Possibly?

https://www.downeasttoyota.com/blog/...-capabilities/

i got my second e-mail from toyota today reminding me that I will no longer be getting pandora. what the f it seems like a money grab. Why would you buy x m radio when pandora is free. I paid for it and now they are taking it away.thanks toyota i would much rather use my phone to control my radio. It just makes sense.....Ass bags dont care.its the bottom line they care about not your saftey.

Throw in too that just last week it now no longer works for phone. Always says no service but I still receive text, Pandora, etc. And as I am not using a phone on the list from T-Mobile (Nokia 6.1) I'll just be told it is an unsupported phone.

I used to travel a lot and therefor was in a rental car at least every other week. Every vehicle I've ever rented worked without issue. Now I am on the fence to send Marathon and Canvasback money and instead use it towards a new head unit.

Oh if only money grew on trees.

Using Pandora all of the time isn't an option for me, cell coverage here is sparse.
I got a new phone a week or so ago, paired it to the 4Runner, contacts show up and all is good.

Next day, get in the 4Runner. Phone shows connected but no service.

Oh well. Waiting for my wife later and fooled with the phone, phone sees the car, car doesn't want to connect.

Fool with it for a while and it wants to import contacts again.
But then it won't. And if I use the phone to call it won't connect, tests are not going through the head unit either.

It worked the first time I paired it and hasn't worked right since.

I have a $50 BT speaker in my work truck, it works great all of the time.
I've had 3 different phones paired to it over the last couple years and it's always worked without issue.

But a $40K+ vehicle won't work reliably.

I actually like having the weather app on Entune. It’s useful in the radar view when traveling near severe weather.

we live in western NY and we dont have severe weather in Western NY. All we get is lake effect snow and that only happens from buffalo and southward.Still the radar is kind weak in my opinion.

This could be the reason why Pandora connectivity going away: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...D=ansmsnnews11

I can’t stand the stupid message it pops up every time I start the car. Also... The connectivity between the on-board Pandora app to the Pandora servers via my cell was always buggy thru Entune. I often had to shutoff/restart at traffic lights to bootstrap a new working connection.

Exactly!

so... is this just for the newer units? in have a 2017 and I have received no notification, nor does entune online list anything about services going away.

Android Auto coming to Entune. Supposedly Toyota will make an announcement this October.

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/09/24/...d-auto-google/

"....................Toyota might not like that drivers are effectively overriding its software, but it might not have much choice if it wants to stay fiercely competitive with Honda, VW and other companies that embraced smartphone connectivity a long time ago."

It's unfortunate, they don't (or being capricious) get it. Entune will be used by the vast minority. Who is going to choose to use Toyota's interface vs. a person's smartphone (Apple/Android) interface?

I'm looking to get an Android H.U. myself. My phone is with me 99% of the time, having familiar software in my car/truck/whatever would be great. Some drawbacks into getting one of these is sound quality (subjective) and boot up time. Some units can take up to 45 seconds to boot up. Yikes. Whatever, this is another subject.............

I would much rather use the stereo interface than my phone

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All the messaging is annoying PLEASE dont ask me again. In my opinion the whole thing is a waste of space. i could do just as much or more with an auxiliary jack. Hook up is questionable and if it does hook up there is a tether error. So lately pandora has been starting on my phone and on the radio at the same time...I just quick swipe the phone off. i would like to see a whole revamping of the system. Im sure they could have done a better job than they did with this head unit. Pretty sad attempt..

So, from the above posts it sounds like I should not bother to activate the Entune in the new 4Runner?

download the entune app and see if any of the features are useful to you

i use the destination search, i can pre-search addresses and then they sync to the vehicle