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After making sure that "Allow Bluetooth to wake up" is enabled in your Treo,
1) Initiate pairing from the car;
2) Respond with passcode from Treo;
3) The Treo will say you connected, the car says it is still waiting;
4) Disregard the car's message;
5) Select the Handsfree as a Trusted Device in the Treo Bluetooth;
6) Initiate a call from the Treo;
7) The car handsfree will pickup the call.
Notes:
1) Incoming calls to the Treo popup on the car screen as well as the Treo's, but even with the ringer on in the Treo, I don't hear an audible ring from the car.
2) Outgoing calls placed from the Treo reliably get routed to the Handsfree;
2) Once paired as above, the car Handsfree will re-pair every time you get in the car or turn the car off then back on.
Hope this helps!
I have exactly the same problem. Did you find a solution to your problem?
Thanks,
Boulderrs@yahoo.com
i.e Car unlocks as phone approaches, starts by button or brake pedal...
Has anyone done this?
-Greg
Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I still have the incoming call problem even with the phone set on "ring". Have you heard any updated information on this problem?
Craig
Thanks
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-juice
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Good luck !
Our Acura dealer does not have anything to add, nor does Acura customer service or Cingular. Also, Motorola cannot seem to help. Perhaps this is just one of the "features" we will have to accept with Bluetooth. However, this is a small price to pay for a nice safety feature.
In my experience, no one you can reach at the car dealer, the phone manufacturer, or the cell provider knows anything about making Bluetooth work. There's probably only 2 engineers at each company that have any clue about how this works in the real world. Best bet for info is other end users and techhies on the forums. Same holds true when trying to figure out data plans for cellphone/PDAs.
Does anybody know if there's a bluetooth adaptor for a regular cell phone that will work with the TL?? I got a Samsung SPH-A660 which is non-bluetooth. My provider is Sprint, and they only have 2 bluetooth compatible phones, which who knows if they will work with this car or not.... Instead of shelling out extra bucks for an extra phone, which sounds pretty stupid to me, why didn't acura go for a more easy way to connect to ANY phone??....The Bluetooth technology seems to work, but there are not a lot of bluetooth compatible phones out there...and then, the few that are out there, might or might not work with this particular system.... Well anyway, does anyone know if there's an adaptor or something we can get? :sick:
- Sound quality is the same not using the car but the phone themselves ( i called a relative with both phones at the same location) caller and "callee" sound quality were the same.
- LG is thicker and wider, while the Motorola is longer and heavier (0.5 oz heavier)
- at my location, i had 4 bars on the motorola while the LG only had 2 bars (then again, the LG still makes calls at 0 bars - so the bar status is relative and not accurate)
- LG has a better alarm clock and tip calculator
- Motorola has a weak vibrate alert
- Motorola claims to have an extra 60mins in talk time over the LG (i can't verify that)
- Motorola screen is better, much better (bigger, brighter, esthetically pleasing menu)
- LG has better software (missed calls, received calls, video wallpaper, and maybe others)
motorola's missed calls is combined with the received calls - which i didn't like
I think the LG camera has a flash, you'll have to verify that
so it's up to you to decide on which phone to buy. Both are excellent phones.
I am currently holding a Treo 600 and happy to pass it on down to my son. But I would have to lay out some serious cash to change my entire family over to another provider. I might do that if someone can tell me of a phone and a provider for which the bluetooth issue works perfectly.
I would prefer a Treo 650 or Blackberry -- I like the razor phones and might just grab a small blackberry for the emails.
I truly appreciate your help in this matter.
If you read the manual, you can probably get it connected on the first try. Or you can do what I did, which is ignore the manual completely and spend two fruitless hours in the sweltering heat of the garage trying to get the darn thing to do what it's supposed to do.
The phone is able to transfer the entire phonebook in one shot, unlike some other models I've read about on the LS forum.
Hope this helps in your decision making process.
thanks,
Steve
The catch with the headset if you have to charge it seperately. Kind of a pain.
-juice
What is the model year and make of your vehicle, and model of cell phone?
Thanks for the feedback!
After going to Acura Owners online, and seeing the explicit list of 3 PDA's for the RL, I am headed back to Verizon to pickup the Bluetooth 7250 today. Does anybody have any info about this phone working with the RL? It seems, based from Acura, that this phone should work all the way through.
If that doesnt work, I am will to scrap the entire PDA phone and just go with the V710 or something that does work without much flaw.
In a sealed car it's no problem. Walking around it's also fine.
-juice
BTW---so far, no reboots, no dropped calls...just perfect operation. I'll post if something crops up.