my audio tracks.

    I took the car into the Toyota dealer yesterday for its 5,000 mile service and asked them to look into this problem. Their response: "when the car is shut down it 'defeats' the pause function. In other words this is expected behavior."

    Do others experience this behavior? It seems crazy to me. Just one example of why it is wrong: my wife is listening to an audiobook on CD. She "pauses" it before she parks the car. I'm the next driver, and her audiobook automatically starts where she left off when I turn on the car. I'm hearing something I have no interest in, and she loses her place in the book.

    Is this a design flaw or am I missing something?
     
    #1 rhvh2000, Apr 2, 2012
  2. pdp

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    As an engineer, it sounds like that was just the way it was designed. Whether it's a flaw or not depends on how a user expects behavior. To you it's a flaw, to someone else, it could be the behavior they want. With your example of the audio book, if it wasn't two people taking turns driving a car, and only one sole driver, I can see why that person would just want the audio book to continue where it left off. It's a coin toss, and the engineers, unfortunately, decided to make it do what you don't want.

    Anyway, can anything be done about it? Most likely not. The Entunes portion of the audio system (if you have it) I know can be updated pretty easily, but I highly doubt this type of base functionality can be updated.
     
    #2 pdp, Apr 5, 2012
  3. anewhouse

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    My v3 acts the same way. No ideas on how to change the car, but a potential suggestion regarding the audiobook example: Could your wife put her audiobooks on a USB drive, and play them from that? Then you could just switch the mode if you want to listen to something else, and (theoretically) when it's switched back to USB mode it should pick up where she left off. Would that help?
    Andy
     
    #3 anewhouse, Apr 10, 2012
  4. gabrie

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    V3 I behave the same way. No idea on how to change the car, but advice on the potential audiobook example: your wife can put audio books on a USB drive and play them from this? Then you can change the mode if you want to hear something different, and (theoretically) when the switch to USB mode should pick up where he left off. I want to help? :cheer2:
     
    #4 gabrie, Apr 11, 2012
  5. jon_lancaster_toyota

    jon_lancaster_toyota Nate Riesen

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    These are all normal behaviors.

    To solve the trouble that you have with the Bluetooth audio and the cd playing when you start the car, you might considering turning the power for the stereo off before you turn the car off. Just press the top right stereo control knob. You'll still get your phone calls. Hit power on the stereo she you're ready to listen again.

    Mute works the same on your Prius as it does on your television for example. Press mute then turn the TV off. Now turn it back on, you'll have volume just as you had before pressing mute and turning the tv off.

    Your droid is responsible for pressing play after that phone call. Put a set of headphones on and listen to some music right from the phone. now take a call, as soon as the call
    is Terminated your phone's MP3 player starts playing music again.
    The Prius is just a Bluetooth wireless headset in regards to Bluetooth audio and phone calls.
     
    #5 jon_lancaster_toyota, Apr 12, 2012
  6. Quentin

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    I would be annoyed to no end if the music didn't automatically start playing. That is the beauty of bluetooth streaming. You get in the car, power on, and go. No fiddling with the stereo. I echo the advice to turn the radio completely off if you don't want it to automatically start.
     
    #6 Quentin, Apr 15, 2012
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