[stinsy]

from a Palm Treo Centro phone? The bluetooth connection happens. It's a BMW approved phone. But none of my contacts go into my Idrive...

[vadim]

It is supposed to happen automatically - no user's action is needed. Try resetting both the phone and the car's system, then re-pair. If this does not help, complain to the dealer if the phone indeed is approved by BMW.

Mine is not on the list (T-Mobile MDA, a.k.a. Qtek 9100), but all BT-related features work flawlessly on it, including the phone book upload. The voice quality is also superb with no echo.

[driverwannabe]

I had the same problem with my blackberry. I solved it by only sending the phone numbers I need to the car by creating a group. I have about 1000 contacts, and it seemed that whenever there were any stray characters, like "-" or "@" the upload would bomb. Once I cleaned all of those out, it worked as advertised. I hope that helps.

[vadim]

Originally Posted by driverwannabe

I had the same problem with my blackberry. I solved it by only sending the phone numbers I need to the car by creating a group. I have about 1000 contacts, and it seemed that whenever there were any stray characters, like "-" or "@" the upload would bomb. Once I cleaned all of those out, it worked as advertised. I hope that helps.

Good point. The car may not like non-Latin characters. I am surprised that it choked on "-", though.

[NicoleD]

I recently bought a 2008 335i Conv. and had trouble getting the contacts from my Treo 800w to load. I downloaded Jetware to my Treo and they uploaded easily to the iDrive. I'm hoping the signal strength is also improved by this, as the Jetware site says it will be.

[Trelos]

My Address book used to sync with the car... then I updated my Blackberry software.. now just numbers....
It's so annoying.

[NicoleD]

Originally Posted by NicoleD

I recently bought a 2008 335i Conv. and had trouble getting the contacts from my Treo 800w to load. I downloaded Jetware to my Treo and they uploaded easily to the iDrive. I'm hoping the signal strength is also improved by this, as the Jetware site says it will be.

Update: Jetware works great and I have improved signal strenght. Calls no longer flip back and forth bewtween phone and car bluetooth. If I update a contact, it updates no problem when I get into the car.