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I have a 2017 Tacoma and the Entune system is an aggravating, outdated mess. I love how it shows a generic album cover (of missy elliot from the early 2000s) w

I have a 2017 Tacoma and the Entune system is an aggravating, outdated mess. I love how it shows a generic album cover (of missy elliot from the early 2000s) whenever you play any type of hip hop song. The maps are terrible in general, but their one small redeeming quality is that they work offline. There have been a handful of times where this has been useful when driving out of reception.

post_break 7y ago
Toyota was so stubborn on this. I like how they literally just added CarPlay support to the 2020 models.
- ansible 7y ago
  I'd have liked to have Android Auto for my Prius, but overall it isn't too bad, because I have the super-basic version of Entune. It plays BT and USB audio files, and has dedicated buttons for voice command, call and hangup. The voice command thing I rarely use because it isn't very good. All I really want is a way to trigger Google Now from the car controls. My BT headset can do this, but there is apparently no way to do this with the car. Just frickin' open up a hands-free profile connection, and turn on the microphone! I plan on driving this car for another 15 years or so (or until they stop selling gasoline) but I'll upgrade my phone a few times in that interval. Let me just use the phone.
  - tasty_freeze 7y ago
    I have a 2012 Prius with Entune. The car is fine, but Entune is terrible. Besides having only a handful of apps that aren't updated, it takes a long time for bluetooth to detect that my phone is present (30-60 seconds), and every few months it loses its mind and I need to tell it to forget the bluetooth pairing and make it again. When the car was new (and the map fresh) I tried to use the gas station finder feature -- and it directed me to a stretch of road with nothing at all on it .. not even a former gas station. I have a 32GB thumb drive with my mp3 files on it; for some reason, 30 or so seconds after starting the car, it resumes playing the contents of that thumb drive even though I might have turned the audio off, or on radio, or on bluetooth. Their menu system for navigating through the 8000 songs I have is super inefficient. When I drive with google maps on my phone, the audio alerts are forcibly routed through bluetooth ... even if the audio is off in the car. To be fair, the bluetooth problems could be an android problem. It also strikes me as funny that the car has GPS built in but there are three dedicated buttons to set the hour/minute/second of the clock. All in all, a terrible experience. It seems like it is simply a checkbox feature that helps to sell the car but they don't actually care about.
jvagner 7y ago
I had a 2015 Highlander with Entune. I just bought a 2019 Highlander with Entune. I'm Apple/iOS all the way, but honestly... Entune is relatively stupid and inoffensive and I don't ever think about it. I think I actually wanted nothing related to my tech life in my car. Nothing that resembles my desktop or my AppleTV or my iPad. I think I don't really want a car. Maybe when I ditch this Highlander I'll live somewhere I can easily do without a car of any kind. Don't even want an EV.

post_break 7y ago

Toyota was so stubborn on this. I like how they literally just added CarPlay support to the 2020 models.

ansible 7y ago
I'd have liked to have Android Auto for my Prius, but overall it isn't too bad, because I have the super-basic version of Entune. It plays BT and USB audio files, and has dedicated buttons for voice command, call and hangup. The voice command thing I rarely use because it isn't very good. All I really want is a way to trigger Google Now from the car controls. My BT headset can do this, but there is apparently no way to do this with the car. Just frickin' open up a hands-free profile connection, and turn on the microphone! I plan on driving this car for another 15 years or so (or until they stop selling gasoline) but I'll upgrade my phone a few times in that interval. Let me just use the phone.
- tasty_freeze 7y ago
  I have a 2012 Prius with Entune. The car is fine, but Entune is terrible. Besides having only a handful of apps that aren't updated, it takes a long time for bluetooth to detect that my phone is present (30-60 seconds), and every few months it loses its mind and I need to tell it to forget the bluetooth pairing and make it again. When the car was new (and the map fresh) I tried to use the gas station finder feature -- and it directed me to a stretch of road with nothing at all on it .. not even a former gas station. I have a 32GB thumb drive with my mp3 files on it; for some reason, 30 or so seconds after starting the car, it resumes playing the contents of that thumb drive even though I might have turned the audio off, or on radio, or on bluetooth. Their menu system for navigating through the 8000 songs I have is super inefficient. When I drive with google maps on my phone, the audio alerts are forcibly routed through bluetooth ... even if the audio is off in the car. To be fair, the bluetooth problems could be an android problem. It also strikes me as funny that the car has GPS built in but there are three dedicated buttons to set the hour/minute/second of the clock. All in all, a terrible experience. It seems like it is simply a checkbox feature that helps to sell the car but they don't actually care about.

jvagner 7y ago

I had a 2015 Highlander with Entune. I just bought a 2019 Highlander with Entune. I'm Apple/iOS all the way, but honestly... Entune is relatively stupid and inoffensive and I don't ever think about it. I think I actually wanted nothing related to my tech life in my car. Nothing that resembles my desktop or my AppleTV or my iPad. I think I don't really want a car. Maybe when I ditch this Highlander I'll live somewhere I can easily do without a car of any kind. Don't even want an EV.