rmfnla

Ah; got it.

So you paired your laptop with the car via Bluetooth and downloaded the contacts directly; very clever!

My wife's contacts are all on her desktop so that won't work for us.

We have a few other things that need dealer attention so I'll see if they can help.

[Edit] Oh no, the dreaded Second Page!

kyoshiro

if your wife's desktop is close enough to the car, you could try using a bluetooth dongle on it to try and pair it and beam it over, you could also just export contacts on her desktop to a .vcf file then put it on any machine with bluetooth and beam the file over when the Audio 20 is in contact recieving mode. In reality anything works as long as its able to push files over bluetooth and you're able to put the .vcf file onto it.
If you are going to the dealership, you probably should export the contacts to .vcf and put it on an usb thumbdrive and tell the guys at dealership to push the file over if they have any laptops with bluetooth =p
I dont believe theres any limits on # of contacts in the .vcf, the system itself will be able to tell how many contacts are in the file.

rmfnla

Hmmm, this all makes sense.

I'll give it some thought and see if I can come up with something.

Thanks!

broddesign

Finally I did it! Forget about iPhone and vcards issue - I used my old Motorola Razor phone: synced it with my iMac contacts via bluetooth. Paired it with my GLK and send contacts to MB phone system one-by-one. It works! The only question: why such a technologically advanced firm like MB could not at-least come up with a clear workaround solution for thousands of frustrated customers?

kyoshiro

Apple not releasing the functionality on iOS for bluetooth beaming. iPhone integration from the UMI works with contacts cuz Mercedes paid licensing fee to Apple to use their APIs and such for the phone.
Theres no workaround if Apple blocks all paths =p

broddesign

I was talking about workaround Apple. :-) and complaining about MB refusing to give a customers solution how to get contacts from iPhone to MB car without actually dealing with an iPhone!

shakawi

Here is my post from another forum that some might find useful, rather than buying a lot of extra pcmcia cards, etc.

iphone address book sync
Hi,

I am new here having just got my glk today from germany (manufactured without a lot of extras I did not want). Anyway, I transferred my address book from my macbook (which is synced to my iphone and so is de facto the phone contact info) by getting the glk to recognize my macbook (like another bluetooth phone) and then connecting to the glk thru bluetooth on my macbook and exporting the vcard address book folder. Was very quick once I got things set up the right way.

gegori

Another quick and easy way is to use a Compact Flash adapter. I had a 2008 C300 and now have a 2011 GLK both with Navigation and used a CF adapter to import the contact. From my Mac, just export your address book contact in a VCF format v2.0. Drag them into the CF card along with any music you want.
I bought the adapter from eBay.

Then import the contacts from the MB Command interface.

pstuart

The Media Interface Plus kit allows the contacts to be synced (sent as business cards) via bluetooth. No idea why they didn't have this functionality native and have to buy an accessory, but it works.

MKenM

Are you saying that you can import music onto your hard drive in the COMAND system or does the music remain on the CF?

gegori

The music stays on the CF card. I believe the COMMAND system can only import music from an audio CD and it gives you 4GB of space.

MKenM

Just thought it might have been something different, the HD is 6 GB but I wish I could load music from something other than a CD.

gegori

Yes and also my previous C300 had the HK 5.1 system and it sounded a heck of a lot better than the standard system. You really have to crank up the treble on my GLK compared to my C300 to get decent sound. Next time I'm not going to compromise and will get all the options I want. Only if MB didn't make it so hard to find a GLK with the right options that I wanted.