Bluetooth over Radio?

Can someone please explain why I need to be in the trucks Bluetooth source to be able to hear responses from my phone?? this is completely crazy and defeats the entire purpose of having Bluetooth at all in these trucks imo

 

Because your phone does not transmit in the FM frequency
If you want FM radio you select FM.
If you want AM radio you select AM.
If you want to hear your phone through the speakers you select Bluetooth.

 

I am a little confused. Do you not get an alert when someone calls or text while you are listening to the radio. If that is the case you need to delete the pairing and do it again. It should interrupt the music.

 

Meaning that you have to choose "source" then "Bluetooth" just so you can receive text messages? Once your phone is connected via Bluetooth then it doesn't matter what source is being used. For example: you should be able to receive messages if you were listening to a CD or the radio or whatever.

 

Sorry if that was confusing, when I'm listening to my XM I would like to have my navigation from Waze or Google maps interrupt the XM and play over the speakers then resume XM after giving instruction

 

Ah that is a completely different thing. Mine does the same I am pretty sure. I just got used to not hearing the directions from google maps. I do use the Mac in the truck more because of that though. Now I see what Toyota did. They have tricked me to stop using google as much. I will be watching to see if you can figure it out. Good luck.

 

I found an app they may work but need to play with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turboled.audiobt&hl=en

 

Not sure if what you want to do is possible. Your Waze and Google Maps are applications on the phone. If they want to feed audio, they can only do it for their sources, not another source on another device. So, if your radio is set for XM or FM, your phone can't interrupt that. But if you were listening to BT audio from your phone, and your Waze interrupted that, then that stream would work.

 

That might work, as that routes the audio as a phone call which can interrupt your other sources. Nice find.

 

It's not just Toyota... My wife and I rented a 2017 Chevy Sonic LTZ this past weekend while in Vegas, and you have to have the source switched to Bluetooth if you want to hear the prompts from Google Maps...

It doesn't bother me much though tbh... I listen to Pandora 99.9% of the time, so I'm almost always already on Bluetooth... It's just too convenient to skip songs I don't like.

Don

 

Doesn't that suck up your data bigtime?

 

iPhone will send an interrupt signal for spoken directions. Android won't.

 

I average 8-10gb of data per month on my line, and that's with mixed video and web browsing thrown into the mix... I am in my seat ~1.25 hr/day, 5x/wk driving to and from work... I haven't gone over my 40gb of data on my plan with 4 phones total on the account... short answer, no, I'm not too worried. I can't wait to get my kids off my account and I'll never have to worry, lol...

In all actuality, my total Pandora data usage per month is maybe 5gb, and that's with Pandora Plus streaming at high quality. I just can't justify paying more money for XM and not having any tunes once I get under some cover or the satellite being blocked by the parking garage roof. Pandora (or streaming audio period for that matter) isn't affected by the location if you have reliable cell service. Perhaps out in more rural areas it would be hit or miss and then I'd probably be inclined to get XM for those times.

 

Same with our 2014 Subaru

 

Problem solved, purchased a Bluetooth speaker and disconnected the phone from the truck and switched to the speaker.... Problem solved LOL