Reading Sms on my Aston?

[SpookyTheFirst]

Hello,

I have a Db9 gt 2016, and I am unable to read SMS. According to the user manual it should work.... but I never receive anything see pic below.... any idea??

Thanks!

Edited by SpookyTheFirst on Thursday 22 June 06:05

Edited by SpookyTheFirst on Thursday 22 June 06:06

[silverspeed]

SpookyTheFirst said:

Hello,

I have a Db9 gt 2016, and I am unable to read SMS. According to the user manual it should work.... but I never receive anything see pic below....

Thanks!

Had a similar problem and it was something on the phone that required switching on but can't remember what . My dealer knew so suggest you call him .

[Octavarium]

Spooky. If I recall, on my iPhone, it was first of all necessary to 'Sync notifications'. This is in 'Settings' > 'Bluetooth' and then select the blue 'i' on the right hand side.

I may of course be talking complete nonsense, so apologies if I am.

[AdamV12V]

Depends on the phone, but it needs to support remote Sim Access Profile "rSAP" within the bluetooth settings. From memory there is also a similar setting the the car setup menu to enable Sim Access or similar...

Some phones bluetooth only support Hand Free protocol (HFP) - which allows the car to act as a mic and speaker, whereas rSAP allows the car to act as the whole phone and just access the SIM from within the real phone.

rSAP in effect allows the SMS to be received into the car instead of the phone - note it only is delivered to the car at the moment the SMS arrives. You cant use it to read SMS which were delivered to your phone earlier when the car was switched off. (edit - as per Grants post below it seems this last bit might only be a constraint on Apple iPhones)

Hope that helps

Edited by AdamV12V on Thursday 22 June 14:25

[Big Ry]

I find waiting until I've stopped and then just picking up the phone to be quite a good way of doing it

[Grant3]

As this varies by phone it's a hard one to answer specifically but from the manual..... " iPhone users must manually set notifications to ON before pairing with the vehicle. If notifications are set to ON after pairing with the vehicle the phone will need to synchronise with the vehicle again".

Further info for you.............................
SMS messaging is phone dependent. Your mobile phone must support downloading text messages using Bluetooth to receive incoming text messages.

IPhone Users
Turn on Bluetooth notifications under settings on the IPhone - Turn on ‘Show Notifications’ on your IPhone located under ‘My Devices’ - Take the key out to un-pair the phone - Re-insert key after 5 seconds - Go to the message centre and it should now work.
IPhones will only show incoming messages and not current stored messages.

Android Users
Connect phone via Bluetooth - Two pop-ups will appear one after the other asking to sync contacts and messages - Android phones will show up to 200 stored messages unlike the iPhone.

Hope this helps

[DocW]

Excellent advice Grant, worked perfectly and new text was read out as I drove. I have the iPhone plugged into the aux socket in the cubby and can use Siri for replies, voice dialling, music etc.

[AdamV12V]

Grant3 said:

Further info for you.............................
SMS messaging is phone dependent. Your mobile phone must support downloading text messages using Bluetooth to receive incoming text messages.

Yup - formally known as Bluetooth remote Sim Access Profile (rSAP)

[SpookyTheFirst]

Thanks, I restarted the phone with the notificationson, and it now works !