HTC Desire(Android) / Blue&me

[DickBarton]

I've got my Desire and just upgraded it to Gingerbread - took all of 5 minutes to do it and seems to have improved the phone slightly - improved battery - half drained in a day rather than 3/4's gone; seems to open stuff a bit quicker as well.

Anyway, I repaired the phone with the car and it asked if I wanted to copy my phonebook, I said yes and it copied everything...so my phone address book is now on the car as well. It connects to the car much quicker as well - normally it takes about 40 seconds but now I reckon it is 10 seconds.

Voice isn't supported as the bluetooth protocols haven't been installed with Android...the only bluetooth protocols are for voice and handsfree (as far as I can tell) - if someone could find something that added the bluetooth protocols for speech then you could get your text messages read out...shame Google Voice doesn't integrate...perhaps some sort of accessibility tool would?

 

[muffin8118]

I've found a workaround and I think I know why it is failing.

I have managed to update a number of contacts manually by adding them via bluetooth from my Desire - I browse my contacts and then hold down on the name, menu appears and I choose Send content via vcard. On the car I go to Settings, User Data, Add Contacts.

On phone I select the detail I want (name and phone number(s)) but make sure everything else is not ticked, then select Bluetooth, Blue&Me and off it goes.

I think (but have no evidence to confirm) that it fails to send as the phone tries to send all the other detail as well i.e. picture/date of birth/facebook account details, etc. The data is failing as there is a lot of stuff that isn't needed and the system doesn't know what to do.

I've managed to get 12 contacts added (the 12 that I call most) and everything appears to be working so far.

Manual select of the contact you want to add, select only the contact details that matter - name and phone number(s) and then send them via bluetooth.

Good work around. I was going to give up as I had tried importing the phone book a few times and the connection kept breaking off every time. Thanks, it worked perfectly.

 

[muffin8118]

I have set the message reader to voice and audio but I don't think it works with the HTC Desire. Is there a work around or a software upgrade?

 

[chicaneuk]

Are many other folks here running 2.3 on their HTC Desire and finding everything works with Blue & Me? I find that once paired my phone will intermittently disconnect from the car and that when making a call, once it starts to ring someone, it'll usually just disconnect before I even start speaking to them..

 

[chicaneuk]

Pleased to say I just re-paired the phone and it works great now! Have had my first few hands free calls since owning the car and it's great - a really nice little piece of tech!