I am having this problem also (on my 2006 BMW-5 series). Before I scrub my phone list for alpha characters, I have ~1700 contacts in my Pearl (and 3x the phone numbers (1 each for office, home, cell, etc..

I had this working on the 8700 with the "Hotlist only" synch feature. However Brian pointed out earlier that for some strange reason, RIM eliminated this feature (????).

Anyway when I previously did the synch of the full address book with the 8700, it got up to about 1000 entries before it stopped, but it did keep them all on the BMW. I am wondering if that is the magic limit on the BMW address book size?

Off course the downside with the Hot list was that it was limited to ~30 entries (may still be) but it was better than nothing.

So my question is:

1. Will the BMW only hold >1000 phone numbers?
2. Will it hold each of the numbers from a particular contact?

• Pearls of Wisdom (Tips to get a Blackberry working with a BMW) - Brian 2006-09-29 08:23:31 (3741 views)
  • Re: Pearls of Wisdom (Tips to get a Blackberry working with a BMW) - jordanbecker 2007-04-01 04:02:20 (547 views)
    • Re: Pearls of Wisdom (Tips to get a Blackberry working with a BMW) - jordanbecker 2007-04-16 11:23:46 (470 views)
  • So would it be best to pull it out of the box, charge it up, pair it - Magnum 2006-09-29 10:20:45 (669 views)
    • The order probably does not matter as much as just getting clean phone #s (nt) - Brian 2006-09-29 13:04:58 (577 views)
      • Do emails and groups also cause this problem. - //Aleki 2006-11-03 09:55:24 (535 views)
        • Do you have any email addresses in a phone number field? - Brian 2006-11-03 14:14:33 (497 views)
          • How do I export your Pearl contact list to a comma separated file - //Aleki 2006-11-03 16:17:41 (438 views)
            • Exporting contacts to CSV: - Brian 2006-11-03 20:36:25 (479 views)
              • Thanks for the help. ULF does not like groups - //Aleki 2006-11-11 09:16:27 (464 views)
                • Re: Thanks for the help. ULF does not like groups - jordanbecker 2007-03-31 22:40:20 (310 views)
                • Good to know. I was about to setup some groups on my phone. (nt) - Brian 2006-11-11 10:25:31 (475 views)