Wow... so sad... If I knew this would not have worked with my Treo 755p I would have never installed the damn thing!

ARG!

What a pain in the ass.

I even did the Treo update from sprint on my 755p and still no good.

That really makes me mad....

-Nigel

I fought this battle with Pioneer, and was told, in essence, "You lose, sucker." The next iteration of the BT interface will be internal (as opposed to an external interface like the CD-BTB200) and Pioneer has no interest in fixing the compatibility problem between Palm OS-based smartphones and the CD-BTB200.

My solution was to buy a Palm 700wx off of eBay (about $175), switch my service to it, and install the Jetware Mobile SW. This is an imperfect solution, as you still get limited functionality. Pairing the devices is still a challenge, but it can be done. When I fire up the car, I have to take out the phone, switch off Bluetooth, then switch it back on again. It then communicates with the CD-BTB200 and all is well. However, everytime I get back into the car, I have to do this all over again.

I also can't dial through the N3 display, can't store speed dial numbers, and there's no caller ID. But I can answer calls through the N3, and dial calls from the phone while I talk on the interface.

I think this is going to be my last Pioneer purchase, though. Their lack of candor about the compatibility issues, and uncaring attitude about trying to provide a remedy has soured me with the company.

Welp, thanks for the replies.

I'm not switching phones..lol I love Palm. I guess I will just sell the bluetooth box on ebay. Hell selling I will recoop half the cost of the Avic!..lol

I lived this long without having bluetooth in my car so I guess I will just use my headset like I always have................ oh wells... it's definitely a nice feature I just with there was some type of standard where everything would just work...arg.!

Thanks yall,

-Nigel

My fix was to go with a windows mobile based phone. First the HTC touch and now an HTC Mogul...the mogul is a great phone but still needs jetware to pair with the D3. Once you run Jetware it's all gravy! Even the ringers play thru.

Best of luck to all

Frank

Per Pioneer rep ANY windows based phone running WM6 needs jetware which includes palm.

Did a little research and did came up with only this on the BTB-200: it REQUIRES "Object-Push-Pull" (OPP) Bluetooth profiles in order to move phonebook entries between the radio and phone, whereas most headsets only require "Hands-Free" and "Headset" profiles. For those of you using stock Verizon phones, you can forget it, as Verizon strips their phones of OPP (most likely to prevent software piracy between phones by sharing ringtones etc).

 

To the point: Make sure your phone & service provider allow OPP on your phone or it won't pair with BTB-200.

While this was true previously, the sheer number of people seem editing thier phones, (or verizon coming to thier senses) has made it so that all newer verizon phones support OPP. They just wont let you transfer registered ringtones or pictures/ect with it.

They have even released firmware updates for most of thier older phones (specifically the V3M/C) to enable OPP as well. Download a pirated copy of PST and install the latest firmware!! Dont bother going to a verizon store, chances are they wont have/wont install firmware for (insert random arbitrary reason here) so just do it yourself....

MY V9m connects to it just fine. Its most likely (as stated previously) a problem with the phone hardware, not Verizon

Im not defending verizon, i hate thier policies and restrictions, but in this case, nowadays nearly all of thier phones support OPP when updated to the latest firmwares

Folks,

I just happen to be searching Palms website this evening and came across an update for the 755p for Verizon (http://www.palm.com/us/support/download ... rizon.html). I do not have the D3, and the reason for not getting it was because the 755p did not work, therefore I cannot test it.

I just wanted to through this out there to any of you who may want to test it. Hope this helps.

I just wanted to give another update. I have an 06 Audi A4, and also happen to have the bluetooth option in my car. Prior to me doing the update I had an issues with the contacts appearing on my instrument cluster, to fix this I had to add my contacts to speed dial (favorites button).

When I did the update, I noticed that all my contacts were showing up, even the ones that were not in speed dial (favorites button). I removed all my speed dial contacts and tested and noticed that all my contacts showed up and I did not have to store any in speed dial (favorites button).

Hope that is clear enough and helpful.