[tex2670]

Originally Posted by gpjustinn

My mistake, it's 'Additional Telephone'. Not sure exactly what it enables, but I don't have it checked. Either way, voice guidance for me comes thru the speakers on a "phone call", like the others mentioned. But like I said, I use Google Maps, never used Waze.

thanks. I'll have to check again.

[tex2670]

Originally Posted by gpjustinn

My mistake, it's 'Additional Telephone'. Not sure exactly what it enables, but I don't have it checked. Either way, voice guidance for me comes thru the speakers on a "phone call", like the others mentioned. But like I said, I use Google Maps, never used Waze.

On my car instead of "Additional Telephone", it says "Telephone 2"--that's my wife's phone. So that's not a setting--it's just a second paired phone.

[tex2670]

Originally Posted by Mick0005

If I recall correctly, waze tricks the car into thinking the waze audio is a phone call. This way, when you are using non-BT audio source, waze will interrupt to give a direction or alert notification by playing through the audio like a phone call is coming in. Does yours not work this way?

Google Maps has this setting.

[Mobster1983]

Originally Posted by Mick0005

If I recall correctly, waze tricks the car into thinking the waze audio is a phone call. This way, when you are using non-BT audio source, waze will interrupt to give a direction or alert notification by playing through the audio like a phone call is coming in. Does yours not work this way?

This is how mine works. Wake directions come out over the car speakers and just dim the music/podcast I am playing at the same time.

[tex2670]

Originally Posted by Mobster1983

This is how mine works. Wake directions come out over the car speakers and just dim the music/podcast I am playing at the same time.

If you are streaming a podcast, then aren't you using the BT audio streaming? The question is how does Waze do this when you are listening to the radio or satellite?

[tc328]

What about connecting iphone via usb port? I dont like using BT

[Mick0005]

During radio and satellite (or HDD based music collection, or USB phone connection) I have confirmed that it comes in as a phone call on both waze (by default) and google maps (by enabling in settings as shown in an earlier post). When bluetooth is your audio source, it doesn't come as a call but instead right in the middle of the audio from BT.

[cmplaya]

Originally Posted by Polo08816

Is Waze any better than Google Maps?

they are both owned by google but i find that they give me different routes. waze is typically faster but doesn't give you lane guidance like google maps does

about twice in the past year waze has also directed me to the back entrance of a place (parks where the main entrance was 5 minute drive away) which was not open and wasted time while google had the proper main entrance listed

[tex2670]

Originally Posted by Mobster1983

This is how mine works. Wake directions come out over the car speakers and just dim the music/podcast I am playing at the same time.

It is now working like this for me. I'm not sure why it did not before. Thanks all for your input.