Bluetooth connectivity with modern device.

[xdk]

Hello friends, yesterday i tried to pair my E53 2005 3.0d with my phone Huawei P8. I find passkey on ULF module in trunk and I pair phone with car without problems. Navigation screen showing my phone device name, but it not download directory - when i choose directory i have message "Phone book is empty".
Also I manually choose phone number what I want call, i click "call" and car initiated the call, first is quiet noise and it continues to first signal in phone device what is emited by phone and all call is conducted by phone not by loudspeeker car system.
My ULF module is 5th generation, number 84 21 6 945387.
Are u think solution is that this ULF is too old? And what i have to do is buy current 13th generation what cost ~500 euro for new one and hard to find used. Maybe not current module but newer than what i have present will work good with my phone device? Or maybe i do something wrong and it's possible to use present ULF with my phone correctly?

Regards.

[X5Sport]

The chances are that your new phone doesn't support phone directory version 1.1 which is the one used by BMW back then and which is no longer favoured in the backwards compatibility of new phones.

Either that or you have your contacts in the SIM and not the phone's on-board directory.

[xdk]

So even when I upgrade ULF module to current 13th gen it's not solve this?
I have contacts on phone memory, not on SIM.

[X5Sport]

You need to find out what version of the address/contacts/phone book software the phone itself supports.  There is no guarantee it will work.  I had an HTC 'One' a few years back and the contacts in that were also unreadable.  All I could do was dial out or receive calls.  No phone book.  The phone went back.

[Horizon]

Can't get my dot matrix printer to work with Windows 10. Any one got a solution . ?

[X5Sport]

You could try a virtual machine and Windoze 3.11 if you like......

.....or a typewriter >:D

[xdk]

[quote="Horizon"]
Can't get my dot matrix printer to work with Windows 10. Any one got a solution . ?

[Horizon]

Sorry wasn't being fercisious , I'm the last person to be able to understand software and firmware. It was just a joke from my personnel experience of the never being able to keep up with the never ending  progression in technology. Where as in my day things took and age to progress even slightly.

[X5Sport]

You need to look at the technical specification for the phone.  It's up to each manufacturer to choose how far back they make their hardware compatible.  Samsung may have chosen to retain it.  In my case with the HTC, they didn't.

You could try finding a friend who does have a later ULF and seeing it it works.

BMW hardware from back then was truly awful at supporting phones.  They really messed up as other manufacturers don't seem to have had anything like the amount of difficulty.  I ended up speccing an E53 with the built in phone system that I put my SIM into.

[briankerrys47]

[quote="xdk"]
[quote="Horizon"]
Can't get my dot matrix printer to work with Windows 10. Any one got a solution . ?

[xdk]

I know about Parrot, but i repeat i read somewhere guys have modern devices connected with E53 and is working perfect, so first I want try this.
briankerrys - Are you using Parrot?

[Waka]

There's a thread here that covers this a bit:
http://xdrivers.co.uk/forum/index.php/t ... #msg124327

My newer Samsung devices don't work. I think I've get a Gen 5 bluetooth module in my 2004 car. I did look into getting a Gen 13 one, but they're hard to source, not cheap, and I wasn't convinced it would fix my problem.

One thing I keep meaning to try is to forward my personal phone to my work Nokia and see if that pairs.