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      05-29-2018, 04:44 AM   #1
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Sat-Nav destinations - Meaningful Names?

I have a long list of sat-nav destinations which show as postcode and street name. After a while I think... is that one "Dave's house" or "Client aaa" or "The chip shop". I cannot see any way of changing them to a meaningful name.
Am I missing something? Is it just not possible?
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      05-29-2018, 05:22 AM   #2
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You can add them to your address book.

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That will do it, thanks.
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Rather than maintaining sat-nav destinations as contacts on the car I decided to put them into the contacts on my Android phone. So I sync my phone with the car then when I want guidance to an address I select that contact on the iDrive. If I change cars I carry the destinations with me.
Problem... the car only displays those contacts that have phone numbers, despite me selecting "Show ALL contacts" on my phone. I cannot find any setting on iDrive that will show all contacts, it shows only those that have phone numbers. Am I missing something.
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I don't know if you are missing a feature but, if you're right about it needing a telephone number to show up in the list, why don't you add a fake number "000000" to each phone entry that doesn't have one at the moment?
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Thanks, yes I had arrived at that as plan b, just wanted to make certain there was not an obvious solution on iDrive.
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