iphone v 1.1.4 upgrade -- bluetooth improvements?
03-19-2008, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by douggiedooman' post='541458' date='Mar 8 2008, 07:34 AM
doug_999,
I am surprised you are having loss of signal issues with your iPhone. Have you bought the snap-in yet? I had a Razr V3 with BMW snap-in in my M560 and I replaced it with an iPhone and bought the snap-in about a month ago. The iPhone signal is nearly always 5 bars anywhere I have driven around Frankfurt in last month. In fact the signal is strength is significantly better than was the signal for my previous Motorola V3. So my experience has been exactly opposite.
I know you can listen to visual voicemail messages through a BT headset from iPhone. I do that all the time. I have not tried it with my iPhone BT'ed in my M5 though. I will try it later today and let you know. You can't call the service providers voicemail access number and listen to messge because they are already downloaded onto your iPhone as visual VM messages, they are no longer in your service provider's mailbox.
I am surprised you are having loss of signal issues with your iPhone. Have you bought the snap-in yet? I had a Razr V3 with BMW snap-in in my M560 and I replaced it with an iPhone and bought the snap-in about a month ago. The iPhone signal is nearly always 5 bars anywhere I have driven around Frankfurt in last month. In fact the signal is strength is significantly better than was the signal for my previous Motorola V3. So my experience has been exactly opposite.
I know you can listen to visual voicemail messages through a BT headset from iPhone. I do that all the time. I have not tried it with my iPhone BT'ed in my M5 though. I will try it later today and let you know. You can't call the service providers voicemail access number and listen to messge because they are already downloaded onto your iPhone as visual VM messages, they are no longer in your service provider's mailbox.
03-23-2008, 01:02 AM
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Just to add to the collective our experiences; we collected our new-to-us 2004 E60 535d MSport yesteerday (UK) and although had no problem pairing my 1.1.4 iPhone to it, and can scroll through the contacts using iDrive etc, it won't route a call through the car. I can initiate a call from the steering wheel, but sound stays in the phone. Incoming calls not recognised by the car.
Anyone seen this behaviour? Is it worth buying the cradle?
Anyone seen this behaviour? Is it worth buying the cradle?
03-23-2008, 07:24 AM
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My Ride: Living in Germany as an expat, this is the perfect opportunity to own the car of my dreams. I bought a new BMW E560 Individual in April 2007 and I have been in love with my M5 ever since!
Where else can you experience the acceleration, speed and fabulous performance of this wonderful German engineering, but on the German Autobahns (almost with immunity for high speed as long as you slow down when there are limits). Fastest so far has been 293kmph (183 mph) but my M5 has much more left...I will get it to the limit of 330kmph (205mph) or more yet!
Problem is it makes me want to drive everywhere possible at any oppotunity and I am rackng up the kilometers!
Originally Posted by doug_999' post='547807' date='Mar 20 2008, 02:42 AM
Any luck listening to the messages through the BT on your M5?
Sorry it has taken me a while to check this, I keep forgetting. Anyway, I tested the voicemail function today and unfortunately this does not work. You cannot listen to your iPhone visual voicemails through the BMW BT.
It is possible to select "BMW 632XX" as audio source from my iPhone as my choice for audio path to listen to voicemails, but doing that does not establish an audio path to the BMW BT. My guess is that BMW Bluetooth 2.0 stack does not see iPhone visual voicemail "play" request as communications path initiator and so does not setup audio connection. Not sure why this is different from a BT headset, but appparently it is.
Maybe this enhancemed functionality is something that can requested from BMW? BMW makes strong claims on their websites and sales literature that Apple iPhone is fully integrated with BMW's. It would be nice functionality to have.
Not sure how to go about channeling the request into BMW so it ends up in their BT product enhancement team. Anybody have a suggestion?
PS: Interesting trivia - "623XX" is the BT pairing code my BMW provided to iPhone when pairing. It is the last five digits of the VIN code for my M5. Same for my wife's E90 paired with my iPhone, last five digits of the VIN show up as the paired code.
03-23-2008, 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by jqworle' post='549405' date='Mar 23 2008, 11:14 AM
Iphone only guaranteed to work with cars made after august 2007. This could be your problem.
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