Automatically Sync Phone Book

[garddog32]

I'm 99% sure that the tech package will not download your phonebook at all. If you have the touchscreen nav, then it will. This I believe is true for '09 and '10. Not sure about later models.

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

I'm 99% sure that the tech package will not download your phonebook at all. If you have the touchscreen nav, then it will. This I believe is true for '09 and '10. Not sure about later models.

My '09 w/Tech downloaded it just fine, as does the Equus.

 

[mikec]

My early 2009 V8/Tech won't download anything from either of my cell phones (personal & work-supplied). A Garmin nav unit, with Bluetooth, did download just fine so the basic functionality of the phone works. Nothing in the owners manual nor DIS manual describes any procedure to download phone databases into the Genesis... My car & A/V unit has the original firmware load with the "old" nav database.

Perhaps the folks that have Tech packages that DO download phones have received updated system firmware? Either by having the "head unit" replaced for some problem or getting a nav update that included new firmware? Some folks have little or no iPod "random" functionality via the Tech package while it works for others that DID get more recent software.

mike c.

 

[JDC]

It may be phone specific, but my '09 Gen/iPhone combo worked perfectly.

Amazing... 'Have tech pkg. with '10 Geneis and iPHones @G, 3G, and 3GS with OS versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.3, 4.0 and 4.1 no luck.

 

[Cut-Throat]

Amazing... 'Have tech pkg. with '10 Geneis and iPHones @G, 3G, and 3GS with OS versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.3, 4.0 and 4.1 no luck.

Yup, it seems to be an "Apple Thing".

 

[GerryF]

Phone book downloaded easily from iPhone4 to 2011 3.8 Sedan with Tech package

 

[scottdk]

My '09 w/Tech downloaded it just fine, as does the Equus.

Guess I need to find out how to do this? I didn't even know the system was capable of this, otherwise I would have done this 2 years ago. Is there some setting on the cell phone I have to change, or this there some weird "transfer numbers" setting in the NAVI?

 

[mdaecher]

Now, I just got my early 09, and haven;t tried it, but I was told by a dealer rep that there was an issue with the 09s for the phone book downloads

 

[garddog32]

Just checked the manual, and it specifically says that the DIS (tech package) will not automatically sync phonebook entries between the system and the phone and vice versa. (Page 164). So, I'm guessing either the map update added this feature, or people may think they have the tech package and really don't. I'm pretty sure the touchscreen nav does have this feature.

 

[joedoe]

Just checked the manual, and it specifically says that the DIS (tech package) will not automatically sync phonebook entries between the system and the phone and vice versa. (Page 164). So, I'm guessing either the map update added this feature, or people may think they have the tech package and really don't. I'm pretty sure the touchscreen nav does have this feature.

I'm second that. I have updated the map and still don't have the ability to upload the phone book

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[Cut-Throat]

I'm second that. I have updated the map and still don't have the ability to upload the phone book

There are a couple different things being discussed here.

1.) Ability to Download a Phone book from a phone to the Genesis

2.) Keeping any changes on the phone in sync with the Genesis.

Number 1 - Yes I have a 2011 with Tech Package and have successfully downloaded the phone book of both my wife's and my cell phone to the Genesis. I don't care what the manual says.

Number 2 - I don't think so.

 

[MichaelOne]

I don't have the tech package and this seems to happen every time I start up: after the Bluetooth connection is complete, it takes another couple of seconds to download the phonebook from the phone to the car. So they are always in synch.

 

[garddog32]

There are a couple different things being discussed here.

1.) Ability to Download a Phone book from a phone to the Genesis

2.) Keeping any changes on the phone in sync with the Genesis.

Number 1 - Yes I have a 2011 with Tech Package and have successfully downloaded the phone book of both my wife's and my cell phone to the Genesis. I don't care what the manual says.

Number 2 - I don't think so.

The OP has an '09 Genesis. The manual I was speaking of was the '09 / '10 manual. You cannot download phonebook contents with the 2009 and 2010tech package models. It is good to know that they have seemed to add that feature to the '11 model.

 

[Aquineas]

Must be an "Apple Thing".

Nope, this didn't work on my Droid either...

 

[waveman]

There are a couple different things being discussed here.

1.) Ability to Download a Phone book from a phone to the Genesis

2.) Keeping any changes on the phone in sync with the Genesis.

Number 1 - Yes I have a 2011 with Tech Package and have successfully downloaded the phone book of both my wife's and my cell phone to the Genesis. I don't care what the manual says.

Number 2 - I don't think so.

Actually, there are more than a couple of things:

1) Tech package: for 2011, the Tech Package is an option on the 3.8; its features are standard on the 4.6. But it's unclear whether they are identical in every way, including s/w and firmware.

2) Model year.

3) Phone h/w and OS.

Sync is a bi-directional mechanism for ensuring that changes on either end of a device pair are propagated to the other device. I also don't think that any Genesis has this feature yet, as it's very difficult to implement, especially when you're dealing with different OSs.

I don't have the tech package and this seems to happen every time I start up: after the Bluetooth connection is complete, it takes another couple of seconds to download the phonebook from the phone to the car. So they are always in synch.

Have you verified that the car downloads the phone book every time, without any action on your part, by making a change in your phone's phonebook before starting up? Personally, I wouldn't want this to happen, or at least I'd want it to be a user pref.

 

[MichaelOne]

Have you verified that the car downloads the phone book every time, without any action on your part, by making a change in your phone's phonebook before starting up? Personally, I wouldn't want this to happen, or at least I'd want it to be a user pref.

I'm just going by the message on the screen and the fact that any number I've tried to access from the Bluetooth has been available. But I will introduce a change as you suggest and see if the car picks it up.

 

[NOLa]

I'll add my reply to the list...

My (early build) '09 Genesis 3.8 tech package would not download the phonebook from my phone. I sort of remember some posts complaining that when certain software updates were performed that it wiped out phone book that everyone had manually put in as well as destinations in the nav system. They were not happy to have to input all that info again.

In my '11 Genesis 4.6 tech package, there in the phone menu was an option to download phone book.

I think when some people got the map update that it upgraded some software in the DIS and the downloading phonebook was one of the things that came in the upgrade (I think I read it in these forums).

continue debating....


NOLa

 

[maniac1181]

Hi, there hasn't been any update to this post in a while, any news? Does performing an update on '09 or '10 bring about this kind of '11 functionality?

 

[Homer1946]

I will add my ten cents worth.

I have a 2010 4.6 with the Premium Navigation package (the touch screen nav). I also have an iPhone 4. When I paired the iPhone it automatically downloaded its entire address book to the Genesis. The iPhone has a setting in each Bluetooth pairing to select the group you want synced and I changed that to a smaller group which was then automatically resynced to the Genesis (extra entries deleted).

Several days later I made a change to the address book on my computer, that automatically syncs via the "cloud" to my iPhone. Next time I got into the Genesis the change was present in the Genesis system.

So, for the 2010 with touch screen Navi, automatic syncing (at least FROM the phone) and the iPhone 4 works well.

 

[jdposhkus]

For those struggling with uploading your address book.
I have an 2011 4.6 and an HTC Thunderbolt.
I tried about 20 times to get this to work with no success.
I finally went into BT settings on the phone and enabled FTP file transfer, and the next time I tried it it worked.

Hope this helps anybody having trouble.

Best,

JDP