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Transfer Data from Phone

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by fulfowi, May 1, 2009.

  1. fulfowi

    fulfowi Junior Member

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    I have a 2009 package 6. When I try to transfer data from my phone, it never completes and I get no data. Am I doing something wrong, or is it broken?

    Doug
     
    #1 fulfowi, May 1, 2009
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    You need to say which phone. Not all phones support transfer of contacts, even though the bluetooth otherwise works. There's a particular bluetooth protocol that has to be supported for transfer of contacts to work.
     
    #2 ggood, May 1, 2009
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    Correct. For example, my iPhone 3G will not transfer contacts. Grrrr
     
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    Yes, depends on the phone.
    My Sony Ericcson will transfer, but only one contact at a time. Better than not at all.

    You have to set the Prius to accept the transfer, then go to the phone and make it send via Bluetooth.
     
    #4 Nortnarg, May 2, 2009
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    If you do not have a phone that supports the BT push/pull, you can use a laptop with bluetooth. I have a Razr. I imported my phonebook to my PC, created a VCF file. The VCF file is a CSV file with name and numbers. The Prius phonebook only allows 2 numbers per name. Create the name, number1, number2 CSV file, rename the file extension to VCF. I xferred my entire phonebook with 1 operation.
     
    #5 lmtprius, May 3, 2009
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    Motorola's will only transfer one at a time. Can be very time consuming.
     
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    fulfowi, you'll also get some better information in the Audio and Electronics forum, rather than the Main forum.

    Seems like half the topics there are about phones and BT; the other half are people trying to upgrade the sound system... ;)
     
    #7 auricchio, May 3, 2009
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    what model cellphone do you have
     
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    is your cellphone paired to your Prius? if you are unable to transfer, you can input names and numbers manually.
     
    #9 alexdayjr, May 3, 2009
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