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      03-15-2019, 01:33 PM   #1
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no contact photos showing on idrive !

ok so since having the car from last year most of my contacts have a photo assigned to them and they showed on the idrive screen on incoming and outgoing calls now they dont ! any ideas ,i have tried re-pairing and the tick box for show contact pictures is ticked.car is a 2018 M240i pro nav.

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      03-16-2019, 05:38 AM   #2
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ok do any of you get contact pictures on the idrive screen when making or receiving calls if the contact on your phone have a photo assigned to them ?
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      03-17-2019, 05:57 AM   #3
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Nobody ???
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      03-17-2019, 08:41 PM   #4
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I have on some contacts. for the life of me i can't figure out why some show up and some dont in car even though all do on phone.
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      03-18-2019, 12:01 PM   #5
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I have on some contacts. for the life of me i can't figure out why some show up and some dont in car even though all do on phone.
Hi thanks for the reply buddy ,i have just done a full restore of the phone and given each contact i normally use a new photo ,again just like you said some show some dont makes no sense at all....
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On my last phone xiaomi mi6 with Android 8 randomly contact photos appeared.

Now on my new xiaomi Mi8 lite with Android 9 all contact photos are shown all the time.

So I think it's an interaction with phone and I drive.
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      03-23-2019, 12:55 PM   #7
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On my last phone xiaomi mi6 with Android 8 randomly contact photos appeared.

Now on my new xiaomi Mi8 lite with Android 9 all contact photos are shown all the time.

So I think it's an interaction with phone and I drive.
im guessing you are correct i will try my sons huawei.
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      03-26-2019, 04:04 AM   #8
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Ok so tried my sons huawei p20 pro worked perfect so it seems certain phones inc Samsung are not 100% compatible at this time ,come on Samsung sort this please...
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