Heads up on new phone purchase and sync
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Heads up on new phone purchase and sync
I just wanted to post some information I discovered yesterday. If you want to use sync to read text messages to you while driving then make sure you have or get a phone that supports message access profile or MAP. I had a Droid X and it would read the text messages. I upgraded my phone a little over a month ago and asked at the time if the Droid Dna had any issues working with sync and of course what does the sales guy say? We all know the answer . Well I finally figured out yesterday why it doesn't work after doing some more searching online. Not all and really not very many phones have MAP on them. There appears to be no way to add it either. I guess I am stuck without this feature for a couple of years. This will be taken into consideration next time though!
My buddies will certainly miss this feature. They would get some pretty good laughs sending me "colorful" texts while I was driving and having the sync lady read them! A bunch of 40 something year old kids!
My buddies will certainly miss this feature. They would get some pretty good laughs sending me "colorful" texts while I was driving and having the sync lady read them! A bunch of 40 something year old kids!
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I didn't know anything about that, I tried to hook my Blackberry up this last weekend but it said it didn't support it. I just did a search on MAP and found this.
Sync update adds new, yet little-known, Bluetooth profile to vehicles | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews
Cheers!
Sync update adds new, yet little-known, Bluetooth profile to vehicles | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews
Cheers!
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My Motorola RAZR HD has this feature, and sync reads the texts just fine.
From the article, which btw, is October 2011, so the list of supported phones I'm sure has grown:
"But until then, good luck finding a phone on the market that supports MAP. So far, only a handful of BlackBerry, Motorola, and HTC devices are equipped with the profile. Even Microsoft, which is a strategic partner of Ford, neglected to add MAP to its Windows Phone 7, even though Windows Embedded Automobile 7--the platform on which Sync is based--includes it."
From the article, which btw, is October 2011, so the list of supported phones I'm sure has grown:
"But until then, good luck finding a phone on the market that supports MAP. So far, only a handful of BlackBerry, Motorola, and HTC devices are equipped with the profile. Even Microsoft, which is a strategic partner of Ford, neglected to add MAP to its Windows Phone 7, even though Windows Embedded Automobile 7--the platform on which Sync is based--includes it."
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The Razr Hd does have it and that was the other phone I was considering but at the time did not know about this MAP thing. This isn't a huge deal. I don't get a ton of text messages. It is more of an issue of the truck has it and just like everything else I want it to work correctly. Live and learn. The people at these cell phone stores are of no help. With all of the vehicles coming on line with this sort of technology it would be nice if they were educated about this, but they are not so that is why I thought I would pass this along.
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I thought just for the heck of it I would call my Verizon business representative and explain this to him and see what he had to say even though I was past the 30 day window for a return. Long story short he is having a Droid Razr maxx hd overnighted to me and I just ship my Droid DNA back once my new phone is activated and pay the $50 difference in original cost of the phone. Crisis averted Not a crisis by any means but it will be nice to have this feature working again! He was grateful for the education I gave him on Ford sync and text messaging.
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I found this out the hard way when I went from my DroidX to my Samsung GalaxyS3. Yep, no more text messages. I miss the feature, it was nice to at least know I had text waiting on my phone if one came in while driving. I wouldn't read it until I was stopped, but knowing it was there was convenient. And if I was waiting for an important text while driving, I'd have it read it to me. It was indeed a nice feature, I assumed the phone manufacturers turned it off for safety reasons.
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I dislike I Phones even more now.
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I found this out the hard way when I went from my DroidX to my Samsung GalaxyS3. Yep, no more text messages. I miss the feature, it was nice to at least know I had text waiting on my phone if one came in while driving. I wouldn't read it until I was stopped, but knowing it was there was convenient. And if I was waiting for an important text while driving, I'd have it read it to me. It was indeed a nice feature, I assumed the phone manufacturers turned it off for safety reasons.