Bluetooth phone pairing for a 2008 X5

[alexmish]

I have Verizon's Motorola Z6 TV, it pairs very well !

[proveg]

Paired few different phones, All worked ok to pair and place, recieve calls. Not all gave full functionality. Most blackberries including 8800 and 8830 work fully, Also paired ATT's curve 8300 and that worked perfectly. Tried pairing Nokia E65 as well as some other older Nokia and didnt get the addressbook sync. I am told Nokia Luna should work, although havent had a chance to try it. Tried few samsungs and had the same problem with synchronizing addressbook. I hear most motorola phones work well with the addressbook, at this time no personal experience with those.

[HansV]

I've just upgraded to a E70 3.0d and I'm having difficulty getting my Nokia 6110 navigator phone to upload the Address Book. Pairing worked eventually but the phonebook refuses to move.... any ideas??

[theprof]

Originally Posted by X5_Rules

I have a Verizon Blackberry 8130 World Edition and it works fine. The Address book is downloaded and I am able to make calls using voice recognition.

Yep, me too. Same phone; just picked up my X5 yesterday (Sunday), paired it with my phone in about a minute and all aspects work perfectly. As did Sirius and my iPOD. Damn, I'm going to get spoiled. 700 mile drive home; all is good; what a wonderful, serene cabin to eat up the miles in.

[tim-atl]

Originally Posted by Monty04

So, all recently released bluetooth phones should pair and load the phone book correctly?

The phonebook may or may not download but you should certainly be able to use the phone hands free.

Tim

[proveg]

I have something that seriously is bothering me and that is same with variation of blackberry phones.
When I am on the phone and walk into the car the bluetooth in the car turns on few seconds after ignition is turned on, Phone connects with X5, the call is "transferred into the car", but nothing is heard in the car for next 10-20 seconds (the call is in limbo) I have to transfer call into the phone untill bluetooth in X5 is fully ready. In general it takes about as much time as it is to transfer the addressbook (I have 200+ entries on my blackberry)

Anyone experiencing same, or what do all of you experience when call gets tranferred into the car. How do all of you handle getting out of the car and keeping your conversations going, I do the switching manually before the car automatically releases the call.

[bimmerfan]

Any bluetooth phone should pair for voice. The issue with the phonebook pairing is basically this:

Bluetooth uses a protocol called OBject EXchange or OBEX to transfer data. Verizon in their greed to force people to buy games, ring tones and other junk disables OBEX on the majority of their phones so that their customers cannot connect their bluetooth phone to their computer and transfer data directly to it. That is why you will sometimes find a specific phone that is "approved" from say Sprint but will not work if it is from Verizon. OBEX is the protocol used to pair your phonebook to your car.

Whether the phone is CDMA (Sprint and Verizon) or GSM (Everyone else) doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it can integrate the phonebook.

The Verizon phones that work with the BMW (to include phonebook) are the ones that they cannot disable OBEX on. Those include certain blackberries and the Razor etc.

Any phone that has the full bluetooth protocol stack and does not have OBEX disabled should pair the phonebook to your BMW. On the plus side, because of issues such as this Verizon seems to be moving away from disabling OBEX on their phones. Just type like "verizon+model of phone+obex" into google and you should find out pretty quickly if it'll work.

Also, you cannot put an unlocked iPhone on Verizon or Sprint because it is a GSM phone which will not work on a CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) network.

Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by Monty04

BMW has a list of compatible bluetooth phones for Verizon Wireless and the other service providers. For Verizon, all of the phones are from Motorola, with the exception of two Blackberries, 7130e and 8703e. I really don't have a high opinion about the quaility of the Motorola phones. Has anyone had good luck pairing and integrating with iDrive other phones than these?

[alexmish]

MOTO Z6TV pairs wonderfully, no major issues so far. The minor problems I had were related to phone getting unpaired, for no reasons. Happened twice,not sure if this is MOTO or BMW bug.

[AzNMpower32]

My LG VX8700 pairs fully and well with the Bluetooth system. Phonebook is downloaded automatically as well.

[Monty04]

Originally Posted by bimmerfan

Any bluetooth phone should pair for voice. The issue with the phonebook pairing is basically this:

Bluetooth uses a protocol called OBject EXchange or OBEX to transfer data. Verizon in their greed to force people to buy games, ring tones and other junk disables OBEX on the majority of their phones so that their customers cannot connect their bluetooth phone to their computer and transfer data directly to it. That is why you will sometimes find a specific phone that is "approved" from say Sprint but will not work if it is from Verizon. OBEX is the protocol used to pair your phonebook to your car.

Whether the phone is CDMA (Sprint and Verizon) or GSM (Everyone else) doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it can integrate the phonebook.

The Verizon phones that work with the BMW (to include phonebook) are the ones that they cannot disable OBEX on. Those include certain blackberries and the Razor etc.

Any phone that has the full bluetooth protocol stack and does not have OBEX disabled should pair the phonebook to your BMW. On the plus side, because of issues such as this Verizon seems to be moving away from disabling OBEX on their phones. Just type like "verizon+model of phone+obex" into google and you should find out pretty quickly if it'll work.

Also, you cannot put an unlocked iPhone on Verizon or Sprint because it is a GSM phone which will not work on a CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) network.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, bimmerfan, for the explanation. I guess the phonebook on my Blackberry Pearl will not be showing up in my X5 since I believe OBEX is disabled on it.