Transferring Contacts with Pocket Informant, Sprint PPC-6700, and Bluetooth

[lamban]

Hi,

We just got a 2006 Prius yesterday (yay!) and we have a PPC-6700 that contains all of our contacts which are synched with an Exchange Server account. We've tried to sync the contacts from the cell phone to the Prius Bluetooth phone directory, but the process failed (it seemed to work once when we tried to send multiple contacts, but the resulting single Bluetooth phone book entry was garbled). We tried to send them one at a time too and got a failure message.

On the PPC-6700, we use Pocket Informant instead of the default Windows contact manager. i wonder if trying to beam from that is causing the failure.

Any insight or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

lamban

[Vagabond]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lamban @ Aug 13 2006, 07:27 AM) [snapback]302518[/snapback]</div>

Hi,

We just got a 2006 Prius yesterday (yay!) and we have a PPC-6700 that contains all of our contacts which are synched with an Exchange Server account. We've tried to sync the contacts from the cell phone to the Prius Bluetooth phone directory, but the process failed (it seemed to work once when we tried to send multiple contacts, but the resulting single Bluetooth phone book entry was garbled). We tried to send them one at a time too and got a failure message.

On the PPC-6700, we use Pocket Informant instead of the default Windows contact manager. i wonder if trying to beam from that is causing the failure.

Any insight or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

lamban
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I don't know this tool - but the format it uses may not follow what the car can understand. You should be able to sync the built-in contact list of the 6700 with your local address list, then send it that way.

[lamban]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vagabond @ Aug 20 2006, 10:47 PM) [snapback]306505[/snapback]</div>

I don't know this tool - but the format it uses may not follow what the car can understand. You should be able to sync the built-in contact list of the 6700 with your local address list, then send it that way.
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Thank you for responding. What we ended up doing is exporting our Outlook contacts to a .csv file and then running an Excel macro to create a .vcf file which we then beamed to the car.

L