jono_2000

can anyone tell me how to activate my Sony Erricsson T610 phone so that i can use it via the Command and steering wheel buttons in my 05 SLK?

I've got the cradle and prewiring fitted, but when i place the phone in the cradle the rest of the car still says "Insert Telephone".

Do i activate something on the phone, or activate something on the car, or activate something on the bluetooth?

or what?

Brunelleschi

you can do that?

scorchie

Yes, he can, because he's in the UK.

-s-

Brunelleschi

oh

scorchie

Should work. Try a firmware update. I've had no problems with the T610 (only one) that I tried, but normally we use T630/T637 without any major issues.

-s-

jono_2000

ok - the solution was mind numbingly easy.

i picked up the car from the dealers at night and couldn't get the phone to work.

weather in feb in london is abysmal. (strong argument to move to florida...) so i couldn't really see what i was doing.

on closer inspection of the phone (bought second hand from ebay!) the pins of the adapter on the foot of the phone were filled by a fine reddish sand. (i guess the previous owner was in the building trade or similar),

i cleaned them out with a pin. when i fitted the phone again it worked properly.... nothing to set up at all, and loads of fun new buttons on the command system to play with whilst driving around!!!

ps - the phone has a dodgy aerial, meaning that when hand held the signal strength varyies like crazy, but snug in the cradle it works fine with 5 bars of signal at most times (so the MB aerial sorts out the dodgy sonyerricsson one!)

the only downside is that i rushed into the local phoneshop and got another bloody T610, which i guess will shortly be listed on ebay.

scorchie

Wow, glad it works! But when you bought a new phone, you should have gotten a T630! So few things changed, but such a huge improvement! Maybe you may want to consider that still.

-s-