How-To: Bluetooth Syncing Contacts from Android Phones (aka Tmobile Google G1) Non-MM
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How-To: Bluetooth Syncing Contacts from Android Phones (aka Tmobile Google G1) Non-MM
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!
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!
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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
So its possible w/o the PCMIA slot thingy
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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 .
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'11 E350 - P2, MM, Pano roof, PDC; '07 ML350 - Nav, '19 rims; '08 BMW 550i - fully loaded!
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?
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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.
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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?
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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?
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!
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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.
I guess this is the only way to keep contacts sync'd between phone and car. Bummer. My Bimmer would import contacts automagically.
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2014 E 550 Cabriolet. Black exterior with red interior, 2009 C 350. 2013 Toyota highlander.
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.
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.
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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?
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