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| message from ah on 28 Jun 2005 |
Hi
There must be someone out there that can help me with this frustrating
problem.
This is a problem that occurs with late model Mercedes at least in the UK.
It relates to the Mercedes pre-wired car kit that is pre-ordered with the
Command (sat nav etc) system. I use a 6310i and in another car a 6230, the
problem is the same with both phones.
However it only occurs when using Vodafone (unfortunately all our company
phones are Vodafone)
The Command sytem is designed to basically replicate, on a dashboard screen,
the screen and functions you would have with your phone, unfortunately using
Vodafone it will not show up the name of the incoming caller (obviously
stored in the memory of the phone). Use other service providers and it is
ok. If I use my T-mobile (with same numbers stored in SIM card) and divert
calls from my vodafone it still wont show incoming caller, ring directly to
T-mobile and its ok.
Have tried everything that Mercedes have suggested (ie store all numbers in
international format, use phone memory not just SIM, get a new SIM etc) but
to no avail.
The only thing that does appear to work is if you capture and then save the
number when someone calls in rather than save it manually, however thats
much harder than would seem. Try ringing 170 business colleagues and then
asking them all to ring back !!
Mercedes in their wisdom phoned me yesterday and said that whilst they
acknowledge I have a problem and they would expect it to work, they feel it
is down to Vodafone and they are giving up on the problem.
The strange thing is that we have one car (2003 S Class with Command) and
same phone (6310i), same network (vodafone) and it works perfectly.
I realise this must seem a trivial problem but as I use my car as my office
(as we all do in the business) it is very frustrating.
Despite having bought £150k worth of Merc in the past 2 years and despite
this problem obviously going to affect many other Vodafone/Merc users,
Mercedes cant be bothered to do anything about it. We have tried my phone in
a new in the showroom Merc and the same problem occurs.
I would really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas or solutions, thanks
very much in advance.
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| Alex Monro replied to ah on 28 Jun 2005 |
This might be better in uk.telecom.mobile. However...
Were you using the T-mobile SIM in exactly the same phone handset (not
just same model of handset)?
Is that the same handset or just the same model?
The only thing I can think of is if you've just been testing with
similar phones but not the same one. If it has a fault with the interface
connector, then I can see how the fault described could occur.
If you take the Voda SIM out and put the T-mobile SIM in the same
handset and the problem goes away, I'm stumped.
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| ah replied to Alex Monro on 29 Jun 2005 |
thanks for reply.
have been using the exact same phone for testing. However thats slightly
academic anyway cos there are two cars with the same fault using two
different models of phone (6310i and 6230).
Its a difficult one, made even more annoying that Mercedes have washed their
hands of it.
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| Andrew Crane replied to ah on 29 Jun 2005 |
I've got Comand but run it with a Siemens S55 these days (RIP Nokia 6310i).
If I store a surname but no forenames, the CLI doesn't come up. Also, try
saving to memory instead of sim or vice versa. The only thing I can think of
other than that is re-flashing the phone with the latest software, or
upgrade to the 05 version of the sat/nav (I assume this also flashes the
whole Comand system).
I used to have an 2002 model of the same type, and its Comand system,
although it looked identical was ridden with bugs. The current one (2004) is
reasonably bug free except for the oddity above.
Regards
Andrew
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