Contact Photos for Calls?
#1
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Contact Photos for Calls?
Has anyone been successful at getting contact photos to show on the display for incoming/outgoing calls?
I have a 2016 AWD/Tech, pair with an iPhone 6. Bluetooth seems to work fine, and my address book is sync'ed with the car.
Yet, none of my contacts' photos appear when I am on the phone with them.
I'm just curious if anyone has had success on this and if so, what type of phone they are using. I'm wondering if this might be an iPhone thing or an Acura software thing.
I had a similar issue with album artwork on another vehicle. Turned out that the images had to be below a certain pixel x pixel threshold (less than 1000x1000 pixels) in order to show.
Would love to know the trick to get this to work correctly, if anyone knows it.
Thanks.
I have a 2016 AWD/Tech, pair with an iPhone 6. Bluetooth seems to work fine, and my address book is sync'ed with the car.
Yet, none of my contacts' photos appear when I am on the phone with them.
I'm just curious if anyone has had success on this and if so, what type of phone they are using. I'm wondering if this might be an iPhone thing or an Acura software thing.
I had a similar issue with album artwork on another vehicle. Turned out that the images had to be below a certain pixel x pixel threshold (less than 1000x1000 pixels) in order to show.
Would love to know the trick to get this to work correctly, if anyone knows it.
Thanks.
#2
FWIW: Not sure this will help, I'm researching purchase, but on some web page, from Acura, they said that you can do a bulk upload of all your contacts from your phone to the MDX, maybe that's what you need to do to get the images to load.
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Can you expand on where you found this information? My 16 MDX Tech will not show contact photos from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3. I have paired and unpaired, checked and unchecked the setting box. Not sure what else I can try.
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#6
My 2015 shows contact photos from a Samsung Galaxy S5. I didn't do anything special nor check any boxes. Just followed the directions from the car manual. All contacts were completed in one fell swoop.
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I asked him why two other Samsung owners on this forum's phone shows contact photos, but mine doesn't and he said something ridiculous like it will no longer show once they reboot their phone. The guy was really not very helpful and said it is an Android issue not Acura. Frustrating!
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#9
Much of this would probably be resolved with implementation of Android Auto and Carplay...
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Typical Honda/Acura response..
Oh yeah, I can verify that my Lollipop phones don't use contact photos properly, but my KitKat ones can.
#10
It's interesting that 2 people have chimed in with Samsung phones and said their phones show contact photos. I spoke with Acura Technical Support today and they said it was a known issue that Samsung phones with Lollipop O.S. are not displaying address book, photos or working with text and email I told him mine works just fine with address book and text messages, but not emails. He told me to consider myself "lucky".
I asked him why two other Samsung owners on this forum's phone shows contact photos, but mine doesn't and he said something ridiculous like it will no longer show once they reboot their phone. The guy was really not very helpful and said it is an Android issue not Acura. Frustrating!
I asked him why two other Samsung owners on this forum's phone shows contact photos, but mine doesn't and he said something ridiculous like it will no longer show once they reboot their phone. The guy was really not very helpful and said it is an Android issue not Acura. Frustrating!
I think Neoshi is on to something regarding blame.
Last edited by 1bythesea; 07-21-2015 at 01:43 PM.
#11
2016 MDX Adv/SHAWD
I have a Galaxy S7 Edge and all bt and contact syncing works fine except for photos. You would think Acura would be working on increasing the compatibility especially since they tout the technology of the vehicle. Anyone else with a newer android get photos to sync?
#12
I realized later (when I had a system update and had to re-pair the phone) by allowing all the permissions, message sync etc, then turning off the one i didnt care for (messages) - contact photos sync'd fine.
It also helps to have current + higher res contact photos, works great with my s7edge!
#14
Just an add here for anyone trying this - here's a screenshot of my Galaxy s7edge's bluetooth profile screen for Sasha, my MDX - the media/phone switches are off since i wasn't connected when i took the pic, however you see i've given both contacts & messaging permissions (this was actually done during the pairing process).
I later turned off messaging sync from the headunit since I dont want messages popping up on the screen as i'm driving.
Galaxy s7edge BT Permissions Screen
I later turned off messaging sync from the headunit since I dont want messages popping up on the screen as i'm driving.
Galaxy s7edge BT Permissions Screen
#15
2016 MDX Adv/SHAWD
Yeah I have the same phone, sw, and permissions and it doesn't work. Only last thing I can think of is if the contact is a google contact or maybe local on the phone? I also pull my pictures from "Sync.me" so it pulls fbook photos and puts them as contact photos. Not sure if that has anything to do with it but who knows.
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