I have a an 07 GS350. I registered my bluetooth phone and my wife's. I have the Auto Connect option enabled, however, when my wife uses the car she must manually select her phone from the select phone list. I thought auto connect would find the phone and connect it automatically. Am I doing something wrong or is my understanding of autoconnect wrong?
Thanks.
David

 

your car can hold several phones in memory for auto connect.
The thing is it only auto connects to the phone you've selected.
For instance, I have 2 phones. A katana, and a blackberry 8050 or whatever it's called.
If somone calles both my phones at the same time, obviously the car can't answer "both" which is why it only auto connects to the phone you've selected.

If you drive your car monday, and your wife drives the car tuesday, it won't recognize her phone in the car on tuesday, it will try to search for yours, as yours is the one that is selected...until she selects her phone. This is required only once for her phone.. and once for yours... but if you switch often, you'll always have to do it the first time.

now if you select your phone in the morning on monday, and get in and out of the car.... each time it will auto connect to your phone forever, "until" another phone is selected for the first time.

Confusing? sorry if so.
The car can only connect to "one" bluetooth device at any given time...

 

Thanks for the explaination but why is it that my Acura TL can find either my phone or my wife's phone without me having to tell it each time? Same bluetooth technology...

 

Jace, I haven't had any problems auto-connecting multiple phones and I have never had to manually select anything. When my mother in law drives her car, her phone auto-connects and when I drive it, it auto-connects with mine. Same thing with my GS, my wife and I just get in and drive because the car automatically connects to whatever phone is in the car at the time. The only time I have to manually select a phone is when both of our phones are in the car. In those instances, I believe it will connect to whatever phone was last connected.

Most phones have a menu option for automatically connecting to bluetooth peripherals. My Blackberry Pearl, Cingular 8125, and Razr V3i all have this setting and it has to be set to auto. Otherwise it will ask you if you want to connect each and everytime a bluetooth device tries to connect. If you miss the prompt, it will not connect automatically.

 

My wife's phone does not auto connect - I have to specifically switch it over to hers. Although, I've not tried it with just her phone in the car by itself. Usually it's both of us in the car or just me with my phone.

The only other thing I can think of is if both phones have the same "name" so that the bluetooth can pick up either phone... not sure though.

 

we have the same problem on an 06 GS430. you must manually make the selection; the car will only attempt to connect to whichever phone was previously connected. it will do that each time until another phone is manually selected.

2thfixr - can you shed some light on your phones and service provider? maybe that has something to do w/ it? as far as i know the behavior i described above is normal and just another limitation of lexus' bt system (which is behind Acura, etc)

for the record, my husband and i are on cingular and he has a nokia and i have a samsung.

 

The following phones on Cingular

Blackberry Pearl
Blackberry 8700C
Cingular 8125
Razr V3
Razr V3i

I use the Pearl/8125/8700C while my wife and mother in law use the Razrs.

It works flawlessly for me. I gas up my mother in law's ES and it connects. She gets in to drive it and it connects. Same thing with the bluetooth system in our GL450. The only time the both systems get confused is when there are 2 phones in the car at the same time, then it defaults to the phone that was last connected.

 

I have a question for you. I currently have the 8700c, which does not allow you to transfer phone book to the GS. With Pearl you supposedly can transfer the whole phone book in one batch. Have you tried this feature? If so, did it work well?

I'm thinking of copying my phone book to the SIM card, then borrowing my coworker's Pearl to transfer numbers from my SIM card to my car. Do you think it would work, or would I first have to copy everything from my SIM card to his Pearl?

Thanks.

 

Welcome to useless car Bluetooth. Car Company blames the phone provider/service provider, phones company blames the car manufactures. The endless battle over crap. Verizon was sued, paid out a few worthless bucks and business as usual. You will find that the old Cingular phones work the best because those were out before the locking of features took place. You can also buy unlocked phones on e-bay, but they still do not work as well.

Your dealer should have an old Cingular Ericson phone you can put your SIM into to do the transfer.

 

I noticed that option in the Pearl's menu and tried it in my GS but it didn't work. The funny thing is that in my GL450, my 8700C transfers the entire phone book but my Pearl won't do it. The sound quality in the Lexus is far superior to the Mercedes but the Mercedes bluetooth system has less compatibility issues. The Mercedes transfers the phone book every time you get in the car and it takes about 10-15 seconds for 350 numbers. The Lexus requires that you manually transfer once and then it's there for good but it only transfers with a handful of phones. I don't know which is worse. Poor sound quality or having to manually enter your numbers.

I have heard that the Sony/Ericsson phones transfer fine so your best bet would be to buy a cheap phone on ebay or something just to transfer numbers. Think of it as a sync cable.

 

I have an unlocked Sony Ericsson W810i (which was not cheap) that I purchased off the Internet and it works great, including being able to transfer the phonebook in 1 shot.

 

Not sure...
I always have two phones on me. Both mine. And I am also the primary driver of mi coche 99.9% of the time, so in my case, I have to select manually the "other" phone. It recognizes the "last" phone connected and connects to that.
It can't read my mind and just connect to whichever I want.
Wish the car had a 2 line bluetooth option, so it could answer whichever phone I had. Meaning my two phones. But what would it then do if I was on one, then the other rang..... say call waiting on other phone? Interesting.... For me it works fine, b/c I don't switch cars that often between my wife and I. This is my car, and it recognizes my prefered last phone to auto connect to.

I'm still waiting outside Rob. It's a little cold, 14 for a high, -4 for low. On friday, 7 for a high and -5 for low, so anytime would be great... sonner the better.

Well I gtg, have 3 contracts to finish by Friday...... hasta