Motorola RAZR v3i does not sync properly with Address Book!
I have bought the RAZR v3i yesterday, the bluetooth pairing is fine. (which the last version RAZR v3 cannot do, you can only use USB cable)
But the horror comes when you try to sync the phone with your Address book through iSync.
After the sync, your phone's directory will receive partial information from your address book (say you have 150 names, you might get 100), but the worst is the 'name' entry in your phone, you will see a long bunch of alpha numeric characters in the name entry. Basically your directory is filled with gabbage, the phone number for each entry is right, but the names are all wrong.
You properly end up typing the name back to your phone using the numeric keypad. But DON'T re-iSync those update back into your computer, you will LOSE both your phone's directory as well as your Address book database after the sync.
I have spend hours to fix the problem, I guess because Motorola has changed their phone directory mapping (they have add more entries in their phone directory), nothing will work with your Address book.
I cannot simply believe these 2 companies have such close relationship in developing ROKR and fail to have their phone to work with the Address book in a Mac... besides Motorola's phone directory is really really low grade... not very professionally developed... maybe Apple should help them to re-design the whole operating system in their phone rather then just sell them the iTune software.
I have decided to refund my purchase.... until Motorola help to fix this problem, I will stick with my old RAZR which works perfectly with my iSync and my Address book.
powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.3)
But the horror comes when you try to sync the phone with your Address book through iSync.
After the sync, your phone's directory will receive partial information from your address book (say you have 150 names, you might get 100), but the worst is the 'name' entry in your phone, you will see a long bunch of alpha numeric characters in the name entry. Basically your directory is filled with gabbage, the phone number for each entry is right, but the names are all wrong.
You properly end up typing the name back to your phone using the numeric keypad. But DON'T re-iSync those update back into your computer, you will LOSE both your phone's directory as well as your Address book database after the sync.
I have spend hours to fix the problem, I guess because Motorola has changed their phone directory mapping (they have add more entries in their phone directory), nothing will work with your Address book.
I cannot simply believe these 2 companies have such close relationship in developing ROKR and fail to have their phone to work with the Address book in a Mac... besides Motorola's phone directory is really really low grade... not very professionally developed... maybe Apple should help them to re-design the whole operating system in their phone rather then just sell them the iTune software.
I have decided to refund my purchase.... until Motorola help to fix this problem, I will stick with my old RAZR which works perfectly with my iSync and my Address book.
powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.3)
powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.3)
