phatmanrx7

Hey guys, i dont know if this has been completely covered yet, so ill write it up anyways. This might work for other phones. Should work for google phones.

i just bought my car on thursday 9/17. I setup the bluetooth and it works good but no phonebook!? Everytime i try it says phonebook is empty AHH

I have a Tmobile Google G1 phone and i have been super frustrated i cant get my phonebook or contacts through the car. G1 has no options to send contacts through bluetooth or syncing phonebook. Ive read on some other post some phones cant do it, and/or some phones can do one contact one by one. Or some had to use an older phone that did work? And whats more annoying is you cant just add it through the car itself. So i was determined to find a solution and i did.

Step 1: After youve done the inital setup of your bluetooth to ur car. On your phone go to your Android Market and download and install a program called "Bluetooth File Transfer"

Step 2: Go to your computer and sign into your google account that your phone is registered too. On the left under inbox should be "Contacts", click on that.

Step 3: In the upper right corner theres IMPORT|EXPORT|PRINT. Click on "EXPORT" and selection options All contacts and "vcard format" and hit the export button and save the "contacts.vcf" file to like your desktop or something. This will save all your contacts to an electronic file.

Step 4: Connect your phone to the computer via your USB cable and mount the SD Card. Once mounted, copy that vcard file you saved onto your phones SD Card. Unmount the phone and go sit in your car.

Step 5: Put your key in and let the car start up and ready your phone. Once its ready, click on the "TEL" button, use the control and then go to the TEL option in the lower left corner. Theres an option to "Recieve Business Cards" or something like that click on that and it should pop up "cards recieved: 0" or something like that, now go back to your phone.

Step 6: Open up that "Bluetooth File Transfer" Program, and under "local" tab at the top, it shows all the files and folders on that SD card, go down to that "contacts.vcf" file you saved and put a check to it. Then hit the menu button and click on "Send" and it brings you over the the device tab. Hit the menu button again and hit "search". it should find your "MB Bluetooth" since the car is waiting to accept file transfers. click on it and bam it should transfer ALL those contacts over. All your contacts are now from your phone to your car. No doing it one by one or using another phone. hundreds+ contacts in seconds.

Now when you go to phone list, your contacts should be there so you dont actually have to go thru your phone first and hit send or something.

Hope this is a helpful write up and actually helps some people out!

phatmanrx7

should work with iphones and all other phones too as long as you can save all your contacts all in one vcard file. Then you just need to send that file via bluetooth or use somones phone that can send files.

So its possible w/o the PCMIA slot thingy

yellowg555

Hey dude, thanks for this info! It worked for me flawlessly. I got pretty damn frustrated trying to figure out how to import my contacts. I came from a 3 series with iDrive and that didn't require an import; it just read the phonebook. So coming from that to this was like .

phatmanrx7

awesome! glad it helped someone out

pining_garcia

It's asking me to put a pin code, but then again if I type 1234 on the MM and same on the phone it'll say host denied or something... Is there a particular code that I need to put?

JimPap

Probably the same code you used to pair the cell phone to your car's blue tooth.

yellowg555

I believe the "code" can be anything at all, so putting in "1234" should work if entered correctly on both the phone and the car. I have never actually had the problem you're describing when it comes to pairing, so it is a bit strange. Try a different code like 1111 or 0000. If it still doesn't work, delete the paired MB Bluetooth in your phone and re-pair it.

JimPap

.....and be sure that your phone is set to discoverable.

Nexmeister

THANK YOU! Wow, that was fun....but it worked! must be an easier way, however for what I need it for, it did the trick!

kcherrix123

I have the Motorola Droid and I can't even get it to "talk" to the car. The phone doesn't seem to see the BT, it trys to discover but never seems to find it, then the car responds that the phone is off. Bluetooth is enabled on the phone, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

dandelos

I just set my G1 up yesterday so it's still fresh in my mind --

1) set the phone in 'discoverable' mode
2) simultaneously set the car to 'search' for bluetooth devices, while also setting the phone to 'search' for bluetooth devices
3) the car asked for a 4-digit code, enter whatever you want
4) the phone then asked for the 4 digit code, enter the same one from step #3.

And that should do it!

kcherrix123

Thank you dandelos, that did work... I didn't know about pressing the 3-point MB star on the BT adapter. It did ask me for a code but did not like 0000 or 1234. Guess I'll be calling wireless4mb.

kcherrix123

Got the code 62782 from wireless4mb... works like a champ! Now to try these contacts download instructions...

sharp2403

worked like a champ

lkevinl

You can go to Contacts in Android and export your contacts to SD Card directly.

I guess this is the only way to keep contacts sync'd between phone and car. Bummer. My Bimmer would import contacts automagically.

2GRLS1BENZ

Are those instructions applicable to the iphone? I recently purchased my car, but I haven't discovered a way to import my phonebook into the car yet.

kirillbenz22

dam i had my g1 hooked up all this time and i never knew you can import the contacts well too late now i have an htc hd2 windows

MURTAZAC350

I am probably a bit off topic but i have recently changed my cell from an iphone to a HTC Inspire. I obviously have been using the ipod integration kit in my car, using the steering wheel flawlessly for track change and all. And now that i m using an android, i am afraid i am about to loose that feature ...... or will i ?

Has anyone of you with android cell used this ?

Sprint Anycom Bluetooth A2DP Reciever with iPod Dock Connectivity

Will it allow the tracks data displayed on my car dashboard and can i still control my tracks though the steering wheel ?


Hope to get some insight here, thanks.

jpdaballa

dude i love you right now thanks

MURTAZAC350

Hi Jpdaballa, were you able to check the sprint thingee, i really hope it works. do let me know either way.

Thanks

zim-c350

Okay so I am having a few problems now. When I had upgraded my phone to the droid 2 global I had the verizon store transfer my contacts. Now the only ones that are saved in my gmail are the ones I put in manually recently. Is there anything I can do to save them under gmail now?

Gcappa

Amazing thanks!! gonna try this on my new car.

Stevedotmil

Worked like a charm with my Droid X.

kl-audio

Transferring contacts? I tried to to transfer contacts from my DROID X, couldn't get it to work for some reason..

CarMiGe

Using my EVO 3D, I simply exported my contacts to my SD Card, then I did a Bluetooth file transfer to the car; all contacts imported successfully.