Technology - Remember Boys and Girls, it's here to make our life easier!

[Downeaster]

Had to replace my cell (long, embarrassing story...) and forgot I hadn't paired it to my 2013 Tundra.

Pairing it to my 2020 RAV4 was a piece of cake. Truck, not so much.

Figuring out how to do it in the first place was great fun. The manual gives the steps but fails to mention it's done with voice commands over the audio system, so I wasted 10 minutes pushing buttons. Not horrible once you figure it out, but one of the steps is to "name" your phone. So I went with the obvious: "Paul". Nope, "sounds too much like 'help'". Really? Okay, how about "Truck"? Nope, too close to "cancel" Seriously? In what language?

Between figuring out how to do it in the first place and it's pickiness about the name, I was getting frustrated so the next attempt was "Fuck You". Of course it was fine with that one and the rest of the pairing went smoothly.

So now my phone's name in my truck is "Fuck You"...

 

[jetmechmarty]

 

[gggGary]

Had a bad experience pairing an android with the Transit van. OH the pair up was easy peasy, but a complete C-F to live with. Kept wanting to use the phone instead of it's own GPS. and the constant hand shake, do you want... are you sure? crap every time the key was turned, changing what did what, both phone and truck, was beyond annoying. UN-pairinig it was a bee-itch but finally got it done, whew. The truck connects to wifi so any web stuff, updates can be done directly, in the driveway. The Prius is not so bad with the phone but it's an older simple phone through the speakers interface.

 

[resto]

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Later (DTMF) models came in two tone (dual tone multifrequency)..................................