Pairing Samsung Siii With Toyota Touch 2 On Yaris Sport

[yarisfan22]

Have just taken delivery of my Yaris Sport in Burning Red - FAB especially the panoramic roof and funky wheels.

Having trouble with the bluetooth pairing - it took ages and several attempts to pair with my Samsung SIII. When it did the calls lists and SMS messages were not displayed.

Tried repairing a number of times since and have managed to get Contacts and Calls displayed but cannot get texts to display or send on the screen.

On the screen it says 'refreshing' but then the phone says 'bluetooth has stopped'. Then I start again and perhaps next time my contacts won't display. Very frustrating!

Has anyone else had this problem? Any tips appreciated. Not sure if it is my phone or the Touch 2 system.

[CPN]

More likely to be the phone... Many Android phones are notorious for their bluetooth drivers crashing randomly. Reboot the phone and try again...

[Parts-King]

Ive paired many an iPhone without a hitch, I would suspect it is the phone too. Is the phone firmware up to date? You might want to try updating it first before considering a fault with the car

[scar]

Hi,

Whilst I cannot give a positive answer my recent experience may help you.

I have traded in a Rav4 invincible 18 months old for a new Yaris excel. The imedia system has being upgraded but I have been disappointed with it regarding user friendliness.

The Yaris blue toothed with my Samsung galaxy 2 but would only see contacts in the phone not in the sim.

I had to transfer the sim contacts into the phone memory and now the car unit can see my contacts. The transfer of info took some time with various requests to import certain details.(history etc.)

What is really annoying is the phone recognising that it has been paired when you enter the car and giving its audible warning which is the same as the one for an incoming message.

I manage to alter a phone setting and stop this.

My wife has a Samsung note galaxy 3. That paired perfectly and the only problem was again the recognition of being paired.

I think my problem was that I had just swapped my sim from my Apple 3G to the galaxy 2 and all the info was in the sim and the car system reads the phone memory and is not able to access the contacts held on the sim.

Just to confirm what a previous contributor said when I paired my iPhone it was done in seconds, so quick. But that as on the Rav.

My dealer did the initial phone pairing with my phone on handover. The system had been checked out by there technician because on start up it started looking for his phone. That is easily removed and was done so by the sales person. I suppose it gives you the knowledge that it has at least been checked out.

So my view is that its your phone not the car, not a great help but it can be done.

Please note the media will not recognise all music files on a USB. Whilst I can bluetooth my iTunes if the same music is on a USB it does not recognise the file type so I converted to a mp3 file type.

Great car smooth engine, nice gearbox and my first tank of petrol came in at 42mpg (brimmed not from the computer) not bad for the first 300 miles. Love the full glass roof.

regards Steve

[CPN]

Just a point about phone sims, it is normal behaviour for the car's media system not to be able to see the contents of a phone's sim card. This is governed by the bluetooth specifications and profile rules currently. The days of storing contact details on a phones sim card really ended when smart phones took over from feature phones. Sim cards are limited in the amount of info that can be held for each contact. Phone memory doesn't suffer from this limitation...

[yarisfan22]

Thanks for these very helpful replies. I confirm that my phone contacts are stored on the phone memory not the SIM.

On checking Samsung forums it would appear the problem is definitely with the phone since the upgrade to 4.3.

Just to confirm - the phone pairs but sometimes nothing comes over, sometimes contacts, sometimes contacts and call lists but never texts. Annoyingly texts try to refresh but then the message comes up 'unfortunately bluetooth share has stopped' whereupon the phone disconnects itself from the Touch 2 only to try again later and so on. Also the same message frequently comes up when the phonebook is trying to refresh. It's very erratic and thus very irritating.

According to the Samsung forums some people have fixed this by getting Samsung to re-install 4.3.

I'm hoping to upgrade to the Samsung S5 and I am told this problem definitely does not exist with the S5.

Thanks again

[Konrad C]

Thanks for these very helpful replies. I confirm that my phone contacts are stored on the phone memory not the SIM.

On checking Samsung forums it would appear the problem is definitely with the phone since the upgrade to 4.3.

Just to confirm - the phone pairs but sometimes nothing comes over, sometimes contacts, sometimes contacts and call lists but never texts. Annoyingly texts try to refresh but then the message comes up 'unfortunately bluetooth share has stopped' whereupon the phone disconnects itself from the Touch 2 only to try again later and so on. Also the same message frequently comes up when the phonebook is trying to refresh. It's very erratic and thus very irritating.

According to the Samsung forums some people have fixed this by getting Samsung to re-install 4.3.

I'm hoping to upgrade to the Samsung S5 and I am told this problem definitely does not exist with the S5.

Thanks again

You hit the nail on the head about 4.3 and S3. The upgrade has caused many issues with this phone. Some people have had their phones 'bricked' trying to upgrade firmware. Samsung is known to have a lot of bloat ware, which does not help.

I have kept my S3 to 4.1.2 which has no issues and has been stable. I would rather buy a newer phone than upgrade the firmware. Also android has moved 4.4 which the Samsung Galaxy S3 may never reach.

[Raistlin]

I have a S3 9305 LTE , I updated the firmware to KitKat 4.44 and it works perfectly and I get around 4 hours more Battery life

[Konrad C]

I have a S3 9305 LTE , I updated the firmware to KitKat 4.44 and it works perfectly and I get around 4 hours more battery life

Raistlin, thanks for reminding me. Bigger ram!

The LTE 4G version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has 2 gb, which is double the ram of the S3 I9300 which has only 1 gb.

With some of the features running like TouchWiz, the ram is marginal on the standard S3, whilst the LTE version has the headroom.

That is why the I9300 S3 will struggle to get KitKat 4.4 without 'rooting' the phone and putting a vanilla version of KitKat without the Samsung TouchWiz, functions and bloat ware. Note the S4 and S4 mini came with the extra ram and can be upgraded to KitKat.

[dcweather]

I've got a Samsung S3 Mini 4.1.2 I had no trouble pairing it with our new Hybrid Icon and contacts show on display by name and number and can dial out by touching name. The issue I have is that incoming numbers just display the number not the name which is obviously much more important in deciding whether to take the call. DOes anyone get the name displayed on incoming calls?

Dave

Incidentally I read elsewhere an Android App called bluetooth Phonebook fixes some of the above issues, but apparently not my one having tried it.

[yarisfan22]

Hi - what I did with my Samsung SIII is set the phone to announce the callers so when a call comes in it announces it through the bluetooth. As long as the number is in my phonebook with a name against it then it announces. Worth trying with your mini?

[dcweather]

Hi - what I did with my Samsung SIII is set the phone to announce the callers so when a call comes in it announces it through the Bluetooth. As long as the number is in my phonebook with a name against it then it announces. Worth trying with your mini?

Thanks Sue - may have solved it. Don't have quite that menu but remembered driving mode and that announced caller, not sure if it came through the external speaker or the phone at the moment but useful either way.