Hi,
I'm having some trouble connecting my sensation with my car. I've just got a BMW with idrive that's fully up to date.
On BMW's website it says the sensation is well supported (defently with address book anyway) and the version tested is 1.45.401.2 (Android 2.3.4).
Everything connects and pairs fine, I can make calls, read emails and SMS but the address book doesn't work. If I watch the address book just after pairing, it all fills in fine (I've got about 200 contacts and they all show up) but after 15-20 seconds they all just dissapear.
I have tried flashing various different ROMs and as far as I can tell HTC Sense seems to be the culprit, cyanogenmod syncs the address book fine but doesn't support SMS or email sync (I'm happy without email but would like SMS)
oddly, flashing to stock 1.45.401.2 doesn't work.
This is my 3rd day of googling and reading forums... im starting to lose to will...
Anyone got any ideas?
Ah, figured out some more info on this.
If I wipe the phone (stock rom) and enter a normal contact in the phone it syncs with the car no problem, appears and stays forever.
If I then sync the phone with my exchange server, boom, it never works again. unless I delete the exchange account from the phone then un-then-re-pair.... the one contact stored in the phone magically works in the car again.
Fixed!
It all seemed to be caused by having spaces in the phone numbers. I removed all spaces from my contacts numbers and everything works perfectly now.
Posted the solution here for a sense of completeness.
What model & year of BMW do you have?
I ask because I have a 2007 335i, and I have not found any way to get contacts to sync with my car using any Sense ROM (including the stock ROM.) I do not sync contacts with Exchange; I only have created-on-phone contacts.
The car would sync perfectly with my old phones (an iPhone and a Nexus One, both stock and CM7), and will sync perfectly with the Sensation if I use an AOSP ROM like CM7, but if I install any Sense ROM, the car only acts as a headset -- I can use it to talk handsfree, but there's no dialing, contact sync, etc. at all.
Yeah, its a december 2011 320d (e92) with the second gen iDrive.
I'm sure you already have but have you tried removing spaces from phone numbers? or it might be worth double checking it, I know I missed a couple the first time I checked through them.
Past that all I can think is to remove anything unusual from the contacts... categories, labels ect. The notes field seems to be ok, I use that and it hasn't effected the contacts syncing.
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Hello,
after trying out the Galaxy S for some days now with the stock F3 firmware, I have one question/annoyance regarding the use in the car paired via rSAP.
It seems, that the Audi MMI 3G can synch only with the Telephone and SIM contacts of the Galaxy S. The contacts imported from Exchange or Google are not accessible from the car. The xdandroid I tried on my Raphael earlier did not have this behavior regarding the import of the phonebook to the car. There all contacts were imported after the phone had received them from the Exchange server.
Is there a workaround or possible other application, that solves this quirk? I have tried some other apps like TouchDown, but this did not make contacts other than those stored in Telephone or SIM visible to the car kit.
Having to manually Import the contacts to the phone as a static adressbook (export in outlook and import from sd) is not really what I would like to do, not even as a last resort. Maybe there is a way to map exchange or google synched contacts to the phone contact list or otherwise solve this issue.
Other than that, I am mighty impressed with this phone and the android system.
It would be great if someone could help.
Thanks, Chris
whoaw... major bug if true... this is standard bluetooth protocol build in Android.
It works with my Magic & my MMI.
Normally it takes a while (a minute or so) to send all contact/received/missed/dialed info over to your MMI.
What do you mean with "telephone contacts", doesn't that include the Google contacts after Google Sync?
Can you pair without problem? What firmware do you have? Tried with latest?
pinkopalino said:
after trying out the Galaxy S for some days now with the stock F3 firmware, I have one question/annoyance regarding the use in the car paired via rSAP.
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How did you get your SGS to work with rSAP? My understanding was that Android didn’t support this protocol. I’ve tried for some time to get it to work with a VW car, it will pair but won’t connect.
MaNIaC
I wouldn't call it major bug.. annoyance at best, ill thought out, perhaps, but given that Samsung added a proprietary rSAP protocol to their android "flagship" shows, they generally know what they are doing.
To clear up any confusion regarding phone, SIM and accounts contact entries:
The phone can naturally sync with exchange, or similar, servers as well as the google account and will add those into the contacts application. If you go to optins in there, you see, that you can switch on/off the visibility of those as well as telephone and sim called entries. Thus the problem with these sourced of synched into the phone contacts being somewhat handled separately by the samsung (touchWiz?) contacts application.
The Audi MMI synches just fine and will pair both hands free and rSAP mode without problems. The permission to access the phone's contacts is asked and if given, the contacts are synched.
The problem is, that only the contacts named SIM and Telephone get to be imported to the MMI. Others - here, the ones coming from the phones earlier synch with either google or exchange are omitted. They are availeable in the contacts app from samsung, but they are somehow treated separately according to their source and not "spliced" together...
The idea is great, being able to switch on/off visibility of certain contacts according to their source, I just whished I had some more control over the process.
Touch Down, for instance, offered to copy the contacts imported over the air from exchange, to "telephone" - only in Touch Down "telephone" really means google, which does not help, because the contacts would have to be copied into Samsungs understanding of Telephone as storage location/type.
The contacts app on the 2.1 build from June of xdandroid did not handle the contacts separately regarding their import source into the phone. More nicely, also the categories given to contacts were properly imported into the phone there. Not so in the SGS contacts imported over the air from Exchange 2003.
If now, someone could find a way to make any contact set to be visible on the phone itself being somehow "replicated" in the telephone part of the contacts on SGS, the MMI would see them and synch them. Contacts added on the SGS and stored as "Telephone" (Phone, probably in English) when saving, get imported to the MMI. That was the starting point of my workarounnd thinking.
So in short, the Samsung Galaxy S I9000 has full rSAP and Bluetooth 3 and does pair with car kits and hands free units admirably. Contacts are synched between car components and phone as long as they are either labeled phone or sim according to the SGS contacts app logic.
Ideas, anyone?
Cheers, Chris
MaNIaCv1 said:
How did you get your SGS to work with rSAP? My understanding was that Android didn’t support this protocol. I’ve tried for some time to get it to work with a VW car, it will pair but won’t connect.
MaNIaC
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rSAP - Samsung proprietarily includes it - I was surprised myself when it offered this while pairing.
When pairing, did you check "always grant permission" on the Galaxy S? In my case, if not doing this, pairing and connecting would not go through at all. On another forum in German, someone with a recent VW system has it paired alright. I don't know the specifics so I wont make any guesses, but the flawlessness of the process in my case made me believe, that it should work with no problems generally...
MB NTG1 comand
I have a NTG1 Comand in my Mercedes, and the rSAP conection works like charme, with the SGS(2.2.1 jpy).
Only thing that not works is the PBAP so only my sim card contacs r listed!
edit: Now i saved all Google contacts to SD card and after save all V-cards
to the internal phonebook, so all contacts are on Google and on the SGS now.
Tomorrow i try to sync them with the MB comand again.
Mike
Just be glad you don't have an MY09 BMW with iDrive - Galaxy S and car do not play nicely at all lol, sometimes they pair sometimes they don't lol
anyone has a solution for this problem?
Hi,
In my understanding VW & similar premium systems won't synch any contact that has an email address. That automatically excludes google and exchange contacts. I synch my SGS to Outlook, and I'm looking for a way to synch only the phone numbers, no emails. Will keep you posted on my progress.
Cheers
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rSAP - Samsung proprietarily includes it - I was surprised myself when it offered this while pairing.
When pairing, did you check "always grant permission" on the Galaxy S? In my case, if not doing this, pairing and connecting would not go through at all. On another forum in German, someone with a recent VW system has it paired alright. I don't know the specifics so I wont make any guesses, but the flawlessness of the process in my case made me believe, that it should work with no problems generally...
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havo you finally foud a way to sync exchange contacts ?
I just picked up a 2010 F-150 FX2 with Microsoft/Ford sync. My phone connects and I can use it to talk to people ect. However, anytime I try to download the phonebook the Captivate eventually disconnects from Sync without transferring any entries of the phonebook.
When I go to download the phonebook the authorization screen shows up on the captivate and I allow. It then vibrates once. About 15 seconds later it vibrates twice very quickly. Then about a minute later the disconnect happens.
I am running Cognition Beta 2.1. Anyone else having the issue?
2012 ford fiesta and no problems with phonebook download with two captivates (me and the wife)
What rom are you running?
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I had the same problem. Actually it worked one time. Then I installed the sync lockpick and I lost my phonebook. Went back to download the phonebook and I got the same problem you did. I ended up deleting the bluetooth connection, adding the phone again and it worked after that. I'm not running any other ROM and my phone is rooted but you might try that if you haven't already. Good luck.
Zardoz
I found a work around. There is an app in the market called "bluetooth file transfer"which has am option for transferring contacts. It worked perfectly.
Program worked like a charm. thanks!
Hi everybody, i have the phone since oct 2011, tired of waiting for a kies 2.3.x i installed 2.3.5 and later 2.3.6 (never installed any mod, only official ROMS )using links and tutorials from this forum... works great, except for a fatal flaw: every 7-10 days tops ( but it happened 3 times in a single week) my address book randomly disappears in the middle of the day... e.g. i'm texting on whatsapp and suddenly instead of the contact name there's only the number... when i go for the address book i always find this exact situation:
- no numbers, no emails, no social... tabula rasa, blank
- if i try and change the visualization options, until i reboot the phone i can't even see the contacts in my SIM ( and when i reboot they magically reappear, they seem to be untouched), and nothing seems to be working, google account contacts are still safe on the server but the phone seems to be unable to see them ( works flawlessly in every other internet-related task)
after a while, and a reboot, and a restore from a backup i have on my microsd, situation seems to be back to normal, i can go back to visualizing only google contacts, sim and phone book both off... until it happens again, and again, and again...
did this happen to any of you, too? is there any way it can be fixed? it's really grinding my gears :\
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Hi everybody, i have the phone since oct 2011, tired of waiting for a kies 2.3.x i installed 2.3.5 and later 2.3.6 (never installed any mod, only official ROMS )using links and tutorials from this forum... works great, except for a fatal flaw: every 7-10 days tops ( but it happened 3 times in a single week) my address book randomly disappears in the middle of the day... e.g. i'm texting on whatsapp and suddenly instead of the contact name there's only the number... when i go for the address book i always find this exact situation:
- no numbers, no emails, no social... tabula rasa, blank
- if i try and change the visualization options, until i reboot the phone i can't even see the contacts in my SIM ( and when i reboot they magically reappear, they seem to be untouched), and nothing seems to be working, google account contacts are still safe on the server but the phone seems to be unable to see them ( works flawlessly in every other internet-related task)
after a while, and a reboot, and a restore from a backup i have on my microsd, situation seems to be back to normal, i can go back to visualizing only google contacts, sim and phone book both off... until it happens again, and again, and again...
did this happen to any of you, too? is there any way it can be fixed? it's really grinding my gears :\
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This happened to me 3 days ago when using CM9, only thing i did was checking my contacts, played a little, checked the contacts again to get a number, and bam. EMPTY.
I wasn't convinced so i plugged the phone to my PC and launched moborobo, and guess what.. the contacts are there.
Got my numbers backed up, deleted the whole contacts there (invisible, from moborobo) and restored backed up contacts, didn't happen from that day.
So, I recently bought a car with bluetooth handsfreelink. And it synced my contacts (which is cool). But I noticed that some contacts appear to be missing for some reason.
My phone does have Google+ and Facebook (though I have not let it sync my facebook friends) installed.
My question is, how does the phone decide which contacts to make available via bluetooth? Sort of need to figure that our since one of the contacts that isn't available is my wife's!
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So, I recently bought a car with bluetooth handsfreelink. And it synced my contacts (which is cool). But I noticed that some contacts appear to be missing for some reason.
My phone does have Google+ and Facebook (though I have not let it sync my facebook friends) installed.
My question is, how does the phone decide which contacts to make available via bluetooth? Sort of need to figure that our since one of the contacts that isn't available is my wife's!
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If you are using JellyBean, it could be that you are experiencing a problem where car audio systems don't handle the new stack in 4.1.1 properly.
If you are on ICS, try unpairing and repairing a few times, you might also try requiring a prompt for phonebook access and see if you get a few prompts in a row. If you are running a stock ROM (not sure if this is ICS only or not), you should try disabling the PBAP service (running applications).
It is in fact running jellybean (stock version).
I suspect the reason is that some of the contacts couldn't be imported because they had some issues, I am wondering if there might be a log that articulates what the reason they were skipped might be?
I have a 2009 BMW with their iDrive nav system, and a Galaxy S6 on AT&T.
Prior to this I had an AT&T HTC One (m7) that I had flashed with a Google Play Edition ROM. With the One M7, all my contacts that had phone numbers would display on the car's phonebook/contacts list.
All of my contacts are synced down via Google Contacts.
When I paired my S6 to the car, I noticed I was getting a very small amount of contacts displayed on the car. I counted 27 total - when I have a bit over 200 in Google Contacts.
What is strange is that the contacts that do show up do so just fine - names, phone numbers, emails, etc. (Not that anything beyond name/numbers matter as far as the car is concerned.)
I've gone through Google Contacts, merged a bunch of duplicates, cleaned things up, etc. But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get any other contacts to show up on the car.
I've tried un-pairing and re-pairing the phone to the car, but that seems to have made no difference.
I can't seem to find any pattern in what triggers the contacts to show or not show either.
Has anyone experienced something like this?