So I received my nice shiny new nexus 5 yesterday. First thing I did was check it was compatible with the a3 Bluetooth.
My previous HTC one X wasn't great with the car and there was a lot of distortion when placing calls, so I was keen to make sure the nexus worked properly.
It connected up fine, and I could place calls no problem (sound quality is great). However..... No phone book!
After a long while digging around it becomes apparent that Google, in their infinite wisdom, no longer allow you to store contacts directly on the phone. Instead, they are stored in your Google cloud account. Now this makes very little difference with day to day use of the phone, however when the car tries to read the phone book from the phone it sees 0 entries.
<insert expletive here>
Having looked into this for quite some time it appears there is a workaround. But its not ideal. The car won't sync with the phone now, but you can send your phonebook to the car manually.
This is under People > Import/Export > Share visible contacts > Bluetooth.
Select the car as the destination and copy all contacts across. Once you've done this its business as usual, however if you make any changes to your phone book you will need to send the details to the car manually each time.
On the plus side, all contact pictures now transfer too so it looks good on the MMI when you've done it.
No idea whether there will be a long term fix for this, either from Audi or Google, but in the mean time I hope this helps anyone else experiencing the issue.
My previous HTC one X wasn't great with the car and there was a lot of distortion when placing calls, so I was keen to make sure the nexus worked properly.
It connected up fine, and I could place calls no problem (sound quality is great). However..... No phone book!
After a long while digging around it becomes apparent that Google, in their infinite wisdom, no longer allow you to store contacts directly on the phone. Instead, they are stored in your Google cloud account. Now this makes very little difference with day to day use of the phone, however when the car tries to read the phone book from the phone it sees 0 entries.
<insert expletive here>
Having looked into this for quite some time it appears there is a workaround. But its not ideal. The car won't sync with the phone now, but you can send your phonebook to the car manually.
This is under People > Import/Export > Share visible contacts > Bluetooth.
Select the car as the destination and copy all contacts across. Once you've done this its business as usual, however if you make any changes to your phone book you will need to send the details to the car manually each time.
On the plus side, all contact pictures now transfer too so it looks good on the MMI when you've done it.
No idea whether there will be a long term fix for this, either from Audi or Google, but in the mean time I hope this helps anyone else experiencing the issue.
