Dredging up an old thread here...
There is a LOT of erroneous information about setting up a phone on the 'trek BT network. I see I posted here more than a year ago. Since I got another new phone I had it paired but I would have to connect it with the phone BT menu every time I wanted to use it in the car - it would not auto-connect.
So I fiddle with it for a couple of hours tonight, went over the manual, searched online, and here's what I finally figured out:
1. If you pair your phone with the menu button on the radio itself, you pair it for audio streaming and it will work as a phone too but will not auto-connect after shut off the ignition. On my phone it would pop up the music menu on the phone as well.
2. What has been said here and there on various threads it that you have to pair it with the voice menu system for the phone.
YOU MUST PAIR IT WITH THE VOICE COMMANDS IN THE PHONE OPERATION MENU. If you don't it won't auto-connect when you start the car.
If you've been having this problem, delete the car device from your phone, and using the menu button on the radio. The activate the voice commands, select SETUP, then PAIR PHONE. It will prompt you to give the phone an name, and then to set it up with your phone device, then CONFIRM it. You may also need to SELECT PHONE.
Once you pair your BT phone to the car this way it will auto-connect when you cycle the ignition switch.
I hope there's a sticky or something for this because there are a LOT of 'treks driving around that can't auto-connect to their owner's phone!
EDIT: Oh, and BTW, the other hidden setting on the A radio is the bass boost, and there are two of them:
1. with the radio on, hold the preset button 1 and 6 at the same time and then touch the tuner button - you'll find loud and normal - select the loud option.
2. with the radio turned off, hold the 1 and 4 button and touch the tuner button and you'll see PASS THROUGH. You might have to touch the tuner button a couple of times for it to come up. Then release and turn on the radio and you'll have full bass boost. Helps a lot with this crappy little radio and cheap speakers.
