NMGMarques
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Hi all.
Need to hear from other iPhone users out there. I have a pet peeve that is driving me berserk. I had an Android phone. My contacts were using Facebook, Twitter and Google+ Profile pics as the contact pics and whenever the car connected to the phone via Bluetooth it'd display the contacts in the infotainment with the respective pics. Then I went and got myself promoted and a new company iPhone 5. I know, it's a piece of crap compared to almost any decent Android phone, but it's company policy so I can't do much there. I have the contacts in there and again, the iPhone is pulling the contact pics from social media. Some contacts I have manually set the pic in Outlook and the exchange server pushed the contact to the phone. In other cases I set the contact photo on the device, choosing from a photo, and that worked and even synced the pic back to the exchange server and consequently Outlook. The trouble is that independent of whether I just connect to the infotainment via Bluetooth or the cable in the glovebox, or even if I import the contacts from the damned phone (and it's only importing 277 of 340 btw for some reason), I only get the contacts and none display the pic associated with said contact.
Also, while I'm here, is there any way to use the controls on the steering to choose a contact from the phonebook besides the ones in the recent calls? Sometimes I need to get to a contact and voice commands won't recognize the name (some foreign names are hard for the infotainment system) and I don't really fancy taking my eyes off the road for so long as having to scroll through the names and selecting the appropriate contact info. This seems like a big stupid issue.
Appreciate any info and insight you guys may have.
PS: Despite this, I love my FR
Need to hear from other iPhone users out there. I have a pet peeve that is driving me berserk. I had an Android phone. My contacts were using Facebook, Twitter and Google+ Profile pics as the contact pics and whenever the car connected to the phone via Bluetooth it'd display the contacts in the infotainment with the respective pics. Then I went and got myself promoted and a new company iPhone 5. I know, it's a piece of crap compared to almost any decent Android phone, but it's company policy so I can't do much there. I have the contacts in there and again, the iPhone is pulling the contact pics from social media. Some contacts I have manually set the pic in Outlook and the exchange server pushed the contact to the phone. In other cases I set the contact photo on the device, choosing from a photo, and that worked and even synced the pic back to the exchange server and consequently Outlook. The trouble is that independent of whether I just connect to the infotainment via Bluetooth or the cable in the glovebox, or even if I import the contacts from the damned phone (and it's only importing 277 of 340 btw for some reason), I only get the contacts and none display the pic associated with said contact.
Also, while I'm here, is there any way to use the controls on the steering to choose a contact from the phonebook besides the ones in the recent calls? Sometimes I need to get to a contact and voice commands won't recognize the name (some foreign names are hard for the infotainment system) and I don't really fancy taking my eyes off the road for so long as having to scroll through the names and selecting the appropriate contact info. This seems like a big stupid issue.
Appreciate any info and insight you guys may have.
PS: Despite this, I love my FR
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