I Phone 4And Auris

[edward123]

Hi

Have just got an Auris with sat nav etc but cannot migrate the phonebook of iPhone 4 across. Any wisdom out there?

Cheers

Edward

[Parts-King]

Hi Edward and welcome to TOC

Please post a new topic in the Auris section, this area is for introductions only, as per the big red banner at the top that says:

This section is for new members to introduce themselves. Please do not ask questions about your car here.

[acetip]

Hi Edward,and welcome to toc.hope you enjoy.

[Norfolk n Chance]

Moved so the Auris 'experts' can help you out

[Crasstoe]

Moved so the Auris 'experts' can help you out

Nice use of the single quotes there... cheers

Welcome to the club Edward :)

[Norfolk n Chance]

Well i didn't want to make any false promises to the new chap :P ;)

[edward123]

Well i didn't want to make any false promises to the new chap :P ;)

[edward123]

All I need is an answer tonthe question. I am really cross that this is an issue with Tyota and not for other cars... They need to issue a health warning!

[constantinkamal]

I have the same problem with Iphone4 and Mercedes-Benz C180K 2011. Works with the bluetooth but it can't download the phonebook.

[wastedagen]

Hi and welcome. Unless you jailbreak your phone you cannot bluetooth your phonebook across with an iPhone. You can only connect to bluetooth headsets. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I had this same issue with my iPhone until I jailbroke it. One of the many reasons I got rid of my iPhone.

So until then you have to add them manually using the sat nav unit. Or get another phone that can bluetooth files like a Sony Ericsson and use that to transfer your files across to the sat nav unit then delete that paired phone and then pair your iPhone. A lot of messing about but you can thank Steve jobs for that. And don't get me started on Adobe flash support or lack off...........................

[edward123]

Thanks the sad thing is that it worked perfectly on my jaguar!

[Parts-King]

It's an Apple issue not a Toyota one........isnt it?

[edward123]

Well if I phone can migrate to other cars then the technology must be there as I say I had no probs with the Jaguar

[Daveyonthemove]

These state of the art Iphones are amazing.

[wastedagen]

It's an Apple issue not a Toyota one........isnt it?

Yes I believe it is an Apple thing. I think it stems from Apple restricting Bluetoothing files because people were transferring music and the like from phone to phone. What with itunes it would have been so easy for Apple to loose money. So they didn't have any bluetoothing capabilities on there early iPhone. The iphone4 may be a little different but I wouldn't know as I never got one.

Well if I phone can migrate to other cars then the technology must be there as I say I had no probs with the Jaguar

I don't know how you managed this because I could only ever copy my phonebook to my sim card. I never found an option to bluetooth the phonebook.

I think maybe, like my HTC your Jaguar was able to extract your phonebook entries from your iPhone, rather than your iPhone being able to transfer. And as you are aware the Auris sat nav can't extract information only receive it.

[Raistlin]

Apple causing restrictions on a phone your own... Surely not

[daveybee]

Unfortunately, it's not just an Apple thing, I had a Nokia N95 and had the same problem.

It seems like, the smarter the phone, the less likely it is to hook up properly with a modern cars' bluetooth doohicky. If you trawl the interweb, there are forums everywhere (BMW, Merc, Honda, Ford, Toyota, etc. etc.) with complaints that peoples smartphones won't transfer their phonebooks into their cars, and if your iPhone 4 hooked up with bluetooth on your Jag, I suspect that was probably more by luck than judgement.

The situation is so bad that if you walk into any phone shop and ask if a particular phone will work with particular car, no-one will give you an answer because they just don't know. I worked with a couple of guys who had iPhone 4s (both with BMWs) and one worked fine with a year old X3, the other refused to transfer it's phonebook into a new 5 Series, so it's a bit hit and miss, even within a single marque.

Sorry, probably doesn't help much, but that's just how it is. D.

[edward123]

Cheers.... It's a real problem then! Some sensible conversations needed bewtween car manufacturers and phone people. As mobiles become more and more a part of life the car technology has to keep up! Hey ho

[Crasstoe]

Its not that car tech can't keep up, its that there is no standard set up. E.G you use Adobe to read a PDF, USB 2.0 (or 3 if your lucky) for memory sticks, etc etc... until a standard for bluetooth firmware is made (if at all) then this will be an ongoing issue.

[daveybee]

Its not that car tech can't keep up, its that there is no standard set up. E.G you use Adobe to read a PDF, USB 2.0 (or 3 if your lucky) for memory sticks, etc etc... until a standard for bluetooth firmware is made (if at all) then this will be an ongoing issue.

That's exactly right... There are defined standards for bluetooth, but they appear to be so wooly that every car / audio system manufacturer seems to be able to comply with the standard (make & receive calls), yet miss the mark with complete functionality (phonebook transfer and the like - my N95 wouldn't even transfer its ring into my Auris HSD).

Until the technology guys come up with a single bluetooth standard that can be implemented in a standard way, I guess we will have to put up with the mess we have at the moment. D.