Sorry if this question has been answered before.. I searched all over the internet without a specific and definitive answer.
Whenever I connect my phone to any vehicle via bluetooth, mobile numbers under one contact appear twice in the vehicle when that contact is selected. This is a pain in the butt when trying to make a voice call as the vehicle always says "there are multiple mobile numbers associated with this contact".
I technically know why this is happening but looking for a way to prevent it. You see, I believe the culprit is whatsapp or google duo, or any other app that uses phone numbers, and therefore link themselves to that certain contact.
Now, is there any way to prevent the number from showing up twice in the vehicle under that one contact?
I have tried:
1. Unlinking the contact, only for linking to reappear after a sync.
2. I tried turning off sync in whatsapp, but because Auto-Sync is on for all of android, it just turns itself back on.
3. Prevented whatsapp from accessing contacts, but this just turns all contacts into numbers in whatsapp which is not what I want.
4. Turning off Auto-Sync in android, works, but I don't want to use it because then I have to manually sync everything else including calendars which I update frequently.
Going in to contacts and selecting a customized view has no affect.
Now I technically know what the car is trying to do... one number for Phone dialing (cellular) and one number for Whatsapp (data) dialing, but I don't want that.
Any way to get just the cellular side of the contact to be shared with bluetooth?
P.S. This has nothing to do with specific phones. This is an Android issue as I've tried it with multiple phones across multiple vehicle makes. All have the same issue. However if you want this information too, I have a One Plus 5T and my wife has a pixel XL. I drive a 2018 Colorado with Chevrolet MyLink and she drives a 2013 Honda Civic with Handsfree Link.
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I have a 2012 Volkswagen GTI with the RNS-315 nav system. I noticed the other day when trying to call my wife via the nav that somehow the directory the phone sends doesn't have her number - only her name. I tried via both voice commands, and from the navigation display. I tried unpairing/repairing the phone, power cycling the phone, editing the contacts, etc...I have a vague feeling it might have something to do with having the contacts linked (Google to Facebook and Skype, etc) but I don't know for sure. I know it isn't the nav system because it's worked before, and I can dial her number manually via voice or from the nav screen. Bluetooth works fine otherwise; I can place a call from either the phone or the car.
I haven't tried clearing out my contacts yet; I want to avoid that. I also haven't tried (but will) calling a non-linked contact vs linked.
I'm running CleanROM 4.5, stock kernel, nothing special.
Anyone else had issues with their phones sending names without numbers in contact lists?
I switched over to the Galaxy S3. Bluetooth works great on my car kit, but it shows every single contact on my car (Peugeot 508). So every single e-mail address I every used in gmail is shown, even though I limited the synced contacts to my MS Exchange contacts that have a phone number. They show up correctly when I access it through my Phones contacts app, but not in the car, as stated earlier.
Thanks in advance!
I am experiencing the exact same issue. I would love to know how to limit the contacts displayed.
Hi, all. Did a search, couldn't find anything on this, wondering if it's only me.
I've got the T-Mobile GS3. Use a bluetooth connection with a Pioneer AVH-P3200BT head unit (http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Car/DVD-Receivers/AVH-P3200BT).
My contacts and Missed Calls history syncs just fine with the head unit. However, on the head unit, my Received Calls and Dialed Calls histories aren't accurate. Mostly they're filled with 5 digit numbers and a just one of my contacts (who shouldn't be in the log at all) is repeated over and over. The call log that I bring up on the GS3 is accurate.
I don't have another head unit to try to sync with, so I'm wondering if the problem is with the phone or the head unit. I'm suspecting it's the phone, as my old Vibrant's logs were always correct, regardless of whether I was running stock or CM9.
So I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem (or whether they've even checked).
I've tried deleting the pairing on both the phone and the head unit, rebooting both, and re-establishing the pairing to no effect.
Anyone?
Bump.
Let me ask this another way. Is anybody having no problem with their Received and Dialed calls being synced with their head unit? Is yours working well (if you have this feature on your head unit)?
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Is there a way to make your phone transition to a VoIP dialer by default so that one could be plugged in to Android Auto and make/receive calls via the data connection so that a newer Spark Compatible phone would be useful in this situation? Thanks
Hello.
I just bought this watch recently, never used a smartwatch before.
Very happy with it, the battery life is amazing, it's been five days of average use (I don't use health monitoring) and it's only at 15% battery.
One major issue I have, which I didn't consider and didn't know, is it not possible to switch phones and have the watch just sync up with the app on that phone?
I was hoping I will be able to switch from my private phone to a company phone as needed, but each time you have to unpair from the first phone and pair to another, and the watch performs factory reset each time.
Is this how all smart watches behave?
Is there a way to get arround that?
It's a shame that switching phones is such a procedure.
Another question, often when I recieve calls, it doesn't always show the contact Name, only the number in the first notification. And then if during the call I scroll down the notifications, it will show a second one with the actual name of the contact, I basically get two notifications when I recieve a call, when I look at my watch it just shows a number calling.
When recieving messages and email, it works fine, it shows the name of the contact, but not when recieving calls.
I have all app permissions allowed and enabled.
Is there a custom rom that can improve these features and enables some modifications?
Thank you.