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I see that some people are still struggling to connect their iPhones to these adapters so lets try again to clarify how to do it.
It sounds more complicated then it is, but it's very simple.
What is needed:
- I have 6NR option with Pro Nav
- I have a media adapter (84212199392 -
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...31&startrow=26)
- I have an iPhone 4
- I have downloaded BMW Connected app for free (
http://appshopper.com/entertainment/bmw-connected)
- I downloaded Pandora (optional)
When I attach my iPhone to this adapter, and select ConnectedDrive from car's main menu, I have these options:
- I can listen to Web Radio stations (listed under Apps)
- I have approach to my whole iTunes library (songs, photos, videos) with all the albums art cover images with a nice organized iTunes listing interface (listed under Plugin)
- I can do Facebook and Tweeter
- I can see my calendar (assuming of course that you already synced iTunes with iCal/Outlook from your computer and put it on your iPone)
- Pandora
- BMW also captures info of how many liters of gas you have left in your tank, how many km you have made on your car so far.
I believe that you cannot get these functions if using only USB cable without adapter except for playing songs (but even than the listing of the songs is without any interface). I have even tried connecting flash drives, hard drives, ipods (note that only certain devices are compatible -
http://www.bmw.ca/ca/en/_teaserpool/...Dec__09_en.pdf) to my X3 but the options are very limited.
If anyone has a trouble connecting the above mentioned equipment, please drive your car outside of garage and try again. iPhone likes nice internet signal for this matter. Initially, I also had a problem making this to work thinking that there was something wrong with my snap-in adapter. After keep trying for sometime it got connected and since then everything functions as it should as soon as I put iPhone into this adapter.
(this video shows above explained procedure, but it does not include calendar function which was added to a latter BMW Connected app updated version)