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Prior to purchasing my 2020 S60, I change my phone to a Google Pixel 7 Pro.
I bitterly regret that decision, but that has nothing to do with this post. However, I am wondering if I'm hitting a problem with this specific phone and the Volvo Sensus voice control. As I understand it, it is possible to reply to text messages using voice commands to dictate the content. By extension of this, I believe it is also possible to send texts in the same way rather than just having the option to reply to an incoming text. However, every time I try to select a text command using the voice control, the system tells me that's the phone is not connected for that- even though it clearly is because I can access all of the other phone functions, and I receive texts through the Sensus system on a frequent basis. Has anybody else had the same problem and managed to find a fix? I have checked all of the settings in my phone and it says it is connected for text messages which will explain why the car can at least receive them... Last edited by Ishmail575; Nov 18th, 2023 at 11:04. |
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It's not possible to send a text message in any other way.
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Hmmmm... I wonder if I have assumed that my model year has this feature, as I found this on the Volvo website for the 2024 model and assumed that recent vehicles would have been capable of the same thing with a possible upgrade:
"You can dictate a new message by asking the voice control system to send a message to a named contact or a phone number" https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support...a801515f80a8f7 |
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I'm fairly sure your car has the previous Sensus sytem which therefore doesn't support it.
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, I don’t see why an Android Phone would be any different? Just say “message” then it asks who to send to.
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You can send text messages on Sensus cars, by pressing voice control button and say "message joe" or anyone in your contacts, as long as your phone is connected and there is a data connection. You need a data sim in modem. Dictate message and when prompted say send.
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Sorry yes as long as it has a data sauce which as you say can be from phone.
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My 2019 car which had the same system as yours had massive issues communicating each time I changed my Android phone (all Oneplus models).
It turned out that a message popped up on the phone screen when connected for a moment that you had to acknowledge to allow it to text correctly - once done, it's then set and fine until you change the phone again. The text interface frankly worked better than the AAOS version, which doesn't display the texts on the binacle and likes to say "Oh, something went wrong" when trying to read texts sent by machines (such as some tracking updates etc) so it's worth persevering. The thing that is better in the AAOS version in my view is that it's far better at recognising speech as it works out the likely word you're saying based on previous words in the sentence, whereas Sensus is a bit dumb and has a guess - which can result in some nonsense being sent.
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It does repeat your message to you before sending though and asks if you want to send delete or start over so you can cancel and dictate it again.
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