[Q] Car addressbook sync limit - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I just got a car that has bluetooth. When I went to sync my phone, it used the PBAP profile and tried to sync my address book.
The problem is that I have about 2,000 entries in my address book, and the car has a limit of 1,000 entries. And, it seemed to just do a random selection. I really only need a small number in my car, but the car seems to only have options to sync the address book from a phone and to delete it from the car.
So, is there any way, on the EVO, to limit which contacts will get synced over bluetooth? For example, is there any way that I can just create a group of "important" contacts, and limit the sync with my car to just those?
I probably only need to do the sync once (or rarely anyway).
Any ideas?

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BMW Car sync problem

Hi
A friend of mine has just got a desire and is having problems syncing contacts to their 3 series. All contacts sync over fine - exept those that have contact pictures. The car does not recognise them.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks
Ive had this problem before and also with other phones, the BMW system works perfectly if you have contacts that fill standard fields. Things like pictures, notes etc can stop it from working, problem also occurs in VW and Audi.
The only thing you can do is remove all the extras in your contacts.
Heh
VW, Audi, BMW... All can't handle address books with data in non-standard fields.
My g/f's Ford Fiesta handles my address book without any problems

[Q] Is it possible to sync one set of contacts to 2 different accounts?

I have two accounts on my Desire (say Jack and Jill), and I want the contacts to be sync'd to both accounts and not simply have the contacts of Jack on my phone and turn of contact sync on Jill.
The reason is that when I go on a terminal that isn't my phone, and log into either Jack or Jill, I don't want to be missing contacts or contact updates.
Is this even possible???

[Q] In-car bluetooth system - slow phonebook transfer

When i first start my car (kia soul) it proceeds to download the phone book from my phone. On my previous phone (touch pro 2) it went much quicker then it goes with the Evo. I assume this is because i have more contacts.
Is there some way i can designate that only certain contacts get transfered? There's really only a handful that i ever call from my car, the rest of them i don't need added to the car's phone book. Could i do something like create a bluetooth group and only contacts in that group get transfered to the car's memory?
No solution to this? It takes several minutes before i can use the incar bluetooth system due to how long it takes for it to copy the phone book.
Well I unchecked exchange in my contacts then it doesn't sync them. After the first sync you can go back and check exchange and it will sync them in the background next time you get in the car.
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk Pro.
If you mean under the account & sync settings, i do not have my exchange contacts set to sync. The only thing set to sync under there is email.
Is it possibly downloading EVERY contact that i have in gmail? Under the 'my contacts' section i have 40 contacts. but under all contacts i have well over a thousand.
On my touch pro 2, i think i probably had about 25 contacts in the phone.
Ya see my situation is a little different I have an exchange email for work then gmail for personal. I just go into the people app and unchecked exchange then it will sync faster. Sorry that none of that will apply for you but maybe help someone else. I will say this that it does seem slower syncing than the TP2. That doesn't help either ....
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk Pro.
Hmm, so you think the phone itself is for some reason slow syncing then the tp2 and it's not just an issue of possibly having more contacts? If i have time, i'll try deleting my account from the phone and manually adding a few contacts and see how long it takes for it to sync just that handful.
I'm not sure what you mean by going into the people app and unchecking exchange? when i click on people, i don't have an option anywhere to uncheck exchange. Maybe that's because i don't have the exchange contacts set to sync under the account settings.

[Q] All FB contacts shows in bluetooth device

Using Samsung Focus, really like WP7 and this phone. Have facebook selected to only display information in contacts on people I already have in contacts. Works fine on phone.
Have a Garmin Zumo 550 GPS on my motorcycle, phone is bluetooth connected to GPS which is connected into intercom system on bike. GPS contacts shows all facebook people, not just the people in phone contact list.
I deleted FB from phone, turned on GPS and then only the contacts in my phone showed on GPS. Was really happy all those extra FB people were not in GPS contact list anymore.
Recreated FB account on phone with display only info on people already in contacts option selected, turned on GPS again, and all FB people showed up in GPS contacts. NOT HAPPY.
This is a WP7 problem. How can WP7 be stopped from sending FB people to GPS or other Bluetooth devices? (without the obvious, remove FB account from phone)
Anybody know to stop WP7 from sending all Facebook friends to contact list on a Bluetooth connected GPS?
Phone is set to only display Facebook friends info only on contacts already in phone, and it works on phone contact list but is sending all of my Facebook friends to list on Bluetooth device. Why?
it doesn't appear to be possible to stop it at present. Perhaps post this as an issue in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836373, and maybe bring it up on the social.microsoft.com?
sorry we couldn't be of more help.
Thank you for replying. I'll copy and paste my problem onto the sites you recommended from desktop tonight.

Contacts sync with car - first name only

All,
I'm syncing my contacts from exchange on my OP3. When I connect my phone via BT with my car, the contacts are being synced, but both firstname and lastname are found under firstname in the car.
This isn't a big issue, but I can't sort my contacts in the car on Last Name (as this field is empty everywhere). I'm not sure if this is Oxygen OS or OP3 specific, but I didn't have the problem with the previous phone (Nexus 5).
Any ideas how I can sort this out ?

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