Navi Address not available from Phone Contacts?
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Navi Address not available from Phone Contacts?
It's generally considered routine to sync our cell phone's contact lists with COMAND and to be able to dial by contact name.
My (pre-CarPlay/Android Auto) 2016 W166 COMAND display shows that this same concept should work to have the Navi system use street addresses from the contact list as well.
In practice, the system seems to get the city and state from the contacts, but no street, etc. It then wants you to put in the rest of the address (for which you need to stop the car).
Is there some format that I'm missing for the address on the phone?
I'm using an Android Phone.
Thanks in advance!
My (pre-CarPlay/Android Auto) 2016 W166 COMAND display shows that this same concept should work to have the Navi system use street addresses from the contact list as well.
In practice, the system seems to get the city and state from the contacts, but no street, etc. It then wants you to put in the rest of the address (for which you need to stop the car).
Is there some format that I'm missing for the address on the phone?
I'm using an Android Phone.
Thanks in advance!
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It's generally considered routine to sync our cell phone's contact lists with COMAND and to be able to dial by contact name.
My (pre-CarPlay/Android Auto) 2016 W166 COMAND display shows that this same concept should work to have the Navi system use street addresses from the contact list as well.
In practice, the system seems to get the city and state from the contacts, but no street, etc. It then wants you to put in the rest of the address (for which you need to stop the car).
Is there some format that I'm missing for the address on the phone?
I'm using an Android Phone.
Thanks in advance!
My (pre-CarPlay/Android Auto) 2016 W166 COMAND display shows that this same concept should work to have the Navi system use street addresses from the contact list as well.
In practice, the system seems to get the city and state from the contacts, but no street, etc. It then wants you to put in the rest of the address (for which you need to stop the car).
Is there some format that I'm missing for the address on the phone?
I'm using an Android Phone.
Thanks in advance!
If an address is still not recognized, enter it manually into COMAND and note how it displays it in the destination display. Change your contact to that format. Sometimes it insists on a neighborhood before the city and other lunacies.
My 2019 is just as bad. My contacts were pretty much COMANDized from a 2013 but a bunch of them need new tweaking. It's a total disgrace.