Connecting c5 to sony car unit!

Question

Hi all,
when I used to connect my old nokia 6300 to my car radio/cd unit (sony 6000 cd) via bluetooth I used to have the call list (as stored in the phone by name displayed in, out, missed etc on the car head unit screen when the phone button was pressed.
I was able to scroll through these up/down and select dial to make a call.
I have now upgraded to C5 and although connects and makes and recives calls fine all that is displayed in the Sony car unit screen is the numbers not the 'names' as stored on the phone making it tricky to know who I'm calling.
Am I doing something wrong do I need to change a setting on the phone? I have 'remote sim' on in the bluetooth menu in the phone.

Answer 1

Hi
This issue has come up before on some car manufacturer units and aftermarket ones too...
Problem is that some factory and aftermarket systems  have not implemented all the subset profiles within Bluetooth, as many have been added since their production date. If the unit has the option to have its software updated, then fully recommend this, however not many were this forward thinking!
Therefore, as newer handsets come out (from many manufacturers,not just Nokia) that use these update profiles, the two units cannot "talk" to each other.
BUT
There is a possible solution.
Firstly make sure your contacts are stored to the phone, not the SIM.
Secondly, download the contacts application here:
http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/product-support/nokia-616-car-kit/car-kit-software
(Choose the one that matches your phone)
Connect your phone to the pc in pcsuite mode and install the application to the phone memory.
Delete the pairing on the phone AND the car kit.
Reboot the phone and then pair & connect to the car kit.
 If this doesn't work, delete the contacts application from the phone and try this one:
 http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/product-support/nokia-810/software
These apps were designed to convert the contacts sending to an older Bluetooth subset but for Nokia Car Phones so it cannot be guaranteed that they will fix the communications with your unit - but we can hope!
Finally,
with some units you can actually "send" the contacts to the car by
going into the contacts menu, selecting "mark all" and then "Send via
Bluetooth". In some cases the car kit appears to have only received on
contact but then actually does have all names etc.
One
final point is that if you have images stored for your contacts, some car units tend to go a bit crazy so you should delete
these.
Hope this is of use....