Any Way To Get Bluetooth To Stay On When Switching Off Car?

[sanzomat]

Every other car I've had has realised you are still in the middle of a call when you park on your drive and turn the engine off and wait until the call finishes before killing the bluetooth link. Unfortunately the Prius Plus kills the call as you hit the power button, and on the blackberry it seems to do the same as pressing red as the call itself ends, not just the bluetooth session.

I know a get around is to just put it in park but I'm so habit bound to just hit the power button I'm likely to forget. Is there a setting to keep the phone link going?

I suppose in some ways its a good thing as getting home from work and sitting on the drive for half an hour effectively doing more work isn't the best start to the evening so maybe its just Mr T trying to improve our work-life balance!

[Peter Sale]

Looking at this another way as I can't think of a setting to do this - maybe there should be a setting in the phone to keep the call open when the bluetooth link is lost ?

Trying to remember whether this has worked for me I have this strange memory that it was ok with an older Nokia but not with a smartphone.

My neighbour often sits on his drive with his BMW engine running when he gets home from work - maybe his works the same or he doesn't want to try it .....

[johalareewi]

It's probably going to be the Touch and Go head unit rather than Toyota because there is usually power to the head unit even when the car is off (there is usually a hot 12V wire on one of the rear connectors to the unit).

The head unit will detect the main power going off and if it is "clever" enough, can keep itself going if a phone call is in progress using a combination of stored electricity and the hot 12V feed.

[Cyker]

Fit one of those button covers like they have on missile arming control panels so you can't reflexively press it?

[JHRC]

My wife did the same thing when I phoned her from work last week, she was near home and reversed the car up the drive and switched off while we were talking, a slight delay while she found the phone in her bag and was surprised that the phone switched over without cancelling the call. Her phone is an Apple iPhone so it could be down to the phone itself. I think this would cancel the call in my rav4.

Jim.