10-06-2018, 04:51 PM | #1 |
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Storing contacts in car?
So I spent like 45 minutes tediously going through the list of contacts while the phone was synced and "adding them to the car" or something like that. My thought being they would be saved locally to the car. I got in the car the next day without my phone, went to bring up one of the contacts and the list was empty. Nothing saved. What is up with that? I love the car (2015 328i), but hate this nav/contact system.
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10-06-2018, 10:32 PM | #3 |
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I keep them in my eyes and don't fuck around.
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10-07-2018, 08:27 AM | #6 |
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Thanks for the replies, but none of this answers my question. And why would having my sister's address across the country get my house robbed?
The point is, can this be done or am I misunderstanding something? |
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10-07-2018, 09:10 AM | #7 |
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According to the Navigation and Entertainment manual it can be done, though I've never bothered with it. My phone contacts are stored in my phone, my destinations are stored in Nav, so I don't need anything else. My guess is that you didn't follow the instructions in that manual, but I can't say for sure as I've never tried it.
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10-07-2018, 09:37 AM | #8 |
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OK, no, I didn't read the manual as it was (I thought) fairly clear. In fact, at the end of this exercise I had a nice list of about 15 or 20 contacts. Now, I know about the phone, and if this were my car that would be fine, but it is my brides car who is not tech savvy, so if the Bluetooth does not connect for some reason it would be very annoying. Having just her important contact saved locally would make her life (and subsequently mine) much easier.
Anyway, I finished everything up and a couple of days later I went to the car to fool around a bit and learn the Nav better. No contacts could be found. I did not have her phone with me. My conclusion was: 1.) It needs the phone to recall the saved contacts (seems silly) 2.) Something is not working correctly, as in broken. I'm gonna reenter a couple of contacts and see if they stick and get another data point. |
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I have a contact saved in my car--it's the address for the other office of the company I work at. I save it to the car because I don't have it as a separate contact in my phone. But any address that is on my phone, if I need to navigate to that address, I just pull it up thru the contacts which are in my phone, not saved to the car. |
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But you always make your "home" a few streets away from your real address, like the closest parking lot at a store, or at a nearby intersection. Making your home contact in your driveway or in front of your house is how you get the house robbed if they steal your car, especially if you have HomeLink or the garage opener in the car.
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I often travel to places west of me that have no cell service, so I've stored a few contacts to the vehicle, but basically for the addresses only because that's what pops up in the NAV contact list. I go through the phone and choose a contact, then press "option" on the iDrive controller. There is a setting to "save contact to vehicle". Then I go back and hit "option"- "edit contact" and make sure the address is correct. Then when you go back through the contact list, it will tell you if it is stored in the vehicle or on the phone. Also, it doesn't seem like the phone will sync the contact list unless the car is in "ready" mode. It doesn't seem to sync in "accessory" mode. I have to test that more.
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