acbill
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I am still learning the ins/outs of my 2025 LT, and find some features are easier then others to figure out.
My wife had her HUAWEI cell phone set up quite quickly for hands free use in the vehicle. Fairly simple steps to do this. This was our first vehicle that had this feature. The last time we bought a new vehicle was 25 years ago, so we both thought this was a really great benefit. Previously we had a cell phone holder, and you had to manually dial out or to answer it, which of course is a terrible distraction when driving. We tested it using the voice command button on the steering wheel.. IE; "Call Home", and it worked just fine. we haven't rec'd a call yet, but i trust answering it should be pretty straight forward.
I was on a trip up Island the other day, and needed to make a call. I had my own cell phone, an older Samsung Android. I know it had bluetooth so it should be able to connect with the Equinox's system. I asked my passenger to run through the set up process to enable the hands free benefit. First thing I learned was, if you're actively driving the vehicle, you can't set up the phone. As there are a few steps in the process to set a phone up that would be distracting when driving, I can see why, and agree with GM's decision to disallow this. My son mentioned that some vehicles have a feature that allows a passenger to use certain functions, but prevents the driver from using them. That would be quite handy in some cases, such as this one, since I had a passenger.
It's illegal in BC to use a non-hands free cell phone while driving. You need to pull off the road to make a call, so I badly wanted to set up the voice command aspect. After arriving home, I went through the steps for the recognition of phone/vehicle, and that all seemed to go well from what i could see. I'm older, and not the whiz-bang that some may be to accomplish this, but it seemed like I had done it correctly. Up until i tried to make a call.
I pushed the voice command button on the steering wheel, and first tried saying "contacts", thinking it may display a list of who I had on my phone. Nada. I tried the "Call Home" command, as I know that was in my phone contacts..Nada. Hmmm? I see a small scroll across the bottom of the dash display that say's "voice command feature not available, must use device", or something along those lines. I speak the command into my phone, nothing happens.
Now I'm thinking my Samsung phone never accepted voice commands previously, so why would it now? Is this a feature modern phones have nowadays? Can you just speak to the phone to make, or accept, phone calls? Anyone know if there is perhaps something I missed when setting up my phone for hands free, as to why the vehicles voice command won't work. Is my phone model too old perhaps? I figured the fact that the vehicle's system and the phone recognized one another, it was working..
My wife had her HUAWEI cell phone set up quite quickly for hands free use in the vehicle. Fairly simple steps to do this. This was our first vehicle that had this feature. The last time we bought a new vehicle was 25 years ago, so we both thought this was a really great benefit. Previously we had a cell phone holder, and you had to manually dial out or to answer it, which of course is a terrible distraction when driving. We tested it using the voice command button on the steering wheel.. IE; "Call Home", and it worked just fine. we haven't rec'd a call yet, but i trust answering it should be pretty straight forward.
I was on a trip up Island the other day, and needed to make a call. I had my own cell phone, an older Samsung Android. I know it had bluetooth so it should be able to connect with the Equinox's system. I asked my passenger to run through the set up process to enable the hands free benefit. First thing I learned was, if you're actively driving the vehicle, you can't set up the phone. As there are a few steps in the process to set a phone up that would be distracting when driving, I can see why, and agree with GM's decision to disallow this. My son mentioned that some vehicles have a feature that allows a passenger to use certain functions, but prevents the driver from using them. That would be quite handy in some cases, such as this one, since I had a passenger.
It's illegal in BC to use a non-hands free cell phone while driving. You need to pull off the road to make a call, so I badly wanted to set up the voice command aspect. After arriving home, I went through the steps for the recognition of phone/vehicle, and that all seemed to go well from what i could see. I'm older, and not the whiz-bang that some may be to accomplish this, but it seemed like I had done it correctly. Up until i tried to make a call.
I pushed the voice command button on the steering wheel, and first tried saying "contacts", thinking it may display a list of who I had on my phone. Nada. I tried the "Call Home" command, as I know that was in my phone contacts..Nada. Hmmm? I see a small scroll across the bottom of the dash display that say's "voice command feature not available, must use device", or something along those lines. I speak the command into my phone, nothing happens.
Now I'm thinking my Samsung phone never accepted voice commands previously, so why would it now? Is this a feature modern phones have nowadays? Can you just speak to the phone to make, or accept, phone calls? Anyone know if there is perhaps something I missed when setting up my phone for hands free, as to why the vehicles voice command won't work. Is my phone model too old perhaps? I figured the fact that the vehicle's system and the phone recognized one another, it was working..
