Car Stereo / Touch Pro combinations...

[sp0nge]

Originally Posted by theroyalwe

I too have a P7000BT... I just installed it this weekend. For some reason my phonebook is not uploading to the receiver. is there something I need to turn on inside the phone?

I don't mind too much cause I've just been using the voicecommand to dial, but it would be nice to have just in case.

I'll check it out, mine went right over. Maybe file sharing has to be turned on?

[theroyalwe]

Originally Posted by isevilla

To access a number from your phonebook on radio do you have to scroll through them all or do you use voice command?

Just curious as to how people who are able to upload their phonebooks get to access them via their head unit. I cant see anyone having to go through hundreds of contacts to call someone.

if I wanted to dial through the radio I would need to either scroll through them all or search by letter. There are also 9 or so preset numbers that you can program on the P7000BT to make that easier. I still skip all that and just hold the button down on the phone and use voicecommand. there may be a better way, but I'm not worried about it right now.

Maybe once I get a cradle or something for the car it will make a difference, but in my car (Subaru Legacy) the phone fits just fine in front of the shifter. If I were trying to actually look at the phone it may be a different story.

[isevilla]

Originally Posted by theroyalwe

if I wanted to dial through the radio I would need to either scroll through them all or search by letter. There are also 9 or so preset numbers that you can program on the P7000BT to make that easier. I still skip all that and just hold the button down on the phone and use voicecommand. there may be a better way, but I'm not worried about it right now.

Maybe once I get a cradle or something for the car it will make a difference, but in my car (Subaru Legacy) the phone fits just fine in front of the shifter. If I were trying to actually look at the phone it may be a different story.

oh ok thanks for clarifying i thought i was missing out on a feature that my radio doesnt have but it sounds like something i wouldnt miss anyway.

I have my phone in a cradle right in front of me so its no trouble to either voice dial or start call from the unit and i can see whos calling from it too.

thanks again.

[isevilla]

ok here is something interesting i just happen to come across when using the tp and my sony mex-bt2600 stereo.

I used the gps for the first time since getting this new head unit and what i noticed was that the audio from the gps prompts wasnt going through the radio speakers at all. I know with my old stereo i ran the tp with a cassette adapter and it would play the all the phones audio even gps even when i was streaming music from the phone.

There are two different bluetooth source settings on this head unit one is the bt phone which is where you go to make an outgoing phone call and the other is the bt audio where you go to hear your streaming music from phone. Maybe I have to be in bt audio source mode in order to hear phone audio prompts and gps but then i would be able to listen to radio or xm.

is there something i missed or some trick to getting all my audio from phone to go out to the stereo?

any help is greatly appreciated as always!

[mikee4fun]

Well I went with Alpine and their new Parrot BT. In my car with two chamber flow masters with turndown pipes in my SS camaro people can't even tell I am driving in my car. The audio is clear, no echo and the unit pulls in my contacts. I use voice command from the deck with no problems. The a2dp sounds just as clear as my iPod, but I really use the iPod more than everything else.

I got mostly everything from crutchfield but wow what a nice Apline sound. I pulled out from Pioneer do to the lack of auto eq, and multi band eq's.

Spec of what I deployed

iDA-X100 retail $400us I got mine for 120 bucks new from a local retailer. New unit on the block is the iDA-X305 retails for $350us

CE-400BT
Bluetooth® Interface Module, Powered by Parrot Retails for $180us but you can get it crutchfield for $149us http://www.crutchfield.com/p_500KCE4...arch=KCE-400BT

I did pair it up with a TUA-T550HD
HD Radio Tuner Box and PXA-H100 IMPRINT Audio Processor

Bottom line is the Parrot box seems to work really well. I am not sure if Sony or Pioneer are offering that as an outboard option yet.

[mikee4fun]

Originally Posted by isevilla

ok here is something interesting i just happen to come across when using the tp and my sony mex-bt2600 stereo.

I used the gps for the first time since getting this new head unit and what i noticed was that the audio from the gps prompts wasnt going through the radio speakers at all. I know with my old stereo i ran the tp with a cassette adapter and it would play the all the phones audio even gps even when i was streaming music from the phone.

There are two different bluetooth source settings on this head unit one is the bt phone which is where you go to make an outgoing phone call and the other is the bt audio where you go to hear your streaming music from phone. Maybe I have to be in bt audio source mode in order to hear phone audio prompts and gps but then i would be able to listen to radio or xm.

is there something i missed or some trick to getting all my audio from phone to go out to the stereo?

any help is greatly appreciated as always!

Make sure your phone is not on vibrate or silent. I have run into this before. I too notice I have two audio gateways open when connected to my setup. TT7 and Garmin XT works just fine on mine.

[isevilla]

Originally Posted by mikee4fun

Make sure your phone is not on vibrate or silent. I have run into this before. I too notice I have two audio gateways open when connected to my setup. TT7 and Garmin XT works just fine on mine.

Thanks for the suggestion but no the phone wasnt on vibrate or silent.

I think that the sony head unit separates the gateways and you have to run one or the other but not both at the same time. I see two icons at the top bar of the phone. One is headphone looking one and the other is the bluetooth. The head unit has three icons on at the same time a bluethooth, handsfree phone, and an audio.

Who knows I will just have to mess around some more and see what happens.

Thanks anyway!

[stevenmh]

Finally got around to getting an MEX-BT2700 and getting it installed. It's great. I haven't had any problems with the mic like the reviews for the BT2600 seemed to have. Loving the audio streaming, used it for Audible books and Sprint Nav so far.

[stevenmh]

Originally Posted by isevilla

Maybe I have to be in bt audio source mode in order to hear phone audio prompts and gps but then i would be able to listen to radio or xm.

is there something i missed or some trick to getting all my audio from phone to go out to the stereo?

This is correct... any audio other than phone calls you must be in BT Audio mode. And it will play all audio in that mode... i.e. you can stream internet radio, minimize it, and then turn on Sprint NAV, and you'll hear nav prompts over top of the music. But you will not be able to listen to CD, tuner, aux, etc. and get anything out of the phone other than calls. But I don't see how you could have done that with the cassette adapter either.

[stevenmh]

Originally Posted by isevilla

I think that the sony head unit separates the gateways and you have to run one or the other but not both at the same time. I see two icons at the top bar of the phone. One is headphone looking one and the other is the bluetooth. The head unit has three icons on at the same time a bluethooth, handsfree phone, and an audio.

It is correct that it separates the gateways, but you can run them both at the same time. Once the BT Phone connection is made, you can go into BT Audio, hit the button to get it to connect for streaming, and yes you'll have all 3 icons lit at once. You can listen to whatever you want from your phone, and when a call comes in the streaming audio will be muted to take the call, and resume when the call is over.