V50 General : iPhone Bluetooth Contact List Problems

[leewhill]

Hi, I can't see this question answered anywhere else, so I hope someone can help.

I have a V50 with the bluetooth iPhone integration kit. I have been having problems with accessing my contacts through the car display. For some reason only about a third of my contacts were showing in the car's phonebook. I checked in MS Outlook on my PC, and I noticed that I had about five different contacts lists with various names, so I consolidated all these into one (called 'Contacts') and resynced the iPhone. Now when I connect through the car's Bluetooth connection, I can only access the one entry: Voicemail (although this actually gives me my own number, not my voicemail number!)

I have tried just cycling through the phonebook with the up/down arrow keys, resyncing the phonebook and using the search facility, but there is nothing there.

It's an iPhone 3 running OS5. I recently upgraded to OS5, but I was having the 'reduced contacts list' problem long before I upgraded.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[tayandre]

Have you tried deleting and re adding the phone? The manual will show you how if you are unsure. This has fixed contact sync problems for me in the past.

[Clan]

the system will have a problem if you have more than about 750 contacts . try manualy sending all your contacts from the phone to the car via bluetooth .

[leewhill]

Sounded like a good idea, but I've just tried it and no change. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Clan]

did the contacts send to he car ok? how many contacts have you?

[leewhill]

I get the synchronising message when I connect, and when I do a manual sync through the menu it says that they are downloading in the background, and I don't get any errors. I have 286 contacts, but it's just 'Voicemail' showing up (incorrectly) in the car phonebook, and that's not even the right voicemail number!

[Clan]

i dont think you have done what i suggested above , ie. in your PHONE select all your contacts , then SEND AS bluetooth to the car bluetooth device , it will then send the contacts to the car from the phone via bluetooth with a progress bar showing on the phone as they transfer . , thats on other phones , i am not familiar with apple products .

[leewhill]

According to Apple, such a thing is not possible (see post here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0) but I thought the Volvo used PBA to access the phone book. It certainly used to be able to access at least some of the contacts in the phone book that way; this has only changed since I consolidated them. However, in the process of consolidating the contacts, I did also start to use one of the relatively obscure MS Outlook contact fields as a 'grouping' column. This transferred to the iPhone when I synchronised between PC and phone, so I wonder if somehow the car phonebook doesn't recognise this field and rejects the contact. I guess the thing to do is back up the contacts, remove this column and try again. I'll see if that works (but it may be a while before i can!)

Thanks, Clan, for your help so far.

[Clan]

Thats why i havent bothered with apple products they are a bit non standard and quirky .
but with any bluetooth phone you should be able to send files , pictures and contacts from the phone via bluetooth to a device ( car ) which will accept them .

[stevep999]

strangely my android integrates perfectly with the bluetooth, better than the Ford one ! just about makes up for not having the ipod conectivity stuff !