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[Timothy Nathan]

I am probably being stupid, but surely the car stores the contacts somewhere apart from the SIM? If you have basic Bluetooth, without rSAP (phone prep low, or whatever they call it) the car takes a minute or two to copy your contacts, right?

So where is it copying them? I assume to either flash memory or to the HDD or SD depending which you have?

Having copied them there (if it does) why would that list not be available if you are using the dash SIM?

As I say, I am probably being dim, but maybe someone could explain?

[Architex_mA8tey]

Believe it or not I dont think it does let you use either the HDD or SD cards to save contacts that you can then use when you phone
Ive just used the SD card to copy the contacts over and that worked but as already said the limitation in this case is the orange sim and its 99 number capacity
If anyone finds anything more that works then please shout!

[Timothy Nathan]

But my question remains...where do they go, when they are copied on first connection of the phone?

[s555]

I have a 2011 A6, so maybe different. However, on mine, I can set it up so that the address book is read from the iPhone (via Bluetooth) yet the calls are made from the internal phone using the SIM inserted in the dash.

I dont think I did anything special for this to work, just made sure that the address book function was setup to sync via BT, as you would if pairing the phone for calls as well.

So, I can still call my nearest and dearest but do have to contend with their "hello?" answer as they don't recognise the number from my data SIM!

Half way there. Just need the last half so I don't have to keep whipping the data card SIM out every time my iPhone rings!

[Timothy Nathan]

Just need the last half so I don't have to keep whipping the data card SIM out every time my iPhone rings!

Seriously...does that work?

I mean, can you have a T-Mobile SIM in the dash and your Voda iPhone in your pocket, and when the phone rings you can take out the T-Mobile SIM and the car UMTS will pair with the iPhone fast enough to be able to answer the iPhone within a couple of rings?

...and similary, when you want to make a call, you just pop the dash SIM?

If so, that would seem to be a pretty good interim solution.

[bett123]

If your SIM in the dasboard is enabled for calls as well as data (as per a normal sim in a smart phone for example), then you can make and receive calls this way. However its not a very 'joined up' way, especially when compared to other car manufacturers systems.

Unless you are using Orange's 1 number, you will incur two lots of phone bills, one for the car and one for your iphone. You'll have two different phone numbers so callers ringing your car won't get answered when you're not in it unless you remember to divert/cancel diverts every time you get in and out of the car, which not very practical.

I tried this method for a while but found it was too fiddly and unsafe to connect/reconnect a phone when on the move, so had to keep stopping to switch between SIM's to make or receive calls. Also when a call came into my iphone unexpectedly, if a sim was in the dash at that time, I couldn't swap the phone onto Bluetooth in time to take the call handsfree. It's ok to swap SIM's for the occasional calls, but if you use your carvand phone for business, there's nothing like having a proper working hands free system with online access just like most of us expected to get when we bought the car and paid almost 2k extra for it.

Still no word from Audi on this by the way, I was told I'd hear back early this week.

[a8 tech]

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[mcwill]

A8 tech,

Very interesting, I wonder if this production change also allows the use of the bluetooth connected phone as a handsfree phone when a dash sim is in place for data.

[a8 tech]

So if your sw version is k0485_18 this should function if below book your vehicles into your dealers for the update
Also this update allows the cover art and video for iPhone 4 etc using the revised ami lead


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[mcwill]

No,

I was wondering if this production change allowed the use of a data only sim in the dash to supply online services, whilst retaining the bluetooth connection to an iphone for calls to be made.

As I understand from the preceeding pages, the problem with attempting to do this at the moment was that inserting a SIM into the dash disconnected the bluetooth phone, but the above change implies that this behaviour has now been altered to permit the connection of a phone whilst using an SIM in the dash as per US spec vehicles.