Problems with "Parrot Minikit" Hands Free car kit

[carmig]

Hi all,
I just bought the Parrot minikit Hands Free car kit.

I am facing allot of problems with this device:

1. The main one is that when I am issuing a call from the TOUCH, the sound remains in the TOUCH and is not routed to the car kit.

2. When someone calls me most of the times I can answer the call and it works fine, but sometimes the phone rings and the car kit not.

I read in the trinity accessories forums that people faced the same problems with other Parrot car kits when they upgraded their roms to WM6.

I opened a SUPPORT case to Parrot and they are saying:
"We have fully tested the HTC Touch in France with our Minikit and we did not see any impediments. "

So I emailed them back with allot of links describing the problem.

Did anyone faced problems with the Parrot Mnikit or any other Parrot car kit with the Touch?

Thanks,
Carmi

[gudo]

Hi,

I have a similar problem. I have my HTC touch paired with a Nokia Bluetooth carkit. I get incomming calls over the speaker but when I answer the call I first have to go to the menu and select "enable handsfree calling".

I can make outgoing calls directly via the carkit whitout selecting an option in the menu. Furthermore the volume is very low compared to my prvious PD (MDA Vario).

Has anyone a fix for this?

Gus

[isaycar]

I have an HTC Touch with a Parrot CK3100 freehand car Kit and have the same problem.
Often, when I receive a call the car kit show the call in display but when I pick up the CK shows an icon (like a musical note) and the audio is not transferred.
When I call from the HTC, some times works fine and some times no.
A partner of my company with the same car kit and a HTC Touch dual, has the same problem too.
With WM5 works fine (I test it with HP6515).

[Charel]

did you set the "services to use from this device" to "Hands Free" ?

[ExcelonGT]

This is a known issue with Parrot devices and WM6. I've had the same problem with a couple of different HTC WM6 devices. The problem is specifically related to Parrot, not WM6 in general. I've used the Tytn II with Motorola and BlueAnt BT devices without any problems. I upgraded my minikit from v1.02 software to v1.03, but that hasnt fixed the symptoms which we are all complaining of.

ARE YOU LISTENING PARROT?! Ive had the minikit for 6 months and I'm getting tired of waiting for a version of software that will fix all our problems.

[pendragon1]

I have the exact same issue with my Parrot 3200. I'm also waiting for a solution from Parrot!

[dtrace]

I've similar problem.

paired the two devices, sometimes I can start a call from my Touch and the sound is on the MINIKIT speaker, but most of the times the is still on the phone and I have to press the green button to switch the call on the parrot speaker.
I've upgraded the firmware from 1.02 to 1.03.
Another information: I've tested the MINIKIT with my blackberry 8100 and works perfectly, when paired and connected every calls is routed to the parrot speaker, so I think It's an issue between the parrot and WM6.

Any news?
thank you

[pendragon1]

Besides my Touch I also use my BlackBerry 8800 and that also works fine. With htc it's not working as it should be.

[CHUTI]

With the Parrot mk6100 I have all the problems possible.
This Parrot is supposed to play properly the mp3 files that I have in the touch, but everything is a dissaster. Very long to write. The thouch gets hunged every time.
The worst problem is that the Parrot can't read the contacts in the Touch.

I have spoken with Parrot and Htc here in Spain and both say that the problem is Windows mobile 6.

I don't know what to do...

[erkv]

ive got the dual w mk6100
after having a lot of issues i found out i had to pair it both ways and the mk6100 got to say "bye". then everything worked fine. well almost. but pretty good indeed.
i posted in niki accesories.
it takes time to sync the contacts, true, but it finally does.
as far as i know, touch and touch dual is not that different , except for the mhz.
let me know what you think

[JethroSoft]

I have the similar problems too. Sometimes the sound cannot be routed to the car kit. There is no way to understand the reason why one time it works fine and another time it cannot move the sound via blue tooth. Sometimes pressing the green button of the parrot minikit is possible to move the sound to the car kit, sometimes it doesn't help - the sounds remains in the HTC. I tested the Parrot minikit paired with Nokia E70 - I haven't seen any problems. Also I have tested the HTC paired with another blue tooth car kit - BHF-200 and all was OK.

I wonder ... if someone knows ... if the WM6.1 (by Bepe) will fix the problem!
Thanks in advance !

[JethroSoft]

The Parrot minikit was tested with my other PPC - QTEK 9000 (HTC Universal) and I didn't see any problems. The QTEK works under WM6.1 (Ranju pack).
So I really wonder ... to upload WM6.1 to my HTC touch cruise ...
Any comments and opinions are welcome.
Thanks in advance !

p.p. My HTC touch cruise is still with its original WM6.0 ...

[TifKag]

Has any of you guys or girls tried any of the "Bluetooth Hotfixes", that are available for HTC branded devices on the HTC e-Club site.

It seems to fix dropped calls and connection probs. (and it seems to work)

The hotfix is available for several HTC devices.
You just have to register your HTC branded phone to get to the download portion of the site for your model, and see if it's available.

It's definitely there for the Elf, Tytn II and S710 (i'm not sure if it's there for the Touch cruise)