Phone Book Transfer?

[amazingarthur]

Just picked up my Prius. '06 fully loaded. The first 50 miles have been great.

Trying to transfer my address book in my phone (it is setup and working with the Bluetooth system), it will just sit there and say..."Under transfer Please transmit Phone Book data from mobile phone."

How do I do that?

The directions are on page 205 of the owner's manual.

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you.


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[aaf709]

Quick question, what's your cell phone carrier? If it's Verizon you'll have a problem as they've diabled OBEX (more importantly OOP).

[amazingarthur]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(aaf709 @ Apr 19 2006, 12:49 AM) [snapback]241963[/snapback]</div>

Quick question, what's your cell phone carrier? If it's Verizon you'll have a problem as they've diabled OBEX (more importantly OOP).
[/b]

Yeah, it's Verizon. I really like their service (I've tried others). Any ideas?

[aaf709]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(The Amazing Arthur @ Apr 19 2006, 06:20 AM) [snapback]242024[/snapback]</div>

Yeah, it's Verizon. I really like their service (I've tried others). Any ideas?
[/b]

Well, you have a 2006 so you can enter numbers in manually. After that there's a couple of solutions. One is to use a laptop with BT to send the phonebook. The other is to get a cheap (via eBay) non-Verizon BT phone and use that only to send the phonebook.

[Maytrix]

No matter how you do it, I've found you can only transfer 1 number at a time, so it's a major pain.

[TonyPSchaefer]

One is to use a laptop with BT to send the phonebook.[/b]

Here are some options quickly pulled up at the CDW page. I might try some of these:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.asp...latform=all&y=0

[amazingarthur]

Checked with Verizon and they are not aware of any Prius/Verizon phone book issues. Any other ideas?

[ttabbal]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(The Amazing Arthur @ Apr 19 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]242221[/snapback]</div>

Checked with Verizon and they are not aware of any Prius/Verizon phone book issues. Any other ideas?
[/b]

That's because they don't think it's an issue.

Verizon disabled parts of the bluetooth stack intentionally. So, to them, it's a feature, not a bug. Really annoying. Your only option on Verizon if you want to upload the phonebook from the phone is to buy that Nokia phone. It can do it. Or, you can hack a RAZR to do it, but it's one number at a time, so it's of limited usefullness. Not sure if the Nokia can do the whole phonebook at once or not.

The other options I know of are as follows:

1) If it's a 2006, type them in on the MFD. I like this better than using the phone keypad anyway, so I was disgruntled that I couldn't upload the contacts FROM the car.

2) There was a program posted a while back that would copy the phonebook from Outlook into the car via BT. At least you could use a computer keyboard to enter them in. And, some phones have software available to sync the phone to Outlook, so it can be automated. I know Motorolas can do this.

3) If you have NAV on an earlier model (I think you have to if you have BT) you can enter them in as POIs. There is a thread on here about that. Not sure how well it works in practice, I've only read about it.

4) Get an older phone that can do it from ebay etc.. You don't need the phone service active to do this, the phone just has to be able to access the menus.

[aaf709]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ttabbal @ Apr 20 2006, 01:35 PM) [snapback]242778[/snapback]</div>

3) If you have NAV on an earlier model (I think you have to if you have BT) you can enter them in as POIs. There is a thread on here about that. Not sure how well it works in practice, I've only read about it.
[/b]

That's what I do, but it's a five-step process (abeit short steps) and it's most effective when you have a 2005 as you can do the NAV override.

[Wayne]

You can also use a PDA (see my signature)