Comments on: iPhone 3G and BMW

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:07:16 +0000

That’s weird. I have the total opposite problem. I own a 2009 328i, and I used to have Motorola phone which paired great with the bluetooth functions of my vehicle. However, recently purchased an iPhone 3GS and other people can hear me fine, but I can barely hear them. There’s not volume increase on it so I’m not sure how to resolve? Can anyone help?

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:47:10 +0000

I managed to get a new iPhone 3G snap-in adapter which syncs ok to play music from an X6. I was wondering whether or not pictures and videos (or podcasts) could be viewed from any of the vehicle’s monitors as well (I tried it on this one and it doesn’t work).

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:50:32 +0000

I just bought the 750i. It came with the snap in adaptor that snaps into the base however I can’t get the music to come up. It does charge it however. Are you saying it doesn’t sync the music when in the base? According to the following BMW like, it should…http://accessories.bmwusa.com/ItemView.aspx?modelId=457&categoryId=112&productCategoryId=&menuId=2&subItemId=1&productId=2455

By: nguyen

nguyen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:20:53 +0000

Please advise how to terminate/stop the speaker for route guidance for a bmw, model 525i. It always instructs the way to go to the route setting. Please note that the car is running in Japan. Thanks so much.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:07:29 +0000

I tried the razar and all work’s fine. Some was telling me that the bluetooth frequency different ?? Can this be

By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:16:43 +0000

@Roberto: Have you tried another iPhone and see if it does the same thing? I also suggest trying a different phone, determining if it's the iPhone or just the car.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:37:25 +0000

@Roberto: I have the same problem occasionally, where the person I am speaking to says I sound distant and low. If you solved this problem, let me know.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:10:49 +0000

I am having a problem with my New 09 BMW i XDrive and my 3G Iphone, I can here the person very cleary but they say they hear me very distance. Does any one know how to solve this problem. The dealer says it’s a problem with my Iphone. Does anyone else have this problem? My phone does paire and all my numbers appear on my radio.

By: OM

OM — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:15:50 +0000

When dialing for messages to my office I need to hit the * or the # keys. these are shown, but how do you need to press on them to make them work?

By: Judazzz

Judazzz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:23:23 +0000

I have a 3 series 2007 my I am using the cable from BMW with the USM and aux it works fine but tends to disconnect from IPod and starts playing either CD music or radio.

Does this happen to anyone else???

By: bsd107

bsd107 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:20:17 +0000

@Andrew Solomons: Apostrophies seem to not be handled well other places, too. My wife has a Sony bluetooth speaker set for her car. If the iPhone has an apostrophe in the name, it will still sync with the Sony, but on the Sony the apostrophe is replaced by a few garbage characters. Must be some bug with the way Apple defines the apostrophie, or maybe it's not a valid character for a bluetooth device name?

By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:09:45 +0000

Hi I am not being able to pair my iphone 3G with my 2007 525i, they find each other but when i put the password to the iphone that I just put in the idrive, the iphone says that the password is incorrect, any ideas?

By: jim

jim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:09:29 +0000

Thanks. I actually was incorrect, I was more up to date. Last night I did a complete restore of the iPhone from within itunes, which should have also updated the firmware in the phone. Echo is still there on most calls….

arghhh. I really like the iPhone AND the new bmw, but don’t love the echo…

By: marcel

marcel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:54:36 +0000

actually, the echo issue returned back for me with the latest update (after having gone away with the previous update) 328csi 08

By: scoopz

scoopz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:15:27 +0000

@jim: I've not experienced the echo problem myself but if you are running 2.01 I would first suggest updating to the latest version. Since 2.01 we've already had 2.02 and more recently 2.1 which resolved many other bugs. Update to 2.1 and see if the echo problem is still there.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:01:49 +0000

So is the latest info on the ECHO problem that Apple needs to fix this? 2 week old 528xi with the iphone cradle. iPhone updated with 2.0.1. I have tried adjusting the iphone volume which does help, but doesn’t really solve the problem. ?????

By: Bavar

Bavar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:20:27 +0000

Thanks for the apostrophe info Andrew.

Appreciate the link bsd107, lots of good info there.

By: bsd107

bsd107 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:37:37 +0000

@Bavar:

See http://www.bimmerfile.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/2009-pricing-revised.pdf

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:48:45 +0000

I also think I solved my pairing problem. I restarted my 3G and so far, so good.

By: Andrew Solomons

Andrew Solomons — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:32:36 +0000

I have solved my pairing problems (not just between my Iphone 3G and my 2008 335i but also between the phone and other bluettoth devices.)

Interestingly by just changing the name of my Iphone the pairing now works perfectly.

Itunes names my phone “Andrew’s Iphone”

Note the ’s … the car and other devices does not like the apostrophe!

Removing just this has made it all work

Hope this helps.