Incoming iPhone calls

[brynet]

I have an iPhone 2g so I'm not sure if this problem still exists on the 3g but after I sync my address book I can call out fine and it shows who I'm calling, but if someone calls me my F90BT only show's their phone number. I called Pioneer and the tech said they've seen this a lot and it's a problem with the iPhone. I've tried saving the numbers as (area code) number, 1 (area code) number and +1 (area code) number. Is there some magic combination or does the iPhone simply not communicate incoming calls over BT directly?

[dianebrat]

my 3G does the same, it's just the way it is with iphones and the address book.

[JonA2B3]

The problem with the iPhone is that it saves the number as (561) 662-4202, but when a call comes in to your phone and is sent to the unit its recieved as 561-662-4202. Since the contacts have that ( ) saved into the unit it will not recognize the number coming in. There is a program that can be used to fix this problem. It's called SQlite.

You would first have to hack into your unit and copy your saved phonebook from the unit to an SD card. Then take the SD card to the computer use SQlite and remove the ( ) from each contact. Put the new revised phonebook list back into the unit and now incoming contact names will show up.

[JonA2B3]

Here is a different solution.

 

Hi folks,

If you are having trouble with the caller ID is not working by just showing phone numbers for incoming call, then this is the solution. Before, one of the suggested solution was to copy the xxx.db file from the 700BT unit to the SD card and edit on your pc using a plug in and then replace the modified file back to the 700BT unit. I tried this but it is not a very convenient way to do this. This is not good enough for me so I have been trying to find a better solution and I finally found it. Here is the new solution. Now this is on my Iphone 3G using Microsoft Outlook 2003 to sync contacts. The problem was that Microsoft Outlook was auto formatting the phone number by adding parenthesis, space, hyphen, etc when adding/editing phone number. To resove this root problem, one has to shut off auto formatting some how and Microsoft does not tell anyone how this is done. Anyway, to shut this off, do the following:

 

1. Go to Control Panel -> Phone and Modem Options. In the location list, you should see your location, highlight it and then click the "Edit..." button.

 

2. Change the Country/Region to Afghanistan and change the Area code = 1. My country was USA, which Outlook will auto format the phone number.

 

3. Go back to your Microsoft Outlook and edit All your contacts and remove all the +1, space, -, (), etc. Your number should ONLY contain numbers.

 

4. Go to your 700BT unit and transfer/sync your contact list once the phone is connected via Bluetooth.

 

5. Incoming calls should now show the matching name now. No need to copy the xx.db file from/to SD card anymore.

 

6. To verify that all phone numbers contains ONLY numbers, you can boot in test mode and copy the xxx.db and open it up with the plug in, it should look EXACTLY how it is in Microsoft Outlook.

 

Note:

 

Some incoming call may have a 1 prefix before the area code and some may omit the area code, depends on the caller's carrier. If it does not match and just show the number, look at the number and go into your MS Outlook and change it to match the incoming number and repeat steps 3-5.