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?
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 have only had this phone for ~1 week now, but just ran into an issue with bluetooth connectivity. I have paired my phone with my 2011 Jetta SE and have a successful connection. I can play music and receive calls just fine as well as make calls (but only by initiating it from the phone itself). I was able to voice dial once, but then never again. I have removed and re-paired the phone to the car multiple times. When I ask the voice dialer to read my contact list, it only comes back with a single contact called "My Name." And not my name, literally "My Name." It is my phone number attached to that contact as well, but doesn't exist on my phone, unless it is referring to "Me," the contact the phone book asked me to set up when I first used the phone. But besides that contact, I can't voice dial anyone, which makes things very difficult. I have't found any other cases where bluetooth only pulls this one contact. When I pair the devices, I do get the pop-up that the device I am connecting to wants access to my contacts, and I grant it. Any ideas?
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I get this a lot to. I have a 2009 BMW X5 and have no trouble pairing the GNex to the vehicle, and grant the addressbook query. Everything works (I can see all my contacts and use them). Next time I get in the vehicle I may, or may not have contacts. The only way to fix is to delete the device and re pair. For some reason, the addressbook does not stick permanently. It's annoying. Running stock 4.04 with Franco's M3 kernel, but the same problem was there before I changed the kernel. Any suggestions?
Next Step?
Now I'm realizing that I can't really get rid of the connection profile for my car. Is there a specific system app I can clear data from to reset bluetooth? That is all I can think of trying at this point.
Had the P6 a week now and loving it so far, but got a few separate queries regarding bluetooth and email.
Phone is running on the official B111 version.
I link my P6 to my cars Bluetooth. Connects fine, but then asks if you want to allow the car system to be able to access the phones contacts. It gives you a tick box to never ask again, and then ok or cancel option. Tick never ask again and click ok and you can access the phones contacts through the car system. All good, but next time I go into the car the phone links fine, but no access to contacts. You need to unlink the phone and link again. If I then click ok (but don't tick the box) to allow access to contacts it then prompts on the phone every time it picks up the cars bluetooth. Checked in the bluetooth settings but nothing in there seems to make any difference. I've managed to download a third party app to bypass this, and it works well, but totally kills the battery. Think this will be fixed in another release?
Ok, onto email, basically syncing with my works exchange account. Can get it all setup fine, and works a treat, but when it comes to sync schedule the options are on or off, there's no option for 'quiet time'. I have it set to push, but would like to then turn it to manual evenings and weekend. Am I missing something, even my first htc android phone all those years back managed to do this! Again, got a third party app that resolves this, but it's a pretty basic function you'd expect to work!
Cheers in advance for any help or advice.
So I had paired my G3 with my 2014 Jeep Patriot (uConnect 430N) and all was working well until today. I needed to call my wife so I pressed the phone button and initiated a call. Little did I know that the contacts had not been downloaded. I tried re syncing the phone, removing it and re-adding it, initiating a download of the phone book and a bunch of other things to no avail.
The only way I would get the contacts to be downloaded, was to go to Contacts, select Share, then select a contact and initiating a download with the uConnect system and adding a single contact at a time. I tried sharing a bunch of contacts, but it would not work. The only way it remembered any of the contacts was to do one at a time.
Thankfully I'm not one of those guys that has 500 contacts in my phone book because this way of downloading and adding contacts would be ridiculous. I don't understand why it didn't download automatically (I did receive a prompt when I paired the phone to allow access and added uConnect as a trusted device as well.) Now, I have to wonder if any of the numbers change or an additional number is added to an existing contact, if it will be downloaded automatically or not? Also, if I add a new contact to my G3, will the system download it automatically or will I have to go through this each time I add a new contact?
I really don't think it is the uConnect system because it worked flawlessly and automatically added my whole phone book with my Nexus 5 as well as my Note 4. Does anyone have any experience with the G3 and uConnect and have any ideas as to why this wouldn't be automatic, or why it would work like this?