Has anyone been able to successfully transfer their address book from the phone to the navigation via bluetooth ?
I'm using a phone with Windows Mobile 6 and so far, the only thing i've been successful at is to beam the phone number and name ONE at a time....
Do we really have to do this one at a time or is there a way to transfer the entire contact information ?

 

wboy,

Who is your cellular carrier? If you have Verizon, you will not be able to have it transfer automatically, only one by one.

 

That was not my experience. I have Treo 700p on Verizon and finally was able to upload my phonebook. My experience would indicate that the Lexus system seems to be very picky on the format of the phone book for a sucessful transfer. I tried and initially had the same issue as you. It would only transfer two entries from my phone. I found that I had to reformat my phone book to not use parenthesis or spaces. In other words, I had to change from a format of (xxx) xxx-xxxx to xxx-xxx-xxxx and eliminate any entries with spaces and extensions. After I changed the format on the phone, it uploaded the entire phone book with no problems. You might try a few and see if that helps.

Pete

 

I have T-Mobile and the RAZR ,and can only do one at a time,its a pain

 

Go to http://www.lexus.com/models/LS/acces...bluetooth.html

enter your car and phone make and model and follow the screens. Most phones can only transfer 1 at a time, but this resource will tell you for sure.

 

I may have worded my comment about Verizon wrong. You can transfer the the phone book but it will not automatically upload the phone book for you.

From my experience, and I may be wrong, but Verizon disables Blutooth OBex. You can still manually transfer the phone book but I do not believe it will automatically sync.

I know with some cars/phone companies, it will automatically sync your phone book.

This link show the compatibility for my phone LG VX9800

Here is a listing for other phones Other Phones

ESSearch, please correct me if that does not seem to be the case.

 

I am currently using the T-Mobile Wing, great phone with Windows Mobile 6 and PDA capabilities, bluetooth works great but I'm still unsuccessful in transferring more than one contact at a time, has to beam one at a time, which is a shame.

 

I probably misunderstood as well. I meant a one time initial loading of the phonebook into the car system. I was having the same problems as others in that I could only get one or two addresses to load and then it would stop. I read alot of the comments on this board and on the issues and about Verizon and OBex but it seemed to me that if it will load one or two contacts there was some other issue forcing it to stop prematurely. Someone posted about the need to eliminate any parenthesis and spaces so I thought I would try that.

More specifically, here is what I did. First some background. I have a Treo 700p (Palm version) and I sync it regularly with my desktop computer. On the desktop I use MS Outlook and I have about 1,400 contacts sync'd to my Treo and they are divided into groups. I only had about 80 I wanted to transfer to the car system. In Outlook, I created a new group specifically for the car. After some experimentation I was able to transfer that group of 80 phone numbers into the Outlook group without parenthesis, extensions, or spaces. Then using the instructions in the manual, I was was able to upload the entire group to the car in one fell swoop.

I think that is what wboy was asking about doing in his first post and what most people ask about doing. Putting any quantity of phone numbers in one at a time, even if only one time for the initial load, would be a real hassle and too time consuming. Maintaining those or adding and deleting manually after the initial loading is not that big of a deal because usually that will be one or two at a time. Now as far as syncing with the car, automatically or otherwise and on any regular basis, I have not tried that and I cannot speak to that issue. Personally, I don't have a need for that. I hope that helps.

Pete

 

wboy, you didn't mention what phone you have, but you may want to try http://www.jetwaremobile.com/. In my case (I have a Cingular 8525/HTC Hermes 100) this didn't work, but the trial version is fully functional so it might be worth a shot for you.

Of the Windoze phones I've tried (8525, Samsung BlackJack, Treo 700/750, and Motorola Q) the functionality does not work, either through the OS, registry hacks, or with JetWare (which is basically just an elegant reg hack).

 

I have Razr (Cingular) and could not not transfer the complete address book. What I found was Razr does not have that feature. Used the same sim in my spare Sony Ericsson phone and transferred the whole address book without any problem.

 

What happens on the RAZR when it says, "BT is busy"?