Phone Pairing
#3
What Jeff is saying is that your car most likely is not Bluetooth compatible and until you have this capability, there's nothing to be done. I believe I saw here that it is possible to retro-fit a car with a module but it may be less expensive to buy a new used car unless you do the work yourself.
The early Jags had a phone capability but it was not Bluetooth. They used a purpose-built Motorola handset that could not access Bluetooth.
The navigation system has nothing to do with it.
Eric
The early Jags had a phone capability but it was not Bluetooth. They used a purpose-built Motorola handset that could not access Bluetooth.
The navigation system has nothing to do with it.
Eric
#4
What Jeff is saying is that your car most likely is not Bluetooth compatible and until you have this capability, there's nothing to be done. I believe I saw here that it is possible to retro-fit a car with a module but it may be less expensive to buy a new used car unless you do the work yourself.
The early Jags had a phone capability but it was not Bluetooth. They used a purpose-built Motorola handset that could not access Bluetooth.
The navigation system has nothing to do with it.
Eric
The early Jags had a phone capability but it was not Bluetooth. They used a purpose-built Motorola handset that could not access Bluetooth.
The navigation system has nothing to do with it.
Eric
#5
Maybe I don't understand. My car has Bluetooth. It pairs with the phone to give telecommunication capability. There's no "phone" module...only a bluetooth one. It's the same with the Bluetooth thingies that people wear in their ear. The module communticate only with a paired phone. Am I wrong?
Eric
Eric
#6
If you dig in there, there is a phone module. It is the device that links to the stereo. In the early "phone" equipped cars, the phone plugged into the module, then it became "hands free". In order for a bluetooth phone to talk to the stereo, the bluetooth module connects to the phone module, replacing the wire connection. Hence, an early phone equipped car can be upgraded to bluetooth by just adding the bluetooth module. If the car is not equipped for a phone then both modules need to be added. Also, I've heard that some early phone modules don't work with the bluetooth module, therefore those would also have to be replaced.
Last edited by JOsworth; 07-06-2009 at 06:42 AM.
#7
If you dig in there, there is a phone module. It is the device that links to the stereo. In the early "phone" equipped cars, the phone plugged into the module, then it became "hands free". In order for a bluetooth phone to talk to the stereo, the bluetooth module connects to the phone module, replacing the wire connection. Hence, an early phone equipped car can be upgraded to bluetooth by just adding the bluetooth module. If the car is not equipped for a phone then both modules need to be added. Also, I've heard that some early phone modules don't work with the bluetooth module, therefore those would also have to be replaced.
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#8
Yup. My thoughts as well. Probably another case of "but the radio has a phone button". That's why I tried to gently remind people that there are separate modules for those.
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