Utilizing emoticons in your smartphone could cause extreme issues with the voice-to-text capabilities of the Ford Sync System. This self-help article reveals methods to appropriate these issues.
Since late 2012 there have been quite a few issues with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S in addition to the Samsung Galaxy, the HTC Evo and different smartphones having connectivity points with the Ford Sync system. Person boards for these smartphones and for the Sync system have been crammed with individuals which connectivity issues that affected the bottom mannequin, the MyFord and the MyFord Contact Sync programs. The difficulty was one thing was critically affecting the Sync customers accessibility of their telephone e book contacts with Voice instructions. Should you pushed the “Voice” icon in your steering wheel and mentioned “Telephone” after which “Name + (your contact identify)” then your Sync system may reply, “Calling Dot on Cell.”
A few of the points have been a results of smartphone customers downloading and utilizing any of the Emoji Apps. The phrase emoji is Japanese for ideograms, you realize, these little emoticons corresponding to smiley faces, “frowny” faces, and so on.
The brand new Apple iOS even permits iPhone 5 customers to go to their Settings folder, to the Normal settings, to the Keyboard tab, after which to the following menu to pick out “Keyboards.” You may then faucet “Add New Keyboard” and add an emoji keyboard. Nonetheless, that is the kiss of dying to your Sync system.
The difficulty is that the lovable emoticons seen in your smartphone display as a smiley face are, in reality, lengthy strings of programming language which trigger Sync’s text-to-voice conversion to go haywire. When given a Voice command to name a contact the system will say “Calling Dot on Cell” after which dial the primary contact listed in your telephone e book.
If this has occurred, then assessment EVERY telephone contact and take away any emoticon. Additionally take away any extraneous exclamation factors, durations, commas, dashes and so forth that you simply may need in your telephone contact checklist. Be sure you even examine the identify of your gadget! Some overzealous customers renamed their telephones with smiley faces on the gadget identify. Verify to see that all the pieces is cleared once more. Then go to your Bluetooth settings and take away Sync out of your telephone.
When you’ve got an iPhone, do a gentle reset. That is finished by holding your “Residence” button, the big button on the decrease heart of your entrance display, whereas additionally holding down the Energy button on the high fringe of the telephone on the proper facet. Maintain these buttons down till the Apple icon seems. Then launch the buttons. Let the telephone go idle for a couple of minutes. You may additional push the facility button, then slide the on-screen button to energy down the telephone. Depart the telephone off for a couple of minutes. Then push the facility button and let the telephone energy again up.
Then go to your automobile. Go to your telephone settings and delete your telephone from the checklist of Bluetooth gadgets. Then flip your automobile off. Open the hood and discover the automobile battery. Loosen and take away the black (detrimental) battery cable) for about 5 minutes. Then change the cable and tighten the clamp. Shut the hood and restart the automobile. Let a couple of minutes move earlier than resetting the radio from AM and resetting the clock. Then go to your telephone settings and pair your telephone again. See this video for directions on pairing a phone.
Sure, this can be a lot to do. This is the reason it’s essential actually clear Emoji Apps and emoji keyboards out of your telephone information. Emoticons are cute however they defeat the entire objective of getting a Bluetooth-enabled hands-free communications system. Possibly it is time to say bye, bye to smiley faces! So sorry!
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