[melm]

I have a 3 week old 2009 328i with Navi. I also use a bluetooth phone, which works quite well with the system. When I am on the nav screen I get an indication of signal strength, and sometimes I get a little icon of a phone handset. That makes sense, I think the BMW is telling me there is a phone paired. But lately, I only see the handset icon when I am making a call. Then after a few days it goes back to showing me the handset icon whether I am making a call or not. Nothing in the manual about this. Anyone have any ideas? Software bug maybe?

Thanks

Mel

[Technic]

Originally Posted by melm

I have a 3 week old 2009 328i with Navi. I also use a bluetooth phone, which works quite well with the system. When I am on the nav screen I get an indication of signal strength, and sometimes I get a little icon of a phone handset. That makes sense, I think the BMW is telling me there is a phone paired. But lately, I only see the handset icon when I am making a call. Then after a few days it goes back to showing me the handset icon whether I am making a call or not. Nothing in the manual about this. Anyone have any ideas? Software bug maybe?

Thanks

Mel

It is in the manual, Mel... it is the missed call icon.

[melm]

Wow- thanks for that tip... I don't believe I've had a missed call.. as I am in the car with the phone... is there a page number in the manual you can direct me to? I have the PDF and could not find the symbol. I searched the PDF for 'missed call' and it took me to a page that said there was an icon for it, but I can't find the icon.

Anyway thanks, you may have the answer but I don't remember missing any calls...

Mel

[Technic]

Originally Posted by melm

Wow- thanks for that tip... I don't believe I've had a missed call.. as I am in the car with the phone... is there a page number in the manual you can direct me to? I have the PDF and could not find the symbol. I searched the PDF for 'missed call' and it took me to a page that said there was an icon for it, but I can't find the icon.

Anyway thanks, you may have the answer but I don't remember missing any calls...

Mel

Should be under "Status Information": incoming, outgoing or missed calls stored in your iDrive.

Go to the Phone menu and erase all your calls and the icon should go away.

[melm]

Actually, I don't have the icon now, and haven't erased anything on those menus. I'm wondering if eventually it just stops displaying on its own and times out. Anyway, good theory. I'll test it by using a second phone to call my cell phone and see if the icon appears. Thanks again.

[Technic]

Originally Posted by melm

Actually, I don't have the icon now, and haven't erased anything on those menus. I'm wondering if eventually it just stops displaying on its own and times out. Anyway, good theory. I'll test it by using a second phone to call my cell phone and see if the icon appears. Thanks again.

That's the way it works in the 2008 iDrive. In the 2009 iDrive manual there is no icon shown for this status as it is in the 2008's, however the description is the same.

[melm]

That's it. The icon with the handset and the little cross on it is for a missed call. It must go away on its own after awhile. Mystery solved.

Since I'm here, do you know why the voice phone book doesn't work on the 328i with iDrive? The system does download my address book from my cell phone and I can dial those up by voice, but it doesn't seem to recognize the 'save name' command for doing a voice phonebook. Maybe it is not really an option on my car?

Thanks again for answering the icon question. I would never have figured that one out.

Mel

[Technic]

Originally Posted by melm

That's it. The icon with the handset and the little cross on it is for a missed call. It must go away on its own after awhile. Mystery solved.

Since I'm here, do you know why the voice phone book doesn't work on the 328i with iDrive? The system does download my address book from my cell phone and I can dial those up by voice, but it doesn't seem to recognize the 'save name' command for doing a voice phonebook. Maybe it is not really an option on my car?

Thanks again for answering the icon question. I would never have figured that one out.

Mel

I think that the Voice Activation in the iDrive is what BMW calls "High", as in text-to-speech Voice Activation for phonebook but no voice tags support; there is no separate phonebook storage memory in the iDrive. Voice tag support is the "Low" Voice Activation in non-iDrive vehicles; there is a separate phonebook memory in the TCU.

[melm]

Thanks again Technic. My 3281 manual (page 178) says I can say 'save name', followed by a phone number to set up a voice phone book. That is supposed to be in addition to the voce selection of bluetooth downloaded address book from m phone. When I say 'save name' as stated in the manual, nothing happens....

[Technic]

Originally Posted by melm

Thanks again Technic. My 3281 manual (page 178) says I can say 'save name', followed by a phone number to set up a voice phone book. That is supposed to be in addition to the voce selection of bluetooth downloaded address book from m phone. When I say 'save name' as stated in the manual, nothing happens....

If you notice there's a "*" beside that section feature as in optional in your 2009 iDrive. In the 2008 iDrive manual that section is completely missing and instead goes straight to the Voice phonebook as in no voice tags.

I think that there is a mistake in that 2009 iDrive manual as in describing the "Low" Voice tags feature with a maximum of 50 entries instead of the "High" version with Voice Phonebook without any names quantity limit. It is either that or the 2009 iDrive supports both depending of the type of Bluetooth phone support used, as there are phones that do not support Voice Phonebook thru Bluetooth.