Phone connection

[Palmer]

I was in a mates car the other day and he has the same feature as the A8 where you can pair up your phone via bluetooth and voice commands etc.

Anyway i thought it was cool so decided to do mine, it wont bloody pair with the bluetooth though! I followed instructions and even a video tutorial on how to do it but it keeps saying 'cannot be paired at this time'

Any ideas?

And also what use is that massive ass car phone in the center console? Do you have to put a sim in to use it??

[PsYcHe]

Ah.. if you have the one with the handset and the SIM hole underneath, then you can't pair your phone to it (well.. there is one option that was available but was rare.. I think that had the colour screen).

Option 1 - Put a SIM in and divert your calls to that when you get in the car (PITA)

Option 2 - Replace the Phone unit under the passenger floor with the bluetooth one, not so cheap, but much better, and you can take the handset out the console.

[Palmer]

What if i get a duplicate sim for the car? Or will that always make the car ring then?? LOL (never thought id say that sentence...)

[PsYcHe]

If your provider does it, then that'll work, though not many did.

You may need a firmware update to take modern SIM cards though.

[audifin]

Where does it say "'cannot be paired at this time'"? Phone or car? If you need Bluetooth enabled telephone unit I may have one

[ScottD3]

Could it be that the phone already has a phone paired to it and you can only pair one phone at a time?