I’ve been trying to help my brother set up his phone to work in his Scala SEL (Amundsen system).   Whilst a Bluetooth connection can be established, it adamantly refuses to recognise his phone contacts.  (And even if we resort to entering a phone number manually, there seems no way to save it as a named contact within the Amundsen system.)   I know Skoda have a list of compatible phones, and his (xiaomi redmi 5) perhaps unsurprisingly doesn’t feature on their apparently haphazard and outdated list - also tried my Oneplus 7 pro which isn’t on the list and doesn’t transfer contacts either.

 

Are we really restricted to using one of the limited models of phone on Skoda’s list?  I’m very surprised that despite quite a bit of online research I haven’t been able to find any recent discussion of this issue and I’m wondering if anyone here has encountered and preferably solved a similar problem.

 

+ 1.  Exactly the same problem on our new (2021 MY) Scala. Nokia phone, basic modern model that worked seamlessly with our previous Karoq.

 

Anyone any ideas on how to overcome?..........Tony

I have a Xiaomi phone and everything works fine.

 

 

1. Check that the contacts sharing option in your phone is switched ON (Settings/Bluetooth/My Skoda......./Contacts sharing)

2. Check if your contacts are on the phone or the SIM. Sometimes SIM contacts does not import properly

3. Upgrade to the latest MIUI version for your phone. The old ones were very buggy

Thanks very much.  We’d already checked 2 and 3 above, but 1 sounds very promising!  Hope to try it later and will report back

Yay, it’s working!   Strange that when the Bluetooth connection is set up, it seems to default to not sharing contacts without even prompting to ask if you wish to share - my Oneplus phone was exactly the same.

 

Anyway, thanks again mygyl, that was very helpful