B1N

I just got bluetooth activated on my car, ive seached these questions before and found the answers but cant seem to find the threads again

1) When i get an incoming call with a passenger in the car, and i dont want them to hear the conversation, what are my options? Do i have to disable bluetooth before accepting the call? i tried to pick up my phone but it was still through idrive, do i have to accept on my phone? (usually if i open it up it will automatically connect)

2) do mp3 ringtones play through the speaker or do i have to set it?

thanks

DRANGED

1)You will have to disable bluetooth prior to accepting the call to make it private. Accepting the call from your phone instead of your idrive will still result in the call being connected through the car speakers. Another option is to kick the passengers out of the car.

2)Ringtones will only ring from your phone not through the cars speakers.

Good Luck

Rudy

Not entirely true. Sure disabling BT will make the car drop the connection (leaving it active on the phone) but many phones have an option to switch to the handset without severing the BT connection to the car.

For example, on a Blackberry, while you're on a call connected to the car, you can choose "activate handset" or "activate speakerphone." Either one will cause the call to drop off of the car's speakers and instantly be available on the handset or the phone's built in speaker (depending on what you select, of course.)

This feature comes in really handy when you are on a call and want to get out of the car (say to pump gas) but not have any interruption of the call, etc. Since the BT connection is never severed, you can instantly switch back to the car once you get back in. Obviously, this only works if you don't stray too far away from the car, etc...

DRANGED

Oops, that will work too. Sorry for the partial info. And I have a Blackberry

MacSid

If you havea nokia, the bottom right of your screen on the phone will label one of the buttons as "loudspeaker". Push that, followed immediatly by pushing the call accept button, and you should be good to go. Doing this basically does the following: disconnects the phone from the BT "headset", routes sound to the phone's own speakerphone functionality, routes sound to "normal" operation.

megablade

We are banned from using mobile/cell phones on the forecourt!! They shout at you over the tannoy system until you turn it off.

UUronL

All the studies I have seen suggest that static discharge from a mobile phone could never cause the ignition of vapor at a filling station.


The most compelling evidence links getting back in the car during the pumping of the gas as the most likely cause of combustion. There is a staggeringly large majority of these kinds of accidents with women, who are much more likely to return to the comfort of the vehicle while the gas is pumping.

So... cell phone use while pumping gas isn't dangerous. Getting back into the car is. Stay outside and pump your gas.

Rudy

I agree -- I've yet to see any convincing evidence that the phone is causing any fires, etc.

This subject was discussed at some length in the following thread:
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=39572

kchan

On my motorola V3c, when i disconnect BT from the phone (option -> disconnect BT), it will go back to the phone speaker for awhile, but in 10-20 seconds it will automatically jumps back to BMW BT. Is that normal?

wnrussell

Unfortunately, yes it is. I have seen it on my V710, V3c, Maxx ve and now my V9m.