Contacts do not show in car bluetooth pairing

[Ricopsuedo]

That worked for me. I cleared it in both the phone and the car. Then I watched the screen when I told it to sync contacts. Sure enough, the phone asked me to approve the sending of my contacts. Once I did that, it worked great! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Anjalee30]

Thanks for all of your postings. I have an HTC EVO 3D and I just bought a Hyundai Veloster. I am having trouble getting my contacts to download, so I have tried all of the things that you have all suggested. Some contacts download, but many with a number and no names, and I don't know where they are pulling them off my phone, but only biz contacts and no personal. The cars system won't allow me to edit, delete or add my own contacts, sooooo...trying to adjust and resend what I want from the phone. I did download the bluetooth file transfer app on my phone and selected various contacts and sent. My phone registered that the files were transferring but the car never recognized the contacts. Since a few of you had success with the Bluetooth transfer app, please let me know how you did it, were there any special settings on phone or car etc? Auto download of contacts on or off for instance on car Bluetooth setting? Any help much appreciated. Seems like cars need tech support now beyond the mechanical maintenance. I have a brand new car and expensive phone and can't use the voice dialing technology. Seems ridiculous Thanks for help!

 

[Droidfreak143]

Found out the cure for this problem. The Droid Razr Maxx is a little more secure that older phones. It does NOT automatically transfer contacts to any bluetooth connected device. There is a small bar at the top of the phone. Connect you Droid Razr Maxx to your car and then touch that little bar at the top of the phone and slide your finger down. The phone is waiting for your permission to sync the contacts. Answer yes and it is done. The notification bar just doesn't drop down automatically so you can't see this information. HI

 

[mededitor]

I have a 2012 Toyota Highlander and had a similar problem with syncing contacts. It turned out that I didn't wait long enough for the radio and the MAXX to "find" each other. The other thing that I didn't do on my initial attempt was to click "Scan for devices." Once I did that I got the standard messages about syncing contacts, and it all went quickly and smoothly.

However, why all of my contacts did sync to my car, contacts that I had listed by company name did not sync by name, they synced by telephone number only. I don't know if that's true for any other 2012 Toyota (and I use the Mac "Address Book" for my contacts with syncing via Gmail), but I thought that it's worth a mention. I had to manually edit the business-name contacts.

 

[manthony70]

I too was having trouble with the contacts from my Droid 4 not showing up in phone book on nissan maxima 2012. I deleted my paired phone and added it again. I also turned off my phone's bluetooth and turned it back on again. Once I go to add phone through maxima my phone then ask me for the code provided my nissan. I added the code. My phone then ask me if I want my car to access my contact list, I pressed yes. Please wait for about one minute before using your car's bluetooth feature. It appears your car takes up to 45 seconds to transfer over all your contacts from your phone.

 

[Jim Harris2]

I had the very same experience. I was successful with bluetooth file transfer after selecting menu then contacts. Having successfully transferring my contacts I was then perplexed by not being able to make a phone call.

If you have a VOIP phone app running you need to select the cellphone dialer app a
s opposed to ask me or VOip app dialer.

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[Martyn Reed]

Hi All,

Just purchased a Galaxy S3 and found the same problem with syncing contacts to my BMW E90 idrive.
Connecting via bluetooth was fine but no names and numbers on screen.

I found that you firstly need to make sure that the car can access the phone book. I did this by completing the pairing between car and phone as normal. Once this is done turn off the Bluetooth on the phone in the drop down menu from the home screen. The car then disconnects, then turn it back on and you'll get a pop up saying connecting. Once it connects then another popup asks for permission to access the phone. Check the box and hit yes.

Now, to get the contact on the idrive you need to edit each individual contact and assign it to the group 'My Contacts'. (it may work with other groups i haven't tried)
All my contacts were 'Not assigned' to a group so therefor not synced to the car.
Once this is done, turn off the Bluetooth like above and turn on again and the car connects and you should see your contacts appear.

I hope this works for you............

 

[Martyn Booth]

hi all found out why my contacts was showing up on my stereo and the reason was that all my contacts was not save on the phone they were actually read of the sim card not the phone. In order for my contacts to sync to my stereo i had to import all contacts off sim card then it worked straight away.

Hope this helps everyone

also its nice to see another martyn that can spell his name right

 

[joycemwendt]

Martyn Reed:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your post. I lost my phone book on my car day before yesterday and Verizon had no idea how to fix it and told me to go to the dealership, who also did had not idea what to do. I gave your suggestion a try and all is fixed. Thanks.

 

[robs3591]

This is going to sound really stupid but when I download the 'Bluetooth File Transfer' app I can't find the menu and therefore can't access the 'Contact Transfer' process. Can anyone please help? Rob 3591

 

[Patrice Robinet]

@ Martyn Reed:
I have the same problem with the S3 and my Jeep Grand Cherokee.....but I have something like 3500+ contacts! There is no way I can go in an individually assign each contact to "My Contacts"! I there a way to "select all" and then assign??

 

[Bert Gin]

This seems to be a quite common problem. I am therefore surprised and disappointed that neither the car dealership nor the mobile phone dealers seem to even recognise that there is this problem let alone being able to offer any advice for its resolution. Next thing with bluetooth pairing is that I would like my car's media device interface when it is playing music from my phone to also receive and display the artist and song title info.

 

[Ronald Vasquez]

I tried it with my galaxy S3 and it worked perfectly. You just have to keep pressing download contacts as many times as it comes up.

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I tried it with my galaxy S3 and it worked perfectly. You just have to keep pressing download contacts as many times as it comes up.

 

[BluN April]

I purchased a 2012 Hyundai Sonata Limited May 2012. The dealer connected, paired & loaded contacts to the car's bluetooth system after much time and difficulty. About a month later, I got in my car & didn't realize my cell phone was at home. I attempted to use bluetooth to make a phone call. Immediately, everything was de-programmed, disabling bluetooth.

After 7 attempts total, at the car dealership, over the phone with Hyundai, over the phone with HTC and AT&T, I could connect the cell to the car's bluetooth, but the system WILL NOT PAIR or download contacts. Countless hours have been put into solving this issue.

The dealership & AT&T say it's a problem with the phone (which I suspect). However, HTC feels it's a problem with the car. How could it install (with difficulty) properly once, but then never again? What do you advise? It's truly been a shame to be unable to access such a wonderful feature...

Hoping for more,
April

 

[Manuel Ortiz2]

Had the same problem with my hyundai sonata limited and my samsung device. Switched to the Motorola razz max , problem solved. Connects very time

 

[fran1963]

I have a 2013 Hyundai Elantra and have successfully paired my Samsung SII and accepted the option to allow the phone to access the phonebook however when it does it is not bringing across all contacts and is not listing them in alphabetical order. I have "unpaired" device from phone, turned off bluetooth and deleted device from car bluetooth several times. Do you have to have your contacts saved to sim or phone? Any ideas please would be greatly appreciated?

 

[ProfGranny]

My husband recently bought a Grand Cherokee and was having problems transferring his contacts. After several attempts, it became clear that the error was in his phone book entries. Some he had put a 1+ in front of the area code, others he had put () around the area code, others he had not entered a first and last name for a company (the transfer did not read company names), some he had failed to enter an area code. After the errors had been corrected, we deleted the phonebook from the car, unpaired the phone and started all over again. It took a couple of tries before we got his phonebook (on his cell phone) straightened out, but once we got the original corrected, and went through the deletion, unpairing, re-pairing, uploading processes, it finally worked. I don't know if this helps you, but you may want to check your entries so they are consistent with how your cell phone expects entries to occur. Good luck.

 

[David Jeffries1]

I was able to successfully transfer my contacts from my phone to my Hyundai Sorento. First, I had to go to Contacts and select Share Contacts. All the contacts were then check marked to share.
Then at the same menu for contacts, I had to select " Import/Export" when the menu selections changed I had to select "Export to storage" which then gave me a file name with a .vcf extension where I selected "OK". Once I did all that the file transfered to the car system via bluetooth.

 

[swampjeep]

I have a droid x, I was able to get my phone book transferred by going on the phone to my dialer, with contacts displayed, click settings button, click "Share Contacts" then check off each one I wanted to go, click "done" then "bluetooth" then had to select which bluetooth devise to send then too.

 

[Benjamin Wroblewski]

I just recently purchase a 2014 Toyota Camry SE not realizing that my model did not have the voice activated bluetooth controls to make phone calls and such. I was having issues with transferring my contacts to the vehicle to make calls. The only way this was working for me was to either dial from my phone or manually enter the phone number via the touchscreen. I was then able to save the contact as one of the speed dials, but not able to edit to provide a name. After doing some lengthy searching online I found several forums such as this where people were experiencing similar problems with a wide variety of make and models of vehicles. I did just today discover probably the easiest fix (especially for those of us with the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, as I have):
1. Go to the Google Play Store
2. Click the Search icon
3. Type in 'Bluetooth Phonebook' in the search field
4. The first two options are the applications that worked for me
5. Download the trial version to ensure that this allows your vehicle to transfer your contacts over

I went to the bluetooth screen of my car and selected the options for my Contacts and they were already beginning to transfer (very fast process, less than a minute). From what it sounds like from the various forums that I have read is that for some reason this phone does not enable PBAP or IrMC that some vehicles require to transfer the contacts. This application enables both of those bluetooth file transfer options.

I ended up paying the $1.95 for the full application, but that was money well worth avoiding the headache any longer.

I hope this helps for all of you!