rmfnla

So I paired the MILF's and my iPhones with the new GLK and it went well, except the menu selection to ADD CONTACTS didn't come up when the book said it should.

Anyone else have this experience?

Jkrn2003

iPhone can't send contacts via Bluetooth. You can buy a PCMCIA memory card adaptor and load contacts that way.

rmfnla

My sales rep at the dealer seemed to think they should load via Bluetooth.

I guess I could go the PCMCIA route.

Thanks!

balticgreen

It does work that way with almost any phone except the iPhone. Apple has not given the iPhone the ability to export vcards, so it won't work.

You can do the PCMCIA thing or if you have another Bluetooth phone lying around, you could sync your contacts to that phone and then use that phone to sync your contacts to the car.

rmfnla

I guess what has me thrown is the book says the menu choice to import contacts should come up during the sync process and it didn't. Is this because I was syncing an iPhone?

I would think the choice would come up greyed out, not just not appear.

I am on my 3rd iPhone so I don't have another Bluetooth phone; I guess it's PCMCIA for me!

balticgreen

Maybe it's a difference of vehicle but mine was definitely a two-step process to pair the phone and then transfer contacts from my Blackberry to the car. Nothing automatically popped up and I don't recall the manual saying it would.

iride

It's suck for iphone users it will not sync, so have to manually do it

MilesBFree

Balticgreen's idea to use a PCMCIA memory card adapter is a good one, and has the added benefit of being able to play music off of it once you are done transferring the contacts.

That is, if you also buy an SD card. IIRC the PCMCIA adapter cost $20 - 30, and an 8 GB SD card set me back another $15 - 20.

For the extra $15 it is nice to just be able to leave it in there and not have to plug and unplug my phone.

I pull the card every couple of months and sync music since I don't usually find anything new music-wise that I HAVE to have on it immediately.

I also bought a microSD card adapter to be able to play music on the microSD card that is in my BB. (So I have music in the microSD card inside the microSD adapter inside the PCMCIA adapter inside the radio - works fine.)

I know this may not be a perfect solution since one of the points of buying into the Apple thing is it is supposed to be convenient with one stop shopping, one device, one software package on the PC/Mac, etc. You would expect that if M-B was going to engineer their cars to work with the iPod, iPhone, etc., that they would design to make all the important features work and test them. Even if the iPhone can't export vcards and it is therefore more of an Apple issue, there should be some sort of work around. e.g.- mount the filesystem, change directory to wherever the contacts are stored, and read the file(s). Sounds like they may have missed one here.

rmfnla

One has to wonder which is the more arrogant company, Apple or Mercedes Benz...

KCviper

iPod "integration" really is a joke with MB. My 2003 Infiniti G35 was light years ahead of where MB is today. Still.......I love this C63......

rmfnla

OK, so I got a PCMCIA card, loaded the phone contacts, and plugged it into the slot in the console and... NOTHING!

There is a menu option in the address book set-up that says Import Contacts but it is greyed out and I cannot access it.

What's the magic word?!

Jkrn2003

What file was your contact info? I used .vcf format, and it worked fine.

rmfnla

Thanks; I just found that bit of info online.

My contacts are currently in the Windows Mobile Contacts default format.

I'll give this another shot this evening; wish me luck!

rmfnla

OK, so I moved the contacts onto a memory card in Vcard format but the Address Book didn't seem to notice. I selected the Get Business Cards (or whatever it says, I'm not near the car right now) but nothing happened.

I know the contacts are on the memory card because I was able to pull them up on another computer.

Am I missing something or is it time to head down to my friendly dealer?

greygoose

I was about to move to an iphone but the difficulties reported with exporting contacts to the GLK give me pause. Anyone have any experience with the new Samsung Galaxy phones in exporting contacts.

andyf0

This page is an interactive guide to bluetooth phones on MB cars. Select the GLK model and it has a feature list of phones vs capabilities.

http://www.mercedes-benz-mobile.com/...p?default=true

rmfnla

Doesn't say anything about loading contacts.

I went to my local Apple store today and one of the guys suggested I re-format my memory card to FAT-32. This makes sense because I think I've used this card for one of my digital cameras so it would have formatted it for photography, not data.

We shall see...

andyf0

Do I have to do it all?

http://www.mercedes-benz-mobile.com/...mpare_all=true

Click on the Importing Contacts tab.

greygoose

Thanks Andyf0 that's a very helpful link.

rmfnla

Those are 2 different links and the first one does not offer an Importing Contacts tab. In fact, it doesn't have any tibs; you have to go through a series of annoying drop-downs to get anywhere.

Maybe they lead to the second link and I just wasn't patient enough to get there...

rmfnla

OK, the second link ends up the same place as the first, 2 .pdf documents, one called Audio Instructions and the other External Pairing Instructions.

I still don't see anything that tells how to load contacts.

Schutzen

iPhone 3G contacts upload
My sister just purchased a 550 GL so, I wanted to see if the iPhone 3G could connect and upload the contacts...the iPhone 3G and MB head unit linked and uploaded contacts easily. The bluetooth directory in the iPhone showed the title "handsfree" when I clicked on "handsfree" within the iPhone it provided a list of sub-features like..."share contacts". Click on share contacts and guess what...it shared my iPhone contact list...boom.

My thought is that MB needs to do a software flash within the GLK system.
it was so simple with the 2010 GL.

Give me a break.

kyoshiro

Well I just solved my problem by using my macbook and pairing it with the GLK Audio 20 then sending vcards exported from Contacts.
It should also work on windows machines with bluetooth.

rmfnla

What is a GLK Audio 20?

kyoshiro

Audio 20 is the audio system in our GLK