In my silly little film of the little hill we climbed for fun, filmed on the iPhone handheld, there's a point near the end where I have obviously mistakenly pressed the left roller button on the steering wheel, because the disembodied resident Mz Whiplash barks a command at me, and completely ruins the effectiveness of the entire exercise.

Here Is the link should you wish to re-view it.

My question is this: has anyone succeeded in taming this dominatrix? I have tried on numerous occasions, with and without protection from the manual. She tells me that the phone book is empty. She says "pardon" frequently. She repeats the list of commands, then steadfastly refuses to obey. My diction is perfect, as you can hear, and I neither growl nor grovel to her. I use an iPhone which works perfectly with both the Bolero and the MFD display, showing me all my contacts, missed calls, dialled calls and answered calls - and yet she chooses to ignore all that.

Increasingly she begins to irritate, and it isn't the usual relationship one seeks to enjoy with the fairer sex. I would like her to submit, fully, to my wishes, or else to be extinguished, or exterminated.

Has anyone any suggestions, facetious or otherwise!

George

Edited 7 August, 201015 yr by Freshacre

Your film was great. Can I suggest this link as I had issues with the one above

Original link now working

Edited 7 August, 201015 yr by Ray_Green

Great video, the phone problem could be caused by a faulty button on the steering wheel. Normally to engage voice recognition you need to press and hold the same wheel thats used to turn the volume up/down, if you are not pressing that in (it needs a good press and almost impossible to do accidently) then the the switch/roller combo needs to be replaced.

Great video, the phone problem could be caused by a faulty button on the steering wheel. Normally to engage voice recognition you need to press and hold the same wheel thats used to turn the volume up/down, if you are not pressing that in (it needs a good press and almost impossible to do accidently) then the the switch/roller combo needs to be replaced.

Cheers Mannyo! But I can assure you there ain't no fault with her button (!!). I must be a bit ham fisted as I do occasionally disturb her mistakenly. No - it is the actual system of voice activation i'd like to crack, probably just because it's there and it is a challenge.

G

I'd just like to be able to turn off the voice control system completely. I occasionally activate it accidentally, and it starts trying to understand our conversation!! I have no use for it, but it came as standard :(

Anyone know how to turn it off, or even better, make the left switch/roller revert to a MUTE function?

I'd just like to be able to turn off the voice control system completely. I occasionally activate it accidentally, and it starts trying to understand our conversation!! I have no use for it, but it came as standard :(

Anyone know how to turn it off, or even better, make the left switch/roller revert to a MUTE function?

I had the same issue with my Blackberry, it was a pain in my last car and I could never get it to understand me, whereas the previous nokia was fine. It would also engage itself in my pocket and phone people at random. I found on one occasion that it had phoned my boss, who was out and left a very long unplanned message on his awnserphone! Hopefully I didn't say anything derogatory!

On the blackberry I tried everything to kill of the voice calling but there was no option to do this. I did some internet research and came across a memory release app which could remove unwanted core applications. Loaded this and deleted the voice calling software so it could't reload on next start and have been free ever since. Unfortunately the Yeti doesn't know this is not available in the phone so still talks back if you press the knob even though the phone cannot respond.

Edited 7 August, 201015 yr by kenfowler3966

I had the same issue with my Blackberry, it was a pain in my last car and I could never get it to understand me, whereas the previous nokia was fine. It would also engage itself in my pocket and phone people at random. I found on one occasion that it had phoned my boss, who was out and left a very long unplanned message on his awnserphone! Hopefully I didn't say anything derogatory!

On the blackberry I tried everything to kill of the voice calling but there was no option to do this. I did some internet research and came across a memory release app which could remove unwanted core applications. Loaded this and deleted the voice calling software so it could't reload on next start and have been free ever since. Unfortunately the Yeti doesn't know this is not available in the phone so still talks back if you press the knob even though the phone cannot respond.

GRRRRRRRRRR. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr and thrice grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

That said - can ANYONE help me tame the beast?

Great clip George,

unfortunately don't use mobile phones that much or have the function fitted to my SE, so I'm not much help.

Noticed while on the you-tube a number of other clips, tried this

one and it had a bit of a cheesy jingle

Regards,

TP

George see this thread on Audiworld:

http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?t=1991305

I bet you also get:

Address 16: Steering wheel

Part No: 8P0 953 549 F

Component: J0527 H34 0070

Coding: 0014142

Shop #: WSC 06314

Part No: XXX XXX XXX XX

Component: E0221 H07 0080

1 Fault Found:

01301 - Control Module for Voice Recognition (J507)

004 - No Signal/Communication - Intermittent

I agree you should get the car plugged into the dealer's computer and do a check for a fault code. It really sounds as if your lady's button is not working.