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Not sure how many of us here drive an Audi, but figured I'd give this forum a shot. I posted this question in the car forums, but apparently no one uses Android over there, let alone an Evo. I'm not quite sure if this is a phone specific problem or an Android problem.
So Audi's 3G Multimedia Interface (MMI), uses bluetooth to connect/sync my phone contacts from my phone and displays them on my car's Nav screen. From there I can select names, make calls, etc.
The problem is, I believe that the car is pulling "All Contacts" instead of just "My contacts" from Google. This makes it extremely cumbersome as I have an extra 100 contacts to sift through while I'm driving.
However, my phone itself is setup correctly, as I selected "Only contacts with phone numbers".
I realize Audi's management of phone sync may be different from other car makers, but it may also be the similar. Any ideas?
I'm not sure that there's anything you can do. Mine syncs the entire phonebook also (Audi A4). Sorry to break the bad news.
Yea, that's a bit disheartening. Thanks for the reply though, good to know. Who could we contact to try and get this changed? HTC? Google?
nvius said:
Yea, that's a bit disheartening. Thanks for the reply though, good to know. Who could we contact to try and get this changed? HTC? Google?
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I am working on the same issue - temp solution - download just the contacts you want into a vcard format, then put them on an SD card and sync. It is much cleaner, but only allows 100 contacts. It worked better for me with addresses also for the nav.
I work for a competing automaker as a dealership technician. We run into this problem and many others with our wireless to vehicle integration system. The best workaround for your particular problem would be to swap your contact lists. Backup all of your contacts to Google. Then delete all of the contacts you don't want sent to the car. Then redownload your phone book to the car. Next, restore your contact list from Google. And finally, reupload only the contacts you want Google to store to the Google cloud.
I know its a lot of steps, but it should provide you with the solution you require. One other thing to keep in mind, if you have an automated phonebook download option in your vehicles interface, it should be deactivated. If it isn't, there's the distinct possibility that the next automatic update will pull all the contacts you just eliminated.
Same issue, using SD instead
I don't know if you found a solution. I am facing the exact same issue on Audi MMI with Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I have been searching up and down and found no clean solution. I am using the SD import workaround. I re-paired my phone and denied the phonebook access so MMI can't download from my phone.
nvius said:
Not sure how many of us here drive an Audi, but figured I'd give this forum a shot. I posted this question in the car forums, but apparently no one uses Android over there, let alone an Evo. I'm not quite sure if this is a phone specific problem or an Android problem.
So Audi's 3G Multimedia Interface (MMI), uses bluetooth to connect/sync my phone contacts from my phone and displays them on my car's Nav screen. From there I can select names, make calls, etc.
The problem is, I believe that the car is pulling "All Contacts" instead of just "My contacts" from Google. This makes it extremely cumbersome as I have an extra 100 contacts to sift through while I'm driving.
However, my phone itself is setup correctly, as I selected "Only contacts with phone numbers".
I realize Audi's management of phone sync may be different from other car makers, but it may also be the similar. Any ideas?
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I've got a 2012 S4 and just bought the Galaxy S4 (my first android phone, switched from iphone5) and i had the exact same problem. i spent the first two days of ownership of the GS4 googling my heart out trying to figure out WTF.
I have found a permanent solution that works for me but, may not work for you all. reason i say that is, if you rely on google or other accounts to manage your contacts, this will not work for you. the problem is gmail/google, by default any and all emails you send/receive are stored as "contacts" in google. regardless of what settings you have on your phone, when you sync your contacts with audi MMI, it pulls all contacts from both phone and google (possibly other email accounts you have syncing to your phone).
what i did was...
1) go into my google accounts (i have two) and went into the settings and told google that i would "manually add" contacts.
2) i then deleted all contacts from all my google accounts.
3) then i turned contact sync "on" on the phone and synced the phone with google.
4) turned contact sync back off.
the following is within the audi MMI... (the audi MMI does NOT store the contacts synced with your phone, it refreshes the contact list every time it connects to the phone, this is why you cannot access the list immediately after ignition is on).
1) unpaired the phone from MMI.
2) deleted all profiles within the NAME/DIRECTORY menu in MMI (if you get to a point where it asks you for your ID PIN (something along those lines), you will need to enter the last 7 digits of your VIN number.
3) i then repaired the phone, and when the prompt on the phone popped up asking for permission to access contacts, clicked yes and selected to not be prompted again.
after it redownloaded the directory from the phone, only contacts i add to the phone showed up.
WARNING, by deleting the profiles, you will also delete any manually added addresses/locations stored from the MMI as well, i personally can live with this.
Android BT Fix for Audi
Hey there...
New to this forum. Here is a fix for the Phonebook sync for Audi MMI / Android phones. It's an app called Bluetooth Phonebook from the Play store. Download it to your phone and voila...it works.
Hope this helps.
lazernet said:
Hey there...
New to this forum. Here is a fix for the Phonebook sync for Audi MMI / Android phones. It's an app called Bluetooth Phonebook from the Play store. Download it to your phone and voila...it works.
Hope this helps.
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Quick question, do you gate The contact picture to show on The mmi with tour galaxy?
Hi Guys,
I'm hoping it's just me - but there were a number of issues I was of the impression should have been fixed with Froyo / 2.2 and after updating it would appear that they're not.
Could someone please confirm if I'm wrong - and the following do infact exist:
1) Bluetooth voice dialing. Doesn't appear to be active in Froyo 2.2. I was told that this version was supposed to support voice dialing over bluetooth. Is this just a Desire issue, or have I not activated something I should.
2) Contacts Notes cut off after 1k of information. (ie, if you sync from Outlook and you have very long notes for a client - it does not put all onto the Droid). This is a real disappointment.
3) Weather has not been fixed. (It will detect my location and show me weather, but I can not manually add my location if I'm somewhere else. Only shows a few main cities around the world).
4) Every application I've installed so far I haven't had the opportunity to save to SD.
Is anyone able to confirm please or am I missing some steps?
Cheers
Adza
#3: When you're in the weather app, click the "add" symbol in the lower right corner and add you location. I just type in the city name. At least that works for me.
#4: I think that the app has to support the ability to install to SD-card. Have you tried an app that specifically says that it can be installed on the Sd-card? Don't hold it against me if that isn't correct. Haven't tested it myself yet.
Hi Boll,
Thanks for your reply...
#4 - I think you may be right...
#3 - Nope. Only a few selected locations (capital cities / large cities) are available.
On the weather screen it will tell me the weather wherever I am (even in a 1 person 2 dog town!!!) but when I try to add new locations they only show main cities (I'm guessing populations greater than 1 million people) or capital cities.
Cheers
Adza
#1 This works fine for me in the latest froyo htc release and also in previous custom roms
#2 These are contact notes and if you have over 1k of notes you need to store them in another file or document.
4 - the app installs to the phone - settings applications / manage applications - select the app and use the move to SD Card/Phone option if available.
Hi Guys, and thanks for your replies...
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#1 This works fine for me in the latest froyo htc release and also in previous custom roms
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Interesting. Most of the posts I've seen on here relating to the desire say the opposite. Are you able to access the functions / app / settings via the phone (ie, not by pressing the bluetooth button), and if so can you please tell me the path to get to these settings so I can see if they are on my phone too.
#2 These are contact notes and if you have over 1k of notes you need to store them in another file or document.
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The problem being if you sync with outlook, outlook allows for much more than 1k. The phone syncs and truncates anything over 1k - but when it syncs the next time - it updates the computer and truncates what is on outlook.
If the phone will never support notes more than 1k then they need to change the way it syncs so it doesn't delete whatever is on the computer. This is a very serious problem for business users.
Cheers
Adza
For 1) you mean as per Car Dock? It's in there. On home screen go to + add widgets, shortcuts, apps, etc. Select settings as a shortcut (not a widget) and among the options with is Car Dock and Dock Settings.
Hi Al89nut,
Do you have the official HTC Desire Froyo, or another one?
I've just done as you've mentioned and I have no Car Dock or Dock Settings in my list of shortcuts.
My phone shows the following:
Android Version:
2.2
Baseband version
32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20
Kernel Version
2.6.32.15-gf9c0527
Build Number
2.09.405.8
Software Number
2.09.405.8
Browser version
WebKit 3.1
Cheers
Adza
Azda,
Standard HTC 2.2 d/l on Sunday.
I might have explained it badly.
Home Screen
Press + key
Select "Shortcut"
Scroll down to "Settings" and select it
and there they should be - among them are "Car Dock" and "Dock Settings"
I just checked and they are there.
hi al89nut,
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't realise it was under settings. Now I have Dock Settings and Car Dock, but still can't get voice dialing anywhere.
I take it this is for a car dock though (wired) and not bluetooth, or is there something else I need to do too?
Cheers
Adza
I don't think so. If you look at the Car Dock settings it says Auto connect to Bluetooth devices, presumably meaning that voice-dialling is possible via the dock (if only via something like the Edwin app)?
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I don't think so. If you look at the Car Dock settings it says Auto connect to Bluetooth devices, presumably meaning that voice-dialling is possible via the dock (if only via something like the Edwin app)?
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When I go into Dock Settings I have only two options:
Audio and Dock Insertion Sound.
When I click on Audio it says "The phone must be docked to configure dock audio'. Underneat the "Audio' button it says 'Phone Not Docked', but yet I am connected to my bluetooth device. (I hear my calls through my bluetooth).
I'm thinking maybe the docking is different / separate to voice dial?
I don't have a voice Dial Application in my list of applications. Do you?
Cheers
Adza
You could use Edwin - but you'd have to have the app running all the time I think. Sorry, can't get further as don't have a bluetooth thingy in my car.
Would this help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730420
EDIT
The HTC Car Panel apk (dl in the thread) works fine with official Sense Froyo
Hi al95nut,
Thanks again for your reply. I have installed this on my phone but this appears to be some sort of splash screen for in car navigation and use. Unfortunately it doesn't add any voice dial over bluetooth features.
I guess if I want voice dialing I'm not going to be able to use Android phones without using a 3rd party ROM (which I can't do with mine as I've updated now) and I probably can't do if I buy a new one because they'll already have the latest OS on them stopping me from rooting too.
At least I know now to tell others so they can learn from my mistakes... don't buy an android if you want voice dialing over bluetooth.
One last - you're that it doesn't work if you pair the phone now that it has 2.2?
See final few comments in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=658929&page=5 = some people have got it working.
My bluetooth devices pair no problems at all, and almost all functions work. (I can talk, hear, reject calls, and do a redial by using the function button(s). The only function that does not work is initiating a voice dial.
I have HTC's Froyo 2.2. I read just this morning another post about a user who contacted HTC about this issue. The official response was:
Dear Simon, Thank your email. In regards to the voice dialing on the 2.2, it is only available in North America due to the limitations of the voice recognition software database that our phone uses. We are researching the possibility of expanding the coverage of the Voice-To-Text feature but we are still analyzing the feasibility and currently have no schedule to relay to you now. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Kind Regards,
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number 10GBCW32ENAXXXXXX.
Source: http://androidforums.com/all-things...missing-bluetooth-voice-dial.html#post1294639
Totally bizarre!
I recently bought a new car and promptly linked the phone via BT. Unfortunately the Audi MMI can only sort by surname and with the narrow width in the in-dashboard display my recently called list can often look like this...
McConach...
McConach...
McConach...
which is less than helpful
So the question is, is there a way to have a secondary list, linked to my main list, in someway that can file the names as "Darren McConachie" (ie all one name rather than split into first and surname) and pass that to BT devices?
If you go in to contacts on the phone (the contacts app) not dialer. The click he menu button (three dot on top of eachoher) then settings you have some options there which may help.
Be sure to report back and let us know either way.
PS Get a BMW next time LOL
Yeah been through those settings, everything on my phone is sorted by first name! Looks like something I'll just have to get used to!
I have the same issue. In my old phone i was able to do a bluetooth setup to change the way these contacts where transferred. Even though i think this is an Audi problem, it could be worked around if the GN would deliver the contacts in a different format. This would be a matter of changing things inside the bluetooth stack i guess.
:-(
Martin with the new GN
Edit: Maybe i just crossover first names and last names in my exchange account, where this is coming from. I am only accessing it from the PC otherwise and there is an option to change the sorting so maybe i give that a try - pretty dirty workaround though
I've had my G3 about a month now. Overall I love the phone but there are a couple small things that are still bothering me.
1. Contacts display nicknames with seemingly no way to turn that off.
2. ICE contacts appears to break contact sync. I know there is an app from the Google Play store that will fix it however I just want to remove it completely.
3. Why is it that Google Hangouts seems to have more functionality than the stock messaging app when used in conjunction with my LG G Watch? You can't reply at all with the stocks app. You can only open on phone. Should be able to reply by voice and use quick replies. Only reason I am using the stock app at the moment is because Hangouts is getting to bloated and you can't attach sound files.
Any body have any workarounds for these things?
I thought of another one to bump it. My iPhone was smart enough to know that if I wasn't playing music using A2DP then to use the mono phone audio connection for Siri and driving directions which would allow it to come over my car stereo regardless of which audio source was selected in my truck. And while on iOS 6 I used a jailbreak app called Aloud that would read and notifications to me over bluetooth when connected to my car stereo.
Anybody know of a tweak or app that will do the same. I have used Sound About but unless I am missing a setting it seems I can only pick one or the other and not conditionally based on whether I am currently using Bluetooth audio or not.
Ok, so another one.
It seems that when editing group membership of my Google contacts on the phone it will remove the contact from the Google default "My Contacts" group. Since this is the only group I show in my phone list it makes the contact disappear. I then have to log onto my GMail account and go to contacts and edit the contact there to put it back in the "My Contacts" which is a little trickier than it sounds.
I am really disappointed with LG's implementation of the way they manage Google contacts on this Android phone. This is three problems I have directly related to contacts. I really hope there is some sort of update to fix these issues soon.
I have a generic UPX model waterproof fitness band, that probably goes by many brand names, and uses a fitness app called Glory Fit to sync, and show SMS messages, on the device... however, I have a question for those who may use those fitness trackers, or know a bit about hacking the Bluetooth. I would like it to show more information, such as music media information, except that the app 3rd party notifications feature only shows the app name not media information... so for instance, if i add Google play music or Samsung Music to the to the band's notification list, when a notification for it pops up and I click on it I get this... "Google play music:" or "Samsung music:" what I want to figure out is if anyone knows a way to take a non-rooted device and get the information to display properly, or at the very least, share the information as a text message with WhatsApp or the android SMS txting app, which are approved/included SMS provider in the app... any ideas would be welcome... and for your information, I didn't buy it, but got it from a relative, after it started chafing his wrist, so, while I wouldn't buy one that cheap, usually, I'm curious as to if and how we can hack it with extra phone apps to do more stuff... (such as displaying media information on the start of a new song or album)
**please note**
I do not have a background in coding, and am mainly a script kiddie, in everything except MS-DOS and Windows command line, as well as a few minor windows based ADB commands, so i cant build an app...
So...
#1 is what I am asking here possible, specifically on a non-rooted device???
#2 is an app for this available, and what would the probability of such an app working be???
#3 if #2is no, but it is possible, could someone make a small app to do the job???
The target android is anything 5.0 and up, my current Galaxy S6 being android 6.0, and the band does use BLE, and charges using a usb 2pin jaw clamp device, if that helps...
Also, the reason to have it be non-rooted compatible, is that my device is on straight talk and cannot be rooted...
If you need more information just ask, although I'm not on here or my email everyday and have email notifications off so may not respond right away...
I hope someone thinks this is worth looking into, because I can't find information anywhere, except for the mifit, or whatever it's called...
**edit** before you ask, I sent an email to the Glory Fit developer, and left a Google play rating, before jumping straight here... if i get a response from either, I will post a reply, or edit the OP...
**update**
Ok... just did some checking online, and either im typing the wrong thing in when I search for 'media information to sms converter', or there isn't anything out there that will take the author, album, and song name, into sms format and locally inject it to the local sms app, either offline or online... i prefer offline myself, as then it's not dependent upon having service...