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The car mic and one of the right side speakers stopped working. The ota updates also stopped arriving, and toyota stopped sending me emails about where my car had been / how long it was driven. The emergency button which calls the toyota help line is also broken now.
There were no warnings from my car at all after i pulled the fuse.
There’s some forum posts about rewiring the speaker back into the system - apparently you only need an extra plug, a little bit of wiring skills, and access through the glove box to get it working again. I havent personally done it yet, but ill get around to it at some point.
Wow! That speaker bit is the most interesting thing to me. It means that the speaker itself is powered or pre-amped in some fashion which makes so very little sense to me. Is the fix simply putting a wire from a->b bypassing the fuse?
There is. On my toyota it was called the DCM telematics module. Had its own fuse so it was super easy to disable.
interesting! was there any persistent warnings or error messages that popped up or did it just keep on trucking without any user prompting?
The car mic and one of the right side speakers stopped working. The ota updates also stopped arriving, and toyota stopped sending me emails about where my car had been / how long it was driven. The emergency button which calls the toyota help line is also broken now.
There were no warnings from my car at all after i pulled the fuse.
There’s some forum posts about rewiring the speaker back into the system - apparently you only need an extra plug, a little bit of wiring skills, and access through the glove box to get it working again. I havent personally done it yet, but ill get around to it at some point.
Wow! That speaker bit is the most interesting thing to me. It means that the speaker itself is powered or pre-amped in some fashion which makes so very little sense to me. Is the fix simply putting a wire from a->b bypassing the fuse?
Yeah, it goes through the emergency call system, but just connecting the wires and leaving the dcm box alone is supposed to fix it. I have the forum post saved if you wanna look; https://www.toyotanation.com/threads/how-do-i-locate-the-dcm-telematics-unit-on-a-2020-corolla.1693507/#post-14400614
OH! for emergency calling… derp.