I know this has appeared here before, but is has been while.

Has anyone had any success in getting our PCM to import the phone-book from a Droid Incredible (Verizon)?

The blue-tooth paring works fine, but the PCM never recognizes the phone-book.

 

I had the same problem with my Droid2 at first also. Try this. During the pairing process, in the upper left corner, you need to swipe down to bring up the phonebook option. Now you can authorize phonebook sync from here. Good luck.

John

 

I wound up "rooting" my phone and that did the trick. Apparently the blue-tooth features are not 100% available on all phones (androids). Performing a "root" makes 100% of the blue-tooth available, along with other stuff.

So now since doing the root, the phone book is downloaded into the PCM with no issues.

 

I had a similar problem with a Droid X in my 09. In mine the phonebook would sometimes synch and sometimse not. I had the PCM updated but still had the same issue. The last time I updated the Droid the problem went away.

 

I had this issue with my HTC Eris. Certain phonebook entries (imported from Outlook) were causing problems - I manually tinkered with it for hours one day and finally got it working and created a spreadsheet with valid entries - if I recall correctly, it was note fields with numbers in them that looked like phone numbers that got it confused.

My wife's Moto Droid works perfectly - go figure - although I have not closely looked at her phone entries - they may already be clean.

 

Thanks for that been having some issues.

 

Verizon had been known for having their phones not support the full bluetooth stack of protocols that the firmware could. I'm surprised that in this day and age that sort of nonsense still happens at Verizon.

So you had to effectively jailbreak your verizon phone to be able to use the full bluetooth feature set, by effectively loading some modified firmware?

Checking HTC's support page for the Incredible reveals this less than usefull bluetooth description:

So phone book access is not explicitly listed there, but with such nonsense technical data like 'other standard profiles' who knows. You just want to smack HTC in the face for such crap. There is no 'standard' set of profiles... if someone comes looking for a profile list, enumerate all the damn profiles the phone has. So maybe it is that HTC doesn't provide the PBA profile out of the box, but the modified firmeware you installed does.

 

So you had to effectively jailbreak your verizon phone to be able to use the full bluetooth feature set, by effectively loading some modified firmware?

Yes, all I had to do was root the phone. I still have the same ROM/firmware.

When I got the new 911 with the newly updated PCM3 and a new Droid phone - the last thing I expected was to an issue like this.

At least I finally found the solution.

 

The rooting question raises a slightly different question for me. My ATT Captivate (non-rooted) shows up as a phone and as a data device in PCM 3.0. Phone works fine; contacts work fine. Data device never does anything if I select it but does say "unknown profile" or something. Does anyone show a data device and you can select it?

 

I just got a Droid 2 Global and the phonebook won't synch with my 09 C4S. Excuse my ignorance but what does it mean to root the phone? Thanks

 

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