Bluetooth annoyances
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I love Bluetooth connectivity, after all that we have gone through to get it functioning on MY04 cars, I am not complaining. BUT Here are some observations.
1. When dialing a call. If it rings 5 times the phone hangs up. This is just about the time when your parties voice mail will initiate, so I cannot leave messages.
2. If you loose signal, (very easy with Cingular) there is a delay before the call ends.
3. When in a call, If you switch off the car and remove the key from the ignition, the radio/CD will keep playing, I-drive is still alive even if you lock the car and walk away. This can easily happen in scenario 2.
I was on a call that dropped as I drove into the basement of my office building. The phone would not end the call so the only way for me to get out of (3) was to open the phone and drop the BMW connection.
Any comments.
BTW. Where is Pharding??????? He seems to have disappeared.
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1. When dialing a call. If it rings 5 times the phone hangs up. This is just about the time when your parties voice mail will initiate, so I cannot leave messages.
2. If you loose signal, (very easy with Cingular) there is a delay before the call ends.
3. When in a call, If you switch off the car and remove the key from the ignition, the radio/CD will keep playing, I-drive is still alive even if you lock the car and walk away. This can easily happen in scenario 2.
I was on a call that dropped as I drove into the basement of my office building. The phone would not end the call so the only way for me to get out of (3) was to open the phone and drop the BMW connection.
Any comments.
BTW. Where is Pharding??????? He seems to have disappeared.
E60.NET call Paul Harding!!!! Come In please!
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1. I am experiencing the same with V600 and Cingular. It is particularly annoying when I am trying to access my office voice mail system. Anybody with a non-Moto handset getting this? Seems to me that this should be a software setting where you could program to have it drop the call on the 7th ring?
2. I think this may be a Moto/Cingular weakness - not a BT issue. I've had the V600 for a few months and the V60 before that and this has always been a problem. You can easly end up talking 20-30 seconds after the signal has dropped before the handset registers the call ended.
Would be helpful to hear from members with other handsets and carriers?
3. Haven't experienced this yet.
2. I think this may be a Moto/Cingular weakness - not a BT issue. I've had the V600 for a few months and the V60 before that and this has always been a problem. You can easly end up talking 20-30 seconds after the signal has dropped before the handset registers the call ended.
Would be helpful to hear from members with other handsets and carriers?
3. Haven't experienced this yet.
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Originally Posted by Buster' date='Nov 24 2004, 05:34 PM
1.? I am experiencing the same with V600 and Cingular.? It is particularly annoying when I am trying to access my office voice mail system.? Anybody with a non-Moto handset getting this?? Seems to me that this should be a software setting where you could program to have it drop the call on the 7th ring?
2.? I think this may be a Moto/Cingular weakness - not a BT issue.? I've had the V600 for a few months and the V60 before that and this has always been a problem. You can easly end up talking 20-30 seconds after the signal has dropped before the handset registers the call ended.?
Would be helpful to hear from members with other handsets and carriers?
3.? Haven't experienced this yet.
2.? I think this may be a Moto/Cingular weakness - not a BT issue.? I've had the V600 for a few months and the V60 before that and this has always been a problem. You can easly end up talking 20-30 seconds after the signal has dropped before the handset registers the call ended.?
Would be helpful to hear from members with other handsets and carriers?
3.? Haven't experienced this yet.
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Originally Posted by wassy' date='Nov 24 2004, 08:09 PM
There is something odd on mine.. when an incoming call comes in, after I think2 rings, it sounds like a European monotone phone ring.. like a horn, almost.
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No problems using V600 on T-Mobile. You can also manually disconnect the call by pushing your steering wheel phone icon once .
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' date='Nov 24 2004, 05:10 PM
BTW.? Where is Pharding???????? He seems to have disappeared.?
E60.NET call Paul Harding!!!!? Come In please!
E60.NET call Paul Harding!!!!? Come In please!
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Anyway back to Bluetooth. I haven't noticed the problems that you alluded to. I'll look into them. My biggest problem now is that I switched to the RAZR V3, my calls have been dropped more frequently. I need to go in and get the chip programmed with the current list of tower sites. In general I am quite happy with Bluetooth because I am not married to an obsolete cell phone.
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