[noka]

My recently acquired Droid RAZR MAXX HD integrates well (e.g. stays paired, connects consistently). It doesn't do any e-mail that I could see but does receive text/SMS. One thing that's strange and I'm wondering if it is normal and whether people with other phones might also experience it:

Each time I start the vehicle (even if stopped for only a couple of minutes), the phonebook does an update. I guess I can understand that, but the update takes what seems to be ~ 7 min. Normal? Anyone else have any similar, or other, experience?

[BMWZ4]

Hi Noka,

I have a Samsung III and my wife has a II....this happens to us as well each time the car is shut off/on. I've never timed how long it takes to update the contacts, but I guess I could say it's easily at least 2 minutes. I guess the software just assumes that there will always been new contact updates each time the phone is connected via bluetooth, whether or not the car has been off for 1 minute or days....

Dave

[wrp]

My wife had a similar problem with her iphone, and I was able to fix the long update times by cleaning up lots of phone numbers that were not well formatted - like email addresses or names or strange characters that were in the phone number field of many contacts.

[fwmcb]

We have nav on our 3series and the e-mail function is only compatible with BlackBerry, not iPhone or Droid.

[pault]

Email/SMS feature of BMW Office should be working with the iPhone, iOS 6 added the required Bluetooth profile (MAP). Some android phones work if manufacturer added it but Bluetooth MAP support is not native in android.

[EvilGenius]

Originally Posted by pault

Email/SMS feature of BMW Office should be working with the iPhone, iOS 6 added the required Bluetooth profile (MAP). Some android phones work if manufacturer added it but Bluetooth MAP support is not native in android.

If anyone out there in Android-land has gone the custom route and is using Cyanogenmod 10.1, I just spent the past three days working with a developer and with the nightly build from tonight (6/2), we now have full BMW Office support: I can send/get SMS messages and phone book entry pictures also work. For everyone else, HOPEFULLY Android 4.3 will catch up.

Oh and edit: to the OP-the fixes I just mentioned above makes the phone book update go from what took me about 2 minutes, down to less than 30 seconds, and that includes sync of all of my SMS messages too!

[samerbasha]

Originally Posted by pault

Email/SMS feature of BMW Office should be working with the iPhone, iOS 6 added the required Bluetooth profile (MAP). Some android phones work if manufacturer added it but Bluetooth MAP support is not native in android.

hi
can you tell me how its work in my car working only nee SMS but never email

best regards

[noka]

Thanks for the info. A few random replies, in no particular order:

- I have a very small contact list (e.g. under 50). It has e-mail and addresses but no characters I would consider strange.
- I get thumbnail images on Nav screen when making a call (but they don't show up unless the phonebook update is complete).
- I get SMS messages (only if received while phone is connected, not for any already received before connection). The text to speech works with the SMS.
- I don't get any e-mail messages.

I'm not so bold as to root my phone or try custom firmware. My RAZR MAXX HD currently runs JB 4.1.2. I guess I'll just wait for future updates to see if anything changes and hopefully the long time required for phonebook and SMS message updates will be reduced.