Card slot and bluetooth in C63
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Dear All,
have just taken delivery of a C63 and am learning all about it.
For those on here who have experience, I have a couple of questions which will help me along the road.
1) Bluetooth. - the car has bluetooth and phone pre wiring so my phone will work fine, however the Nokia address book doesn't transfer to the Command system. I am told that I will need a car kit to do this. The question is..if I get a kit ( prob the SLR one ) will the whole phone book transfer. I have a number of names which have multiple numbers associated with them ( like work , home, mobile). So will all 3 come across for Mr Smith or will just the primary one transfer ?
2) Card slot. This seems to be a PCMCIA slot so am I right in thinking that if I wanted to have a load of MP3s on it I would need a PCMCIA - SD adapter and then store the songs on the SD card. If so, what is the largest SD card the Command system will recognise. ( 8gb ?)
cheers
Guy
have just taken delivery of a C63 and am learning all about it.
For those on here who have experience, I have a couple of questions which will help me along the road.
1) Bluetooth. - the car has bluetooth and phone pre wiring so my phone will work fine, however the Nokia address book doesn't transfer to the Command system. I am told that I will need a car kit to do this. The question is..if I get a kit ( prob the SLR one ) will the whole phone book transfer. I have a number of names which have multiple numbers associated with them ( like work , home, mobile). So will all 3 come across for Mr Smith or will just the primary one transfer ?
2) Card slot. This seems to be a PCMCIA slot so am I right in thinking that if I wanted to have a load of MP3s on it I would need a PCMCIA - SD adapter and then store the songs on the SD card. If so, what is the largest SD card the Command system will recognise. ( 8gb ?)
cheers
Guy
You can transfer the phone book to the head unit one contact at a time via the standard Bluetooth in COMAND - which phone do you have as if there is a cradle available for it, reception will be better and it will charge as well and if you already have pre-wiring, it does not cost a great deal.
I have a new generation head unit in my CLS that accepts SD cards directly and this will only accept up to a 2GB card, not the high capacity cards and I assume this is the case for the C-Class as well.
I have a new generation head unit in my CLS that accepts SD cards directly and this will only accept up to a 2GB card, not the high capacity cards and I assume this is the case for the C-Class as well.
My C63 happily read a 4Gb CF card in a PCMCIA reader. That is, until I reformatted it as FAT32 on a Mac system so I could export a bunch of files from iTunes; it just stopped reading the card, which had previously been formatted in a Canon camera I had then sold. Never got to the bottom of why and gave up, just ripping loads of stuff onto DVD-RWs to give me decades of music.
You can send them to the car in groups but it wont accept the whole phone book in one go.
I have a couple of different Nokia phones E51, 8800, 6230 and they all send the business cards through fine. The E51 has a function to group them and send them, else i think as mentioned you can plug in a cradle and transfer that way.
I have the cradle but not had a chance to try, i will give it a go and let you know what happens.
I have a couple of different Nokia phones E51, 8800, 6230 and they all send the business cards through fine. The E51 has a function to group them and send them, else i think as mentioned you can plug in a cradle and transfer that way.
I have the cradle but not had a chance to try, i will give it a go and let you know what happens.
Gtrembath said:
Dear All,
have just taken delivery of a C63 and am learning all about it.
For those on here who have experience, I have a couple of questions which will help me along the road.
1) Bluetooth. - the car has bluetooth and phone pre wiring so my phone will work fine, however the Nokia address book doesn't transfer to the Command system. I am told that I will need a car kit to do this. The question is..if I get a kit ( prob the SLR one ) will the whole phone book transfer. I have a number of names which have multiple numbers associated with them ( like work , home, mobile). So will all 3 come across for Mr Smith or will just the primary one transfer ?
2) Card slot. This seems to be a PCMCIA slot so am I right in thinking that if I wanted to have a load of MP3s on it I would need a PCMCIA - SD adapter and then store the songs on the SD card. If so, what is the largest SD card the Command system will recognise. ( 8gb ?)
cheers
Guy
How u enjoying the car dude..?? Can we have a little report please..??have just taken delivery of a C63 and am learning all about it.
For those on here who have experience, I have a couple of questions which will help me along the road.
1) Bluetooth. - the car has bluetooth and phone pre wiring so my phone will work fine, however the Nokia address book doesn't transfer to the Command system. I am told that I will need a car kit to do this. The question is..if I get a kit ( prob the SLR one ) will the whole phone book transfer. I have a number of names which have multiple numbers associated with them ( like work , home, mobile). So will all 3 come across for Mr Smith or will just the primary one transfer ?
2) Card slot. This seems to be a PCMCIA slot so am I right in thinking that if I wanted to have a load of MP3s on it I would need a PCMCIA - SD adapter and then store the songs on the SD card. If so, what is the largest SD card the Command system will recognise. ( 8gb ?)
cheers
Guy
Had the car for a couple of weeks now and really like it. The power delivery is just sublime. Nice and easy if you want a smooth ride, mental if you put your foot down. Obviously the 4 pipes sound great.
I traded an RS4 for the C63 , and infact they are two quite different cars. The RS4 feels more planted on the road...bit of a go cart. The C63 just feels a load more powerful. People try to compare them but I don't think you can.
One thing to note, the Audi bluetooth integration is streets ahead of the Merc system. I have had to buy the SLR ( SAP ) cradle to get any form of decent use with my Nokia 6500.
cheers
Guy
I traded an RS4 for the C63 , and infact they are two quite different cars. The RS4 feels more planted on the road...bit of a go cart. The C63 just feels a load more powerful. People try to compare them but I don't think you can.
One thing to note, the Audi bluetooth integration is streets ahead of the Merc system. I have had to buy the SLR ( SAP ) cradle to get any form of decent use with my Nokia 6500.
cheers
Guy
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