2000 Toyota Avalon Owners Manual - Page 186

'00 AVALON U (L/O 9908) MSG (Message) This button is used to display a radio text message. It is also used to store and recall radio text messages. To receive radio text, turn RDS on (see "RDS"), and tune to an RDS station that broadcasts radio text messages. When the radio receives a radio test message, "MSG" will appear on the display. Push this button at this time to display the radio text message. The message display will be canceled if you activate any function that affects the display. After the entire message has been displayed, the message will disappear. To view the message again, push this button a second time. To store a radio text message, push and hold this button for more than 1.7 seconds while the message is being displayed. A beep will sound, indicating that the message has been stored. At this time "MSG STORED" appears on the display. Up to three 64- character messages can be stored. If 3 messages are already in storage, the oldest message will be removed to make room for a new message. To recall a radio text message, push this button for less than 1.7 seconds. The most recently received stored message will appear on the display, even if it has already been displayed. Pushing this button for less than 1.7 seconds while the most recent message is being displayed will recall the newest stored message. If 2 or more messages have been stored, the other stored messages will be toggled through each time you push this button (while a stored message is on display). If no messages have been stored, or if there are no more messages to be recalled, "NO MSG STORED" will appear on the display, and the message display will be canceled. The display then returns to show the program service name. The message display will be canceled if you activate any function that affects the display. Message display can be canceled by pressing any of the following buttons: "AM", "FM", "CD", "TAPE", "LOAD", "SEEK", "TUNE", any preset, "SCAN", any audio control, "RDS", "SRCH", or "". If the current station is not a traffic program and traffic announcements is off, pushing "TRAF" will cancel the display. The message will be canceled after the entire message has been displayed. (Program Types) This button is used for program type (PTY) search of RDS stations. 32 program types are available as listed here. By pushing this button, RDS is turned on if it was off ("RDS" will display), and the radio is switched to FM type mode. If program type search has not previously performed, the radio will start a program type search (see "SRCH" for details on program type search). If a program type search has previously been performed in FM1 or FM2, the radio will return to the last active program type. If you are already in FM type a program type is not already played, pushing this button will display for the current program mode and being disrecall the type. After a program type is being displayed, subsequent pushes within 3 seconds will toggle through the available program types. Pushing the right or left arrows repeatedly will increment or decrement the display through the available program types in alphabetical order. If a type search was started, it can be canceled as described in "SRCH." 186