I love my new Greenline (does this car ever need filling? I am at once a month at the moment for about 60 quid a time), it really is superb!

 

However, the fly in my motoring ink is the GSM 111 thing. Now I am not new to bluetooth technology in any way, but I have never had anything that mind rapes my phone and controls it at it's whim. Part of the problem is that I get a lot of text messages for work and I use them as a bit of a 'to do' list when I get to my desk and reply then and I assumed that getting them displayed on my car would also show them in the text threading on my phone. I was wrong.

 

Making and receiving calls is fine and useful, the bluetooth connection is brilliant and strong with no drops so far but I don;t need anything else from this system and I want it to leave my text messages and music alone quite frankly. So, will this system allow me to make and receive calls without harvesting my text messages which I want to go to my phone so I can reply later?

 

Plus I have my music on a SD card, how to I tell it to not touch that on my phone?

 

This whole system seems a bit over engineered really, why the HELL would you want to read and respond to text messages while driving?!

You can change the connection in the settings menu. Not sure exactly as ive not done it in s while. Change ftom Premium to std bluetooth. Or you can copy messages from the car to the phone.

Exactly as RichieJ says.  How old is your car, and which bluetooth module does it have in?  If it is a recent one then in Maxidot go to Phone - Settings - Phone Settings - Phone Mode and select 'Handsfree' rather than 'Premium'.  'Premium' is using the rSAP (remote SIM access protocol) to use the phone's SIM info but effectively disabling the rest of the phone including its radio; instead the car becomes the phone.  'Handsfree' is the usual old-fashioned way of connecting.

 

If you have a slightly older version of the bluetooth module you will need to delete the pairing, forget the car from the phone and vice versa, re-initialise and re-pair, and when the phone asks if you wish to allow remote access to the SIM you say 'no'.  It will then connect via 'Handsfree' only.

 

If it's an even older module you're out of luck I'm afraid - they only supported 'Premium' (which is why they didn't work with iPhones which don't support rSAP).  However you can change the bluetooth module, and there's plenty of threads (and sticky ones at that) about doing exactly this.

 

Michael