Phonebook Transfer Issue

Just did this in mine. With my phone (different phone, same NAV), "operate phone" meant to go into the phone's bluetooth menu and command the phone to transmit the phonebook. In my case, I had to do it one entry at a time. After I made the phone send, the car said received and asked me if I wanted to do another. I would touch the Nav to do another, then use the phone to do another send. Basically, "operate phone" means the car cannot command the phone to do the thing and that all it can do is sit there and wait until you tell the phone what to do.

 

not all phones can transfer all the contacts at once. My Chocolate can't do that but the system tries anyway and just hangs.

Go here and enter your phone model. Good luck.

Toyota Bluetooth Phone

 

You're welcome. And yeah, it was a pain. I think it did do two together one time, but I couldn't make it do groups again. So maybe there's a way and I just couldn't find the right button sequence. Or maybe some phones can do them all at once and mine can't (older phone). That I don't know. How did I know what the NAV meant? Just got lucky, honestly... I picked up the phone, noticed the bluetooth section under settings, and just wandered into it. Sheer luck.

 

I did it last night with my Sprint razr, and it wasn't easy. Luckily, I have Motorola Phone tools, and pushed all my contacts to Outlook. I used a variation of this method - http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-ii-...-addressbook-data-transfer-via-bluetooth.html

I created a new folder on my laptop (which has Bluetooth) to hold some files I will create from Outlook.

In Outlook, open the contacts, and scroll through each contact to see if you want to create a .vcf file for that person (some are just email addresses, some just phone numbers in my contacts lists). If you do, select file>Save As> Export vCard , and save it to the folder.

When you are done, open the first .vcf file from the folder you created in notepad and save as Prius.vcf. Open another blank notepad, and open each new .vcf file you created from Outlook, and copy the content, and append Prius.vcf with the new info (paste at the end).

It should look something like this:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:;411
FN:411
NICKNAME:411
TEL;HOME;VOICE:8003733411
REV:20071030T172106Z
END:VCARD

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:411;Google
FN:Google 411
NICKNAME:Google 411
TEL;HOME;VOICE:8004664411
REV:20071030T172446Z
END:VCARD

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:;Voicemail
FN:Voicemail
NICKNAME:Voicemail
TEL;CELL;VOICE:*86
REV:20071030T172714Z
END:VCARD

Take both the phone and laptop to the car. Connect the phone tothe car, and connect the laptop as a streaming audio source (it took me a while to figure out how to connect the laptop to the car, on a whim, I tried as a streaming music source).

In the Nav, go to add the contact as you had previously, when it says operate phone, use Vista's Start>Accessories>Bluetooth transfer wizard (or something very close to that), to send the Prius.vcf file you created.

You are only sending one file, but all the contacts will be there.

It worked so well, I deleted the contacts and did it a second time-just for fun.

 

I have a 2nd gen iphone. it loaded all of them so fast that I did it again. Spent 20 minutes deleting the dups....

The itunes must be in the audio. the phone is already paired. Make sure that the connection is from the car to the phone. when you get in the car just press audio and the BT to make sure. hit the play arrow.. done.. OUT of site!

 

Motorola Phone tools is an app that you can buy, but I found it somewhere, but can't remember where. This gets the phone info to the laptop.

 

There are many functions in phone, audio and nav that can't be accessed unless the car isn't moving (as described in the owners manual ). Have you tried with the car stopped?

 

A good work around is to assign speed dials to your most frequently dialed numbers.

Voice commands also work (dial by name, for example), but I find there's too many steps involved, so I prefer speed dials for frequently used numbers.

 

Is speed dial a quick voice option, or do I need to poke at the screen?

 

I'm not sure--here's how I do it. If you press the unhook button on the steering wheel once, it brings up the main phone screen. From there you can press the speed dial button on the screen--or press the steering wheel button again, and it will show the call history screen, which you can also select while driving.