Any one tried to use USB drive on a 2014.5 Toyota Camry L with Basic Entune Audio Radio?

wheels_r_super

This unit has AUDIO, CAR and SETUP buttons on the left side and this head unit does not show up in the Toyota site as a unit that goes into a 14.5 Camry. They all show HOME as the lower left button???

Question: The steering wheel button for left / right (Folder Selection) in USB mode do not work.
The unit is unable to navagate between folders. The Album tab on the screen is looking for some internal data that does not come from the Folder list. All my Camry's worked proberly in that they can migrate and display folders and play music in the forlder I select. This head unit does not. Same for all USB pen drives that work in both other Camrys - 12 - 13 models.

Anyone else see this problem in the basic head unit, whether it has a SETUP or HOME button in the lower left corner. Toyota Support has not convinced me they understand and are going to fix this in the Oct update.
I'm not even sure they know what unit I have since their site does not show this unit at all.

Thanks!

caengineer

I have the same unit in my 2014.5 LE. I can use the touch screen to navigate USB folders, but the steering wheel buttons are a bit difficult to master (try the center button and up/down). I tried an experiment with all of my mp3 fies in the root directory of the USB stick; this almost works. The Album tab looks at the MP3 tags in the file; there are many free audio tools with MP3 tag editors on the internet.. I have found that "random" does not work "randomly", This may be fallout of my all files in root directory experiment.
My question is this: why don't voice commands work for the radio in the base unit? I can use voice commands for telephone calls and nothing else, it seems.

wheels_r_super

Thanks caengineer - that helps. First what base unit do you have: Home or Setup button in lower left corner of the unit?
My unit works well with voice but only does phone too. My Bose Upgrade unit in the 13 XLS does everything you can immagine but at a high cost for that upgrade.
I have not heard from Toyota on the status of an upgrade to USB software so I will have to BUG them again. I have never had to use a software program to make a Toyota do what it is suppose to do:
Go up between folders (directories) and step back and forth thru music files.
This base unit has all the right buttons, but is really lost and it is not the content of the USB that is messing it up.

Thanks - your answer was worth waiting for.

caengineer

My LE 2014.5 has a Setup button in the lower left hand corner. I have since realized that selecting "random" at the top of the USB lists (by songs) does indeed work, but the "random" is lost when the car is turned off. Each time I start out, just after the system initializes, I hit the circle button *twice* on the steering wheel controls (assuming random USB play in the prior car trip). This pushes the playlist to the next random track. This workaround has a limitation in that the random playlist is reset with every trip, so the same songs come back sooner than expected. This set of problems is so subtle that I doubt Toyota will actually fix this near term.

wheels_r_super

So you do have the setup button also which was not the radio advertised on the Toyota Camry site.
Did more research: I have 3 directories in the root directory. The head unit plays tune in alphanumeric order, as it should, but it picks from all three directories for the next tune. As I said, it does not play from a selected directory because it does not recognize directories/folders.
That is a BIG NO-NO.
In the 2013 XLE, it displays the directory you are in above the tune. And you can navigate between directories using the left/right arrows on the wheel.

There are no directories with more than 255 files as required. Nothing to trip up the unit.
When you browse from A to Z it places a count number to each tune. And that is correct because there are 457 tunes total and the last one is tagged with the number 457.
But going thru the whole list, many tunes are not numbered.
Toyota has some work to do before this months updates, for sure.
Agree with you on the random button. Not well thought out which is not like Toyota at all.

Happy MP3, guy...

Les