Please help me connect to bluetooth (no manual)

[bamctaggart Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close bamctaggart]

Hello all,

Long story short, we have a brand new 150 series facelift prado, im away at work, and my wife has gone a little holiday in the car and left manual at home and she cant figure out how to connect her Samsung Galaxy S5 to the bluetooth for music and phone connection.

Can anyone please list a step by step procedure that i can send through to her it would be much appreciated!
i know its a basic question, if its to basic then mods please delete!

Cheers
Brad

[cmilton54 Find all posts View Profile Close cmilton54]

Hi
Cant give step by step, but in mine Kakadu
Hit setup button on dash, then phone picture. That brought up more screen with Bluetooth.
Had Bluetooth activated on phone, then pressed connect, it then asked for password which I used 0000, it then connected phone and downloaded contacts with button push.
As for music the same I would think, I don't have that loaded on my phone. When we loaded our sister inlaws Ipod, it was done the same way but using the axcillary usb port to connect to Bluetooth to activate the music side of the radio.
Hope this helps

[bamctaggart Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close bamctaggart]

thanks for the reply! she has managed to get it sort of connected but then the stereo just thinks shes on a call all the time?

[Smoker Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Smoker]

Hi mate,
Looks like you may be registered ok - per post above thats what the manual says to register, with the stereo thinking your on a call all the time try this:
From the manual:
After a blue tooth phone has been registered to make a call:
1/ press APPS
2/ navigate through to TELEPHONE
3/select from call history , favourites contacts or dial pad

You can tell if the phone is properly registered by the icons on the screen ( top right on navigation display). If you dont see a little bluetooth symbol, battery and signal strength icon on the screen, the try to delete the phone ( forget the connection in your phones bluetooth section) then re-register. FWIW I have always had trouble with bluetooth on Samsung mobile handsets.
Drives me nuts.


Cheers
Smokey

[hazmoid Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close hazmoid]

strange, I can make calls from the phone (Galaxy S5) and the stereo but when I try to play music I have to have the phone connected via the Audio cable, won't stream music via Bluetooth.
anyone worked out how to connect the samsung S5 so that it can stream music via BT?
2012 Kakadu

[Psynewaves Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Psynewaves]

Hi hazmoid,
I have the same issue with most of the Toyota stereos....and my S5

Essentially, I use the phone (green) button on the stereo face to bring up the BT menu, select pair phone, then select phone/audio as device type, enter 0000 PIN and it connects as a phone and audio device. That gets the music streaming from the phone, and auto pause/resume for calls.

A quick word of advice... set up the connection between phone and head unit straight away after ignition or starting. It seems to have a time limit for BT menu as a safety precaution so people don't go fiddling with BT setting while driving.
While I can understand the safety conscious design, it seems to make things worse - I've seen passengers try to do it for the driver while traveling and when the menu doesn't show up as usual, both driver and passenger are pushing buttons and turning dials, scratching their heads saying "wtf??"

Good luck