transferring phonebook with help from a PDA?

I've read in several places where people say it's possible to transfer the phone book to the Prius with the help of a PDA. Has anyone actually had success with this? I've tried with my IPAQ 5400 and I can't even get the IPAQ to pair up with the car. The IPAQ can see the car but that's as far as it goes.

Thanks in advance.

 

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Thanks. I was able to get the data to transfer, albeit one entry at a time, but the numbers appear as vertical lines or blank. The names are correct though. I thought it might have been because the number was in the wrong field for the contact but I tried nearly every 'phone#' field to no avail.

Any suggestions?

 

That did it. Thanks for all the help. One at a time with the pda but it's all there. I did have to use my phone while using the pda to transfer the phonebook. I don't have bluetooth on my laptop just my pda. It probably took 30sec per contact but I'm all set now.

Thanks again.

 

Sure. First I had to download my phone book from the phone to the PC. There are a number of programs that do that. I then saved it out as a comma delimited file (.CSV). Next I imported it into Outlook contacts folder. When I did this, Outlook converted all my unformatted numbers to formatted number, i.e.; 8005551212 became (800) 555-1212. So I had to manually go through and edit each contact in Outlook and remove the formatting. After the editing was completed I sync the Contacts with my IPAQ. Then I went to the car. Once in the car I turned the power on and waited for the phone and car to get a successful Bluetooth connection. Now, if you haven’t done so already, from previous attempts, go to the Bluetooth manger of the PDA and try and add the car as a device. You won’t be able to connect to it but you just need it in the list of devices. Now, press the phone button on the steering wheel and press the Settings button on the NAV screen. Make sure the Contacts screen is open on the PDA and select Transfer Phone Book on the NAV screen of the car. Once you do this the, you'll see that the phone disconnects the Bluetooth connection. So on the PDA click and hold on the first Contact until the popup menu appears and select Send via Bluetooth from the menu. The PDA will show you the list of devices. Make sure the type of device is All Devices and not just Object Push. You should see the car listed. Select the car and click OK. The PDA will transfer the contact to the car and the car will return to the Settings screen. After a few seconds the phone will re-establish the Bluetooth connection to the car. Make sure you wait for this to happen before you continue and even wait a few seconds after it that. Now press Transfer Phone Book again on the NAV screen and when prompted to Overwrite or Add select Add. Next, go the second Contact in on the PDA and do the same thing all over again. Continue until all your contacts are in.

That's it. Good Luck!

 

I have Outlook 2000 that came with my IPAQ 5400. One difference may be that I haven't used Outlook or Outlook Express at all until this. In fact I had quite some difficulty getting Outlook installed. OE is still not installed on my machine. I use Novell GroupWise for all my email, contacts and calendaring. Unfortunately GroupWise and Pocket Outlook don’t play nice with one another without a lot of handholding.

In any event, I just edited the contacts in Outlook 2000 to remove the formatting and when closed each contact it was saved without the formatting. When I then sync'd with the IPAQ they all came over unformatted.

 

I almost forgot. This may also have something to do with it.

When I imported my phonebook into Outlook from the CSV file. I had a very minimalist phonebook, ie, I only have one number per contact and all names are using just the First Name field of Outlook. Normally Outlook will try and format your contact names by doing LastName, FirstName. But I don't use mine that way. Mine are like John's Cell, Becky's Home, Joe's Work. So because I can’t allow the formatting of the names I use the firstname field only for my contacts.

Good Luck