2010 w/Nav Bluetooth and Android

I have a G1 and a 2010 with nav. Here's my experience with the combo so far:
- won't transfer the address book
- streaming works, can play, pause, and next and previous I believe.

The problem I've had is that it seems like the G1 can't be connected as a streaming device and a phone at the same time.. .if that makes sense. When I go to the BT audio tab and try connecting the device it says that it is already in use. The only time I've ever gotten it to work for steaming was when I disconnected it in the phone settings menu first.


I had dreams of being able to use the nav screen to browse my music etc (AVRCP 1.4) then found out afterwards that neither support it (I think the prius only supports 1.3). Now I'm hoping to get the ipod/usb adapter once it comes out since controlling my music from the g1 while driving can't be safe.

If you have better luck, please let me know.

Kenny

 

Kenny is right on the money. I have an unrooted G1 and my experience with the JBL (non-Nav) is the exact same. I cant push my contacts and streaming audio conflicts with the phone.

I'm kinda bummed by not being able to push my contacts and really use the full capability of the car.

I haven't looked too hard in the android market, but does anyone know an app that would allow to push contacts?

 

As soon as I hit "transfer contacts" in the nav system, the G1 loses the bluetooth connection. Maybe something missing from the android bluetooth stack. A rooted G1 running JFv1.51 with the BlueX marketplace app has the same result.

Kenny

 

Good to know because BlueX seemed like the closest app to being able to do it, but it specified file push not contacts.

 

There's feedback on BlueX saying that they were able to send their contacts to their car by sending a .vcf file with it, they just didn't say what type of car.

vCardIO is a free android app that will export your contacts to a vcf file. The Android Marketplace has a 24 hour return policy and BlueX can send without a rooted phone. Try it, maybe you'll see something I'm missing.

 

I did it but if you have a Windows laptop, it'd be easier to follow the instructions for that.

The good news is that it's likely to work from an unrooted phone. The only thing that required root was copying obex_test from the sdcard because it was mounted noexec. I imagine there'd be some way of executing it on a unrooted phone, I just didn't waste the time looking for it.

- exported the android addressbook via vCardIO
- downloaded obex_test for android - tinyurl.com/lszkge
- started the contact transfer from the nav system
- followed these instructions from the android terminal - tinyurl.com/lt3s9r


Sorry about the tinyurls, can't post links yet

 

I think that's suppose to happen, I just didn't know it at the time as I'd never seen a successful transfer. It's the reason that the windows laptop method (or sending from another phone) works.


The problem I'm having now is that I started with an unrooted phone, the phone worked just no contacts. I went to JFv1.51 in the process of trying to get the contacts to sync, once I was done and went to make a call the next day my phone audio wouldn't come out the car speakers.. same problem with a bluetooth headset I use at work. So then I went back to the unrooted version, figured a way to copy obex_test to the phone so I could execute it (dd ..of=/data/data/com.android.term/obext_text, etc) and found that I couldn't run sdptool or obex_test as non-root on it even though I could on JFv1.51. Maybe I could find an different rooted image or tweak the bluez configs in JFv1.51 but after three nights of screwing with this, I think I'm going to use laptop and be done with it.

 

Yes, although I don't remember the version.. whatever was listed in the rooting guide I followed. I just went back to unrooted and used my laptop for the sync.

I think the disconnect once you start the address book transfer is normal, it's just the prius switching modes from handsfree to opush. I saw the same thing on my wife's Krzr which was then able to send contacts just fine (although one at a time). I also had it with the rooted g1 that was able to send via obex_test. Maybe someone with a fully supported phone can chime in on this...

If you have a rooted phone, get to the contact sync screen, open a terminal and type:
sdptool search OPUSH

If it comes back listing the service you should be able to follow the links in my previous post to download and install obex_test and send the .vcf over. If you need help with obex_test, let me know.

Kenny

 

Dammit! Not a solved problem yet?

 

I was able to do this with a vcf file and Bluetooth file transfer from the Market. (it is free)

Just create your vcf (I did it form gmail and transfered it, but you can use the app on the phone too I am sure) and then when you get tot the "operate phone" instruction on the prius, use Bluetooth file transfer to send the file. done it seconds.