1. At the dealership, the manager's phone was paired with one of the cars inside the building; the nav screen displayed his current battery life and his signal strength. On my car, however, I have no trouble pairing my phone, but the screen never displays the battery life and always shows 0 "bars" of signal strength (even though the phone itself shows several bars. Is this just dependent on my phone or carrier, or is there something I'm missing?

2. I can't find any option on my phone (an LG Fusic) of downloading the entire phonebook; I can only send one phonebook entry at a time via Bluetooth. Additionally, whenever I send an entry, the pairing disconnects, and I have to start over again (although it does send the entry). Any ideas?

Thanks!

--Brendan--

 

As far as I know, the car will never show cell phone battery level. The antenna icon in the upper left just shows bluetooth link established.

Uploadiing phonebook via BT is dependent on the capabilities of the cell phone.

 

Well, I saw the signal strength and the battery on the screen myself, and I asked him if that's what it was, and he said yes. However, I'm not sure what was phone or carrier he has.

--Brendan--

 

Interesting, maybe it is a capability my phone(or carrier?) does not have. I'm using Moto MPx220 on Cingular.

 

Which phone are you using?

My Samsung A900 sometimes shows the battery level and signal strength but not always. It seems that it will show when it first connects to the car but then it disappears until a call is started or the phone rings.

My phone doesn't have a option to download the phonebook either, but I was able to select multiple entries using check boxes

 

I have an LG Fusic with Sprint. Pairing with this (and the '06 loaner I had for a month) was easy--just don't see a way of multi-selecting phonebook entries to send on my phone (and it kept disconnecting like I said before).

--Brendan--

 

On my phone if I select the option to send a contact by bluetooth before I have activated the "download phonebook" from the phone settings menu it will ask me if I want to disconnect. Did you set up the car to recieve the contact before trying to send it from the phone? I'm not sure if LG works like samsung, but that was the reason it took me 2 months before I figured it out.

Christian

 

I know exactly what you mean--if you try to send prior to getting to the correct screen on the car, the phone will ask if you want to disconnect. But what mine is doing is that I DO have the car ready to receive, and when I send the contact via the phone, the car receives it but then says "LG Fusic Disconnected." So, I just started keying in all of the contacts (I've only done 6 or 7 so far though).

By the way, you and I have the exact same car and packages, except mine is the liquid platinum (light silver) instead of the darker silver. :-)

--Brendan--

 

Are you using the option to download a contact from with in the cars phonebook itself or from the settings->phone menu?

BTW great choice on the packages, the X is an amazing car!!

 

the battery shows up when you talking on the phone if i remember it correctly or in the phone menu?

 

I have a Motorola Razr V3C through Verizon and the phone pairs easliy. I automatically pairs when I enter the car if the phones bluetooth is set to on and the battery and signal strength always appear on the Nav screen. My questions is has anyone figured out how to tranfer contacts from the phone to the car even if only one at a time?

 

Mine always shows signal strength, but only the battery while I'm using the phone. I use a Motorola V551

 

Same here with a Treo 700wx.

 

i have a samsung a990 with verizon. sometime itll automatically reconnect w to the car other time ill have to turn the phone off then on. afaik, verizon bluetooth doesnt offer file transfers so we have input the names and number manually .

ps: mine shows the signal all the time, battery life during a call.

vick