I have been frustrated for about 7 years by the fact that my prius has a phone book application, but my iPhone cannot connect to it.
\nI have been searching for several years for a solution. and I finally found one using my MacBook Air.<\/p>\n
This worked using a 11-inch, Mid 2011 MacBookAir to connect to a 2005 Prius. I sat inside my car so I didn’t have to worry about signal degradation.<\/p>\n
On the MacBook:<\/strong> On the Prius:<\/strong> On the MacBook:<\/strong> In the Bluetooth menu bar application:<\/strong> Go back to Bluetooth System preferences. On the Prius:<\/strong> On the MacBook:<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been frustrated for about 7 years by the fact that my prius has a phone book application, but my iPhone cannot connect to it. I have been searching for several years for a solution. and I finally found one using my MacBook Air. This worked using a 11-inch, Mid 2011 MacBookAir to connect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mxroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn the Address Book application:<\/strong>
\nCreate a contact group of all the contacts you want to copy over to the Prius phonebook.
\nExport that contact group from address book to a vcf file.<\/p>\n
\nTelephone -> Settings -> Bluetooth -> Settings -> Change
\nChange the bluetooth Passkey to 0000.
\nTelephone -> Settings -> Bluetooth -> Settings -> Add Phone<\/p>\n
\nIn System Preferences:<\/strong>
\nMake sure Bluetooth is On and Discoverable.
\nTurn on “Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar”.<\/p>\n
\nClick “send file”.
\nFind the address book vcf file we created earlier.
\nIn the window of devices that pop up, look for HANDS FREE, that’s the Prius.
\nAttempt to send the file to the Prius.
\nIt will ask if you want to pair with HANDS FREE, say yes.
\nThe pairing should succeed, but the sending of the file will fail.<\/p>\n
\nClick on HANDS FREE in the left sidebar, then click on the gear at the bottom and “Update Services”<\/p>\n
\nTelephone -> Settings -> Transfer Phone Data -> Start Transfer
\nYou can choose whether to add entries to your phone book, or overwrite the whole book. If this is your first time tranferring contacts it doesn’t matter which you choose.
\nOnce the Prius starts listening for a transfer, this should update the description of HANDS FREE in the Bluetooth settings on the Macbook to include the line “Services OBEX Object Push”<\/p>\n
\nAgain, use the Bluetooth menu bar app to “send file” the address book vcf file we created earlier. It should now transfer the file, and fill your phone book!<\/p>\n