Toni

I don't have my car yet but, I just picked up my new E815 cell phone and was wondering if the idrive screen shows if the number is a work number, cell or home or do I have to manually type it in the phone so it says Carolyn mobile or Carolyn home?

Thanks,
Toni

PabloR

automatically does it...

gabman

Sorry, but I beg to differ on this one. On the 815 when you program a contact you can program multiple numbers for the contact and an icon tells you on the handset which number is Home. Work,Cel, however on the I-Drive screen " Carolyn's" name will be displayed 3 times with a telephone number beside each of the 3 entries, BUT, you will not be able to tell which number is assigned to Home, Work or Cell.

The only way to have this information displayed on the I-drive screen is to create a separate contact for each of "Carolyn's" numbers. When you program the contact into the 815 you have to type in Carolyn's name as follows.

Carolyn Home 1234567
Carolyn Work 8586579
Carlyn Cell 4569873

If you create a separate contact for each of her numbers and enter her name as noted above, your I-Drive screen will display her name as it has been entered into the 815.

I only did this for contacts that I did not have each of their numbers commited to memory. The ones that I know I left as is, however it is a bit distracting when driving to start reading numbers and then scrolling to the right one, so I suggest that unless you have tons of contacts that you take the time in the beginning to do it properly and program a seperate contact for each multiple number.

Also if you plan to use voice recognition button on your steering wheel, you will also have to program it in your car and not your handset. I stopped using voice dialing on both my phone and I-Drive as everytime I blurted out a name to call , it called my local Pizza joint that I also have programmed into my Cell, well not exactly, but I find it to be a real pain as you are always having to repeat the command and if you have multiple numbers as discussed above, it always calls the wrong one.

Good luck and if you have any other questions, feel free.

Gabman

Toni

Thanks so much for the detailed message Gabman. I don't have a long contact list so I am going to type each as a seperate contact. So far I really like the phone!!

gabman

Toni,

I want to clarify something in my post to you. On the E815 when you program a contact first you type in the persons name and then press done and then it brings you to the field to enter the phone number. When you enter the contacts name type in Carolyn Home, do not type in Carolyn's number is the name decription, the number gets inputed in the field for tel number.

Also do not forget to enter area codes for all numbers programmed into your E815

Gabman

Toni

Hey Gabman,

Thanks for clarifying but, I did understand your message. Last night I made all single entries for each number and I input "Carolyn Mobile" and "Carolyn Home" so I can differentiate each entry on the idrive. I am getting my car the end of this week and thanks to you I am going to be all set!!!!!!!!

PabloR

On the blackberry, it shows up as 'Carolyn - Home', 'Carolyn-Worl'. automatically. Only one contact in my phone with multiple phone numbers. So it sounds like whatever phone you have does not work well with Idrive...

gabman

PabloR,

When Toni started this thread, he was asking about the Motorola E 815 and my replies addressed this specific model. We all know that each Cell phone manufacturer configures their phones differently and as such you get different results in I-Drive.

I hope that you will be able to get continued service with your Blackberry in the USA, as things are looking very dicey for Blackberry's manufacturer, Research In Motion as result of their alleged pattent infridgement in the USA.

Toni

PabloR

I certainly Hope so!!!!