[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bbonacci:
THE FIX!

THE FIX! (well workaround).

First let me say that I did not come up with this method of getting around the “Nissan/Infiniti – HTC – WM6 bluetooth” problem, but I feel I have come up with a way (at least for my car) that makes it tolerable. You do not have to touch the phone (which is one of the main advantages of Bluetooth).

I have a 2008 Altima Coupe with the Nav system and an AT&T Tilt (8925) running WM6. I have the same problem listed here, choppy bad sound from person on other end, and they can not hear me at all.

The fix (as pointed out by others in these forums) is to allow the connection to be made via the car Bluetooth, then switch back to the handset (phone), and then switch back to the car and it works great at that point. THANK YOU by the way to whoever came up with that!!!! On to my contribution; I don’t know what the controls are like in other Nissan or Infinti cars, so you may or may not be able to use this.

INCOMING CALL: Answer the call by pressing the button on the steering wheel marked with a phone receiver (bottom left in my car). At this point the caller will not be able to hear you, so time is of the essence. Then you press the ENTER button on the wheel down (not in). This changes the menu selection on the screen from the default (Hangup) to Headset. Now press the ENTER button on the wheel IN. This switches to your cell phone, so depending on the location of your phone, you may be able to tell the caller to hold on and they will hear you thru the phone’s mic. The next part requires timing. Press the button on the wheel that has the phone receiver icon again, BUT if you do it too quickly, it will hang up. What I have found is that if you wait for the screen to change from the phone menu back to whatever you had it on before (usually takes 1 to 2 secs) that will insure that it will work. Now you will be on with the caller thru the car’s sound system, with proper sound in both directions.

OUTGOING CALL: Make the call however you would normally, once the other person answers, follow all the steps above without the first part where you answer the phone.

I know it’s a long explanation, but it is only 3 extra button pushes from the way it should work. You should find after a while that it becomes second nature.

I hope this gives someone else the same relief from this problem that it gave me. I have had my car since Oct. 07, and the phone since Dec 07 and the last 3 months I went without a usable system. It’s not right this way, but it is usable. Hopefully users with other model Nissans and Infiniti’s will have the same or similar buttons on their steering wheel and can do this also! In the mean time, we can all wait for whoever is responsible for the issue to fix it or at least ‘fess up.

By the way, I do not have any special roms or patches applied to my phone.

One development I just noticed is that Nissan’s site is now not listing the 8925 under “being tested”. It’s about time! I guess it took them at least three months(from my prespective, it may have been longer) to determine something that we all figured out in about 10 minutes. Also, they have found out how to skirt the issue of admitting that some phones do not work. They just don’t list them under compatible or being tested. So they don’t exist. I may call and ask, just to see what they say.