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Get Your Verizon Bluetooth Phone Working with Prius
A friend of mine gave me a set of instructions for getting your Verizon Wireless phone with Bluetooth to work with Prius. I have included them below. PDA Only Instructions:
First, I used a Bluetooth-capable HP/Compaq iPAQ PDA. It really shouldn't matter what you use, so long as it's using a similar Pocket PC OS.
1) On the PDA, go to Settings, System, Regional Settings. Select "English (Zimbabwe)". No kidding. This is required to keep the phone numbers you add to Contacts from being formatted with special characters that the Prius phonebook can't handle.
2) Now go to "Contacts" on the PDA and click "New".
3) There will be a down arrow at the end of the line where you enter 'Name'. Click it.
4) In the popup box, type your ENTIRE contact name into the "First" name block. For planning purposes, the entire name will be shown in the phone book detail, but only 9 characters of it will be shown in the phone book summary. The Prius will simply truncate the summary at 9 characters. Click the background when you are completed.
5) Scroll way down to "Radio tel:" and enter the corresponding phone number, without dashes or parentheses. US ENTRIES: DO NOT precede any entries with a '1'. Just enter the 10-digit number, including the area code, even if it is for your neighbor. This is so the name of the caller will appear on the MFD if the caller is in your phone book. If in doubt or outside the USA, look at your received calls log on your cell phone to see how phone numbers must be represented to be recognized on incoming calls. This should leave you with an unformatted number like 2345678901. Click 'OK'
6) Once all entries are complete, go to the car with your phone and PDA. Once in the car, turn the power on, and wait for the phone and car to get a successful Bluetooth connection.
7) Press the "Info" button on the MFD, then the "Telephone" button, then "Settings". Hit the down arrow to get to the second page of settings.
8) On the PDA, open the Contacts screen.
9) Select "Start Transfer" on the Prius MFD.
10) Select 'Add' if asked.
11) Click-hold the contact name you would like to transfer on the PDA, then select "Send via Bluetooth" from the resulting menu.
12) Select the HANDS FREE Bluetooth device and OK.
13) Enter your passkey (1212) and OK.
14) The transfer should occur.
15) Once the transfer completes, wait at least 6 seconds before repeating. If you get a failure, you tried too quick -- simply try again.
Repeat step 9-15 for every contact you would like to transfer. Make sure you select 'Add' when asked.
It took me about a "minute a number" to key 27 phone numbers into the PDA, then 15 more minutes to transfer those numbers into the car. So, the time investment in minutes is roughly 1-1/2 times the number of entries you wish to transfer, or about 40 entries an hour using this method.
Don't forget to delete the contacts if you borrowed the PDA, and don't forget to undo the "English (Zimbabwe)" setting on the PDA when you are complete! Using a laptop This information came from the moxproject. They have a word document with some useful screen shots and the following original text.
Instructions for uploading phonebook entries from a Bluetooth enabled laptop to a 2005 Prius.
Aug 3, 2005
Download and print the two sets of excellent instructions at PriusChat. The first one (BT transfer instr.doc) has screen shots and the second one (Bluetooth contacts transfer.txt) is a short text instructions. The following is based on what I learned from these.
I had previously (using a borrowed phone) tried to follow the detailed instructions of BT transfer instr.doc. That enabled the laptop to be setup to connect with the car (1st 6 screens of BT transfer instr.doc). However, it did not seem to want to then transfer the phonebook entries. However, after having setup the laptop (I followed instructions as far as I could -at least 1st 6 screens), I followed the shorter text instructions (Bluetooth contacts transfer.txt) and that has worked every time. These instructions worked on the borrowed phone and then with my new Verizon E815 today. The following is my “recipe.” (I have bolded what I consider to be the essential steps.)
One Time only:
a. If the laptop is not already Bluetooth enabled (mine was not), purchase and install a USB Bluetooth adapter. (I purchased an inexpensive, generic [$15.99, including shipping] one. The company I purchased mine from [3btech.net] doesn’t seem to have them today. However, searching for “Bluetooth usb” at pricewatch.com, shows the one I have (“3Net (Networking) 11WB-1101” from Newegg) for $18. I would not hesitate to get another one that I see on Pricewatch for $14.)
b. One time, set up the laptop by following the instructions in BT transfer instr.doc (see above). With a default setup (on Windows XP) you should have an entry in “My Bluetooth Places” that says “HANDS FREE” and looks something like this:
Each time you want to add entries to the phonebook in the Prius, do the following:
c. Add the desired entries (names and phone numbers) to the Microsoft Outlook Express address book on the laptop. (You can do this inside, away from the car.) I keep a separate address book folder since you need to have an abbreviated name (9 characters max) along with the phone number. The phone number should just be 10 digits, no spaces, dashes or anything.
d. Take the laptop to the car (car “Off”). Open Outlook Express to the address book that contains the desired entries you want to upload to the Prius. (When you are actually ready to transfer the desired entries and in the car, you will only have a short time (about 20 seconds) after the car is ready for the transfer to send them from the device (laptop in this case).)
e. With the already paired Bluetooth enabled phone with you, turn on the car (press the Power button). After the car finds the cell phone, navigate to the telephone settings screen (Info-Telephone-Settings). Scroll down and press the Start Transfer button on the screen. The screen will say Transfer Phone Book, Select transfer method. Press the “Add” button.
f. From the laptop, select the desired phonebook entries and send the entries to HANDS FREE like this:
g. A “balloon” should pop up from the Bluetooth icon in the laptop system tray should do this:
Click in the center of the “balloon.”
h. The following should appear on the laptop:
i. Type in the Prius telephone pin (by default 1212) and the transfer should proceed quickly. (Note, multiple entries can be added at a time, just select several. My example in step 2d shows 3 of them. As a test, I actually uploaded these example entries). The Prius screen should go back to the Settings screen. At this point you have just transferred the desired entries to the Prius phonebook.
The above sounds harder than it is. After you have purchased the Bluetooth adapter, performed the onetime setup of the laptop (Steps 1) above, the items in Step 2 seem quite natural. Basically, A) you add the desired entries to the laptop (similar step to adding some new entries to a cell phone), B) Take the laptop to the car and open Outlook Express to your added entries (similar to “get your phone ready for the transfer”), and C) Perform the transfer with the car about as you would had to do from a phone.
If something goes wrong, like you have a problem with the laptop (such as the Prius times out because the laptop is not ready-remember you only have about 20 seconds for steps 2d-2g, or as happened to me once today, I forgot to put the Bluetooth dongle on the laptop), don’t worry. But, I had to cycle the car (press the Power button to turn it off and then back again). And then repeat steps 2c-2g.
Finally, you may want to transfer these new entries to the (17 available) 1-Touch locations so these entries will be available as the car is moving. Simply press Set 1-Touch from the Prius settings screen. It will open the phone book, then you select your desired (possibly new) entries one at a time and then the 1-Touch screen will open. Scroll down to one that says “EMPTY” (or make room by deleting some entries, if necessary), and select one of the 17 1-Touch entries.
Method for pairing the Motorola E815 phone:
With the phone on, ensure that Bluetooth is turned on: Menu-Settings-Connection-Bluetooth-Setup-BluetoothOn.
Turn the car to Acc. Pres Info-Telephone-Settings-Add Phone
From the Phone, go to Menu-Settings-Connection-Bluetooth-hands free-search for devices
The phone should scan and recognize the car. Then it will ask do you want to Bond? Press OK. It will ask for the pin. Enter 1212.
The phone should save the pin and the car should recognize the phone and connect.
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