Bluetooth phone pairing for a 2008 X5

[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.

[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.

[FirstBMW]

I have a samsung i760 which paired and works great!

[ZDigital 1]

Originally Posted by FirstBMW

I have a samsung i760 which paired and works great!

I have just purchased a Samsung i760 phone and have it paired with my 2005 X5. The issue I do have is that on the screen it says "downloading Phonebook!" It has been doing this for over an hour. The buttons on steering wheel do nothing. I can answer and hangup calls with the nav screen knob. Anyone have a solution for my problem????

Need Help!
Thanks in advance.
Zdigital1

[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??

[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?

[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.

[Texas5]

Originally Posted by Monty04

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.

Monty04, Blackberry Pearl (both Verizon and AT&T versions) are fully compatible with BMW bluetooth system, including address book download. I've used both, and they work fine.

For what it's worth, I've also paired a Samsung i760 and it was fully compatible.