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WARNING
■Off-road driving precautions
Always observe the following precautions to minimize the risk o f death, seri-
ous injury or damage to your vehicle:
● Drive carefully when off the road. Do not take unnecessary risk s by driving
in dangerous places.
● Do not grip the steering wheel spokes when driving off-road. A bad bump
could jerk the wheel and injure your hands. Keep both hands and espe-
cially your thumbs on the outside of the rim.
● Always check your brakes for effectiveness immediately after driving in
sand, mud, water or snow.
● After driving through tall grass, mud, rock, sand, rivers, etc. , check that
there is no grass, bush, paper, rags, stone, sand, etc. adherin g or trapped
on the underbody. Clear off any such matter from the underbody. If the
vehicle is used with these materials trapped or adhering to the underbody,
a breakdown or fire could occur.
● When driving off-road or in rugged terrain, do not drive at excessive
speeds, jump, make sharp turns, strike objects, etc. This may c ause loss
of control or vehicle rollover causing death or serious injury. You are also
risking expensive damage to your vehicle’s suspension and chass is.
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Audio system types ........... 356
Entune Audio .................... 357
Steering wheel audio switches ................ 360
AUX Port/USB Port ........... 361
Basic audio operations...... 362
5-2. Setup Setup menu....................... 364
General settings ................ 365
Audio settings ................... 366
Display settings ................. 367
Voice settings.................... 368
5-3. Using Entune Audio Selecting the audio source ................... 369
List screen operation......... 370
Optimal use of Entune Audio .................. 372
5-4. Using the radio Radio operation................. 373
5-5. Playing an audio CD and MP3/WMA/AAC discs
CD player operation .......... 375
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Listening to an iPod .......... 381
Listening to a USB memory device................ 385
Using the AUX port ........... 389
5-7. Connecting Bluetooth
®
Preparations to use wireless
communication ................ 390
Registering a Bluetooth
®
audio player for the
first time .......................... 394
Registering a Bluetooth
®
phone for the first time .... 395
Registering a Bluetooth
®
device.............................. 396
Connecting a Bluetooth
®
device.............................. 398
Displaying a Bluetooth
®
device details .................. 400
Detailed Bluetooth
®
system settings ............... 401
5-8. Bluetooth
® Audio
Listening to Bluetooth®
Audio ............................... 402 5-9. Bluetooth
® phone
Using a Bluetooth®
Phone ............................. 403
Making a call ..................... 405
Receiving a call ................. 408
Speaking on the phone ..... 409
Bluetooth
® phone
message function ............ 412
Using the steering wheel switches ................ 416
Bluetooth
® phone
settings ........................... 417
Contact/Call History Settings ........................... 418
What to do if... (Troubleshooting) ............ 427
5-10. Bluetooth
®
Bluetooth®......................... 431
5-11. Using the voice command system
Voice command system ............................ 435
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Vo l u m e s w i t c h• Increases/dec reases volume
• Press and hold: Continuously increases/decreases volume
Cursor switch (“ ” and “ ”)
• Selects (radio stations/radio presets/tracks/files/songs)
• Press and hold: Fast up/ down (radio stations)
• Fast up/down (tracks/files)
“MODE/HOLD” switch • Changes audio source
• Press and hold this switch to mute or pause the current operat ion
To cancel the mute or pause, press and hold.
Steering wheel audio switches
Some audio features can be cont rolled using the switches on
the steering wheel.
Operation may differ depending on the type of audio system or
navigation system. For details, refer to the manual provided with
the audio system or navigation system.
Operating the audio system usi ng the steering wheel switches
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■To reduce the risk of an accident
Exercise care when operating the audio switches on the steering wheel.
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Press the “AUDIO” button to display the audio source selection
screen.
If the audio source selection screen is not displayed, press the “AUDIO”
button again.
Select the desired audio
source.
Select the desired audio
source then or to
reorder.
The audio source changes as follows each time the “MODE/HOLD”
switch is pressed.
Selecting the audio source
Switching between audio sources such as radio and CD are
explained in t his section.
Changing audio source
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To display the screen shown below, press the off-hook switch on the
steering wheel or the button.
Several functions are available to operate on each screen that is dis-
played by select ing the 4 tabs.
Device name
Bluetooth
® connection status
Using a Bluetooth® Phone
The hands-free system is a function that allows you to use your
cellular phone without touching it.
This system supports Bluetooth
®. Bluetooth® is a wireless data
system that allows the cellular phone to wirelessly connect to
the hands-free system and make/receive calls.
Before making a phone call, check the connection status, batter y
charge, call area and signal strength. ( P. 4 0 4 )
If a Bluetooth
® device cannot be connected, check the connection
status on the phone screen. If the device is not connected, eit her
register or reconnect it. ( P. 3 9 8 )
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Display the phone screen. (P. 4 0 3 )
Select the “Dial Pad” tab a nd enter a phone number.
To delete the input phone number, select .
For the first digit, you can enter “+” by selecting “ ” for a while.
Press the off-hook switch on the steering wheel or select .
You can dial a number from the contact data imported from your cellu-
lar phone. The system has one contact for each registered phone . Up
to 2500 contacts may be stored in each contact. (P. 405)
Display the phone screen. ( P. 4 0 3 )
Select “Contacts” tab.
Choose the desir ed contact to call from the list.
Choose the number and then pres s the off-hook switch on the
steering wheel or select .
You can transfer the phone numbers in a Bluetooth
® phone to the sys-
tem.
Operation methods differ between PBAP (Phone Book Access Profil e)
compatible and PBAP incompatible Bluetooth
® phones. If the cellular
phone does not support either PBAP or OPP (Object Push Profile)
service, you cannot t ransfer contacts.
Making a call
Once a Bluetooth® phone is registered, you can make a call
using the following procedure:
Dialing
Dialing from the contacts list
When the contact is empty
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Press the off-hook switch on the steering wheel.
If the phonebook is empty, a message will be displayed.
For a PBAP compatible Bluetooth® phone and “Automatic Transfer”
is off
Select the desired item.
Select to transfer new con-
tacts from a cellular phone,
select “Always” and then
enable “Automatic Transfer”.
Select to transfer all the con-
tacts from a connected cellu-
lar phone only once.
Select to cancel transferring.
For a PBAP incompatible but OPP compatible Bluetooth® phone
Select the desired item.
Select to transfer the con-
tacts from the connected cel-
lular phone.
Follow the steps in “Update con-
tacts from phone” from step .
(P. 419)
Select to add a new contact
manually.
Follow the steps in “Registering
a new contact to the contact list”
from step . ( P. 420)
Select to cancel transferring.
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