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Bluetooth and the 3-Series
Recently, when making a call, I am unable to hang up. Either the car shows a call in progress and although I haven't continued, the radio either will work or not. I am unable to hang up with the car's Bluetooth system or from my phone itself. I've had to turn off my cell pone to hang up.
Anyone else with the same or similar problem?
Anyone else with the same or similar problem?
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I just leased an X3 (not yet received) and I need to get a new phone to take advantage of the Bluetooth. Anyone know if the TMobile SDA works in X3's or any BMW's for that matter. I am currently on TMobile and would like to stay with them. Or how about the Razr?
I have an '06 330i and have had terrific experience with the Motorola Razr (except on rare occasions when phone calls won't hang up), but may move my phone to my bberry. The 8700c is listed by BMW as a compatible phone on the web-site, but I was curious for any experience.
In particular, how does the voice command work for dialing numbers work when there are several numbers plugged into each name on the blackberry for office, home, mobile, etc.? With the Razr, each entry is saved separate (i.e., "Joe Work" and "Joe Cell") so it is not a problem, i.e., you simply say "Joe Work or "Joe Cell." It would be a less attractive function to have bluetooth with the bberry if I couldn't call up names by voice command.
Thanks.
Help.....how do I pair the phone?
Thanks!
Well, that's the problem, with all the manuals I received with the car, there was no phone manual. In the main manual it is ridiculous that there were no instructions on how to pair the phone. The BMW website is helpful except where it mentions that the 3-series and X3's require a pass code and to check the manual. This is not the case except for older models than the E90. I found that out AFTER going back to the dealer this morning.
Conclusion: the (main) car manual and website should help make this process as easy as it ultimately is.
I'm thinking of switching providers and wonder if the BMW's Bluetooth is compatible with Verizon in retaining all of its features.
Sound quality is great, too.
Do you have Verizon and therefore this problem?
I know for a fact it works with both the Motorola Razr and the Q, because I've done it. I don't know if other brands of blue tooth phones have issues, though.
I have Motorola V710 & phone book transfers flawless!
I'm glad it's working for some, but it doesn't work for all. I guess it depends on how the car implements the phonebook transfer; mine does it as a file transfer, which Verizon Wireless has disabled.
So, I guess my initial statement of "It's a function of the phone, not the car" was incorrect.
I'm glad it's working for some, but it doesn't work for all. I guess it depends on how the car implements the phone book transfer; mine does it as a file transfer, which Verizon Wireless has disabled.
This is why I inquired how a Verizon phone is functioning with the BMW's Bluetooth in downloading the phonebook.
I think Verizon must have done a "turn about". All the capabilities of my Razr and Q are fully functional via bluetooth and work with my 330i....that includes phone book downloads when I paired them.
Not sure of this, but I would imagine all bluetooth phones download via file transfer to get the phone book and names. No hard wire connection is needed. I change/add/delete names and phone numbers and it's updated whenever I start my car with the phone in my pocket.
In short, bluetooth capable Motorola phones on the Verizon network are fully functional with the 3 Series.
it says go to the owner manual...
appreciate your help
I assume you have an '06 3 series? If so, I had the need recently to re-pair my phone after a service visit. Do you have iDrive? If so, put in the password of your choice on your phone and scroll to the select password selection on the car, push select and it'll find your phone when the phone is on seek handsfree device mode.
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You have a Z4 and not a 3-Series? Hmmm, then I don't know. Did you try going to the BMW website?
I similarly have the same combination, namely the 3-series, Cingular and the v551. My problem is not with the phone itself, but with my local Cingular service. With my complaints to Cingular, they have recommended the Razr. Does their Nokia have Bluetooth? The Motorola works so well with my BMW, I hate to change brands, but I may change cell phone providers.
It's happened maybe twice since I had my car. I have Cingular and I wasn't sure if it was my phone or the car, so I didn't bother to ask.
I've also had a problem with it connecting at all on occasion. Turned my phone on and off but still no connection.
My guess is it's just a quirk, could be the cell provider, phone, or car. I love the feature anyway!
I've been through every fault finding trick that t mobile and motorola suggest. I've since spent three months using different cell phones in my car - all seem to syn perfectly when I use them with the exception of motorola phones. I've now had 3 new razors - replaced by T mobile and also Motorola. I'm still having the same problems.
Has anyone seen or heard of this problem. BMW implied that there are issues with Motorola phones
Thanks!
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Cell phone chats totally out of this world
Mark Morford
Friday, May 11, 2007
So there I was, happily cruising along Interstate 80 coming down from the Sierra and doing about 85 mph just like almost everyone else except a few rusty old Tercels and some creaky motor homes and, of course, the slew of cold-hearted, machinelike CHP officers waiting calmly for me at the speed trap just up ahead. But never mind that now.
My car calmly reported an outside May temperature of a scant 35 degrees, and the surrounding mountains were still licked by a soft glaze of snow, and I believe I was blasting a terribly cool song from the incredible new Kings of Leon CD, just one of a 200-song super road-trip megamix I had compiled a few days prior from the roughly 6,017 songs stored on my MacBook Pro, which I had then effortlessly transferred to a tiny, shiny Cupertino-designed slab of black plastic and silicon roughly the size of a pack of Camel Reds, a device that can easily hold every song I would ever want to listen to, and it was plugged into a tiny socket somewhere in my glove box, and all was good with the world, when just then the steering wheel rang.
Or, to be more specific, my cell phone rang, but the sound came straight through the car's stereo system, which centered the sound right in front of my face, which made it feel like it was coming from the steering wheel because, well, this is apparently how it works, my tiny Motorola SLVR magically communicating with the car via invisible brain-melting Bluetooth waves. Hence, whenever I'm driving and I get a phone call, the entire interior of the car rings sweetly and I press a little button on the steering wheel and speak directly toward the steering wheel, where the little microphone is, and it's both amazing and cool and still more than a little weird.
So then. The steering wheel rang. The Kings fell silent. The iPod waited calmly. I pressed the answer button and heard a long-distance voice say, "Hello," and suddenly the world collapsed and time and space and distance lost almost all meaning as roughly 500 different technological marvels fell into place in the span of roughly 1.2 seconds.
It was my friend J, calling from Costa Rica. She was, at that very moment, lounging on a hammock somewhere in the tropical sunshine, deep in the jungle, curious monkeys nearby and large iguanas crawling over the railing and something resembling warm, tropical bliss in her voice, and we had a simply lovely and yet wonderfully surreal conversation, me up there racing through the frosted pinecone mountains and her swaying blissfully in her balmy lounge nearly 3,000 miles away.
Is this not astounding? Is this not as dazzling as gods on fire? Is this not something over which to pause and into which to peer and say, "Oh my God, would you look, just look at what we have wrought?" As the saying goes, sometimes you just gotta stop and smell the tech evolution.
Perhaps you are not all that impressed. Perhaps I am not making myself clear: My friend was in the jungle, in Costa Rica, speaking into a tiny hunk of cellular plastic the size of a pack of gum. I was in a car speeding through the cold California mountains, nothing around me but pine trees and pavement, speaking into the steering wheel. There were no wires. There were no horses with saddlebags full of scrawled letters. There was no carrier pigeon nor transcontinental transport ship nor weary royal messenger exhausted from the three-week trudge through the desert. There was only this irrefutable sense of effortless, everyday magic.
And therein lies the kicker: It was all so normal, so automatic and obvious and casual, you'd think it was always like this, that what we were experiencing wasn't the result of roughly 50,000 years of intellectual evolution and $8 gazillion dollars' worth of tech innovation combined with stratospheric leaps of human ingenuity and greed and capitalism and our never-ending need to keep ourselves connected no matter what.
Kicker No. 2: As we spoke, as our voices traversed the planet and bounced around the galaxy, somehow our bodies did not immediately dissolve and evaporate into the divine ether, somehow, multifaceted bilateral planes of reality did not collapse inward and blast us back into stardust despite how we're so effortlessly manipulating time and space these days. Amazing, if you think about it.
Here's my question, to which we all already know the answer: Are we sufficiently awed by our own technology? Are we adequately amazed on a day-to-day basis by what we have accomplished and with what sort of easy surreal craziness the world has been compressed and codified and reshuffled? Verily, we are not.
And, of course, you can utter this same sentiment about just about anything: nature, God, deep space, the ocean, Cate Blanchett's astonishing porcelain skin. I know. By and large, humans are not nearly sufficiently awed by the world around them, and if we were, well, we'd never actually have time to live our lives because of all the standing around with our mouths agape in a perpetual state of wow.
Of course, the cool thing is not to be the slightest bit fazed by any of it. This is the mark of the hip and the jaded and the technologically cynical, the young geeks and hot MySpacers and rabid BlackBerry addicts who see this insane wonderful world of communicative magic as so obvious and preemptively lame that they get to mock it even as they use it because, hey, it's just technology. It's, like, supposed to be our servant. This is one option.
Or, perhaps, you take the opposite extreme and see rapid tech advancement as something so dazzling and powerful that you believe -- as many supergeek intellectuals, philosophers and scientists do -- that our species is on the brink of an "event horizon" known as the singularity, that moment when the cognitive power of our technology outpaces our meek little brains and artificial intelligence overtakes human reckoning and we all either take a giant leap forward into glorious bitchin' sci-fi utopia, or the whole world collapses into smoking chaotic gizmo hell. Or, you know, both.
You may, as usual, choose your poison. Me, I prefer to try and reside in those moments like the one described above, where the tech world presents itself as friendly and clear and even a mite beautiful, where all the waste and greed inherent in all those support systems fall away, and you're able, just for a moment, to taste something resembling true wonder.
It's that moment when your known reality snaps its boundaries like an evolutionary bra strap as time and space backflip and somersault and tongue kiss in the clouds, and you get that fleeting tickle to the spiritual id that all might not be lost after all. It can be, well, sort of nice. Powerful, even. Right until, of course, you hang up.
I'm looking at the Pearl and wondering if anyone got it working?
My girlfriend was in a 335 and told me she got her Q' working and my friend got his RAZR working. I'm planning on buying a new phone and don't like the Voyager as it's so big as I like small phones.
I also have a Cingular phone (Samsung Blackjack) unlocked running T-mobile. I wonder if it will work. Last time I was at the dealer the damn phone wouldn't turn on its bluetooth! I use this for work so I would like it to work as well.
Thanks!!
It's still expensive. It will probably be at least $800 total for all parts and shipping and the dealer may or may not activate it for free. It's cheaper than the premium package, but since you were factory ordering, you could have ordered the bluetooth/BMW Assist package for $750. The bluetooth kit below doesn't include BMW Assist.
http://www.bimmernav.com/store/catalog/bmw-3-series-20062008-e90-index-36.html
The car is also prewired for BMW Assist, but then you will need to add a few hundred more in parts and more labor to install.
Or for about $100 you could get this:
http://supertooth.net/HelpService/interactive_voice_demo.html
I use verizon service and it appears I cannot have a smartphone that pairs with the 335 and gets my slingbox (remote cable TV thru internet).
anybody pair a Mot Q9m -a smartphone that does get internet in a 335?
Or, has anybody paired a Blackberry smartphone thru Verizon
TIA
Also I'm thinking about a new smartphone that works. Want the blackberry but it's not on the list. So need to find someone with one so I can see if it works. Otherwise it's back to another razr that I know does work.
Has anyone used a smart phone and gotten their "outlook" addresses to sync up? Or just their phone addresses?
Also, I see on my razr with sw 1.0F.03 I don't get all my contacts. Might be that I have too many and might be over the limit of allowable for the addresss book. I need to check that one out.
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Not so at all in my experience.