Bluetooth Phonebook + Sony Ericsson Z750a

MJMerlina · November 25, 2008

Has anyone had experience with and/or know if the Sony Ericsson z750a is capable of transferring the entire phonebook to the lexus bluetooth in 1 button, instead of transferring the numbers one-by-one? I know there are a couple Sony Ericsson models that can do this, such as the T610, T616, T630, T637 and T68i, but I was hoping this one could do it too.

Please let me know what you know!

MJMerlina · December 2, 2008

Well.. I got my z750a, and... I got it to transfer the entire phonebook.. but it wasn't easy, and I still haven't exactly been able to get it to work every time. It's kind of a random thing, which I don't like. So I'll post my steps here, and if anyone has any experiences with it or can add to my directions, or help me out to make it work every time, that'd be greatly appreciated! This is on a 2005 SC430, so these steps are for a gen4 nav unit, so the keys are different on the gen5, which I haven't been able to try it on, but will whenever my grandmother shows up with her Lex, lol.

1. Connect the handsfree to the car as you would any other phone.

.....a. On the Lexus: "Add phone"

.....b. On the Z750a: Menu -> Settings ->Connectivity Tab -> Bluetooth -> My Devices -> New Device

.....c. It will search and find BLUETOOTH HANDS FREE, pair them, then connect to it. The phone and car should be paired now.

2. Choose "Transfer Phonebook" from the menu in the Lexus. I switched over to my empty "Phonebook 2" before doing this in case anythign went wrong.

3. The bluetooth connection between the phone and car should now be dropped, and the car says to send the contacts from the phone, with a "Cancel" button that is not lit up. At first, silly me, I tried just going into my addressbook and sending all contacts via bluetooth, but of course this didn't work.. It didn't find any bluetooth devices.. don't know why. Also, at this point, the cancel button on the car was still greyed out, and there was nothing I could do to get away from that screen and pair the car/phone back up besides turn the car off and then back on.. Very annoying.

4. So, I unpaired everything and then did steps 1 and 2 again. This time, after the bluetooth connection was dropped and I was at the greyed out cancel button, I went to "My devices" in the bluetooth menu of the phone. I chose "new device" and let it search. It found "BLUETOOTH HANDS FREE" again, except this time the "service" that it had listed for the connection was "Object Push" instead of "Handsfree". I added this connection.

5. Then I went to the addressbook -> options -> More -> Advanced -> Send all contacts -> via bluetooth and now the bluetooth hands free was there. I chose it, and boom, it saids something like "Sending All_contacts.vcf" - Took about 10 seconds and hello entire phonebook!

Just to verify what I did, I did the same process again, and it worked. So now I have phonebook 1 and 2 with all my phone contacts. But.. then I tried a third, fourth, fifth, and sixth time, and it didn't work. Gave up, drove home, tried it again, and it worked. I'm not doing anythign different, but maybe if someone else has some experience with this they can help me out as to why it doesn't seem to be working every time!

Hope this helps someone..