It will pair, but it wont autoconnect, cant transfer contacts and wont pair with BT audio control on D3.

That has been my experience as well. I keep hoping for a breakthrough!

Alright folkes, I have gotten it to work pretty well over bluetooth for the most part. It does autoconnect, but there is no way to upload the phonebook because the iphone does not support contacts over bluetooth yet. It probably will with a future update. I did however find a way to set preset phone numbers to the six presets you get with the D3. The steps are:

1. Select phone source on the D3

2. Hit DIRECT

3. Dial the number

4. Hit SET

5. The number will appear at the top in the blue bar, at that point touch and hold one of the preset locations and it will store the number.

There is no way to set a name, just the number but I can live with that until Apple updates the bluetooth functions of the phone.

VBlue,

Thanks for the tip. That's a good workaround. I sure hope Apple improves the bluetooth capabilities.

Does this Work With The iPod interface???

It will pair, but it wont autoconnect, cant transfer contacts and wont pair with BT audio control on D3.

FYI - I have the Z2 and the iPhone pairs and works great for phone calls... it also auto connects now everytime.

I cannot, however, transfer the phone book contacts... and that's a limitation of the iPhone at the moment, not the Z2.

Does this Work With The iPod interface???

Yes, but it disables the phone functions.

It will pair, but it wont autoconnect, cant transfer contacts and wont pair with BT audio control on D3.

 

FYI - I have the Z2 and the iPhone pairs and works great for phone calls... it also auto connects now everytime.

 

I cannot, however, transfer the phone book contacts... and that's a limitation of the iPhone at the moment, not the Z2.

On the phonebook issue try my tip from above. I dont have a Z1/2 so I dont know if it works the same way as the D3 but if it does this tip should allow you to at least store some numbers as presets.

Same story here with my D3.

I had actually hoped to replace my iPod (80GB Video) with my iPhone actually, but that may have been wishful thinking on my part I guess.

Now, as far as auto-connecting goes....are some getting it to work (permanently) or does it just come and go?

So far, today anyway, I have not been able to get mine to autoconnect at all.

Once I got the phone properly registered on my D3 it has autoconnected reliably. Of course, that is ony one day's experience!

Charlie

In my case it seems if I have more then one bt device registered with the iphone that the D3 has a hard time pairing with the iphone. I have to unpair then pair again to get it to connect when this happens. I have a jabra earpeice as well and it seems to get in the way of the D3 when tring to autoconnect. Other then that it seems to work pretty well.

So are you able to use the music on your iPhone by pairing bluetooth, or do you have to connect via the typical cable like the rest of us with video iPods?

Inquiring minds want to know.

In my case, I can only get audio from the iPhone when it is connected via the ipod cable.

I could not get my phone to work (while the cable was connected) and I also could not get any video to playback from the iPhone to the D3 (with or without cable).

Looks like I'll just have to keep my ipod for use w/ the D3 (I just leave it in the glovebox anyway)...and hopefully get my iPhone to autoconnect all the time at some point...I guess I'll be happy then

So are you able to use the music on your iPhone by pairing bluetooth, or do you have to connect via the typical cable like the rest of us with video iPods?

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

No BT audio control, you can put the D3 in pairing mode but it wont pair. It seems to be more of a problem with the iphone rather then the D3.

and hopefully get my iPhone to autoconnect all the time at some point...I guess I'll be happy then

Are you pairing the iphone with any other BT device at any time other then the D3. If you are that might be your problem with consistency with the D3. On the iphone you can look under SETTINGS, GENERAL, BLUETOOTH to see if any other BT devices are listed. If they are unpair them an that might fix your problem.

No, I'm only trying to pair it to the D3...no other devices. Will give it a try again tomorrow though...thanks.

Do you have the CD-BTB200?

I realize that Apple didn't design the iPhone to directly work with the D3 and all, but it does seem to be a major MISS when it comes to compatibility of external BT devices. If our iPods work with our system now, why wouldn't they think to at least keep the cable-mounting function alive? Is that a product of new and untested technology or what?

They just cut out a nice size market of people who've spent more than twice on their car sound system than the price of their most expensive iPhone. Clearly, we're willing to put money into cool technology. Show some love, Apple!

I appreciate all the information. As much as I'd like to have an iPhone, it's not quite funtionally ready for me to replace both my phone and iPod with the one device, which is what would have made it worth the heavy price tag.

For now I'll stick with older, yet proven, technology. I'm looking forward to the updates from our iPhone users here, gang. Keep us posted.

When you attach the iPhone through the iPod cable you get the airplane warning. When you ignore the warning are you able to play video through the phone onto the D3?

For some strange reason, Apple didnt enable video output through the 30-pin connector. Even the video home docks don't work. No idea why they would do something that boneheaded - why have video with no way to play it back outside the iPhone?

When you attach the iPhone through the iPod cable you get the airplane warning. When you ignore the warning are you able to play video through the phone onto the D3?

No!!

For some strange reason, Apple didnt enable video output through the 30-pin connector. Even the video home docks don't work. No idea why they would do something that boneheaded - why have video with no way to play it back outside the iPhone?

Because then the phone would compete with ipod sales.

I doubt sales of ipods would be affected. It's a difference of at least $400 between them. If you are buying an iPhone, even if the compatibility issues were fixed, you wouldn't likely be buying it for the iPod feature. There's just not that much storage on the iPhone to eliminate having at least a secondary and backup iPod at this point. Not if you have a decent music collection.

Do you have the CD-BTB200?

Yes, that is the one I have....

Still cannot get it to autoconnect at all. I have to manually connect it each time I get in my vehicle...which stinks!

Gonna play with it some more tonight to see what I can get...may try resetting the BTB200 to see if that helps maybe...

Really love the iPhone...but I wish it could connect for me...

Update: Got it working...

I wasn't holding down one of the selections where you register the phone...I was just tapping the selection and it would not take doing that.

I grabbed the instruction book for both the BTB200 and D3 and found out that I need to hold the selection down for a few seconds. As soon as I tried that, it connected...and now stays connected.

It's amazing what you can do when you read the instructions

Thanks for the help!